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Welcome back.
I'm glad to see you again.

I thought today I'd show you...
You know, when you learn to paint,

it's not how to paint
that's difficult but what to paint.

And I'm going to show you
a super way today to make up little

scenes in your mind,
and it teaches you fantastic things.

So let's get started.
I'm going to have them

graphically run all the colours
across the screen that we'll

use to do this painting, and
they'll be in the same order that

I have them on my palette, starting
with the white and going around.

And let's take... And I'm going to
start with a little bit

of thalo blue,
just pull a little bit out.

And I've already covered
the canvas with magic white,

so it's nice and wet
and slick, ready to go.

Now, beat the paint
into the bristles to assure a nice,

even distribution of paint.

And let's go right up here
and very quickly, very quickly just

drop in a happy little sky,
using little crisscross strokes.

And you allow the paint to mix
with the magic white, tending to

get softer, more gentle in value
as it goes toward the horizon.

There we are. And that quick,
we've got a happy little sky.

And that's about all we need. We're
going to have very little sky left

in this painting, so all we need
is just a little indication,

a little shining through the trees
here and there.

OK. And let's go right down here
to the palette.

When we load this big brush, pull it
through the colour. I'll start with

some Van Dyke brown, and
we'll go right into some...

This is some burnt umber.

Let's go right over here
and get some alizarin crimson.

Oh, shoot, we'll put
some sap green there, too.

So we've got sap green,
alizarin crimson, Van Dyke brown,

a little burnt umber.

And it's brush-mixed.

It's all mixed on the brush,
different layers on the brush.

And let's just go right up
in here and say...

..there, just start pushing,
pushing out.

Make all these little shapes.
Don't worry about them right now.

A lot of times when I'm teaching
beginning students,

I'll take and turn my head
and just hit the canvas,

and from wherever it hits, from that
we make a beautiful painting,

and it teaches you how to compose.

OK. Back through
some of the colours and...

Now, let a little bit of the sky
show through in places...

..just here and there.

It helps create depth in your
painting when you're all finished.

OK. See, already we've got
a background over here.

Now we'll do the same thing,
using the same colours.

And it's basically a brown, cos
if you mix sap green and alizarin

crimson together, it makes a
beautiful, beautiful reddish brown.

OK, maybe there's a little tree.
There he is. Lives right...

Oh, there's a big one.

See, just let these things flow,
flow right out of your imagination.

This is your world,
so don't worry about it.

You can build anything in here
that you want.

You have your artist's licence,
so just do anything.

And we'll just begin
laying in all kinds of...

..little dirt areas here
and grass, whatever,

whatever, it doesn't matter
at this point.

All we're doing is
putting colour on the canvas.

OK!

Now I'm going to go right into
a little bit of Prussian blue,

very strong, very dark,
same old dirty brush.

And...I'm going to pull
a little bit of that in here.

Just here and there.
I want a little... Maybe...

Maybe, maybe... Maybe we'll have

a little stream in this one,

so I want a little bit of blue.

There we go, just here and there.

Anything we don't like,
we'll just cover it up.

Pull down.

And then very lightly go across it.

See? Water's that easy to make.

So, so simple when you have
a wet background.

OK!

Maybe we'll drop in a little bit
more of this brown colour.

And we've done all this
without cleaning the brush.

See, I look for paintings where
I don't have to clean the brush

so much. I'm lazy,
I don't like to clean that brush.

All right, now we can begin
picking out some little individual

things here and there, so we have to
make almighty decisions.

And we'll start way back here
in the background,

and let's just take
a little fan brush and...

..I'm going to put a little bit
of paint thinner on my brush,

go right into some brown...

Now, I've thinned the paint
just a little bit so it'll flow.

And white, so I've got white
on one side, brown on the other.

The brown and the white.
Brown and white.

Now, let's go up in here and...

..just drop in some...

..some basic little tree shapes
way back here, little trunk shapes.

And you're still
not overly concerned,

because anything that
you don't like, you'd cover it up!

