Frank Clarke Simply Painting The Giant's Causeway

what you see is what we're gonna paint so why don't you stay with me and as well as that I'll show you one of the wonders of the world [Music] welcome everyone to simply painting I'm Frank Clark and I'm sitting on one of the wonders of the world it's the Giant's Causeway and the Antrim coast in Ireland now there's a story about how this was formed let me tell you there was a local joint he was a warrior and he lived around here and he decided that he wanted to have a battle with the Scottish counterpart so he built this roadway a causeway across to Scotland now when he got there he saw the size of the Scottish giant he decided he's a bit big so he came home told his wife and she'd been an Irish woman of course said to him well why don't you get into bed we'll make up a cradle I put a bonnet on you look like a baby and when the joint comes across I'll tell him that you're only that the baby that's exactly what happened the Scottish giant came across when he saw the size of Finn McCool as a baby he thought well if this is the baby I don't want to meet the father so he raced back across the causeway as he did he broke her so he couldn't be followed that's the first story you can believe that of your wish the other one is that it was formed about 50 million years ago here by volcanic action anyway we're here to paint and I picked a scene earlier which is on the Antrim coast and that's what we're going to do so you and I are gonna head back to my studio now I'm not going to paint a pretty picture [Music] hello there well I hope you enjoyed the Giant's Causeway the wonder of the world wasn't it fantastic I'll tell you more about a little later on let's look at the picture we painted and as a matter of fact this is the next beach toward it just beside it the Giant's Causeway is over there this is the next little Inlet and I thought it would make a nice picture so why don't you join me over at the desk let's get comfortable and let's get at it so we set ourselves down here and we got out oh that's great isn't it nice to get sitting down to chat to you yes well now let's talk about the picture but before we do what do we talk about let's talk about the materials were going to need and this time we've cut down on the number of paints we've only got six we've got white we've got burnt umber we've got raw Sienna we've got lemon yellow pale hue we've got ultramarine and we've got familiar in hue because somebody said they'd like me to try that when I was this time I may not choose it I may anyway there it is next we have the polish that's to put the paint's out on its a piece of plastic and there's a hole here that's because if you want to hold it up like that have you had an easel you see you could paint than in your hand we're going to leave it flash next we have the brushes and there are three of them there's the large simply painting and this is made of bristle brush make sure when you're asking for it's a bristle acrylic brush that's the first one is 2 inches broad and that's the one we're going to do most of the painting with next we have the middle sized brush which is a number 4 filbert and that means there's a round top on it that's the second well that's also made of bristle third brush is it's a rigger it's a number three rigger it's made from nylon and that's the bush we do the detail work with but not too much as you know big brush most of the time next we have some pads here to dry the brushes on we've got some water because of course you mix acrylic with water that's the medium very handy and last we have this canvas panel and the canvas panel measures 14 by 10 14 inches long by 10 inches high that means we're going to paint it in landscape isn't it as long wise right I've got another board behind it as you can see that's ours I don't dirty my table so it's an old board I found I stick it on to it and then I can paint I can let the paint off the side like that they don't do any I wish to the table it's good idea if you little trick yes right let's now talk about how we're going to paint this picture I mean have a look at at the same time well this is a real of simply painting picture I can tell you have some more fun job horizon sky middle and foreground it's very obvious that horizon is the horizon of the sea the sky is on top the foreground is down the very bottom and the middle ground is whether those little yachts are that's the way we're going to do it so it's have some more fun right off we go first thing we do let's put out some paint to do the horizon line and this time we put out some blue paint to draw in our horizon and that's a good idea because after all this the sea is blue isn't it yes so we're there now normally we don't really care where we care where we put the horizon but we don't care whether it's all that's straight enough with the critics because we can straighten up later this time I'm going to be a little bit more careful do you know why because I'm doing a seascape and we cannot have to see looking like it's like a window screen wiper it's got to be fairly straight it's fairly high it's about there so it's about love cross like that now I hope that straight that's pretty good isn't it look back and forward a few times if you have a ruler user I just lost my little where's I think there's somebody working in the house they pinched it they did some carpenter got that build are Stephen again you know the fella who who did swirls here for me what could I get him and kill him magic what was that in your studio and there were lovely brick walls however there we ever got the horizon line never mind him we'll deal with them later next comes the sky and we need two more colors we need raw Sienna and let's put a big dollar for that out and the next thing we need is white and don't be mean with these colors honestly these are big tubes you can get loads of pictures out of them so for