Frank Clarke Simply Painting - Georgia O Keefe Landscape

to help you achieve the best the lessons on Frank's YouTube channel Frank has developed range of quality products including the watercolor brush set which has the one and a half and three-quarter inch co-chairs and the number three rigger Frank has also developed his own range of artist quality watercolor paints these paints come in twelve mill cubes and are the eight colors Frank fuses himself in his video tutorials these products and many more can be viewed in detail at Frank's art store at simply painting comm if you prefer to order by phone please use the follow is this not a gorgeous Gorge will you stay with me and I'll tell you where we are simply painting is underwritten by Windsor Newton manufacturers of fine art materials since 1832 [Music] welcome everyone once again to simply painting I'm Frank Clark and I'm talking to you from a bridge that crosses the Rio Grande that legendary River I'm off now to visit the home of a very famous painter with a very Irish name [Music] this area here is called Ghost Ranch and it is also the area where Georgia O'Keeffe the famous American artist painted now she lived to be 99 years of age and she painted these beautiful mountains around here with all their ever changing color and the name of Keefe when of course her grandfather was Irish well we're gonna head off now go around the ranch find something for you and I to paint and there's plenty I'm sure so let's head out [Music] haven't seen some of the wonderful scenery in this area I can now understand why Georgia spent most of our painting life here hello there well well Georgia O'Keeffe country my goodness wasn't it lovely and the Rio Grande that's the river yes that's the famous American River isn't it the height of that bridge I didn't like it at all I might tell you anyway before we get blathering as we say in Ireland let's tell you about the materials we're gonna need to paint this little picture first of all only four watercolors light red ultramarine blue lemon yellow and raw sienna we need our three brushes which of course are the large goat hairbrush one-and-a-half inch the baby goat hairbrush which is half the size and the rigger we need the tray to put the paints out on on a pallet of course we call it we need a cloth to control the water on the brush some water and last but by no means least we need a sheet of watercolor paper are measuring 14 by 10 and it's long wise therefore it is landscape and without further ado let's have some more fun horizon sky middle and foreground so the first thing we do is draw in this sky the sky the horizon do I say that oh dear George oh she's a wonderful old lady I'll tell you that yes and of course she became probably if not the best-known certainly one of the best known artist in all of America wonderful wonderful artist now we've drawn that next hymn we got to keep the pencil in her hand just a little longer because this time remember all those rocky areas like there are they were gorgeous where those rocks stuck up on the sky that's what we're gonna paint so I'm gonna draw in very quickly some rocks okay right across like that now we're going up into the sky he says we make it an imposing kind of a it's kind of like a two tiered thing and then this huge gigantic rock came up like that it stuck out of the ground and don't make them too symmetrical now there's one there and then outside adhered is another one right and that came down bulged out like that and down like that and then the other side it came down right down like that see that looks like kind of two fingers this is a little bit yes there we go that's all we got to do now we got to just put some masking fluid on that just to protect it remember the masking fluid latex robbery stuff take the top off very carefully get your old brush now the reason I say old brush is that of course this substance being latex rubber can stick to your brush and if it does you have a dreadful job getting it off in fact it can ruin a brush if you're not careful so what I do is I'm counting now as we're talking up to 20 now when I get to 20 and see what I'm gonna do that's 20 got a washing off doesn't matter that the water turns a little bit creamy color still perfectly okay to paint the rest of the picture with you don't need to change the water halfway through pictures in fact I prefer to leave it that's bit of dirty water sort of that's a bit of texture to the picture now it doesn't show now you see I'm doing coming right down there and then the same thing across here and I'll tell you away because I want to protect it from the sky don't I cause it's kind of good sky to put in this time where do you see it blue sky yes very blue you know the thing about giorgia was that have unlike a lot of people like yourself maybe she wanted to paint for the day she was born by the time she was 8 years of age she made her mind up she was going to be an artist with her whether they liked it or not and in fact it it's not thought unusually she started off she went to college she started to paint she was painting in oils and she became very disillusioned with what she was doing she wasn't happy with it at all and she quit she gave the reason that she didn't like the smell of turpentine you know you got her with always awful but that wasn't the reason she just was unhappy with what she was doing and then she turned to watercolors and all was well I'm going to dry this [Music] now I've had to give that