(gentle music) - Welcome back, I'm glad to see you today. Today I thought we'd do
a fantastic canvas here. I've already covered this
canvas with a flat black acrylic and allowed it to dry. Then on top of that I
went back and I've added thalo blue and sap green
and sort of just mixed it on the brush and just
put it all over the canvas and blend it together. So before we get started,
I'll have them graphically run all the colors you
need cross the screen and they'll come across in the same order that I have them on the palette. Starting with a white and going around. And while they're doing that, let's do it. We'll start with the old fan brush today. A little bit of titanium white. And just work a little into the bristles, just back and forth like so. Let's go back up to the canvas, maybe... Maybe we'll have some huge trees here and some light shining through. We need to have some, we need some light. Just have fun, just let this brush play and jiggle and wiggle wherever. See it's picking up the
thalo blue and the sap green this underneath and all
these things happen. At this point we're not too worried about what it is or where it is. We're just throwing some
color here and there. This is where you take
out all your hostilities and your frustrations, just have fun. Just throw some color here and there. Just let it go, let it play. Really not looking for
any definite shapes, or... We're not looking for
anything at this point. Just some color. Just some color here and there. There. Okay, now after you put
a few little light spots here and there, let's take
our two and a half inch brush and very lightly, I'm just
gonna brush it up and down. It makes all kinds of
beautiful, little things happen. There we go. And when this painting's all done, that'll look like light
shining through the trees and be very, very pretty. Let's clean our brush. We clean it with odorless paint thinner. Scrub out the paint. And just beat the bristles dry. Now I'm gonna take a
mix up, a black color. I'm gonna use thalo green
and alizarin crimson. And about equal parts. This will make a
beautiful, beautiful black. Very, very transparent black. Lift your paint all
the way off the palette and turn it over when you're
mixing color like this. I want this to be very well mixed. Okay. That'll give us some nice black color. Now then, now then. Let's get us a fan brush. Go right into this dark color. Begin laying in some basic, little, little tree trunk shapes. All I'm doing is just touching the canvas and just working down. Just coming down. Just drop 'em wherever you want 'em. This is your forest, so you
decide where the trees live. We're still not looking
for definite shapes yet or anything, just having fun. Maybe, maybe. Just sort of look at what you have and make some all mighty decisions. Have to make decisions. There we go. Now here I've taken most of the paint out of the brush, so I have very little left. Now I wanna make some that are far away. So I don't want as much
paint, just a little paint. There we go. Okay, let's go maybe,
maybe, maybe, there it is. Our tree lives right there. Wherever you want a tree to
live, that's where it is, that's where it's at. Okay, good. Tell you what, tell you what. I'll have one there. And this is what's so much fun. We don't use any patterns
or anything here. We just sort of look at
it and make a decision. Drop it in. Some trees are fatter
than others, some skinny, some tall, and some
short, just like people. Just like people. Maybe there's a few in here. Not as much paint here, I
want these to be farther away. Just barely, barely touching. There we go, I see one right in here too. See now already it should be giving you the indication of trees way back, way back in the forest and
light's coming through. I like these kind of paintings. I love these black canvases. These black canvases
will do fantastic things. Sometimes we do canvases
where we use magic black. And you can do just about the same thing with the magic black that
we do with a black canvas. Then you don't have to
paint your canvas black. Just put the magic black on and go. Okay, that'll give us
enough trees to play with. Now then, on some of these trees, some of these trees, far,
far back in the distance, there are a few little leaves. Here I'm just using a fan
brush and I just wanna put some indications far
back in the background. Don't want a lot of
detail yet, just like so. These are the distant trees. The ones that are far away. Far, far away. A few little leaves here and there. And I'm just taking the fan
brush and just touching. Just touching. There, right here,
right here, there's one. Okay, now, same color,
it's the same black color. Now as these trees get closer to us, you're gonna begin seeing a
little more detail on 'em. So I'll take some white, titanium white and we use a little permanent red. I wanna add a small
amount of alizarin crimson to that, permanent red, alizarin crimson, titanium white. Okay, there. Now small, small roll of paint, right down the edge of the knife. Just like so, okay, let's go up here. Now you have to make a decision. Is your light coming from
the right or the left? Since I'm right handed, it's
usually easier to have it coming from the right. Just gonna start touching here. Small, small roll of paint and just begin touching. Let the canvas take what it wants, you don't have to make any decisions. The canvas will pull off what it wants, gives you back what's left. There. Just like Uncle Sam at
the end of each year. Take what they want and you
end up with what's left. Which ain't much. Okay, there. Decide which of these trees
are the light striking. You do have to make decisions. There we go. And decide where the light's hitting. Maybe near mine, the light's
getting blocked in places, so let that happen. Let it happen. There, maybe, maybe a little light's striking
this tree, whatever. Now you understand how we
put the leaves back here, so we can go right on the top of it. It'll bring these trees
into the foreground. Maybe, right there. Give it a little more color. And we'll drop a little bit right in here. This is sort of a pinkish
color, it's very pretty. There we go. Okay, now, we need a
shadow side on the tree. So I'll take some white
