[Music] Hi, welcome back.

I'm certainly glad you could join us today.

It's a fantastic day and I hope you're enjoying yourself.

So, I tell you what.

Let's start out today, have them run all the colors across the screen that you need to paint along with me.

While they're doing that, let me tell you what I've got done up here already, okay?

Today, as you can plainly see, we have a black canvas up here.

Now, to make a canvas black, we paint it with Black Gesso, allow that to dry completely.

Then, I've covered the entire canvas with transparent color, and let me tell you what colors I've got up here.

Because I want to have a beautiful, bright little painting today.

So, in here I have Indian Yellow, which is a transparent yellow.

It may look sort of green on your screen, but you watch what happens.

Then, right above that, I have a little Alizarin Crimson with a touch of Phthalo Blue in it.

The top is just Phthalo Blue.

On the bottom, I've got a little streak going right down here, the same colors.

This is just Indian Yellow.

Put a little of that lavender color on each side.

Down here on the bottom, a little Dark Sienna.

Thought we'd do a little ocean scene today.

And I'm gonna have a beach down here.

So, the Dark Sienna will turn out to be your little sandy area, if all goes well.

And then I decided where the horizon was going to be, and here I've just put a piece of masking tape across so we'll have a nice straight horizon line.

And it's slightly above center.

You don't want it right dead in the middle, it just won't look right, okay?

So, let's have some fun.

Now, this is a fantastic painting to do for friends and neighbors and, and don't tell them that you've already put all this transparent color up here, because it will look black.

And then all you do is take a little bit of the white.

We'll just use the old big brush today.

As I say, don't tell them anything.

Prepare the canvas so they can't see it.

I'm telling you all the secrets.

But don't tell them what you've done, then just walk up to the canvas, give them a big smile, and touch it with white, and watch what happens.

Because when you touch it with the white, all of these beautiful colors will just come alive and they'll think you're a magician.

Years ago, when I first started demonstrating, I used to do a lot of canvases like this.

Just start with a canvas that looked black and then begin adding the white, and letting all these colors happen.

Okay, now I'm going to wash the brush.

Wash the old brush, that's the fun part.

And there's a screen, down here in the bottom of my can, that I scrub the bristles against.

Shake off the excess.

[laughs] Just have a little fun and off you go.

Now then, you can make the sky as bright as you want.

But, I suggest strongly that each time you start with a fresh brush, by that I mean good and clean, and fresh color.

Go right in here and decide where your light area is going to be.

Start in the light area, and once again, blend outward.

Just blend it outward.

There.

Isn't that fantastic?

You have to wear sunglasses when you do these paintings.

They're so bright and so beautiful.

Now on up in here, we're going to begin hitting that little lavender color.

Add a little more of the white to the brush.

Isn't that something?

We'll just blend them together here.

And you're putting an opaque color, which is the white, on top of all this transparent color, that's over the Black Gesso.

A little more of the white, we'll go right up in here.

Now we begin hitting the Phthalo Blue.

There.

Just making little criss-cross strokes.

A little more of the white.

But what a sky you can make.

Color stands out so much brighter on these black canvases.

There.

Okay, let me wash the old brush again.

One thing about these though, you will become an expert brush washer.

[chuckles] And that's all right, it's a lot of fun.

There.

One of these days, I'm going to show you our camera people, so you can see what they look like.

There.

Okay.

And all I'm doing here is just blending these colors together, so you can't tell where one color starts and the next color stops.

Just, blend them together so they're nice and friendly.

Be careful not to pull this blue down into this yellow, or you'll have a bright green sky.

Chances are, that's not what you're looking for today.

[chuckles] There we go, one more time.

Let's grab a fan brush.

I'm going to go right into, let's see, we'll use some black, some Alizarin Crimson.

That's good, just black and crimson.

Now then, now then.

Maybe there's a few happy little clouds that live out here.

So let's just go right in here, just barely touching the canvas with a fan brush just decide where your little clouds live.

And just put in some very basic little shapes.

Using sort of a rocking stroke, sort of let that brush just rock and play.

There.

The old rocking chair stroke.

Sometimes I feel that's where I should be, is in the old rocking chair.

There we go.

But then you drag out your paintbrush and you realize how much fun life is, to heck with the rocking chair, let's paint.

Let's paint.

There we are.

You know, a story I like to tell over and over again, because I hear this so many times.

People write and they say, "Bob, I'm not satisfied with my painting."

And you've heard me say this before.

