- Welcome back. I'm glad
you could join me today. And today, I thought I would
do something that is very soft, very quiet. I think you'll enjoy it. So let's start out, I'm going
to take the large brush. I've already covered the
canvas with Magic White and I'll 'em graphically
run all the colors across the screen so you can see the colors
we're going to use today. And they'll be in the same order that I have 'em on my palette. I'm going to start with a
little bit of Alizarin Crimson and just really work it into the brush, so you have a nice, even
distribution of color. I'm gonna go right up in here and just, here and there
lay in a little bit of Crimson. Beautiful, beautiful little pink color. Then without cleaning the brush, I'm going to go right into a
little bit of Prussian Blue. Without cleaning the brush. And very lightly, let it
bounce around and play, don't cover up your Crimson because the Blue is so many
times stronger than the Crimson it'll eat it all up. Just let it play. Maybe we'll go into a little
tiny bit of Burnt Umber, just a small amount and just lay some of that here and there. Just to gray it down a little. And we'll put a little bit of the pinkish color down in here, just a general idea. A little bit of the Crimson. Little bit of Blue. And we still haven't cleaned the brush. Just put in some nice soft little colors and let 'em go. Okay, now, very lightly I'll
blend all this together. Very lightly. Barely touching the canvas. Just like so. Okay, that'll give us a nice
little background to work with. Now, let's put some little
background trees in here and I'll use the same dirty brush and we'll go right into
some Van Dyke Brown and a little bit of the Burnt Umber and we'll just take the
corner of the brush here and just gonna lay in
some basic little shapes. I'm not worried about a
great deal of detail here. We're just looking for very
basic, quiet little shapes. Van Dyke Brown, Burnt Umber. Very, very basic. Just have fun. Enjoy. There we go. Just, maybe this just goes right on up. We just let it go. What the heck. Put in all kinds of, all kinds of little
background things happening. Wherever you want 'em. This is your world. Just let things happen,
let 'em fall off the brush. Maybe, a little darker right in here so we'll have a little separation. Um-kay, and while I have this
dirty color on the brush, I know there's going to be
a little water right here, I think. So, I'll just take the same color and pull down a little bit. This end up being reflections
when we're all done. But since we don't know exactly where the water's going to be yet, we really, we really don't
care where this goes. Gently, gently, gently
go across. Very lightly. Um-kay. I'm going to take a one inch brush and go right into a little
bit of Cadmium Yellow, a little Yellow Ochre and just mix these on the brush. I think I'll put a
tiniest, tiniest little bit of paint thinner into the brush. Just to thin the paint down. So we got Cad Yellow, Yellow Ochre and I'm gonna take a
smallest amount of Sap Green. Now there is three different
colors mixed here on the brush. We're gonna go right up here and I'm just using the
corner of the brush. I want to tap in some color, this is just background color. Just here and there. Just barely, barely touching the canvas. Not looking for detail yet. Just laying in color. Let's add a little bit more Green to that. There. Just here and there. As I say, we are not
looking for detail yet. These are just background colors. Let's go into a little
bit of the Permanent Red, and mix it in. Just to
break that up a little bit. Oh, that's pretty. Very nice. Just wherever. Wherever. Now we take, after you have
some of these basic shapes laid in, we'll take clean
dry two and half inch brush and I'm going to use just
the corner of the brush and I'm just gonna touch and I'm gonna soften all this. Make it very, very soft. Very quiet. And you can take the corner of your brush and really soften up the edges. Make it look very far away, just touch. There, um-kay, now we'll just
quickly run through these, we want to make this very soft, very far away. Quiet. Look at there. Look at
there. Great big brush makes little delicate
soft things like that. Just give it a chance and let it go. And that quick you gotta
beautiful little background. Okay now, we'll take a little
bit of the yellow maybe and I'll just drop in some
more little indications here, wherever you want 'em. Remember this is your world. You create the illusions that you want. Pull a little bit of that color
down into the reflections. Lightly, lightly go across. Okay with a lighter brush and
a little bit of thin oil here, we can go into some Van Dyke Brown. And we'll just make a few little
indications here and there of some trunks. We're not worried about a lot of detail. Too far away. And you can lift upward or pull downward, whichever way's more convenient. Just here and there. Maybe back in here. Make out some indications, these will be way in the background. There. Then with our large brush I'm gonna gently tap up here and there just to soften and break 'em up. Now we can take a little bit of color, just add some little
indications up through here. Not looking for detail. Now the other corner
of the brush is clean, so I'll turn it over and I'll soften. There we go. There. All kinds of
little things happening. Now let's take us some Magic White and I'll put it on the pallette and I'm going to mix a
little bit of the brown in. And this will be a very thin paint. Cut across it and let's go right up in here. And let's just lay in all
kinds of little things here. Just let 'em go. Look at there. Super nice little way to
make a very, very effective background and very quickly. And you can make these
as soft as you want 'em or you can make 'em very
bright, very distinct. It's an individual thing. So let your imagination