and some thalo blue and I'll make a very dark blue color here. Just white and blue like so. All right, that's what I'm looking for. Cut across it, get that
small roll of paint right on the knife. Now, on the other side
and we need a shadow. So we'll just very quickly,
just turn your drop in a little. Little shadow indication. There we are. Just let it drop off your knife. Once again all you're
doing is just touching the canvas, you don't have
to make any decisions. I try to design these paintings so they're very simple
and they work for you. And yet very, very effective
because very quickly if you watch our shows,
you learn how to paint and that's no longer the problem. The problem is what to paint. That very rapidly becomes a bigger problem than how to paint. We try to give you
numerous, numerous ideas. If there's things that we're not painting that you'd like to see... Drop me a line, drop me a line. I certainly read all the letters and a lot of the paintings
that we do on these shows come from your letters. There. Now just to put a little sparkle on there, I'm gonna take a little
bit almost straight white and just barely touch, just
to add a little sparkle. Just here and there, not
too much, not too much. Be very easy, just where you
think the light would hit. Just a little. Don't want much. And that's simple, makes them beautiful, beautiful tree trunks. With just a little of this
very light color, not too much, not too much. Now then, I'm gonna use my liner brush. This is a number two
script liner and I'll put a little paint thinner
on it and go right into some of this black color. Turn that brush, bring
it to a nice sharp point. And then we can put some
limbs on some of these trees and just here and there. I like to turn the
brush as I'm pulling it. Just turn it and all these things happen. You don't have to plan them. Just let them happen. Now you want these limbs
to be bigger up here when they're closer to the trunk. I know that sounds silly. Sometimes we make little mistakes and we let them get
bigger out toward the end. We want them big and strong where they go into the trunk. There. Just some indications. Maybe there's ones that
broke up that lives there. Wherever you want 'em. Just drop 'em in, it's your tree, so you have to make these decisions. There's some, come right
over the top of these. That'll help push everything back. We want those to be
far, far away, far away, far away. There. There we go. And wherever. And if your paint didn't wanna stick, add a little more of the paint thinner or you can use a thin oil. Either one, either one
will work quite well. All right, now then. Now then we'll go back
and I'll put a little more of the black on this fan
brush and let's drop in some little leaf indications
here on some of these. Just touch the canvas, just touch it. It's a super easy way to
make some very effective little evergreen type leaves. Very effective. You let the fan brush work. These are quite dark and
we'll even add some highlight on to these. Looks like you're deep in the woods here, hope you brought your
compass, you may get lost. We need the old compass
to find your way out. Okay, now. Take another fan brush and I'll put some cadium yellow and sap green on it. Cad yellow, sap green. And let's go right up here
and just here and there. Drop a sense of nice little indications. Some highlights on there, just
brighten that up a little. Make it very pretty. There. Don't put too much of these. You can very quickly kill all your dark. And your painting will become very flat and we don't want flat paintings. We want paintings that
stand up and sparkle. There. Isn't that a super, super, nice little way to make some very effective
little leaves on your trees? Let's go back to the other side over here. Drop in a few little
indications right here. Just wherever, wherever. Once again, if it doesn't wanna stick, add a little paint thinner
and it'll stick right on it. Thin paint will stick to thick paint. And the first layer of
paint we put up here is very thick, very firm. Okay, now we can come down here and really start playing. Maybe there's some little bushes and stuff that live in here. We'll just throw some of this dark color, this is still the black. Just throw it in. We're still not looking
for distinct shapes. That'll just take off some
of that loose excess paint. We're in business. Now then I'm gonna use, we'll
just use the same old brush. Put a little small amount
of paint thinner on it, I go right into a little
bit of this green. Sap green, a little cad yellow. There we go, okay, let's go up here. Let's just put a little
indications of some highlights on some of these little bushes that are living right down
here, right on the foots of these big trees. Just a little indications. All I'm doing here is just touching. Just touching, tapping. It's very simple. There, just drop those in. And that's what helps
to push the trees back. Now we can move things on this canvas. We can push trees back,
we can bring them forward. When it's your world, you can do anything. Okay, there. Now I got this old brush running here. Let's just take it and maybe
there's some soft little grassy areas back in here. I'm just using the same colors. Sap green, cad yellow. Yellow ochre, a little Indian yellow, just mix these on the brush. Begin working on the lay of the land. There we go. I say, I am just crazy
about these black canvases and paintings like this. I think they are fantastic. Now you can keep tapping this and it gets very, very
soft and if you have one that's too bright because
there's color underneath, all you have to do is just tap on it and it'll pick up that
color that's underneath and get darker, darker, darker. Maybe, maybe last night
it rained a little bit in the woods and maybe
there's some little puddles, some little pools of water. I'm gonna go right into
some titanium white and mix it with some of
that blue we had left. So we have a little thalo
blue and titanium white. You have to make a decision. There's a little puddle
that lives right there. See, just pull it down. Wherever you want the little puddle to be. Just pull it down. If you keep going, you
can make a lake out of it. If you really get carried
away, you can make an ocean out of it. Just pull straight down like so and very lightly, very lightly go across. Let's take our knife and