It's your world. You change things
the way YOU want them.

And we're just looking for
indications,

just background.

Just background.

OK, maybe there's... There it is,

let some of these ol' tree trunks
move and turn and have fun.

There we go.

That easy. And let's take
a one-inch brush

and I'll put some paint thinner
on it to thin the paint.

I'm going to start with a little bit
of yellow and sap green.

I'm going to add a little bit
of brown to that,

just to dull it down
so it's not quite so bright.

There we go. Pulled
a lot of paint into that brush.

Probably the biggest single mistake
made is not loading enough

paint on the brush.

Now let's go up in here and begin
picking out all these little

individual things that we want.
Touch, push.

Make all these beautiful
little leaves.

And if you practise this,
you can make little leaves

that absolutely look like lace.

There. And just go back and forth.

We'll add a little yellow ochre now,

brighten that rascal up
a little bit.

OK, maybe right there.

Right there.
Begin picking out individuals.

Add a little bit of permanent red
to the same colour

and see what happens.

OK? You can just add
all the colours that you want.

Looks like this is going to be
a nice fall scene.

And you don't have to make those
decisions till you start applying

colour. That's what's fun
about this -

you learn to compose as you paint.

OK...

And sometimes, you have
trees that are green

but they're beginning to...
Jack Frost has touched them.

If this is fall and they begin

getting little dabs
of red and orange and...

There. They're not just
one solid colour.

All kinds of beautiful
little things happen.

There we go.

Just drop them in
wherever you want them.

OK, here they come, here they come.

There! Just let them go
wherever you want them.

Some more green, and let's go up
in this big ol' tree here.

Let's give him
some nice leaves and...

There.

OK, a little more right in there.

There we go. And here
I'm using the brush sideways

and just pushing upward.
Just push upward.

If you want to highlight,
you push it hard. See?

That's the reason you
double and triple-load your brush,

put a lot of different colours on
your brush. Brush-mix your paint.

Rather than mixing it on
the palette, mix it on your brush,

and all these things
happen automatically.

OK, we got to start making
some almighty decisions.

Where's our land going to be?
So let's take the knife

and go right into the brown -
and this is just Van Dyke brown -

and begin deciding
where we want to have land.

Maybe, maybe there's some
right back in there.

Like that. Maybe there's some
out in here.

Wherever, wherever.

Just here and there. Let it go.

OK. Now I'm going to take
a clean brush and pull just a tiny,

tiny little bit of that down
and go across.

I want it quite dark
back here in the shadow.

See? And anywhere you want water,
you just pull it down and go across.

And that easy. That easy. You can
create water anywhere you want it.

OK. Let's put
a little bit of highlight.

I'll take some Prussian blue,
a little white and brown

and mix it together.

Brown, blue and white
makes a nice grey colour.

And I'm going to add a little bit of
that here and there, just a touch.

Allow the paint to break.

Now I'm going to use some burnt
umber. Also I like this burnt umber.

It's almost like a burnt sienna
colour, only darker.

And we pull a little bit
of that here and there.

I tell you what, let's put a little,
tiny bit of permanent red in there.

That'll sparkle it up. Very strong,
so use a VERY, very small amount.

Make it look almost like
an old brick colour.

And just let some of these
bounce through and play.

There we go.

OK, let's take a little bit
of the magic white

and put a little bit
of brown with that.

Cut across and put in
some water lines back here.

Just here and there.

There we go!

OK, I'm going back to the fan brush.
I'm going to put a little bit

of magic white on my fan brush,
go into some yellow, some green.

And let's drop in some grass
back here in the background.

And let it follow
the lay of the land.

Let it follow the lay of the land -
so very, very important.

And it's all right if it touches
some of this brown and picks it up.

You just carry that right on back.
Don't worry about it.

The magic white has made the paint
a little bit thinner

so it sticks on top
of this thicker paint.

OK. Now let's play
a little bit more.

Let's go on the other side. I'm
going to take some Van Dyke brown.