goodness sake don't be afraid to use the paint pull it out we artists can be very mean people honestly I'm very jealous at the same time anyway let's look at it now we're going to get some of the raw sienna and the white mix the two together get a kind of a yellowy color and we're going to put that on the sky forest I don't give us a kind of a kind of a creamy background to the skies you don't want to just plain blue efficient once it flamed blue you can put it that way I don't mind now I hope you've all got your brushes and your paints and if you've realized now that anybody can paint and that you're ready they're like greyhounds in the trap ready to get out this thing with me because there's not much use of me spend and lesson after lesson here telling you how to paint and giving you all the secrets all the secrets and you're not using them so I expect a rush to the art shop for those of you who just joined us for the first time you may have just turned on your television every night oh it's a funny Irishman on the okay and he's painting maybe we should try this just watch it you'd be surprised I've never known a failure now what I'm doing is I'm putting in where I think the sky is I'm leaving out where I think the clouds are do you understand that it's the reverse to what you think now they're on the bottom of this look at that I'll give it a good get the brush of God swish around the beauty of acrylic paint is you don't need a whole bunch of brushes because of course you can clean them so quickly see I'm just putting a bit of white there up to her on the horizon line because I want to go to a nice bit of maybe a little bit there now when that's all done I'm gonna just run that brush ever so carefully across watch this lean it on the top and just it's only absolutely resting on it and what that does is it kind of softens the paint see there and we got a reasonably good sky there now haven't we no it does not have to be exactly the same as the sky were painting from in fact you try and paint this guy even out of doors by the time you look up it's gone and anybody it's a 1 minute it's a storm the next minute is not anyway there it is so why don't we give this a little dry because I want to put into an island into this so let's give it a tiny dry but the all hairdryer there's plenty now just a quick one I don't want to dry it too much just to get the glass offered now the next move is I'm going to put in if you look back to the picture very quickly you'll see in the middle almost over there's a mass of land that is not well he's in Ireland course it's Scotland so I supported called the whole of England is in Ireland Ireland English sir England Scotland and Wales as are one big Ireland but and it's also it's quite a well-known place that is the mole of kintyre now what is famous about the mole of Pantera well let me tell you ever hear of a guy called John Lennon of the Beatles hmm when he lived there for a while I'm told that he sold his farm or he's moved or something but not John Donne and I'm wrong it was Paul McCartney yes just before the phones duster hop off the hook it was not was not that's who it was Paul McCartney he lived there for a while that's a beautiful place it's a faint I don't want this in too strong this is about 20 miles away you can see quite a lot of the Scottish coastline food from the north coast of Ireland their joint this is right up in the very top of of Ireland now look at that that's pretty far away isn't it we don't want to make it don't make it too too bright look silly now that's Dalian that's a quick look back to the picture again and see how we get none well we have we've got our sky which is you've got a rise and now the next thing I supposed to see let's get at it for those of you who haven't painted before and who think it's impossible now let me taste some it could be a little story there was a you ever hear of Henri Matisse he was one of the Impressionists or like a post-impressionist very wonderful painter and believed it enough he started to paint when he was in having an operation in hospital yeah just use your covering promise and somebody decided are the poor fella let's give him some paints so they did and that's how we started hmm interesting so those of you who might be recovering from an operation or when feeling too well remember you can paint you can paint in bed I've painted on aircraft I painted literally I can't think of any way you couldn't paint it's like no other hobby now what I'm doing is put a good dark see in here do you see it right and I'm telling what I'm doing as well I'm making sure now look I put the brush kind of flat and I'm gonna drag it across here that kind of beetle be careful this horizon now once I get that in the rest is easy now don't worry if it looks too dark you can lighten it look that doesn't take pretty in fact I usually put a good strong paint on forest and then I slowly bring it down in color I like to horizon itself to be quite stay quite dark if you feel is too dark be my guest let it dry or give it a dry with a hairdryer and then bash it in any color you like change it you can always change your colors in acrylic it's not like many other mediums where once you have done it is too late well it's not too late it's never too that I don't think there's any medium you can do something with there's a belief that you can oh you've room did you know now look i'm coming down and i want to get down there i'm putting in the whole broad mass and I believe it will notice that as the wallet gets nearer to hear the sea gets near it gets lighter in color so I'm doing that yes I can do this whole thing down here and then I can dry the whole out in one go save electricity do it all together yeah now we can add in some other colors in a minute but at the moment I'm just trying to I'm kind of scumbling in all the color here I need look down to where this sea meets the land the rocks