I hope you're plagued with dissatisfaction as long as you live, because as long as you are, you'll strive to do better.

Each painting that you do brings you new insight into painting.

You learn from it.

And that's what makes it so much fun.

And if you paint a thousand paintings, or ten thousand paintings, the next one's always going to be the masterpiece.

You'll always find room for improvement.

There, see we got some basic little cloud shapes.

Now then, let me just grab another fan brush.

I have several of them here.

Take a little of the white, a little white.

Be right back.

Get a little tiny touch of Alizarin Crimson put in it.

Okay?

Now then, maybe we'll just add a little highlight, here and there, I don't want much.

Don't want much, just a little.

Just here and there.

Just to make these little clouds a little light sparkling here and there.

Just think about the little light rays, zinging through, having fun.

There.

Now, clean brush.

This is your bravery test.

Just go right over that.

It'll blend it right together.

And very gentle.

And you can create beautiful little clouds, that easy.

There.

All right, now then, let's take, let's take ...

I'll pull some white out there.

Put a least little touch of Yellow Ochre into it.

Least little touch of Alizarin Crimson.

Make sort of a peachy color.

Maybe a little more of the ochre.

Okay ochre, there we are.

Ooh, that's nice.

That's getting nice.

And that's even better.

Whew, ooh.

Makes you feel good just to look at it.

Okay, let's go right up here.

Maybe back in here we have just a happy little cloud.

He lives right back here on the horizon.

He floats around, he watches the ocean and all the little seagulls, and he just has a good time.

Maybe, he's a big cloud.

Maybe over here there's some more.

See, but just use the corner of the brush.

Use little, tiny round strokes.

Tiny little strokes.

Tiny, tiny little strokes.

There.

Don't let them get too big.

There.

Look at all them little clouds.

Isn't that fantastic?

Grab a little touch more of the crimson here.

I want it to be a little darker, it's farther away from the light source over here.

A little bit darker.

A little darker.

Wash the old brush off.

Okay.

Large brush.

All we're going to do, is just stir it up a little.

Just blend it, mix it, tease it.

There we are.

Then we're going to fluff it.

There.

Very lightly, very gently go over the entire thing.

And if you want to get a little crazier, and have even more fun, you can take a little touch of the white and go right in here.

Maybe, just put the indication of a few little highlights that live on just some of these.

Don't over do, don't over do.

Sometimes, it starts to feel good, you get carried away.

There, just a few.

Just to sort of break them up and show some definition between them.

There, now we'll gently blend the bottom out.

Saving those top edges.

Fluff it.

There you go, look at that.

Just floats right out there in the sky.

Let's do that one too, what the heck.

Blend them all at once.

[Bob makes "soop, soop" sounds] Now isn't that a very, very effective little sky that you can do just quick as a devil?

Can do easy.

Okay, now then, let's take and pull this piece of masking tape off.

[Bob makes "szooop" sound] And you have a nice straight horizon line.

Just as straight as it can be.

But, there was no paint under there.

So, I'll take a little bit of the Indian Yellow and we'll just come right up to the horizon line.

Add a little of that color in there.

There.

Okay, we'll take a little touch of the lavender put on the sides, same as we have everywhere else.

And, it'll all work together.

There, we in business.

Now then.

Clean the old brush one more time.

Now, I'm going to take the fan brush and just plain Titanium White.

Plain old white.

Now then, we have to start making some big decision here.

Maybe we're going to have a big wave back here somewhere.

You can just take the fan brush and just put in a basic idea, maybe [Bob makes "shh" sound] comes up like that.

Wherever you want it.

Just, we want to save that area we'll just, drop that in.

Here's our light source.

Go right under that with pure white.

Just begin, still making that little ...

I'll exaggerate it ... little rocking type stroke.

I'm really exaggerating there.

But that'll begin creating the illusion of little things happening back there.

And it picks up that color that's underneath.

All those beautiful little things happen automatically.

You don't have to worry about it.

Don't have to sit and try to plan it.

It will happen for you.

Maybe, how about if we have a nice little deal, lives right there.

See, you just drop it in.

Wipe your brush off.

And then very gently, begin blending that color back.

There.

Just blend it back.

Okay, same thing right here.

Let's just blend a little of that color back.

We want to save this dark area.

That's very important.

It's your good friend.

Good, good friend.

Just like so.

Darker, darker, darker as it gets away from you over here.

Okay.

Maybe there's some part of that wave that's curling over.

So for that, I'll take some white, a little touch of blue.

