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Hi. Welcome back.

Certainly glad you could join us today.

Cause I thing today I think we'll do a painting

that you'll certainly enjoy.

Let's start out and have the run all the colors

across the screen that you need to paint along with us.

While they're doing that,

let me show you what I've done today.

I have my standard ol' pre-stretched, double-primed canvas.

But today I've taken, as you can plainly see on the bottom,

I've put liquid black

and on the top liquid white.

And then I've just sort of blended them together.

So there's just a graduation of,

from solid black to solid white.

And I think we'll just have some fun.

Now liquid black is exactly the same thing as liquid white.

The only difference is the pigment in it is black

rather than white.

And it allows you to create

some beautiful, beautiful effects.

Alright, let's start today.

Let's use phthalo blue.

It's a fantastic day here

and I hope it is wherever you're at.

And phthalo blue is just such a beautiful, beautiful color.

It's a warm, warm blue.

And let's go right up in here making

our little x's and crisscross-y strokes.

And let's just put in a happy, little sky here.

Just, just one that's a lot of fun.

There.

Something like so.

That's all there is to it.

But make these little crisscross strokes.

It blends better and it leaves little actions in your sky

that looks like there's beautiful things happening

very, very easily.

There.

And this truly is the lazy man's way to paint.

There.

We work with big brushes

and fantastic colors

we try to make painting as simple as possible.

But yet to look like, to look like a real painting.

Alright, a little more of that blue color.

Maybe, right in here.

We'll just, we'll just tap.

I'm just going to tap in some basic little

cloud shapes.

There.

Something about like so.

We'll just let our imagination take us wherever

we want to go today.

Just all kinds of little shapes and forms

up here in the sky.

Because on this piece of canvas you truly are the creator.

You can make any illusion that you desire.

Alright I'm gonna take a little,

this is a very soft blending brush,

and I'm gonna begin blending this.

Working with it.

Just playing.

Having fun.

Alright, I'm gonna blend this out till it's very, very soft.

Very gentle.

And this brush, as I mentioned earlier, is very soft.

Very, very soft.

You can blend right over color without

disturbing it too much.

Alright.

Put a little color right on that brush.

I'm just using still phthalo blue.

That's all.

And we'll just put in all kinds of little indications.

There.

And I'm using just the corner at times just to blend it,

to sort of stir it up, to mix it up.

Try different effects cause as you know,

we don't make any mistakes.

We just have happy accidents.

So anything that happens here

you can work with it.

You really and truly can work with it.

There.

Something about like that.

So we're just creating all kind of illusions.

And you decide how many clouds live in your world

or how few.

Maybe you don't want any clouds.

That's okay too.

Cause you can do anything that you desire on this canvas.

There.

Alright.

And down in here where we begin to touch the black.

We'll just begin blending color together,

here and there, we'll take a little white.

Just a little titanium white right on the same brush.

And begin blending in some pretty little areas

right in there.

Still using just the blender brush.

See there, it creates a whole different plain there,

right there in the sky,

just by putting a little white on there.

Make some beautiful effects.

This liquid black can do great things for you,

especially in areas where you know

there's going to be a lot of dark color.

Or if you want to grey a painting.

Traditionally, painters use a lot of grey.

This will do it automatically for you.

Automatically.

Let go wherever you want some little light areas,

just drop them in.

A little white.

There.

Isn't that something that you can create a sky like that

in just a matter of a minute or two?

You can do it!

You can do it.

There.

And this is a nice sky if you want to put rays of light,

it would be very easy to do.

I don't think we'll do that today

but it'd be very easy.

Practice doing some little things like that

and see what kind of effects you get.

There take a little blue and firm that cloud up a little.

Right in there.

Just make that cloud a little stronger.

Alright.

(brush strokes)

Something about like so.

And that's really where that liquid black in there

and liquid white.

That's really about all we need.

Something about like that.

You have to decide where-

how far down it comes.

Okay, let's wash the brush.

That's the fun part.