And maybe there's a stone
lives right here,

maybe a little projection
right out over there.

It comes down wherever you want it.

See, this is a super, super way
to practise paintings

and just sort of let them happen.

Now, we want this to be flat on top,

so bring your paint across
like this.

See? Otherwise
it won't be flat on top.

And then these strokes come down.

I want to keep it dark
underneath here.

If it gets light underneath,
you'll lose it.

Keep it dark under there.

Dark, dark.

Let a little bit of that highlight
play here and there.

Now, this is the umber
and the permanent red

and then the grey
all mixed together

just so all kind of
little things happen.

A little bit of water line.

And maybe, maybe...

There it is, there it is,
a little bit right there.

Isn't that fun?

OK! Now let's bring some grass
down on that side.

So we'll take the fan brush...

..and let's just once again
follow the lay of the land.

Maybe it comes
right down through here.

And let it go.

Let it go.

There! If your paint gets to
where it doesn't want to stick,

add a little bit of paint thinner
or magic white to it.

Either one will thin it.
If you don't want to dilute colour,

use paint thinner. OK, there we are.

And just do this in layers,
finishing the layer that's farthest

away first and working forward.
That way, it gives it depth.

OK!

Let's put a few little stones out
here in the water. Use a fan brush.

We'll go right into
some Van Dyke brown.

And maybe...maybe, maybe, maybe...

..there's a little stone
that lives right here.

The stones live
wherever'll make them happy,

so wherever you want the stone
to be, that's where it ought to be.

There's a stone.
This is just Van Dyke brown.

And a lot of times
in streams are hundreds

and hundreds of little stones.

Obviously, we can't put
all those in here,

but I'll show you
how to make a stone,

and then at home you can put
as many stones in yours as you want.

And we need... Even under a stone,
you need to have a little

reflection, so you just grab
a little of that, pull down...

..and go across. That easy.

And we need a little highlight
on our stone, so maybe we'll use...

Let me get a little of
the umber colour on the fan brush.

And we'll just take
and lay in a little bit of...

..a little highlight here and there
onto some of these stones.

And you have all kind of old
mossy things that grow on there,

so you can put a little greenish
colour here and there,

cos you always have
these little moss creatures that

grow on top of your stones
and make them slick so you slide off

and fall in the water
when you're up here trying to play.

OK.

Now I'm going to take a little
magic white and a little fern white

and mix it together.
Magic white and fern white.

And...I'm going to
come right along here,

and maybe there's a little bit of
movement in this little stream.

This is an old, slow stream.

And you can do this
with a knife just to give

the indication of a few
little ripples here and there,

or you can do it with your brush.

This gives you good practice
with a knife, good, good practice.

Now, these little lines
need to be basically straight...

..or your water won't
lay down in your stream.

You know? We can go
anywhere we want.

Let all these little things
just build up here.

OK, maybe there's some over in here

and they come right around
this little stone.

See, it just gives the impression
that the water's moving.

And you really haven't done
a great deal, so very simple...

Now, I've mixed a little bit of the
magic white with this titanium white

so it'll make the paint a little bit
thinner than what's on the canvas.

Let's go back maybe
up in here and just...

..put a few little indications
back in here.

If we're going to have
running water,

then it ought to run all the way.

OK!

Now let's take
and bring some of this dark

colour down into the water here. We
need a dark reflection right there.

Then put our little ripples
on top of that.

A little bit of the Van Dyke.
Maybe there's some...

..land areas right in here.

Put a little highlight on them.

And now we can drop in
a little bit of grass here.

And I'm touching that fan brush
and pushing and bending upward.

Can you see that all right?
Push and bend it, like that.

Keep a lot of paint in the brush.
Nothing wrong with reloading it.

Just let it go.

OK!

Now, let's see. Over on this side,
this side, where we're going here...

..maybe like so.

Maybe it comes right...
There we go. See?

Just sort of let these things
happen.

Don't worry about trying to
plan them exactly. Let them happen.