and there now let's line that remember and I told you but right across because if you have lines in your sea that appeared to be going that way if we make the sea look like it's going uphill or down Dale as they say and I have yet to see anybody waterskiing on the ocean without a boat cuz there's no Hills on it did you know that look at that straight across there that's better'n area with a victor and of course warwick watercolors lightened and acrylics darken did you know that take a time with this bit here you got that right the rest follows on now look at that I'm very happy with that yes that's pleased with that right push in there quick look back to see what we're going to do and the next thing is that big landmass there on the right hand side let's get at that before I do the old hairdryer give it a bit of a blast there we go yeah we are good old dry now let's tell you something which may interest you Nobel Prize to American doctors not so many years ago but 20 years ago won the Nobel Prize for medicine and do you know what they discovered I'm having a creature from the painting now and I'm talking to you I need some more paint yellow they discovered that that we had two sides to her brain a left and a right side do you know that they got the Nobel Prize for it so it must be true anyway they found also that the people who were left-handed as I am and I believe it or not there's over 70% of artists I didn't know that until I started to look into this thing they found that those people now I'm coming down here look follow on the line approximately of this cliff and it's a mixture of yellow blue some of the raw sienna and some of the burnt umber now I'm using the darker color get down a bit here because near the sea you see anyway they found out that the people who are left hand used the right hand side of the brain and vice versa so what I'm doing now is I'm filling up the right hand side is the artistic side the creative side the happy side yeah can't use that side and be unhappy so I'm going to fill that up for you the right hand side you're gonna have full right hand side of your brain you'll be smiling and laughing and enjoying us having everything as great now look at that I'm tapping in some just this is just yellow by itself and it's mixing with the other paint you see so it's the top of this little jetty if you're like I've land and if you look to the picture again this is the right-hand side that it's green at the top and as it comes down towards the ocean of course it gets darker now back to some burnt umber and raw sienna again mixing the two and then we're gonna level this out here yeah I was down about there now you have the advantage of course with acrylic that you can either go dark light or light dark doesn't matter you can add in the high light so you can add in the dark spots makes no difference which you do there's no rule it's up to you I'm putting in enough dark and everything else there now that's one side of it now let's look at the other side which is the left hand side of the picture again quickly and you see yes we have some more little rocks and things there don't we and they start we just pick a point if you run across from the points a near they stand a bit below it so let's do that bit below it's easier now you're probably saying I could do that you know that's awful I can do it so can i dead right which me there is no such thing as a person who can paint no no anyway yeah there we go now I slowly see but but all the time we're keeping this line here the bottom of one of your like parallel with the horizon line because if it didn't you'd look like that if you did something like that and put a rock on top of it it looks it looks like it's gone sticking into the sea or something look silly so you can't do that so we'll cover that up see I told you can't make a mistake with a critic didn't I know just no green I don't want green no green on the beach I'm gonna cut some lighter color in here in a minute cuz we get down to the sandy part of all this and there's another big rock there enjoying this this is great fun actually because you can put your own rocks if you don't like where the rocks are put your own in don't I mean but the thing is unbalanced put your own in never be afraid to do that many a good picture is ruined because in because you you reproduce the bad the bad factors in the in the landscape you've got a telegraph poles I'm sticking up what do you do you copy it and then you ruin the whole thing don't put it in take it out paintbrush is stronger than bulldozer did you know that yes you can move a mountain it doesn't suit you and somebody once was telling me that you know ooh they're not exactly I said no absolutely not it's not an architectural draw and I'm doing it's a painting now I need to put in put that push away for the money I'll get a bigger brush now let's get out of because we need to put in some of the sand here so let's do that and then we give it a we dry so we need white just wait on raw Sienna it's a nice yellowy color on the beets here yeah that's the fella nice and there the sand and the sand the sand actually goes out onto the water you know it's not only the water kind of at times you see the sand through it did you ever notice that yeah for all of you now who order if I get a bit ahead here you know if a prefect you say I can't stop and wait for you unfortunately I'd love to spend hours with you but I can't do that so what you're just gonna have to do is do the broad masses put in the bits the important bits and then you can do the food student later now that's an Irish word foo string he's fooling around with the paints now you know what that means putting another little nice bits the little finishing touches you put them in any time so my advice to you thought I flying and then when I'm gone you can finish it off but finish it don't leave it up in the attic foot and I know so many