Little blender brush is not as much fun to wash

as a big two inch brush

but it's not bad.

(tapping)

Eh, it didn't slash as far.

Tell you what, I got a dirty two inch brush here

just so we can get even with the crew, I'll wash it too.

Alright, that's better.

That's much better.

A lot more fun.

Now let's take us a little fan brush.

I'm gonna use...

I'm gonna use a number three fan brush.

Take a little white,

little bit of the, little bit of the blue

maybe a touch of crimson in it.

Oh, nice color.

Nice color.

I like that.

Little more blue, darken up just a wee bit more.

There. Nice color.

Maybe a wee back here in the background,

maybe there lives just a happy little mountain.

Let's see if that's dark enough to stand out.

We just want it to stand out from the sky.

That's far way.

Far, far away.

Little bump right there.

See there?

That's all there is to it.

Want this to be a quiet, quiet, little mountain.

Just barely can see him.

There.

Something about like so.

And that's all we're looking for.

Gonna highlight that a little bit.

And I'll continue to use a fan brush.

Let me wash it off.

Good enough.

We'll take a little bit of the titanium white

and just load a little onto the fan brush...

like so.

Once again, this is number three fan brush,

but you can use a number six.

Whatever.

It doesn't matter.

Just want to highlight that a little...

so it stands out.

Alright.

See how easy that is?

Gives the impression of a little mountain

that's far, far away.

I spend a lot of time in Japan.

And in Japan, there's a lot of paintings of Mt. Fuji

that look similar to this.

Of course, this doesn't look like Mt. Fuji,

but I mean painted this way.

And it's a super, super way of doing it.

It's very simple.

Even if you've never painted a mountain,

this is very easy.

You can do that.

See?

Maybe there's a little doo-der right there.

It's up to you, up to you, where you want them.

But I want this one to be so far way

that you can't see any detail.

Just that there's a mountain that lives

way back in the distance.

Alright.

Now then let's have some fun.

Let's take our ol' two inch brush.

Since we have the black up here, liquid black,

we don't need to put some dark color in first

like we normally would.

Normally, we would put dark color in.

So I'm just gonna take a little bit of sap green

little of the yellows...

mix them together...

and just mix them all together on the brush.

That way you get layers of color

within the bristles.

You couldn't do this intentionally if you tried.

Let the brush work.

Okay, let's go up in here.

Now maybe, right back here.

The base of our mountain, we can begin to see

just some little things that grow right up the side here,

about like that.

See there?

That's all there is to it.

Just follow the angles in the mountain.

And we'll push that mountain way far away.

Little bit of bright red adding in too.

Just to get, oh ya.

Little too much.

There.

Just to flavor it.

Just to flavor it.

Little more color.

But see, it's picking up that liquid black

that's under there.

And it greys all the colors.

Makes them look very soft, very muted.

Creates wonderful effects.

There.

But you could make hills and valleys,

little plains, meadows, anything that you want back here.

Your world, you can create anything illusion

that makes you happy.

There we go.

Just put the least little touch of paint thinner

on the brush.

If you have trouble making the paint stick

add the least little touch of paint thinner.

There we go.

Begin thinking about the lay of the land,

how it flows, how it curves in here.

Because that's very simple to do and it,

it makes your painting special.

There.

Something about like so.

Wherever.

Tell you what.

You know me I love trees

and I think this is a good place to-

let's have a tree.

Let me find another fan brush.

There's a fan-

Let's take some midnight black,

prussian blue, prussian blue is much stronger,

maybe a little van dyke, little crimson, little sap green.

All the dark colors basically.

Just mix them together like that.

But it should look very dark, almost black.

If you put a little white with it you see

it has a blue base.

But it should look black on the palette.

Let's take our fan brush

loaded full of color

both sides.

Both sides.

Alright.

Let's go up in here and have some fun.

Maybe back here in our world,

there's a little stand of trees,

live right in here.

This is a very, very easy way of making

the indication of a lot of trees.

