[Music] Hi, certainly glad you could join me today.

You ready to do a fantastic painting?

Let's do it together, then.

I'm going to have them graphically run all the colors across your screen that you need to do the painting I'm going to do today.

And they'll come across in exactly the same order I had them on my palette.

Starting with the white and working around.

I've already covered the canvas with a thin, even coat of the liquid white.

It's nice and wet.

We got our oil paints here.

We're all ready.

So, let's take off.

Let's go right into a little bit of Prussian blue.

Prussian blue, very strong.

Good dark blue.

Tap that brush in there.

And, let's build a happy little sky.

And I thought today, I thought today we'd do some fantastic mountains.

I get a lot of letters wanting beautiful mountains that have snow on them, and also, that you can see parts that don't have snow on them.

So, we'll play a little bit with that.

And, notice, I'm leaving some holes in the sky here.

We don't want to it completely covered.

Just want to leave some little holes up here in the sky.

Let the light play through.

Okay, maybe a little bit right in there.

Just like so.

Now, we don't care where this goes.

Today, I'm going to devote most of the show to showing you how to do these mountains.

And then, we'll just throw in a quick little foreground and go from there.

That is, if everything goes right.

[chuckles] Sometimes, I get slow or fast and I have to do things I didn't plan to do.

There we are.

And, that easy, we have a very simple, nice, quick little sky.

Okay.

Now, then.

I'll take the knife and we'll go right into some midnight black.

Right into some black.

And, some of the Prussian blue.

Black and blue.

Like that.

Pull it out, cut off a little piece.

Just looking for a little roll of paint.

There it is.

See?

Okay, let's go up here.

Now then, we have to make some decisions.

Where, where are these big old mountains going to live in this painting?

Maybe right there.

I'm really going to put some big mountains in this one.

Comes down maybe.

You have to make decisions here.

This is your world, your creation.

So, you have to decide where all these little mountains and big mountains live and, mm, right there.

See there?

Don't make all the peaks too sharp.

Also, if you're not careful, mountains will very soon look like, [chuckles] look like Wigwam Village, or ice cream cones.

So, break up your shapes.

And, I'm scraping off all the excess paint.

Maybe you can hear how hard I'm scraping the canvas.

I'm really, really going into that canvas and scraping very hard.

Push that color right into the fabric.

Lookie there.

Okay?

There we are.

And, that give us a quick, basic little outline.

And, at this point, the only thing that you're really worried about is the top of these mountains.

You could care less what's happening in here.

Now, we'll take our two-inch brush, grab that and begin pulling it.

And, this is a nice way to begin laying out the highlights, and the shadows, and all the beautiful little things that are going to happen in this.

See, just by using brush strokes, you can begin laying out all the little things.

And, you're not committed.

Maybe.

And, you can still, you could even change some of the basic shapes.

Lookie there.

Look at that.

Maybe that'll come right down through there.

That'll have something there.

Wherever, wherever, wherever.

Just make a decision.

Throw it in and go.

Okay, and this is just blue and black.

Just blue and black.

And, we just let it fade right into the liquid white here.

And, it just looks likes it's sort of hanging in the mist.

And that's exactly what we're trying to achieve.

We want it very soft at the base.

If you can see the entire mountain, it's always most distinctive at the top than it is at the bottom, because of mist, pollution, all those terrible things.

Okay, now, we'll start putting some snow on it.

Pull the paint out as flat as you can get it.

And, cut across.

Get that little roll of paint again.

Okay, let's go up here.

And, you have to start making big decisions, big decisions.

Graze the canvas.

No pressure, absolutely no pressure.

None.

Your light is coming from the right.

Now, if you're left handed, you might find it easier to have the light coming from the other side.

Left handed people have been forced to do right handed things their entire life.

So, it sort of varies.

Okay?

Maybe, maybe, there's a little light that just plays right through here.

Look at that.

See there?

Drop in.

They don't know where that goes yet.

Don't care.

Here we go.

I want to have some light coming right down through there.

Just think where the, where happy little sunlight would strike.

Right here.

I'm going to have a little more.

This is the way you create little peaks, and valleys, and all kinds of interesting things happening in there.

Just sort of let your imagination go.

Just let it go.

You want that paint to break, and by break, I mean it has all these little holes here in it.

There we are.

And, we can jaggy up the little edges.

There goes one of them crazy words I use, "jaggy."

I don't know if that's real word or not, but you understand what I'm saying.

Don't want it too straight.

Okay, now then.

Let's take, let's take here and mix up a little blue and white, a little bit of Prussian blue and white.

And, with that, we'll create shadows.

Pull it out flat, go across that same little roll of paint.