people who stare at a picture and they never finished them never the follow these things have finished now I think we're coming on pretty well here now let's put the brush back give us a little dry because we need to put in some more colours in this thing get the old hair dryer again no I think we know I think we've got it pretty well so our next move now is the whole thing looks lovely but it's awful isn't it if you look at the other pictures yeah nice and lively it is and how awful dead this is so let's start the live during your process let's get the medium sized brush so we can do it now give it a good swish in the water is it any good trickers leave your brushes in the water I know they say all to damage them no it won't I've got pushes in the water for months you might get some of just the flake off here at the handle that's no harm but I tell you what it means if you if you don't do that I'm now looking I'm pushing in some nice nice waves and it's rope around the rocks there just dabbling now this is just fill the brush well the point of this is the filbert just fill the point of it fairly well and then just let it run let it run around like that it's kind of drag it across the the paper and you see whether all these lovely little waves are all hammering up on the shore and no ripples and everything else but you see but again they've got to be straight there's gonna be parallel with the horizon line otherwise I don't know what kind of waves you'd end up with you know now that's beginning to come to life now isn't it something a bit wonky oh here's know a little something maybe that's a bit much it was a bit much we can always deal with him later because now what you're doing is you're putting in the waves where you want them you don't have to follow every wave broad masses and the rest is up to you now we got no no this is nice now isn't it yes sir now you pay the way the pictures coming to life isn't it yeah that's another little swish around let's get another brush here well that one is soaking now I'm gonna put a little bit of green into that green he says are you gonna put that in the water just a little taste of it here and there just little reflections maybe a bit a bit bluer though kind of a bluey green waters around Ireland have this lovely kind of bluey green look about them and it breaks up the thing you see that not too much of it now and the same thing there a bit I'm saving me little boats and things to last because there's a little fun little finish was don't put them in to the very end till they're ready to do it because I think it it spoils the picture if you're you've got one half of it finished in the other half not good fun too now more Brown my little bit the raw sienna got some more rocks twinners here a big rock there rock rock rock hope you have your own music playing a member I told you that about the music used the music joy yes ABBA I find I've often sat here in this studio till three o'clock in the mornin didn't even know was that time you know what the clock and you realize my goodness me no at the time I've spent out here that's true piggy forgets him there maybe if she's glad to forget I'm there she's you now I'm putting in just highlights now I begin to pick which way is the light coming when I think I think in this case the lights coming this way a bit so I'm putting a little just little touches here and there don't go mad with this now it's not a I hate too much highlights at the same time some of them are some of them I stand up might be slightly the wrong color so now that's better in it yeah I haven't used the Vermillion at all didn't mmm don't eat it so natural fact we've painted this picture with one two three four colors isn't that quite amazing yes you wouldn't think it yeah that may be a little green there might be the thing I think this was in the other picture yeah that's better isn't it it's a little light there okay now I'm gonna start now looking at the little boats now this time I'm using the white for the boat and off comes the top of my flow improver like this stuff I mean it's a brush dip the brush into it up down into the white take off plenty get a good lump of white out there don't be afraid of it you got plenty no gallons of it there wasteful I'm gonna at this time yes now I'm gonna now just start off look I got to put in some of these boat now the near ones the near sales you know what I mean but they are bigger and they must also come down to see further do you understand that you can't have the nearest ones with big sales further away and they're like another couple dare look another one there and if you put few little they're all over the place these little tiny one there's one nearly over the Mallick entire now what get into the end of this thing now aren't we I think we put a little bottom on this boat well that's some bottom isn't it it just ran down to pay the page with the canvas um because it was too wet now for me next I've already I've already we did a good bit of drying this time didn't we so we can take our time to finish this off cause it's got a little thing to tell you unfortunately you know this is the last in the series that's pretty sad well I'm very sad it is anyway so I hope you enjoyed these little paintings I certainly hope that you're doing them and that you're telling a friend you know be a friend tell a friend because it's a wonderful hobby try it once if you don't like it well I don't know anybody who doesn't we just think we can't do it I'm just end up just tearing off the tape to create our little frame around these and there's always one that doesn't come off so we ET see that it's Murphy's Law you know Murphy's Law or feel our state's if it can go wrong as well there we are don't let us wish down there there we go so from Frank's dark until we meet again remember you try this out and have some more fun [Music] what you see is what we're gonna paint so why