[Music] [birds chirping] Hi, welcome back, I'm glad you could join me today.

Today I'm standing here with some of my little friends that I'm gonna show you here.

This is four little robins, and they're just little babies, only a few days old.

Oh, look at that.

They are hungry, too.

Of course, little robins are always hungry.

And they live with me and they're just cute little devils.

They've got one here, he's not gonna yell.

Okay, I just thought I'd share those with you.

These are just little babies.

They're maybe a week old now, and we'll raise those and turn them loose here in just a few months.

I'll tell you what let's do.

Let's have them run all the colors across the screen that you need to paint along with me, and while they're doing that I'll set these little rascals down to get my palette, and we'll do a fantastic little painting together.

I've already covered the canvas with a nice, thin, even coat of the liquid white, so it's all wet and slick and it's ready to go, so let's just have some fun.

I thought today maybe we'd just do a happy little winter scene.

It's such a super, super day.

Let's just do a painting that's got a lot of color in it, it's bright and shiny.

It'll make you feel good inside.

We'll start out with the least little touch of the Indian Yellow, it's very transparent.

Just tap a little bit into the bristles, and we have to make a decision right off, today.

You have to decide basically where your horizon line's gonna be.

Maybe our horizon will be right along in here, somewhere about in that area.

We'll just drop a little bit of yellow in there, that easy.

Okay, now without washing the brush, I'm gonna add the least little touch of the Cad Yellow, Cadmium Yellow.

We'll go right above this, and it's an opaque color, so it'll stand out very nicely there.

See, there's a difference.

Once again, without cleaning the brush, a touch of the Yellow Ochre.

It's sort of a golden color.

And we'll add it right in here.

As I say I want a beautiful little winter scene that has some color in it.

Sometime winter scenes can be so cold they're almost, oh, they bother you.

They're not fun to look at.

Now then, let's go into a little touch of the Bright Red.

What the heck, I think that would look good right up here.

We still haven't cleaned the brush.

We just take the Bright Red and allow it to mix right in it.

That's a pretty sky already.

Now we're just blending them together, so you can't tell where one color stops and the next color starts, just like so.

Now we'll wash the brush.

We can just sort of clean it off down here, get rid of some of that color.

We'll wash our brush, as always, with odorless thinner.

Shake it off.

[laughing] Cover two or three camera people and we're in business.

We have the weirdest camera people in the industry because they all have these funny colored freckles all over their face.

I'm gonna go right into a little touch of the Phthalo Blue, and I'll reach right up here and get a little bit of the Midnight Black.

Blue and black, or black and blue, whatever your preference.

Then, we'll go right up to the top, and let's just dance in a happy little sky, here.

Just making little criss-cross strokes, like so.

We'll let it come right on down, right on down to the red.

There.

Where these two come together, it'll turn sort of a lavender color.

But it also, this red acts as a barrier between the yellow and the blue so you don't end up with green.

There we are.

Okay, now then, we'll wash the old brush again.

Just get it good and clean.

Shake it off, give it a good whack, and then we can just blend the sky together, like so.

Now, if you do this at home, I'd recommend you get a Brush Beater Rack, because if you beat your brush against a solid object, like I do here, [chuckles] you're gonna redecorate your living room and your popularity's gonna go down about 10 points, I mean just [snaps] that quick.

Now then, let's take the knife.

Let's go down here, we'll get a little touch of the yellows.

A little bit of the Yellow Ochre, like so.

A little of the Cad Yellow, mix, pull it out flat.

Get a small roll of paint out here on the knife.

Maybe down in here there's just the indication of some little clouds that are floating in here.

All you have to do is just touch.

It'll take what it wants.

Just touch it.

Then, with a nice, dry, two-inch brush, very gently just blend these out.

Now if you really want to throw some light in there, you can take a tiny bit of Titanium White and put it here, and let it sort of blend upward.

It will really make that sparkle.

It doesn't show much now, but when we put different colors down in here, that son of a gun will jump out at you.

Shoot, I tell you what, while we got this old big brush going, let me show you, let me show you.

Let's have some fun.

We'll go right into that Titanium White.

What the heck, what the heck.

Okay, let's go up here.

Maybe up here in this sky lives a beautiful cloud.

Just up here, floats around, has fun.

Just using the corner of the brush, making little circular patterns.

Just little tiny circles, around and around.

We'll just let it go right over in here somewhere, we don't care.

Wherever you want it to live.

There.

Now then, let me grab a clean brush.

I have several of them going.

We just blend the base of this out, like so.

We're carefully not touching the top yet.

See, the top of these individual shapes we wanna save.