There you are.

Let's go up here and do it.

Now then, begin going in here picking out where the shadows are.

And, don't kill all those beautiful dark colors that we worked so hard to lay on there.

Maybe that comes down and maybe it drops right on down like that.

See?

And, lets that show through.

There comes another one, wherever.

Wherever, anywhere you want a little peak, just lay it in.

Maybe there's a little shadow that comes right down here and just sort of, just sort of blends together.

There comes another one.

See how you can bring all these right together?

And, all these happy little things just happen.

There's another little peak, works right up in there.

And, you can go on, and on, and on, and make just as many of these or as few as you want.

Tell you what, I'm going to get the smaller knife here.

I'm going to go back in here and play on a few little shadows right in this area.

See, this little knife, I can sneak in here and hit some of these little areas.

You could do the whole mountain with just the little knife if you wanted to.

Blend that together, blend it together, very soft, very quiet.

Okay?

Now, we'll put us a little bit of shadow right there.

A little more in here.

Wherever.

Along in here.

Maybe I'll put some great big evergreens in this one.

I want to show you how to do some beautiful, big evergreens too.

If we have time, I'll just throw some of those.

And, I'm going right back into my same old dark color and I'm going to bounce in just the indication of some darks here and there.

Just here and there, just look at that.

Look at that.

Help make that a little bit deeper in places, creates deeper recesses.

Mm.

There we go.

See?

Maybe the tiniest little bit right there, right there.

See?

All that shows different planes, different little things happening.

And, you can bounce these colors back and forth, create all kinds of illusions.

All right, now, with a clean brush, I'm going to create a little mist right in here, and just barely going to tap, and then, just blend it all together, just the bottom, just the bottom.

I don't want to mess up the nice, sharp peaks.

We said earlier, if you can see the entire mountain, it's more distinct at the top than it is at the bottom.

So, I just want to create some nice, soft areas in here.

There, just barely tap.

Follow the angles.

Always follow the angles.

Okay, now then.

We were going to have these mountains continue and we're going to have parts of them that just have a little snow around them so you can see it.

I'll go right back into this black.

I'm going to add some brown into my black.

There we go.

Pull it out, get that little roll of paint, and let's go up here.

Maybe right along here, maybe this little peak we have here, maybe it just comes right on out.

Ooh, ooh, ooh.

Boy, what a mess.

What a mess, look at that.

See?

You need that dark so your lighter colors will show up.

And maybe, tell you what, maybe there's a big bump, big rock right there.

Wherever you want it.

We'll just drop it in.

This is black with brown in it.

We're just throwing in some little things here.

Let it just taper right down into nothing.

Taking off all the excess paint down here at the bottom.

Okay, now I'm going into some of the dark sienna, a little, a little bit of the van dyke.

A touch of white into that, not much.

Want it to stay quite dark, about like that, okay?

Now, then.

Just barely touch, barely touch.

Think about where your light is.

There we go.

There's a little bit there.

A little bit of playing right through there.

There we go.

Here's a little more.

Mm.

Isn't that fun?

See how you can just make all those little effects?

There we go, here.

Right there, right there.

Just drop them in.

Now, then.

Over here, this is just, just about straight brown here.

Just want to put in some basic angles, let that disappear right in.

Just brown.

Allow a little of it to mix with the color that's already on there.

Some of these things just automatically happen.

There we go.

There we go.

Okay, now then.

Tell you what, let's do, let's go back into some of the white and I want it to have the indication of a little snow that's laying right in here, just coming down.

Look at that.

Let it climb right up the sides.

And, if you get a little on there, don't worry about it.

You can go right back and fix it.

The little knife you might find works a little better for that.

Comes right on down here.

Look at that.

See, dark against light, light against dark, and all these beautiful little effects happen.

I'm going to take that little knife and go right in here and smooth that out so it just, there, there, there.

Just let it, see?

Let it just go right on into the background.

Okay?

Maybe there's a little that lays right in here.

Just wherever you want it.

Make, make a big decision, throw it in.

And it just goes right on off into the distance.

A little of it flows right up through there.

And, you don't care if a little of this brown gets into your, in your white.

It'll make it very nice and very pretty.

And, here and there, maybe.

Maybe there's a little land right along in there.

A touch of the blue and white here, just a touch.

A little bit of, a few little things are happening right over in here.

Just let that knife bounce and play.

Mm.

Okay, well, that's pretty much how we can make some fantastic mountains.

Now, if we're going to have time to put a whole foreground in here, we are to get to moving along.

[chuckles] I like mountains so much, I get in there and get to playing and forget that we got other things to do.