don't you stay with me and as well as that I'll show you one of the wonders of the world [Music] welcome everyone to simply painting I'm Frank Clark and I'm sitting on one of the wonders of the world it's the Giant's Causeway and the Antrim coast in Ireland now there's a story about how this was formed let me tell you there was a local joint he was a warrior and he lived around here and he decided that he wanted to have a battle with the Scottish counterpart so he built this roadway a causeway across to Scotland now when he got there he saw the size of the Scottish giant he decided he's a bit big so he came home told his wife and she'd been an Irish woman of course said to him well why don't you get into bed we'll make up a cradle I put a bonnet on you look like a baby and when the joint comes across I'll tell him that you're only the the baby that's exactly what happened the Scottish giant came across when he saw the size of Finn McCool as a baby he thought well if this is the baby I don't want to meet the father so he raced back across the causeway as he did he broke her so he couldn't be followed that's the first story you can believe that of your wish the other one is that it was formed about 50 million years ago here by volcanic action anyway we're here to paint and I picked a scene earlier which is on the Antrim coast and that's what we're going to do so you and I are gonna head back to my studio now am I going to paint a pretty picture [Music] hello there well I hope you enjoyed the Giant's Causeway the wonder of the world wasn't it fantastic I'll tell you more about a little later on let's look at the picture we painters and as a matter of fact this is the next beach toward it just beside it the Giant's Causeway is over there this is the next little Inlet and I thought it would make a nice picture so why don't you join me over at the desk let's get comfortable and let's get at it so we sit ourselves down here and we got out oh that's great isn't it nice to get sitting down to chat to you yes well now let's talk about the picture but before we do what do we talk about let's talk about the materials were going to need and this time we've cut down on the number of paints we've only got six we've got white we've got burnt umber we've got raw sienna we've got lemon yellow pale hue we've got ultramarine and we've got familiar in hue because somebody said they'd like me to try that one out this time I may not use it I may anyway there it is next we have the polish that's to put the paint's out round it's a piece of plastic and there's a hole here that's because if you want to hold it up like that have you had an easel you see you could paint than in your hand we're going to leave it flat next we have the brushes and there are three of them there's the large simply painting and this is made of bristle brush make sure when you're asking for it's a bristle acrylic brush that's the first one is 2 inches broad and that's the one we're going to do most of the painting with next we have the middle sized brush which is a number 4 filbert and that means there's a round top on it that's the second well that's also made of bristle third brush is it's a rigger it's a number 3 rigger it's made from nylon and that's the bush we do the detail work with but not too much as you know big brush most of the time next we have some pads here to dry the bushes on we've got some water because of course you mix acrylic with water that's the medium very handy and last we have this canvas panel and the canvas panel measures 14 by 10 14 inches long by 10 inches high that means we're going to paint it in landscape isn't it as long wise right I've got another board behind it as you can see that's so as I don't dirty my table so it's an old board I found I stick it onto it and then I can paint I can let the paper off the side like that they don't do any I wish to the table it's good idea if you little trick yes right let's now talk about how we're going to paint this picture I mean have a look at it at the same time well this is a real simply painting picture I can tell you have some more fun job horizon sky middle and foreground it's very obvious the horizon is the horizon of the sea the sky is on top the foreground is down the very bottom and the middle ground is whether those little yachts are that's the way we're going to do it so let's have some more fun right off we go first thing we do let's put out some paint to do the horizon line and this time we put out some blue paint to draw in a horizon and that's a good idea because after all this the sea is blue isn't it yes so we're there now normally we don't really care where we care where we put the horizon but we don't care whether it's all that's straight enough with the critics because we can straighten it up later this time are going to be a little bit more careful do you know why because I'm doing a seascape and we cannot have the sea looking like it's like a window screen wiper it's going to be fairly straight it's fairly high it's about there so it's about look across like that now I hope that straight-ass pretty good isn't it look back and forward a few times if you have a ruler user I just lost my little where's I think there's somebody working in the house they pinched it they did some carpenter got that build are Stephen again you know the fellow who who did swirls here for me whether I get him and kill him magic what was that in your studio and there were lovely brick walls however there we ever got the horizon line never mind him we'll deal with him later next comes the sky and we need two more colors we need raw sienna and let's put a big dollop of that out and the next thing we need is white and don't be mean with these colors honestly these are big tubes you can get loads of pictures out of them so for goodness sake don't be afraid to use the paint put it out artists can be very mean people honestly I'm very