we'll use some Van Dyke brown and a little burnt umber. Let's just very quickly
drop in some little, some little indications of some dirt and I'm really not looking
for specific shapes yet. Just laying in some color. Just sort of let it happen. We're not really planning
things at this point. I just want some little puddles though. Whatever you, whatever you want to just leave here and cover
up whatever you don't want. It's that easy. You have unlimited power on this canvas and you can do anything, anything. Now let's take some brown. A little brown, white, a touch of blue. There we go, makes a nice grey color. It's sort of a bluish tint to it. And I'm just barely gonna touch. Just barely touch. Just caress the canvas. Just caress the canvas. You need to be in love with the canvas. There. Just barely, barely touching. And by not overmixing these colors, all kinds of things happen automatically. You don't have to worry about them. Okay, now right underneath here. Just a little of the thalo
blue and white on my knife. All I'm doing is just touching the canvas. Put some little water
lines here and there, just like so. And now we can take, this is just our grass color again. We can sort of bring all of this together. And that easy, that easy. You got a happy little puddle. Happy little puddle. Let it happen. Okay, maybe it comes
right down, right down. Right on across there. And you can just put as
many puddles as you want, you can them wherever you want them. That's what makes it so fantastic. Add a little more of the yellow ochre. Sometimes you can add a small, small touch of permanent red. And it really helps. Okay, maybe. Shoot, that puddle was so much fun. Let's give him a friend right there. Wherever you want a puddle. You can put as many of these
as you want in your painting. Let's take a little bit of the brown here. You can add some brown in here and pull it down too. Go across. Now if you wanted a
reflection that was brighter, add a small amount of white. I just wanna show you how to do it. See, I'm pulling down and then go across. Don't kill all that. It'll look like there's a little
light hitting right there. Sneaky, huh? We need some dirt around that. I'll use some more of the brown. We'll put some dirt right
around, right around. A little bit here, maybe, maybe. Wherever you want it, just let it happen. Don't worry about planning these things. We don't make mistakes. We don't make 'em. We have happy accidents
and these happy accidents create some of the most
beautiful paintings. There. Okay, then we can come back. Drop a little bit of the
highlight color right on that. Just like so, just like so. Here a touch a little bit of the pink that was laying on the palette. Leftover from the trees
and it makes it look nice and bright. Okay, tell you what, let's do, let's have some fun here. Before we get down here. Let's pull some of these
trees right towards us. I'll go right into the dark color. This tree, this tree, this tree. I'm gonna pull it right down here. You can just take it
and pull it right over the top of that bush. Okay and we go back, we'll
need some highlight color. A little of the pink. See there. Just drop it off, a little bit of the blue on the other side and that easy. You can pull that rascal right out here. Then we can take, need a
little grass around its foots. There we go, fantastic. Now, put a few, little grassy areas right down in here. Come right around this little puddle. Just let them go. Wherever, wherever. This is a painting that really, really should make you happy. Okay, take a little bit
of the blue and white on the knife here and put a few little, just a few little indications
of some water lines here and there. It's a way of cleaning up the edges and making it look a little nicer. Just a straight line right there. So we'll just put a little grass down. Breaks it right up. Maybe, yep, you're right, you're right. There's some more water, lives right here. So you can put all the puddles in here you want. You make the decision, drop 'em in. Come across, instant water. There we go, a little bit of grass coming right down to the water. Okay and take a little bit of the brown. We need some dirt here around the edges. Need some dirt. There we go. That easy, we got a little dirt. A little bit of highlight on that. There's a pretty color,
beautiful, beautiful. Just let these things happen. Sometime they even surprise me. I don't even know what's
going to happen here. Okay. Now we can bring all that together. I'll tell you what, I think
we've got a little bit of time here. Let's take, go right into this dark color, let's have some fun, let's have some fun. There is a big tree, a big tree, a big tree and he lives right there, right there. All mighty tree. Huge, huge, big, strong tree. Strong tree. 'Cause he's closer to
ya, so he looks bigger and that helps push everything back. Make it look farther away. Maybe there's a, he's gotta
have a big old foot here to hold him up. We'll just give him a big root there. A little bit over here. See, that easy, you can
give him some big foots. Okay, a little bit of
paint thinner on my brush. Let's give him just a little arm or two. There's one, goes right off like that. There it comes, there's one, there's one. Wherever, wherever, it's your tree. Have as many arms as you want. Let's reflect a little bit of that right into the water here. Now we can take a little
bit of the highlight color and we'll drop some highlight on this one. Just like so. Just let it go right on up the tree. This highlight color's a little crimson, a little permanent red, a little white. Just mixed together, let
it come right on down. Right on down just like so. Put a little bit in the reflection. And... Then we can drop a little
bit of shadow on here. I think that'll give you an idea. Set your imagination on fire. It's unbelievable what
you can do with this. Try it out, have some fun. See what you can come up with. Now very lightly, pull
this down, pull it down and go across. I think with that, we'll
call this painting finished. I hope you've enjoyed it. It's one of my favorites. Till next week, God bless, happy painting. (gentle music)
i will start my unboxing now
hi gary