a really really really good dry and you make sure you do the same it must be absolutely dry because if that's not dry and you proceed on to paint your brush will stick to it tell you that now this was something in Georgie's time right there was no masking fluid I'm sure I don't know how what she used but it would have been wonderful because she painted flowers a lot I'm sure you've seen her work if you haven't gone look at it well worth it it's wonderful now this is ultramarine blue I am not wetting the paper I'm just getting some ultramarine blue on the brush good and strong and heavy because this was a really blue sky and that's what I want to depict I really I start from the top and across the both the pigment and the water run down the page so it makes it very now when I come to my mountain you see I keep going do you see what I'm doing now sometimes you get little bubbly effects on the paper that's usually because you've stuck your finger others I actually once complained to the manufacturers and they said there's marks all over my watercolor paper it's a faulty and they said keep your hands off it you'll be all right Frank walked into that one didn't I yeah yes well actually you've got to keep these people on their toes now it will dry a lot flatter and you'll see in the mean I gotta give it one more swipe up the top I want a really blue see you go right across like look exactly like you are painting this carriage-door then brush it in there and give it a really good dry now I'm gonna get this all hairdryer here and maybe while you are you listen to some music or something like that have a look at the scenery I'll be back to you in a minute [Music] there we go we have those lovely rocks and things there yes some nice music I hope you enjoyed that little interlude while I was drying now you'll notice I haven't done anything since your left is exactly as it was except that it's dry and as it dried of course it's flattening it cleaned out nicely all the little spots and things disappeared now next let's have a look at our mountain let's see so what we need to do is we need to give it a little rub with our finger you see that peel it off he says yes that's why you must be sure it's very dry because if you didn't and you did this and it was West well you know what you'd get you get streaks all over wouldn't you now always brush towards the center away from the sky with your finger do you know why because if you went that way it might tear the paper and then you get a big tear going right up your paper and your lovely mountain scene would be ruined your rocks I was warned not to call them mountains they are rocks big rocks I do admit but oh look at that we've cleared the whole thing off it's not handy now now whenever they're perfect oh that's not easy our next move now is let's get back into the water put out some of us some of this raw sienna now let's mix up some of this we're going to go into these now it's a very faint color because you got to start lighting then get dark now what I'm going to do is put a tiny bit of light red out and you'll see why I might want to get a little bit ready sorry only the teensiest bit don't make this too strongly if you do you'll spoil your picture now watch I'm gonna start and that's a little bit too and then we're gonna see the color don't we these let's see it that's better okay now down the fire side of the rock took them I'm going to assume on this occasion that the light is coming this way so I'm gonna fill the whole thing in but I'm gonna see where I've left a bit right there that'll be nice eventually that look so you can almost see it taking shape at the moment can't you hope you having a good look at this now right Darren later right there just below the horizon lines you know now what we got to do is give that a little dry just a little dry there ya go now let's go get her although brush hello no more six bushy now we got to make up some kind of darker color now I'm going to take some of the blue and some of the red that gives me a kind of a a whiny color and then on the back here do you know I'm gonna come down here now always work like to don't go mad black first and there was that kind of a dark area there now I'm working from a little sketch I have it was actually I'm looking a little photograph I tell a lie it's not a sketch at all now when you go out of course you're going to do the same I'm sure you're going to take you to photographs you're gonna make sketches now they don't have to be you're all beautiful things a sketch is exactly what it says it's a sketch it is not something that you're going to hang up on the wall as a piece of art it's purely a reference for you and you alone do you understand that so there in fact the word sketch I think I mentioned it before one time is in fact sketchy over here thought very sketchy that means exactly that now coming down there's another the inside of this rock here was kind of there was a gap between the two of them God isn't it see it work your way and and also don't be too quick at putting on the real dark colors just give it a chance you can also see I can make that darker now by taking more of the blue see some of the blue light there till I get a really dark color and watch that now then I can I can start to fill in you see that that was a really dark area there because it was coming around behind the rock kind of thing and that area there was dark and then this I love doing these rocks are great fun because you can and