take you where you wanna go. There. Okay. Gives us a nice little background. Now maybe there's, maybe there's some land that comes around through here. So we'll go, let's go right
into some Van Dyke Brown with a little bit of
Burnt Umber mixed into it. I figure out, figure out where
you want land to be here. Maybe. Maybe. There it is. There it is. There it is. Make a decision and go. Just make a decision and let it go. There. See now quickly we have some dirt in here, now we'll come back and
put some grass in there and all kinds of beautiful little foliage. There. 'Kay. Now then, let's put some
highlights on there. Take some Brown, little bit
of Prussian Blue and White, I'm going to add a little
Phthalo Blue to that, brighten it up just a tiny bit. There we go. Makes a nice grey. Sort of a blue-grey. 'Kay, we'll load a little
bit of paint on the knife and let's go right up here. There. Follow the lay of the land. It's very, very important. Now just, just lay on a
few little highlights. Just a few. I'm gonna take the same color and add White to it, to make it another value lighter. And don't cover up all your first color. Put a few more highlights here and there. Just let the paint break. Using a very, very delicate touch. No pressure. No pressure. Um-kay, now let's take the old fan brush and I'm gonna go right
into some Van Dyke Brown, little Burnt Umber and
a little bit of White, so it's sort of a light color. Tell you what, let's take
and put a tiniest little bit of paint thinner on that to thin it a tiny little bit so it'll come off the
brush a little easier. So we can go right over the
top of this thicker paint back here and maybe back
in here, maybe. Maybe. There. Just a little tree lives right there. And he's got a little arm. And these are just little indications that are far away. And we can take and
begin applying some color to that and I'll take a
little bit of the Cad Yellow, Yellow Ochre and some Sap Green and here I'm just gonna
use the corner of the brush and tap. You're just looking for color
that stands out a little bit. Don't want it real bright. Just tap on some basic shapes here. There we go. Just using the corner, and making the brush bend downward. I'm gonna add a little
bit of paint thinner to my brush, and this is a little bit
brighter yellow and green and that'll stand out. There. That'll stand out. Shine and the light. Um-kay, now we can start
worrying about what's happening way back in here. Now if you want to soften this, you can use the big brush and very lightly just use the corner and just tap it. It'll soften it, bring it right down to any degree of softness that you want. Some people like, they like to
leave it brighter like that, and it's up to you. However you want it. Okay, I'm going back into the Brown. Now, this time I'm gonna
put White on one side, or a light color. Dark on one, light on the other. And maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe there's a nice tree and
he lives right there. See you do one tree and come forward. Always coming forward. And give it another branch. Right there. There we go. And just a few indications here and there. Wherever you want 'em. Now don't worry about making a mistake on the limbs because you're
put leaves on this tree, so you can cover up your mistakes. Of course, we don't make mistakes, we don't make mistakes. We have happy accidents. Never, never make mistakes. 'Kay, that'll give us a
nice little tree trunk. And let's go right in here,
I'm gonna take some Yelllow, let's add a little bit of Permanent Red to our color this time. So I got Yellow Ochre, a
little bit of Permanent Red. And as things get closer to you, they should get a little more distinct. You should be able to
pick out more detail. And I'm just using the
corner of this brush, I'm just tapping. And you gotta make basic little shapes, can't just throw these in at random. Think about limbs and little projections. Think like a tree. That'll give you a challenge. There we go. Hm, we'll let this go
right on off the canvas, we don't know where it goes. And if you want to highlight it, you can take a little bit of color, I'm using a little bit of Sap Green and a little Yellow, and just here and there. Touch. Now, I'm not going to
diffuse this one as much because it's closer. I don't wanna kill all of this. Just here and there. Um-kay, now. Let's take and begin laying
some little things back in here. Start working on these land masses, and here we're just dropping
in some basic color. Just wherever. And with a large brush
then we'll tap that, to soften it. Very, very soft. Very quiet. Okay now and let's go into some color and to me this area down in here would probably be quite dark shadow. So I'm gonna leave these colors very dark. I don't want to kill all
my land mass in here. I want to leave a little
bit of the land showing. And I'm still just tapping. Just another way to use a brush, to make all kinds of beautiful
little things happen. There we are. Just sort of play with
color back and forth between all the colors
that you've used in there. Now, maybe, maybe we
want to show some light coming through here. So I'll take a little bit of the White, this is just White added
on to the same brush to indicate a little light
shining through here. Tiniest little bit, barely touch. Maybe there's a little bit of grass that grows right in here. Wherever. Wherever. This is your world. So you drop 'em in where you want 'em. There we go. Nice and soft and quiet. That would be a super place to walk and sit under the tree and read a book and talk to the little
squirrels and the bunny rabbits. Now you know my secrets, I talk to squirrels and bunny rabbits. Now, let's do another tree. Darn gosh, trees are so much fun. This time we'll use a knife, I wanna show you several
different ways of making trees. And maybe there lives
a big tree right here. There. Just let it go.