jealous at the same time anyway let's look at it now we're going to get some of the raw sienna and the white mix the two together got a kind of a yellowy colour and we're going to put that on the sky for us I don't give us a kind of V they're kind of a creamy background to the skies you don't want to just flame blew it once the flame do you can put it that way I don't mind now I hope you've all got your brushes and your paints and you've realized now that anybody can paint and that you're ready they're like greyhounds in the trap ready to get out this thing with me because there's not much use of me spending less than after a lesson here telling you how to paint and giving you all the secrets all the secrets and you're not using them so I expect a rush to the art shop for those of you who just joined us for the first time you may have just turned on your television and realized oh it's a funny Irishman on the okay and he's painting maybe we should try this just watch it you'd be surprised I've never known a failure now what I'm doing is I'm putting in where I think the sky is I leave it out where I think the clouds are you understand that it's the reverse to what you think now they're on the bottom of this look at that I'll give it a good give the brush a good swish around the beauty of acrylic paint is you don't need a whole bunch of brushes because of course you can clean them so quickly and just putting a bit of white there up to her on the horizon line cuz I want to go to nice but it may be a little bit there now when that's all done I'm gonna just run that brush ever so carefully across watch this lean on the top and just it's only absolutely resting on it and what that does is it kind of softens the paint see there and we got a reason look at sky there now haven't we no it does not have to be exactly the same as the sky were painting from in fact you try and paint this guy even out of doors by the time you look up it's gone and then you bet you'd be it's a one minute it's a storm the next minute is not anyway there it is so why don't we give this a little dry cuz I want to put into the island into this so let's give it a tiny dry but the old hairdryer that's plenty now just a quick one I don't want to draw it too much just to get the glass offered now the next move is I'm going to put in if you look back to the picture very quickly you'll see in the middle almost our there's a mass of land that is not enough well it is in Ireland cause its Scotland so I supported called the whole of England is in Ireland Ireland II England sir England Scotland and Wales as our one big Ireland but and it's also was quite a well-known place that is the mole of kintyre now what is famous about the mole of Pantera well let me tell you ever hear of a guy called John Lennon of the Beatles hmm but he lived there for a while I'm told that he sold his farm or he's moved or something but not John Donne and I'm wrong it was Paul McCartney yes just before the phone starts to pop off the hook it was not was not that's who it was Paul McCartney he lived there for a while that's a beautiful place it's a faint I don't want this in too strong this is about 20 miles away you can see quite a lot of the Scottish coastline food from the north coast of Ireland that joins this is right up in the very top of of Ireland now look at that that's pretty far away isn't it we don't want to make it don't make it too too bright look silly now that's Dalian that's a quick look back to the picture again and see how we get none well we have we've got our sky which is you've got a rise and now the next thing I supposed to see let's get at it for those of you who haven't painted before and who think it's impossible no not let me tell you something something just taken could be a little story there was a you ever hear of Henri Matisse he was one of the impressionist so they have post-impressionist very wonderful painter and believe it or not he started to paint when he was in having an operation in hospital yeah just use your covering promise that somebody's decided are the poor fella let's give him some paints so they did and that's how we started hmm interesting so those of you who might be recovering from an operation I went feeling too well remember you can paint you can paint in bed I've painted on aircraft I painted literally I can't think of any way you couldn't paint it's like no other hobby now what I'm doing is put a good dark see in here do you see it right and I'm telling what I'm doing as well I'm making sure now look I put the brush kind of flat and I'm gonna drag it across here I gotta be careful this horizon now once I get that in the rest is easy now don't worry if it looks too dark you can lighten it look that doesn't take pretty in fact I usually put a good strong paint on forest and then I slowly bring it down in color I like to horizon its have to be quite stay quite dark if you feel is too dark be my guest let it dry or give it a dry with a hairdryer and then bash it in any color you like change it you can always change your colors in acrylic it's not like many other mediums where once you have done it is too late well it's not too late it's never too that I don't think there's any medium you can do something with there's a belief that you can all you've room did you know now look I'm coming down I want to get down there I'm putting in the whole broad mass and I was believing noticed as the water gets nearer to hear the sea gets near it gets lighter in color so I'm doing that because I could do this whole thing down here and then I can draw the whole out in one go save electricity do it all together yeah now we can add in some other colors in a minute but at the moment I'm just trying to I'm kind of scumbling in all the color here I need down to where the sea meets the land the rocks and there now let's line that number and I told you but right across because if you have lines