And then we're gonna fluff them, just fluff them up.

There, look at that.

And then, very lightly just blend the entire sky.

That easy.

Okay.

Maybe we'll get crazy today.

Shoot, I'll just use a one-inch brush, it doesn't matter.

Let's take some Dark Sienna, put a little of that on there, and a little bit of black with it.

Dark Sienna and black.

Mostly Dark Sienna, though.

Let's go right along in here, and maybe there's some dark clouds.

Same thing, little circular patterns.

Just think about basic cloud shapes.

Don't just throw this in though.

Think about individual shapes as you're doing it.

There we go, maybe it comes right down in here.

Wherever you want them.

A little more color on the brush, and, and, and, and right there.

And you can put clouds anywhere that you want them in your world.

Anywhere.

Painting is very individual.

Anything that makes you happy, then it's right.

Then it's right.

There we go.

Now, once again with the large brush, I'm just gonna sort of mix this up.

The biggest thing this does is removes the excess paint, and then we'll come back and we'll highlight these little clouds, make them really stand out.

This just takes off the excess paint, so you don't become a mud mixer.

And then you'd be mad at me.

Alright, let's grab an old fan brush.

I'm gonna go into the Titanium White.

Titanium White.

I'll be right back.

I'm going to get a little touch of Alizarin Crimson.

Just mix them on the brush, shoot, that's fine.

Nice pinkish color.

Now then, let's go right in here and just highlight.

Just some of these clouds here and there, just where you think light would strike.

There.

Just make all kinds of beautiful little things that easy.

That easy.

Just using the corner of the brush though.

That's all we're using, and just, once again, those tight little circles.

And you can make the most beautiful fluffy little clouds you've ever seen.

There.

Maybe?

There he is, there he is.

I knew he was there, so did you.

We just had to find him, pull him out.

There.

A little up here.

And wherever you want them.

Don't want too much color.

If you put too much, and it's too bright, then you'll lose that beautiful darkness that you've worked so hard to get in these underneath clouds.

Now, with the large brush we'll blend this again.

All we're doing is softening the bottom part though.

We wanna save those nice top edges.

Just softening the bottom so it blends together.

I beat the brush only to remove the excess paint off of it.

It's easier than going through the whole cleaning procedure.

Then we can fluff this up, pull it, shape it, tease it.

There we go.

And very lightly just blend it all together.

I'm gonna take my large brush and add a little more of the pinkish color right in there.

I want a little of that pink right in there.

Ooh, that's pretty.

And if you'll experiment with these skies, it's unbelievable what you can make.

And, of course, none of us are interested in that happy buck, but if you should be out selling your paintings, these kind of paintings sell like hot cakes because of all these beautiful colors in here.

You'll find, if you're selling paintings, that people buy paintings as much for color as for content.

A lot of time, people are looking for a painting to match a room or to create a mood.

I'm using just Dark Sienna and a little bit of black, here.

Be right back, put a little white into it.

There we go.

Just a nice dark brown color.

Tap a little into the bristles.

Now, we have to make another big decision.

Maybe back here lives a little foothill, and all we're doing is just tapping.

Just sort of decide where he lives, and just tap, like so.

See how easy that is?

Maybe it comes on back up in here.

There.

Just a beautiful little foothill back in there.

Now, we can grab that, and very gently, short tiny little strokes, lift upward, and it'll look like little trees that live far, far away.

Far away.

Now, tell you what.

Let's create some mist at the base of this.

So take a clean two-inch brush and tap firmly.

You can probably hear how loud that is.

We're really tapping, but just the base, see there?

Just the base of it.

And that'll create that illusion of mist.

Now, maybe back in here we want a little snow.

We're gonna have a winter scene, we need some snow.

It's hard to have a winter scene without some snow.

Unless you live in Florida.

Okay.

Decide where your snow's gonna live.

We take the large brush and just pull.

And it doesn't show up too much yet against that white canvas, but it will as we work on down here.

See, sometimes you can get a little crazy.

Let's play a little game, here.

Take that same color.

Maybe, maybe there's another little layer of trees that are far off, right in there.

See there?

Give it a little upward lift.

Shoot, that easy.

We got another layer of trees.

Grab the bottom of it and pull it.

Allow some of that color to mix right in the white.

And it helps create that illusion of mist.

Okay.

In here, these are just some of the colors that were in the sky, I'm gonna add right in here.

Just wipe them on any old way.

Some of them will show through, and it'll look like reflections coming from this beautiful sky onto here.

And it just happens you don't have to worry about it, it'll be there for you.

I'll tell you what.

Shoot, let's have some fun.

We'll just keep using this old two-inch brush.