Shoot, be right back.

Get a little bit of, little, tiny, tiny bit of Cad Yellow and add in there.

I want this to be sort of greenish color.

All right, now maybe this wave, maybe it comes here and the light's hitting it.

[Bob makes "tchoo" sound] Gotta make those little sounds.

If you don't make those little sounds, won't work.

Well, maybe it will.

But it's more fun if you make the sounds.

There.

It's like so.

Shoot.

We don't know, maybe there's some over here too.

We'll have a nice breaker in here.

There.

Okay.

I'm going to grab ... Maybe I'll use a number three fan brush.

That's a fine brush.

We'll take some blue, some blue, some Alizarin Crimson.

Reach down here, grab a little touch of white.

A little more white.

Just mixing up a dark lavender color.

There we go.

Nice.

Okay, maybe we'll just use a fan brush today.

You could use your filbert or your fan, whatever.

I'm scrubbing in some shadows here.

All I'm doing is ...

I hope you can see that.

Putting in a dark color for the shadows.

[Bob makes "tchoo" sound] Maybe that wave comes up and shoot, maybe it breaks on itself right here.

Wherever you want it.

Just sort of think like a wave.

You're water, you're coming over here and you're crashing.

[Bob makes "tchoo" sound] There.

Okay, let me wash that old brush.

That was the number three fan brush.

We wash it in thinner, then just wipe it on a paper towel.

Preferably you get it clean.

I didn't get mine clean before I wiped it.

There.

Now then, let's just go into some white.

Plain old white.

Once again, number three fan brush.

Now then, come right on top of that color that we laid on, the lavender.

Just use a corner of the brush.

Begin just pushing upward.

Make all those beautiful little foamy things.

Maybe they just go way on over.

We don't know where they go.

Comes right on over.

[Bob makes "tchoo" sound] They say it helps to make all those little noises.

There, just all kinds of nice little foamy areas.

Now then, good clean dry brush.

Be sure it's dry.

And we're going to take the top corner of the brush and just you're barely, barely moving the bristles.

Barely moving.

Barely moving.

It looks like I'm moving it a great deal.

But it's just barely, just winding it up a little.

And it'll bring that right together.

Tiniest little strokes, tiniest little strokes.

There.

Okay.

And that lavender that we put underneath automatically becomes your shadow in your wave.

Or in the breaker, in the foam.

Whatever you want to call it.

There we go.

Now then, let's take some white.

Take a little white, find a little yellow.

There we are.

And let's go ...

There's a little blue in there too, so it makes a nice green.

Let's go right up in here and let's just scrub in a nice eye or transparency.

This is the light part.

Now.

Once again, take this brush.

You barely, barely move the bristles.

Barely moving.

It would probably be better if you did this before you put the foam on.

Be easier.

Then begin thinking about the shape and the form of the water.

Now then, I want to go back in here and just redefine this edge of this nice foamy thing right here.

Almost broke it up.

Now.

Very gently, blend that all back together.

Okay, maybe if this is our light source.

[Bob makes "pshoom" sound] Maybe there's some light shines right through there.

Wherever you want it, just pull it down.

Grab it, pull hard, really get tough with it.

Give it a strong pull and then just go across.

There.

See?

That looks wet already.

Now then.

Tell you what, let's take the knife.

I'm using the small knife and get a little tiny roll of just white paint.

Now, let's make a decision.

Maybe in our world, right here's the foam coming down.

[Bob makes "tchoom" sound] Take a knife, push very hard.

I'm bending the blade.

Absolutely bending the blade.

Now then, let me find a clean fan brush here.

Now we want to take this, touch it, and just begin blending it back.

There we go.

Lookie there.

Isn't that easy?

It's a super way of making some very effective little seascapes.

Very, very effective.

Now then, we have some things coming out of this wave.

Some nice foam patterns that are happening here.

Wherever you want them.

All these little doers in here.

That's what makes it interesting.

And at home, you have unlimited time.

You can just sit and make beautiful, beautiful little things.

As I mentioned before, if I go over thirty minutes, they don't have [chuckles] any sense of humor here.

They come out and drag me off here and do evil things to me.

Now, let's begin putting some little doers in here.

This is just, some of the lavender colors.

Just making all kinds of little things.

We can go in here and pick up some of that lighter colors.

Just... all of them, bring them together.

And these little lines, they really make it stand out.

Mm.

Tell you what, shoot, that was so much fun, let's have another one.