if you if you move the shadow a bit wouldn't you keep at the right direction you're fine do you know what I mean by that once you don't have dark over this side yeah I gotta go really down there because that was as was that the idea now easy isn't it when we get down a bit more now with with head off down into the desert II part here I think we've done enough of that just for the moment now it's not gonna add much as they say these are all bits of the rock tip now okay next we're gonna get a big Peter gonna come on down here now got it we've got to put in some real color into this thing now haven't we big brush say mixture cuz it's the very same you've had a bit of white here and there don't be too worried but if you miss a little bit you know you don't have to cover it at all like this often nicer if you don't see that you're going to make a bit of sense now isn't it now there were some bushes and they were just about here somewhere so the next move we're gonna have would be to do that for let's carry on down the hallway we got there and you see we kind of bring the brush strokes down that way a bit and then it makes it look like it's going uphill that word hmm yes let's put out some lemon yellow you know what you get when you get lemon yellow you get lemon yellow one blue will give you green but before we do that we're going to give it a tiny roll [Applause] that was a quickie actually here's one for you probably I don't know this than that but do you know why the Automobile Association was formed hmm well we would all say of course to protect motorcars and to go along and help us if we break down that sort of thing you know what you're thinking no you wouldn't be right the Automobile Association was actually founded so they could send out scouts and watch out for police roadblocks and warned the members case they got caught by the police I thought that was great maybe I should go back to doing that imagine we could have heyguys at every corner saying hey there's a policeman round the corner take it easy but that's why it was done believe me that's the truth now those are some bushes here just I'm gonna put a few scrapes I think they're just on the side of the here in little even if you scrape sharpen them like they're not big bushes and little ones okay little bit few more here and see it's on the side of a hill kind of thing I'm gonna bring it down a little bit more like that yeah that's one side now we got over the other side here we've got a big Bush to do here so there now so the AEA they were serving a super but that was about 1900 and four or five or something pretty early days did you know as well that Air Force motorcars in Europe it was obligatory that a man would walk in front of the car with a red flag to warn people there was a motor carrier comin about that you didn't know that now I bet you I didn't know I didn't know but the AAA guys either never admittedly I thought that was something okay this is police now these are just butchers nice ones they weren't they weren't four bushes or it's ordinary kind of bushes you'd find desert bushes now I'm making up some of the blue and the light red and I get a kind of a brown color see that so I can put in some darker now this is all done with the core of the large brush very quickly see because this part isn't shadow very obviously because and then we can run a few that look at that it's the bushes now we got to come on down here see the way it's begin to take shape now isn't it I think we need to get back in the middle here again so now let's go back in here and just get some more just kind of a darkish color I want to just here and there hit it well that's maybe a bit too much now you see I did something there that's very bold it's okay I didn't do any damage but what should I have done I should have gone to my little piece of paper over here to the left pop my brush on it and tested it like that and then I wouldn't have put that piece that I was in Fred was a bit dark but all's well y'all know got it I'm creating kind of little this is just with the brush this is the baby goat hair very dry with some Brown which is the light brown which is the raw sienna and a tiny bit of that same light red in there the same stuff as we used only slightly darker here actually if you use the same color again she used underneath it will it will come out a little darker because when you put paint on paint that's what happens understand that and I'm sure you do remember that's a good dry now in a minute let it all settle in and lovely and grand and maybe when I'm doing that and you might look at something quite unusual giorgia did so you go ahead and I'll give this a little bit of a drive [Applause] I'm in front of the church of san francisco de assists here in new mexico now this is the most photographed and painted church in america why when it's beautiful of course but one of the main reasons is the Georgia O'Keeffe painted it but this is where the story gets a bit peculiar let me show you what she painted well believe it or not this is decide that Georgia painted [Music] [Music] [Music] there we go nice and dry now what is it that most unusual wasn't it only she would think of doing that wasn't it but that's what makes genius you know we'd all look at that we'd say oh you know we're gonna paint yeah that's I'd have to do that she looks at it and says no no no it would be better from the fire side it's more artistic so you don't pay you actually do not pay an artist for what he