You can do this with a round brush, it'd work just as well.

I got this one dirty, so we'll just use it.

Take just the corner, maybe back in here live some beautiful little tree shapes.

All we're looking for is just some basic shapes.

These are just little trees that are far away back here.

Just tap them in.

See how easy that is?

Okay, now then.

Let's put, let's put a few little a few little trunks and limbs and stuff in there.

I'm using just Van Dyke Brown.

Liner brush, a lot of paint thinner on it.

Turn the brush, this is thin like ink.

And maybe we can just see some tree trunks here and there.

There they go.

Just a little trunk.

We don't know how many trees are back here.

However many you want.

There.

See there?

And that easy, you have the indication of all kinds of little things happening just wherever.

Now sometimes it's fun... Let me show you something.

I'll show you something.

I'm going to take some liquid white, put it out on the palette.

Maybe we can come right down here.

Then I'm gonna mix some Yellow Ochre with it.

So, you have a very thin paint now.

Very, very thin.

Okay.

Let me clean my knife off.

Now, we'll take the liner brush, dip it in the paint thinner.

I'm gonna go into the Van Dyke Brown, load a lot of color, but it's very thin.

Okay, now then, come back right down here.

Now with the liner brush full, see if we can get a close-up right here, I'll show you, the liner brush is full of brown.

Now you can go right through this very thin color.

See, it's got white on one side and brown on the other.

Now then, let's go up here.

Maybe up in here there's some big trees.

They're right in here.

And you can do the highlight and the shadow in one stroke.

[chuckles] Sneaky, huh?

Okay, reload it.

Van Dyke Brown.

Then, we'll go right through the liquid white with the Yellow Ochre in it, and you can make some of the most beautiful tree trunks.

Brown... And wherever you want them, and as many as you want.

Maybe there's some little things that just, there they are.

Okay.

I need a little more of the paint thinner.

Pull it right through.

Put some happy little limbs on this tree.

That's sneaky, isn't it, that you can make both sides of the tree in a single stroke.

There we go.

It makes some beautiful trees, and a stick and a twig and all those happy little things.

Sometimes it's nice to put just the indication here and there of a few things that are hanging on.

So I'll take a little of the Dark Sienna and a little Yellow Ochre.

I'm gonna tap the top corner of the brush into it, very, very little paint.

And here and there, just some little indications that maybe there's something.

A few little leaves still hanging on here.

Not many, just a few.

Don't want to over do.

It's very easy to over do.

There.

Okay.

Now then.

Shoot, let's have some fun.

Let's have some fun.

We'll take some black, and some brown, some Phthalo Blue, mix them together.

Might as well mix up a lot of paint there.

A lot of old paint.

Okay, tell you what.

Let me wipe the knife off.

Let's use a fan brush today.

There's a good fan brush.

We'll go right into that dark color.

Let's get a lot of paint on the brush.

A lot of paint.

Now then, have to make some big decisions.

Maybe in our world there lives a nice little evergreen.

Right there, right there.

Use just the corner of the brush.

Work back and forth.

Back and forth.

As you work down the tree, apply more and more pressure, so it gets wider, thicker, stronger toward the bottom.

There.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Boy, that really stands out against that light background over there.

Maybe, yeah right there, we'll give him a little friend.

Everybody needs a friend.

You know, if painting has done nothing else, it has brought me so many new friends.

It's unreal, I've met literally thousands of fantastic people, all because of painting.

There we are.

Maybe over here, let's have a big tree.

That's a strong son of a gun.

He goes up here, this is where the hawk sits.

The big eagle maybe.

Depending on where we're at.

There.

Or maybe the owl I showed in the last program.

Maybe that's where he lives.

There.

He sits up here and surveys the whole countryside, watches for a little mouse to go scampering across the snow.

Then he comes down on wings that are soft as velvet.

You'd never hear him.

And zip.

Okay, now then, watch here.

Let me take a little white on the large brush.

I want to create the illusion of another plane right here, so take Titanium White and grab a touch of that blue, just a touch, and pull it, just pull it, and then begin blending it, that simply.

See, you can create a whole nother plane.

You want one separate for this tree?

Grab it, pull again.

You can create as many different areas as you want in your world.

That easy.

See, these colors that we put on, those nice pinks and oranges, they're beginning to show through, and they're beautiful.

There we are.

It all looks like deep, dark background area now.

Okay.

Tell you what.

We'll just take the knife, scrape right through here, just make the indication of a little trunk.

All we're doing is scraping right through the paint, allowing a little bit of the canvas to show through.

You can paint a trunk in if you want to.

All I'm doing is just scraping it out.