I just want to tap this, I'm going to add, I'll tell you what, I'm going to add a little bit of green and a little bit of yellow, a little yellow ochre.

Just right on the brush here.

And, maybe, there's some happy little grassy things that live right in there.

A touch more green.

There they are.

There they are.

See?

You're following those angles though, following those angles.

Just let them work right on up, wherever, wherever.

Over here, we'll follow these angles, add a little more of the green, touch of brown into that.

There.

This is the shadow side.

Lookie there.

Just helps set all those down in there.

Okay?

Let me clean this brush.

I'm going to wash this brush and then we'll soften that all up and be ready to play.

There we go.

[chuckles] As I said in one of the earlier shows, we have to have one of the funniest looking cameramen in business.

He's, he's absolutely [chuckles] covered with paint.

He's got multi-colored freckles.

There we are.

Lift.

Just lifting it up.

Gives it the impression of little, little grassy hills.

There we go.

Clean that all up.

And, you can take and touch a little bit of the darker color, a little green here and there, and show different planes.

See?

See how that just shows a whole new plane?

Alright.

Let's have some fun now.

Let's put some, let's have a little rolling hill here, like you... Maybe up on a little plateau looking off and you can see all of this so I'll go into a little bit of black, a little bit of green, sap green, just tap the brush into it.

See there?

Just tap it.

Okay, let's go right up here.

Now, you gotta make a big decision.

Where does this go?

And, in my world, I'm going to have it come right here.

And, all I'm doing is taking the brush and tapping downward.

Maybe there's a little valley right there and it goes up and around.

See?

Just like that.

Now, we can begin filling this in.

This is where you begin creating the lay of the land.

Right through there.

Get a little more color on my brush, ran out.

There we go.

See there?

[chuckles} Isn't that a super way, just to put a nice grassy little hill there.

There we go.

A little more of the color and let's go back over on this side, and bring this one down.

Don't want him to feel left out.

Now, once again, here, all you're doing is putting in some dark so your lighter colors will show later on.

And we'll come back and we'll highlight all this later.

Okay, a little more of the black.

I want it to get a little darker here in the foreground.

As things get closer to you in a landscape there, they ought to get darker.

Add a little more of the black.

Okay, we pretty well got that filled in, just like so.

There we are.

Alright, alright.

Let me clean my brush.

If you've painted along with us before, you know this is the most fun of the whole technique, is cleaning this brush.

[Bob makes "doodle-oodle-oodle" sounds] That's really fun.

Okay, I'm going to use, today, I'm going to use a number three fan brush.

I'm going to go right into... Let's go into a little yellow ochre, a little cad yellow, just mix them together.

Okay, let's go right up here.

Maybe right in here.

That's a little too bright.

I'm going to put some green with it, too.

A little too bright.

Right in here.

I'm pushing upward.

Oh yeah, that's nice, that's nice.

There's a happy little evergreen that lives right there.

And, I'm using some bright colors.

I want him to be pretty and strong.

Same colors.

We'll give him a little friend.

Trees get lonely.

Just like we do, or at least, I do.

There we are.

There we are.

There we go.

Just, just push upward with the brush.

Can you see how that's working?

Push upward.

Make all those happy little things.

Drop them in.

And, you have to make a decision.

How many of these little trees live in your world?

You decide and you put them in.

Put them in.

Look at that.

Look at that.

I like to do little trees.

I get carried away with them.

Okay.

And we'll just put a few here and there.

As I say, if that don't stop, I'll have the whole canvas covered up with little trees and you'll lose the painting.

Maybe, maybe there's one right there.

See there?

Push up, push up, wherever you want it to go.

Okay, let's start building some, some little grassy areas all in here that are very pretty.

I'll go right into some sap green and some yellow.

Tap that brush.

Tap it, tap it.

Okay, let's go up here.

Now, then.

Let's begin determining the lay of the land.

Now, that's not quite bright enough.

It doesn't show.

I'll add a little bit of the liquid white.

Go right back into my color, the liquid white, make it a little lighter.

Let's do it again.

I want you to be able to see it.

Yeah, that's much better.

Just tap, just tap.

Don't kill all your dark areas, but you'll begin creating all kinds of little things here.

We'll add a tiny bit of red to that.

See there?

Look at that.

See how that stands out?

And, you can make just plane after plane, hill after hill.

Bring it all together.

It's a super, super way to make little soft meadows and little grassy areas.

Ah, this would be a nice place to go lay under a big tree and read a book, sleep a little while.

There.

And, just vary the colors a little bit.

Alright.

Layer, after layer, after layer.

Look at the depth in that though.

See?

You can create a tremendous amount of depth just, just by working with different layers.

There is another one.