Load the brush till its very sharp

goes to a chiseled edge.

See there?

It looks like individual little trees

that just hide back here somewhere.

And decide where they, how far down the hill they go.

There.

Okay, we got to decide how far up the hill they go.

You have to make all these big decisions

when you have power.

There.

Alright.

Now we have a whole stand of trees.

Group of them.

Maybe, I tell you what, maybe far away

right back in here,

you can see the indication of some that live far, far away.

These aren't as dark

and they're not as distinct.

So wait till your brush is almost out of paint

and then do those.

Then do those little rascals.

Now we can go back.

Let me find a, here's a clean brush.

I want to lift upward,

that will just smooth the paint out

and make it sort of fit together.

Back to my little brush that has our

sap green and all the yellows on it.

Load a little more color.

Little more color.

And let's go right in here

Then you decide where the bottom of the stand of trees is

and you just sort of cut it off.

Didn't know you had so much power did you?

You really can do this.

You can move mountains, trees, mighty rivers.

This would be a good place to put a little river.

There.

As you paint you begin to see things.

Don't worry about what you're gonna paint.

Just start painting.

Have a general idea in your mind.

All you need to know is the time of day

and the time of year.

You need to know the time of year.

So you know whether there's snow

or whether it's springtime.

That's all you really have to know.

Just have a basic idea in your mind.

Take off. Go.

Do it.

Alright.

Yeah, I'm gonna put a big tree right there.

This is your bravery test.

I like big trees.

A lot of paint on the brush.

A lot of paint.

Let's go right up in here.

You ready?

How about right there.

Big tree.

I mean that's a big tree.

Let's do a little push up tree today,

where we push the little branches upward.

In some parts of the country

evergreens grow with branches that lift up

and in other parts they hang down.

it just sort of depends on where you happen to be.

And you can do them either way that you want them.

It's up to you.

We just want to show you as many ways as possible

to create effects

and then you do it however you want.

Cause painting is a very individual thing,

as I've mentioned over and over on this show.

Each of us, each and every one of us,

will see nature through different eyes

and that's what you are to paint

is what you see and the way you see it.

Art is an expression of self.

Express yourself.

Enjoy it.

Enjoy it.

The only rule that I adhere to in painting

is that it should make you happy and you should enjoy it.

If you comply with that rule, than how could you go wrong?

There.

Well that is a big tree.

I tell you what, let me mix up a little more paint.

I think he needs a friend.

You know me.

I think everybody needs a friend.

Same colors again.

I don't want that ol' tree to get lonely.

Let's give him a little friend that lives right here,

right there,

just like so.

Here he comes.

Ain't this liquid black neat though?

Once again, if you have paintings that in your mind

you thing is gonna be a lot of dark areas

or you just want to grey the overall tone of the painting,

the liquid black will do

wonderful, wonderful things for you

that are very difficult to do without it.

It takes a lot of work to do

what it will do automatically, basically.

Now then, let's take a little dark sienna,

a little van dyke, a little white, we'll mix it together,

get a little roll of paint.

Let's put the indication here and there

of little tree trunk.

You won't see all of it so don't worry about it.

Just here and there.

Just here and there.

We'll take a little bit of that tree color

and mix it with the yellows and instantly

we'll have green.

And with that a little bit more.

There, now make this quite dark, quite dark.

Evergreens are pretty dark in value.

Alright now we can go right along in here

and let's just put in a few highlights.

Let's do the little tree.

I think that trees in the background.

So we'll do it first.

And then we'll come back,

change the flavor,

change the color just a wee bit.

And let's go right up in here and put some highlights

on this little tree.

We don't want him left out.

But just push upward.

Think about where the limbs and branches would live.

Just drop them in.

Don't get all the dark.

I know sometimes it gets feeling good.

(grunts satisfyingly)

And you just don't want to stop.

I get letters all the time saying

I covered up my entire evergreen tree.

Leave a lot of dark in the evergreen.

Lot of dark.