in your see that appeared to be going that way if we make the sea look like it's going uphill or down Dale as they say and I have yet to see anybody waterskiing on the ocean with a boat because there's no Hills Ellis did you know that look at that straight across there that's better'n area with a victor and of course warwick watercolors lighten acrylics darken did you know that take a time with this bit here cuz we got that right the rest follows our now look at that I'm very happy with that down yes that's pleased with that right push in there quick look back to see what we're going to do and the next thing is that big landmass there on the right hand side let's get at that before I do the old hairdryer give it a bit of a blast there we go yeah we are good old dry now let's tell you something which may interest you Nobel Prize to American doctors not so many years ago but 20 years ago won the Nobel Prize for medicine and you know what they discovered I'm having a creature from the painting now and I'm talking to you I need some more paint yellow they discovered it that we had two sides to our brain a left and a right side you know that they got the Nobel Prize for it so it must be true anyway they found also that the people who were left-handed as I am and I believe it or not there's over 70% of artists I didn't know that until I started to look into this thing they found that those people now I'm calming down here look follow on the line approximately of this cliff and it's a mixture of yellow blue some of the raw sienna and some of the burnt umber now I'm using the darker color get down a bit here because near the sea you see anyway they found out that the people who were left hand used the right hand side of the brain and vice versa so what I'm doing now is I'm filling up the right hand side is the artistic side the creative side the happy side yeah can't use that side and be unhappy so I'm going to fill that up for you the right hand side you're gonna have full right hand side of your brain you'll be smiling and laughing and enjoying us haven't everything as great now look at that I'm tapping in some just this is just yellow by itself and it's mix them with the other paint you see it so it's the top of this little jetty if you like of land and if you look to the picture again this is the right hand side that it's green at the top and as it comes down towards the ocean of course it gets darker now back to some burnt umber and raw sienna again mixing the two and then we're gonna level this out here yeah I was down about there now you have the advantage of course with acrylic that you can either go dark light or light dark doesn't matter you can add in the high light so you can add in the dark spots makes no difference which you too there's no rule it's up to you I'm putting in enough dark and everything else there now that's one side of it now let's look at the other side which is the left hand side of the picture again quickly and you see yes we have some more little rocks and things there don't we and they start we just pick a point if you run across from the point say yeah they stand a bit below it so let's do that bit below it's easier now you're probably saying I could do that you know that's thoughtful I can do it so can i you're dead right which me there is no such thing as a person who can paint no no anyway yeah there we go now I slowly see but but all the time we're keeping this line here the bottom of it if you like parallel with the horizon line because if it didn't you'd look like that if you did something like that and put a rock on top of it it looks it looks like it's going sticking into the sea or something look silly so you can't do that so we'll cover that up see I told you can't make a mistake with a critic good night no just no green I don't want green not green on the beach no no I'm gonna got some lighter colour in here in a minute because we get down to the sandy part of all this and there's another big rock there enjoying this this is great fun actually because you can put your own rocks if you don't like where the rocks are put your own in don't I mean but the thing is unbalanced put your own in never be afraid to do that many a good picture is ruined because it because you you reproduce the bad the bad factors in there in the landscape you've got a telegraph poles I'm sticking up what do you do yeah copy it and then you ruin the whole thing don't put it in take it out paintbrush is stronger than bulldozer did you know that yes you can move a mountain it doesn't suit you that somebody wants was telling me that you know oh they're not exactly I said no absolutely not it's not an architectural draw and I'm doing it's a painting now I need to put in put that push away for the one you like a bigger brush now and let's get out of because we need to put in some of the sand here so let's do that and then we give it a we dry so we need white just white on raw Sienna it's a nice yellowy color on the beets here yeah that's the fella nice and there the sand on the sand the sand actually goes out onto the watery you know it's not only the water kind of at times you see the sand through it did you ever notice that yeah for all of you now hoarder if I get a bit of heavier you know if a proof you say I can't stop and wait for you unfortunately I'd love to spend hours with you but I can't do that so what you're just gonna have to do is do the broad masses put in the bits the important bits and then you can do the food student later now that's an Irish word foo stirring he's fooling around with the paints now you know what that means putting another little nice bits the little finishing touches you put them in any time so my advice to you thought I flying and then when I'm gone you can finish it off but finish it don't leave it up in the attic foot and I know so many people who stare at a picture and they never finished them never live