Maybe there's another one that lives right about here.

Right about there.

Just put the paint on, mash very hard with that knife.

Really bend that knife, get tough with it.

Now then, back to our fan brush.

Grab that, and just begin blending it back.

Just blend it back.

This is one of the nicest, simplest ways I've ever seen, to make some very effective little seascapes.

Very effective.

See there, just think about angles and how the water would play through there.

There we go.

But look how this color just jumps alive.

These black canvases are some of the most beautiful, beautiful effects that I've ever seen.

Shoot, I want to do that again.

Maybe there's another way over here.

Way over here.

Maybe this one here is just a wet spot in the sand.

It's not as much water here Just some foams that's laying out here.

There we go.

By pulling that down, you already have your reflection there.

[chuckles] This is lazy man's way to paint.

A little bit a white, a little Yellow Ochre.

Since we have that Dark Sienna on the canvas, just by blending that in, gives us some instant sand.

There.

And if you want to make that look wet, just grab a little of it, pull down, go across.

That'll make the little shimmers in there.

Okay.

Back to paint thinner, on the liner brush, a little bit of color, and you can just go in here and put all kinds of beautiful little details.

Let's go up top here, I want to put some in here too.

But you can just put all kinds of little things.

Little ... [Bob makes "tchoo" sound] See all kinds of little doers happening.

Following the basic angles of the wave.

It's most important.

There comes one right over the top.

But these little details, that's what'll make your painting special.

There we go.

Okay.

No tropical looking seascape would be complete, without a happy little palm tree.

Let's go right into black.

Straight old Midnight Black.

I reach up here and grab a little Van Dyke Brown, put with it.

Black and brown, or brown and black, whatever.

Maybe we'll have a, maybe ... [chuckles] This is your bravery test.

[Bob makes "ssssshoop" sound] Right there, right there.

Let's give him a friend.

Friend lives.

[Bob makes "ssssshoo" sound] Right there.

Now we need something for all that to sit on.

Maybe there's a little projection right out here.

We can just use a fan brush.

Whatever you've got handy.

Whatever you got handy.

Big brush, fan brush, it doesn't matter.

All we're doing here is just, maybe there's some little green things living out here.

There.

Okay, take a little white, a little yellow, a little Sap Green.

Mix it together.

Nice sparkly little green color.

Just put a few little highlights here and there on some of those little things.

Think about little individual bushes that live in here.

Right around his foot's a little bit of brown.

Comes right out like there.

And we can take on this palm tree, pull a little of that to the side.

That'll just give it a little more character.

A little white on the brush here.

Very little, just enough to make it look round.

Now then, let's go into our black with a liner brush, with paint thinner on it so it's very, very thin.

Very thin.

Okay, let's go up here.

Now, begin thinking about how your palm limbs are going to hang off.

We can put in just [Bob makes "soom" sound] just basic ideas, wherever you want them.

[Bob makes "psoom" sound] [chuckles] Looks like my umbrella.

[chuckles] All right.

Maybe it was a bad year for palm trees.

We'll just leave him like that.

Seagulls ate all the leaves right off of him.

There we are.

And that's just to give you a basic idea of where you want to be.

Shoot, let me just grab a fan brush.

I'm going to dip the brush into paint thinner.

I want this paint to be very thin.

I'm going to go right into the Midnight Black.

But see how thin that is?

It will literally run.

Literally run, if you're not careful, okay?

Now then, begin thinking about where you want your beautiful leaves on this palm.

Grab it, just give it a little downward pull.

See?

Maybe this one comes over, like so.

Shoot, we can put a little something on the other side.

Lookie there.

See.

These are one of the simplest kinds of trees to make.

Very, very easy.

Shoot, maybe there's some things over on the other side, like so.

Little doers out here, wherever you want them.

This is your palm tree, so you can do anything with it that you want.

Take a little Sap Green, and just come back and lay in a touch of highlight.

Just, zip, here and there.

Just to make it stand out.

Whew.

Okay, good, good.

I knew you could do it.

Just wherever you want these.

There's one.

But armed with this information, boy you can do some of the most beautiful seascapes.

But try these black canvases.

I think you'll find them exciting, not only to yourself, but to anybody that watches you paint.

As I mentioned earlier, you know, don't tell anybody that you've put all the color, the transparent color on top of the Black Gesso, and when you start applying that white on there, these beautiful things will happen and people will absolutely think you're a magician.

So, I think we'll call that one finished.

From all of us here, happy painting and God bless.