All right.

Grab another fan brush.

Take a little of the liquid white, a little Titanium White, a little Phthalo Blue, mix them together.

There.

Beautiful blue.

That Phthalo Blue is so pretty.

A lot of paint on the brush.

Now, let's go right up in here.

Let's put some highlights on these trees.

That is beautiful.

So beautiful, the way that stands out.

Brings that tree alive.

Makes it jump out at you.

And what makes this so attractive: this is a cool color.

Blue is a very cool color, and it's against these warm colors back here.

It's very nice to play cool against warm and vice-versa.

There.

Okay.

Shoot, if I had a spot like that, I'd have to build me a little house out here.

I'd have to live right out here.

There's a lot of ways you can make a little house.

Let's do a little thing right here.

The easiest way is, take your knife and scrape out a basic shape.

Maybe we'll do a fancy little dooder out here.

Okay, we can scrape this out without being committed.

Maybe it comes out, maybe it goes on over here, what the heck.

Maybe the carpenter just got crazy and has a long roof over here.

There's a side.

Here's the front.

Or however.

Maybe that's the front, it's up to you.

Now then, take Van Dyke Brown, a little Dark Sienna in it.

Just mix them together.

Pull the paint out very flat, a small roll of paint right out at the edge of the blade.

Okay?

Now then, let's go right in here.

[Bob makes "ssoom" sound] Gotta make those little noises.

All we're doing here is just blocking in color.

There we go, just block it in.

Like so.

Now then, let's take some red and some, a little Yellow Ochre, and we'll grab some white.

And we want this to really stay marbled.

Get our little roll of paint.

Okay.

Now then, let's just go right along here.

Just barely touch.

Just let it bounce across.

It'll make all kinds of beautiful little things happen here.

Just all kinds of things, right out here in this edge.

A little brighter.

There, look at that.

Mm.

Now, on the other side, this'll be a little darker.

Not as much light's gonna hit here.

But the same basic thing, just let it tap.

Want this to look old and...

There we go.

There we go.

Maybe, tell you what.

Let's put some snow up here on the roof, and we're just going to let this snow bounce along like it's old snow up here, so it's thick.

It's thick and now just gently pull right across that, and it'll look like you can look through it.

Makes some very nice effects.

Very thick, though.

Sometimes, we paint very thin.

Other times, very very thick.

Maybe this old cabin, yeah.

Let's have a little shed right here.

What the heck.

A little bit of brown.

[Bob makes "tchoom" sound] Just like we did the other one.

Some of our nice highlight colors.

Tap those in.

Darker over here.

Okay.

A little white up here.

Just like so.

Okay, now we can come in here, and we just do our old cabinectomy.

This is where you get your perspective right, bring everything together, get all that color off the canvas.

Go on to our old big brush, now then, just come right up in here.

[Bob makes "tchoom" sound] Now, we can lay all kinds of happy little snow things in here, just like that.

And begin thinking about the lay of the land.

There we are.

I'm going to add a little Phthalo Blue to that.

There.

Now, maybe we want to change the angle.

Watch here, watch here.

Maybe this comes down like that.

Just by doing that, we can change this angle.

Now then, take the fan brush, we'll take a little Dark Sienna, a little Van Dyke Brown, mixed together, and let's just pop in some little bushes and some little weeds right along in here, like so.

Push the brush upward so it bends.

Maybe over in here, there's a few in here.

Wherever you want them.

There we go.

And back to our fan brush that has white on it.

Grab a little of that, pull it.

Then just blend it together.

Just blend it together.

Tell you what, maybe in our cabin over here, let's have a couple little windows.

Just [Bob makes "bloop, bloop" sounds].

That easy.

We got a happy little window.

Let's get crazy.

You know me, [chuckles] I like them old big trees, so let's take some of the browns, that's Van Dyke, Dark Sienna.

Let's go right up here.

Maybe there lives in our world a big old tree.

[Bob makes "tch, tch, tch, tch, tch" sounds] Right about there, and we give him a little friend.

Take a little bit of white color, go right down the side, so one side's got some highlight.

Grab it, give it a little pull.

Like so.

Take our liner brush, a little thin paint on it, and we'll drop in some little sticks, twigs, some little arms on this tree, just like so.

All kinds of little things.

And with that, we about have a finished painting.

While I'm finishing this up, I'd like to wish you happy painting.

Hope you've enjoyed this one.

It will certainly, certainly help you, and if you paint this one you'll learn how to use the equipment and play with color.

It'll make your day better.

Put a little stick and a twig here.

I think we'll call this painting finished.

So, from all of us here, happy painting and God bless.

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