Wherever it wants to go. Van Dyke Brown. Lot of paint on the knife. Lot of paint. Pull that paint out flat. Like that, and just cut you off a big hunk of paint. Want this tree to have texture. When the painting's dry, I want to be able to feel the bark. These back here are soft, further away. This one's getting closer. Give him a big foots out here. There. There we go. Now, maybe he's got an arm. Right there. And since there's gonna be a lot of leaves on here, we can just make indications and we don't have to worry a great deal about 'em being just perfect because the leaves are
gonna cover up most of 'em. There we go. We need some bark on that tree. And let's take some Brown and White, I'm gonna put the tiniest
little bit of Permanent Red in it. Just to sparkle it up a little bit. There. And we'll start and all
I wanna do is just touch, just touch. A little tiny bit of paint and touch. Just touching, just
follow right up the tree. Just where you think light would strike and make it brighter. Right on up. There we go. A little bit right there. There. Now on the other side to indicate a little
bit of reflected light, take a little bit of Prussian Blue and just lay a little color over here. Cool color. Just helps give the tree
a little more depth, a little more texture. Makes him a personality all of his own. And a little bit of grass growing around his foots. Clings up the bottom. Um-kay, now let's take, let's take and we'll go right into Yellow. Sap Green with a little bit of Van Dyke Brown there to dull it. Don't want it too bright. So we got Yellow, Sap Green,
little Van Dyke Brown. Now then, let's put some
leaves right up here on this almighty tree. It's a big tree here. Just still using just
the corner of the brush. Work with your basic patterns. There we go. And right over the top of that one. Just right over. It's your world, you can put
it anywhere that you want it. Okay, now then, I'm going back to my brush
with the Yellow on it and I'm gonna lighten that same color. I've added a little bit of
paint thinner to my brush just to thin the paint so it
will stick to the stick paint that we already have up here. And just here and there, lay
a little bit of highlight. Just touch it. Like so. Here and there. Let these little sparklers
just fall right off your brush. There. Um-kay, now, maybe,
maybe there's something that lives right in the
corner, a nice bush. And I'll use the large brush, I'll go into some Van Dyke Brown, a little bit of the Umber and right there. Right there. You decide where it's at and drop it in. Drop it in. There you go. And while I got that ole
dirty color on the brush, maybe there's a nice bush
that lives right here. And here it comes right
down. There we are. Just let it come right
on down through there. Now we can go back to our fan
brush with the Brown on it. We'll put the indication of a
couple little trunks in here. Just a couple little
things happening inside. And back to our brush
with the Yellow on it. And just the corner of the brush. Drop in a few little
shapes here and there. Maybe a little bit of red added in there, that'll sparkle that son of a gun up. Make it shine. So let all these little colors just come right off the brush. All the little greens and yellows. So I'm gonna take a
tiny bit of the thin oil and then down some Brown and will put a few little
sticks that are poking out of here. Just here and there, let
some of these little things just have fun, come out. Maybe there's one that lives right there, an old dead one. Okay, we're gonna clean that brush up. Let's drop in a few little
happy things right down in here. Now, we need something over in here, so I'll take a little
bit of this same color and we'll put a little bit
more dirt right in here. I think I'll make an almighty tree. This tree lives right there. Right there. That's how easy it is to make him. Van Dyke Brown. Give him a nice trunk. Make him strong. Big foot. And we need a little bit
of highlight on this tree. Make it the same way we did the other one. Just some indications here and there. Letting go. Little bit of the blue. Blue, blue. Um-kay now we can go in here. Put some little grassy
areas all down here, on his foots. Just like that. And we need, I'll use Sap Green. We need some leaves for this big tree and this is just pure Sap Green, it doesn't matter if
you pick up that brown, you're looking for a
very, very dark color. This is so, so close. So it should be very dark. And we'll put just a few, very, very few little highlights on this. And I hope this has given ya some ideas and set your imagination on fire and you'll do a fantastic painting. We'll sign this one. Little bit of thin oil. And there we go. And I hope you've enjoyed this painting. Be looking forward to
seeing you next week, from all of us here. Happy painting. (soft rock music)