all these things have finished now I think we're coming on pretty well here now let's put the brush back give us a little dry because we need to put in some more colours in this thing get the old hair dryer again no I think we know I think we've got it pretty well so our next move now is the whole thing looks lovely but it's awful isn't it if you look at the other pictures yeah nice and lively it is and how awful dead this is so let's start the live reading your process let's get the medium sized brush so we can do it now give it a good swish in the water is it any good trickers leave your brushes in the water I know they say Oh it'll damage them no it won't I've got bushes in the water for months you might get some one just at the flake off here at the hangar that's no harm well I tell you what it means if you if you don't do that I'm now looking I'm pushing in some nice nice waves and it's rope around the rocks they're just dabbling now this is just fill the brush well the point of this is the filbert just fill the point of it fairly well and then just let it run let it run around like that it's kind of drag it across the paper and you see whether all these lovely little waves are all hammering up on the shore and no ripples and everything else but you see but again they've got to be straight there's gonna be parallel with the horizon line in other words I don't know what kind of waves you'd end up with you know now that's beginning to come to life now isn't it something a bit wonky out here do a little something maybe that's a bit much it was a bit much we can always deal with him later because now what you're doing is you're putting in the waves where you want them you don't have to follow every wave broad masses and the rest is up to you now we got no no this is nice now isn't it yes sir now you see by the way the pictures coming to life isn't it yeah that's another little swish around let's get another brush here well that one is soaking now I'm gonna put a little bit of green into that green he says are you gonna put that in the water just a little taste of it here and there just little reflections maybe a bit a bit bluer though kind of a bluey green waters around Ireland have this lovely kind of bluey green look about them and it breaks up the thing you see that not too much of it now and the same thing there a bit I'm saving me little boats and things to last because there's a fun little finish don't put them into the very end till you're ready to do it because I think it it spoils the picture if you are you've got one half of it finished in the other half not good fun too now more Brown a little bit the raw sienna I'm got some more rocks witness here a big rock there rock rock rock have your old music playing remember I told you that about the music used the music joy yes ABBA I find I've often sat here in this studio till three o'clock of the Marlon didn't even know was that time you look at the clock and you realize my goodness me no at the time I've spent out here that's true piggy forgets him there maybe if she's glad to forget him there she's you now I'm putting in just highlights now I begin to pick which way is the light coming when I think I think in this case the lights coming this way a bit so I'm putting a little just little touches here and there don't go mad with this now it's not a I hate too much highlights at the same time some of them understand that might be slightly the wrong color so now that's better in it yeah I haven't used the Vermillion at all didn't mmm don't eat it so natural it's like we've painted this picture with one two three four colors isn't that quite amazing yes you wouldn't think it yeah that may be a little green there might be the thing I think this was you the other patron yeah that's better isn't it just a little light there okay now I'm gonna start now looking at the little boats now this time I'm using the white for the boat and off comes the top off my flow improver like this stuff I mean it's a brush dip the brush into it up down into the white take off plenty get a good lump of white out there don't be afraid of it you got plenty no gallons of it there wasteful I'm gonna at this time yes now I'm gonna now just start off look I got to put in some of these boat now the near ones the near sails you know what I mean but they are bigger and they must also come down to see further do you understand that you can't have the nearest ones with big sales further away and they're like another couple there look another one there and a few little they're all over the place these little tiny one there's one nearly over the Bullock entire know what get into the end of this thing now aren't we I think we put a little bottom on this boat well that's some bottom isn't it it just ran down the page the page the cannibal something because it was too wet now for me next I've already I've already we did a good bit of drying this time didn't we so we can take our time to finish this off cause it's got a little thing to tell you unfortunately you know this is the last in the series that's pretty sad well I'm very sad it is anyway so I hope you enjoyed these little paintings I certainly hope that you're doing them and that you're telling a friend you know be a friend tell a friend because it's a wonderful hobby try it once if you don't like it well I don't know anybody who doesn't we just think we can't do it understand but just tearing off the tape to create her little frame around these and there's always one that doesn't come off so we ET see that it's Murphy's Law you know Murphy's Law or feel our state's if it can go wrong as well yeah yeah and don't let us wish down there there we go so from Frank Clark until we meet again remember you try this out and have some more fun you

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Length: 51min 13sec (3073 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 26 2020