actually does it's these thought processes what you're actually paying for because they can think of things to see them differently than we would until we're artists like you and I and then we see them David are we they do people say alright that's not why did she that's why anyway anyway that's probably one of the most famous paintings in America that back at that church the back end of the churches yeah yeah now look I'm coming on down just a few more little bits and pieces there I want to just give the impression that the land is falling away from those rocks and yet there's some nice light see it that knows a little bit here I'm saving this please bits here we've got a highlight those in a minute but see the idea now it's getting the impression that the land is kind of falling that way these rocks are stunning off up at the air they aren't they I don't want another bit there's another little bit of directness there that's a raucous split kind of I'm not going to do much more with this now we're going to be all you can over what could can chip yes you can we got to get the on the front of this down to the foreground yeah all right foreground now we're going to change again now the foreground here I'm going to make that kind of a little bit grassy little bit let me take a some of the lemon yellow and some of the blue make it a light green color I don't want to make it too strong so you just like that now I'm using the brush the tip of the brush to bring downward stroke this way is he the old goat hair so you wondered I wanted only brush because the brush is so dry I can give the impression I've actually should do something in there a bit I'm actually little wisps of grass see them and then I can darken them if I need by just adding in a little or of my thing there we go cuz of course naturally behind that you know they you probably noticed that the shadows were very long some of their you know when you saw long shadows you know why that is that's because we did that piece in the evening time in the evening time and therefore the shadows were longer than we did a purposely oh yes sir our boss he know he made a stay up all day didn't get her dinner till nine o'clock at night because we were waiting for the correct light you see this is where these directors you know oh yes all right hard man hard taskmaster said they don't they don't suffer fools sit easily they say they'll have your working day and night now we're still going on down look see it's getting to make a bit us now I'd like to put in some lighter kind of color here and let me just see what I mean by that I'm gonna clean me brush first maybe good idea even a bit dark isn't it I want to get a spare a nice and light look at that it's almost raw what I've done is I've just dried off clean the brush first dried it off pretty well so there's nearly no paint on it at all it's only there as I said the dirty waters painting this I didn't mention that earlier I didn't know just to break it up see they give me the impression to kind of the desert and there's all these kind of nice nice bits and pieces in it now I've got it oh yes gotta get some clay my brush has got hard that's the thing by the way if it happens that you're masking fluid brush gets covered in the stuff and does actually become solid as it will I'm just putting in a few little little branches sticking out here now if that does happen the manufacturers will tell you you can't do anything that's it throw it away intended something else yes you can what you do is you get you know white spirits you can use petrol is pretty damaging on your brush white spreads or I like to use and what I do is see my brush in it and the chances are you'll get it back now I do not advise it that every time you use the masking fluid you should clean your brush with white spirits but if it happens that you had a problem that's what I do now it could have been a lighten that they're not nice a couple more things to do now we're getting along nicely aren't we first of all we've got my pal Joe the bird you know the guy is becoming famous in each or the bird he's a nice man alright let me just put my board here which of course is a flat letter V that's all it is now let's get down the bottom here get my pen out and sign this thing and I think you'll find because we use that lovely blue sky we've got quite a nice contrast on us so we get next our little mass ash piece of cardboard our board wherever it is we put it down on the thing like that to have a look at our picture I always do this you can check our picture and quite pleased with that now I've gotta say to you that that's all for now but if you'd like more information on this program or any of my other programs why not visit my website simply painting dot-com bye bye to help you achieve the best results from the lessons on Frank's YouTube channel Frank has developed a range of quality products including the watercolor brush set which has the one and a half and three-quarter inch co-chairs and the number three rigger Frank has also developed his own range of artist quality watercolor paints these paints come in twelve will choose and are the eight colors Frank uses himself in his video tutorials these products and many more can be viewed in detail at Frank's art store at simply painting calm if you prefer to order by phone please use the phone

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Length: 26min 52sec (1612 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 27 2019