Try this.

I think you'll really, really enjoy it.

It's a lot of fun.

I'll put another one right there.

Okay, let's go on the other side here.

Alright.

Now, then.

Let's have, let's have some fun.

Maybe, go right into some van dyke brown.

Maybe there's a happy little tree that lives right here and he's a little bigger and a little stronger.

We can see more of his trunk.

He's, he's a strong, little tree.

And, he's got a friend right there.

And if, you know, if you have two trees there, there'll probably be a third one sooner or later.

Maybe there's one over here too, four.

You can put just as many trees in here as you want.

While I got that going, I want to put the indication just here and there of a little trunk in some of these, just little indications, see?

Don't overdo.

Just here and there.

Okay, and I'll go back to my fan brush, some sap green and some of the yellows, and let's just go right in here, and we'll just pop on some happy little leaves like so.

Just pop them on.

There's a nice little bright one there.

Boy, he really stands out nice.

Okay?

Put some leaves on this one.

Now, maybe this one back here, maybe, maybe he's not with us anymore.

We'll just put some old hangy downs that indicate some limbs.

There we go.

Got a little too tough for him.

He quit on us.

Alright, let's have some fun.

Let's have some fun.

I want to build a couple of huge, big trees here.

Some big, strong.

I'll show you how to make those.

Let's go right into some van dyke brown.

Watch here.

You have to make a decision though.

Where does this tree live?

Oh, I hate to go through that [chuckles] big mountain.

We will anyway.

We will, right there, just tap.

Just tap.

Somebody's going to send me a bad mouth letter for going right through that mountain.

There we go.

Just, and I'm tapping with the brush to make it fuzzy.

That was so much fun, let's do another one.

Right here.

Right here.

Big old tree.

There he comes, there he comes.

Drop him in.

Drop him in.

Now, same old brush, I'm going to go right into some white, right into some white, come right down this edge.

See there?

Lookie there.

And that gives us our highlight, makes the tree look round.

Let's do the same thing to the other one.

Don't want him to feel left out.

Just like so.

There we go.

Gives that tree some roundness.

A little bit of roundness, there we go.

Let's put him a... Maybe there's a big old root right here on this tree and we'll just put some dark color in here.

That's indicate a shadow.

We'll, we'll tinker with that a little bit later.

Okay.

I'm going to take a little bit of the liquid black, put it on my palette, find my liner brush, put a little thinner on it, go right into the liner brush.

I have a little paint thinner in that.

It's very thin, like water.

Okay, let's go up here.

Now, we need to put the indication of some little limbs here.

Just decide wherever they're at, drop them in.

Oh, right over our mountains that we worked so hard on.

It's alright.

It's alright.

If you learned how to make them, it wasn't wasted time.

Wasn't wasted.

There, just put a few little hanger downs here and there.

There's a nice one, nice big, strong limb lives right there.

Some of them come right across.

There we go.

Oh, right over that peak.

Mm.

Okay, that easy, we have some limbs.

Let's put some on this other big old tree over here.

There it comes.

[Bob makes "shhhhoo" sound] Helps to make little sounds.

See here?

There's a big limb come... lives right there, a few old hangy downs on there.

Evergreens always have these old, I call them "hangy downs."

I don't really know what they are.

That's as good a word as any until we find a better one.

Lookie there.

There we are.

Okay?

See, we can just put all these in here that we want.

You always have old broken ones on there.

Now, then.

Go right into the liquid white.

You can add a little bit of highlight here and there.

Make that rascal stand out, the light against the dark again.

Light against the dark.

Up here, put a little bit.

There we go.

Just a little.

Just a little.

Over here a tiny bit.

See?

It just adds a little bit to your painting.

Makes it look a little better, a little more detail.

And, come right across.

There we are.

Okay now, let's put some happy little leaves on there.

And we'll take our number three fan brush.

Let me clean it off, it's full of paint.

Okay, and I'll go right into sap green, right into sap green, and some black.

Okay, let's go right up here.

Now, you don't have to have leaves on all of these.

Just touch, push, bend it upward.

I just want leaves on some of them.

Lookie there.

Oh, right over our mountain.

Right over the mountain.

There they go.

Wherever you think they live, that's where they live.

Okay, let's go to the other tree.

Put a few little happy things on him, just like so, just like so.

Wherever, wherever.

There they are.

Now we'll go right into a little bit of cad yellow, because it's got a lot of green on here.

We'll drop them in.

I hope you enjoyed this one.

This fantastic little painting, it'll really show you how to do these mountains.

And I've got this one all finished here, and I'll call this one done.

And from all of us here, I'd like to wish you happy painting.

See you next time.