That's the beauty of not having to
worry about patterns

and tracings and stuff.
You're not committed.

You can do anything that you want,

and you can change your mind
any time you want.

There we go.

OK.

And back into our yellows.

I got yellow ochre, Indian yellow,
permanent red, cadmium yellow,

sap green. They're all
mixed together on the brush...

..a multitude of different colours
happening on the brush.

Let the brush work.

There we go. And just follow
the lay of the land. You can do it.

There.

OK. Now...

..maybe right in here...

..maybe this water
just bounces right off of there.

There we go. All kinds of
little things happening.

All righty! I tell you what,

let's make a few
big ol' trees in here.

We need some big, strong trees
that'll...

And they're a lot of fun to make.
We'll just use the fan brush today.

And maybe...maybe, maybe, maybe...

There it is. There he is.
There he is, right there.

Big ol' tree.
And we'll give him an arm.

A lot of paint on the brush,
just straight Van Dyke brown.

Just straight ol' Van Dyke brown.

And maybe there's another tree

right here that grows
right next to him.

And another one. There we are.

So we got to give him arms.
Trees got to have arms so they can

reach up and gather up the sunlight.

A place for the little squirrel
to play.

There! I talk about little squirrels
all the time cos

I used to have a pet squirrel.
He sat up on my head!

He was a wild squirrel, but he'd
sit up on top of my head and eat.

Every once in a while, I'd give him
a big ol' walnut and it was too big

for him. He couldn't crack it,

so he'd just carry it around
and wear his teeth out on it.

So I'd finally get
feeling sorry for him

and I'd crack his walnut for him.

OK. Maybe, maybe, maybe...

..I see another one right there.

Another big ol' tree. And it
sort of pushes everything back.

There we go.

And maybe there's a limb
lives right there.

And you can put as many trees
in your world as you want.

Now then, I'm going to take
a little bit of the white

and a little bit of grey in it
just to dull it down a little...

..and just use
the edge of the knife.

I'm going to play
a little highlight on this.

Just touching. It's all you're
doing. You just touch the canvas.

Just touch it.
Let the canvas do the work.

It'll pull off what it wants
and give you back what's left.

If one comes out brighter than
you want, if you keep touching it

it'll pick up the colour underneath
and it'll go away.

So don't worry about it.

There. Now let's...

Let's put a few little highlights
over here.

Maybe there's a little light
shining through there, and it's...

There we go. Just touching.

And this is just to give you ideas.

You know, create YOUR imagination.
Let your imagination go crazy.

Let these things happen.

Maybe...maybe there's a little light
playing right there.

Maybe up here it changes
and comes round this way.

Maybe a little bit's
sliding through the other side.

You know, light comes from
all different directions sometimes

when it bounces through
all these shadow areas.

If it's too bright,

just play with it, tamp it down.

OK, and then I'm going to
take a little bit of brown.

I'm using the little edge
of the knife. Maybe there's

a big ol' hollow spot
right there, a big dead spot.

And we have made a place for
the squirrel, but the little rabbit

needs a place to climb up into
and hide when the weather's bad.

A little bit of white around
the edge to make it stand out.

See? Make it look like
an old recessed area in there.

And that's where
the little rabbit hides.

OK!

Now we need to put some grass around
the tree's foot, clean this all up.

Just like that.

Just a few little things
here and there.

Then with our little liner brush
we can take a little bit of brown.

And I got a thin oil here,
very thin, make this like water,

and here and there we'll drop in
a little stick or two.

Maybe there's a little ol' thing
that lives right there.

Right there. There he is.

And you decide where all these
little things live in your painting,

your little sticks and twigs.

And I think we about got to
finish painting. It's that easy.

So I'll take a little bit more
of the thin oil,

a little permanent red. We'll sign
this one, call it finished.

And I really hope you enjoyed it.

It's a lot of fun, it's
a super, super way to practise,

to get yourself familiar
with the medium.

On behalf of all of us here, we'd
like to wish you happy painting.

God bless. See you next week.