There, darker, darker, down toward the base.

And that should happen automatically

because your brush is picking up this dark color

and you're running out of paint.

It should automatically get darker down toward the base.

Let the natural action of the brush and everything

work for you.

Let's take a little it of this green color.

And, oh, I know, I know.

Oh, I see it!

I see it.

I'm gonna take a little brown.

Excuse me, I get excited.

I see things happening in here.

Take a little brown, little black, mix it together,

little white.

There.

Alright, let's go.

We said there could be a river there.

I think in my world, today,

I'm gonna have a little,

maybe a little path,

just goes right back through there.

We just take the fan brush and drop it in.

That easy.

We don't know where it goes.

Don't care.

Now back to my two inch brush,

add the grassy colors on it,

and maybe, see?

There it is!

Maybe, maybe put a little liquid white on there.

I'm gonna brighten the color and thin it at the same time.

The liquid white will brighten the color see?

Little bit brighter.

Now just using the corner of the brush, just the corner.

That's all you need.

Darker, darker, darker.

Alright, maybe over in here.

Every once in while I'm adding a little bright red

maybe, see?

There you go.

That come right out from behind the tree.

You just make the decision.

You decide where these little plains live.

You can just...

I'm sorry I get excited because there's

so many things you can create and you can see

in your painting as you work with this.

There.

My son Steve.

Boy, he's a dynamite painter

and he's so young and he gets so excited over this.

It's nice to see young people get excited

over something like this.

He's 27 years old.

And he's been painting since he was 12.

He sold his first painting when he was 12.

I don't think he's ever worked again.

He found out that painting can be fun

and he can make a happy buck or two off of it.

Alright.

See you can just create layer after layer after layer.

But it's picking up the black that's on the canvas.

And it will grey everything automatically.

Makes a very nice effect.

Let's go back to our little fan brush

where we were making a path.

Maybe this ol' path just sneaks right around here.

There it comes.

There it comes.

See there?

You can have it just go anywhere you want.

But that's just a grey color on top so it shows.

You can sort of give it a bend like that

to make it look like it's recessed,

or any way you want to.

Absolutely anyway that you want to.

Now maybe, over here on this side we need something.

Let's have another tree or two.

Another little tree.

There.

Okay, just give it a little upward push.

Something about like so.

Just decide where a little tree lives.

Drop it in.

Drop him in.

There we go.

Now you can make any kind of tree you want.

Maybe you want a tree that-

maybe you want a maple tree here.

That's okay.

You decide.

You decide.

I'm gonna put another one right there.

Oh, right over my little mountain.

Well, you could have a little naked spot on your tree.

So you can still see some of your mountain.

Those trees don't always grow perfect.

They're like us people.

We have some faults.

At least a few.

That tree reminds me of my little squirrel Peapod

that you've seen so many times.

That would be a perfect place for him to live.

(chuckles)

In fact today I've got him in my pocket here.

It was a little chilly when we were filming the show

so I left him at home and I brought his little cartoon,

equal here.

Isn't he a mess?

That's Peapod the pocket squirrel.

There, we finally turned him into a cartoon.

He became so popular, especially with my young friends,

that we've actually made a cartoon out of that rascal.

There we are.

A few little highlights on there.

Let's have some fun.

Let's take...

I'm gonna take some black.

Just plain, ol', midnight black,

maybe a little van dyke brown in it.

And I'm going to thin it down with paint thinner.

I'm going to make it very, very thin.

Just put paint thinner in it.

And, we'll make some big stones.

Then we'll take some white

and mix with a little bit of that.

So we have two different values

and we've got the same basic color

only one of them has white in it.

And that way we can have a highlight and a shadow.

Let me grab a little black and put it in there.

Oh ya.

That looks good.

But the paint is very thin.

Very thin.

We'll take our little oval brush.

I'm going to load both sides with the dark,

lot of dark color.

Once again this is very thin.

One side and one side only

through the light color.

Maybe we go out here

(swoosh)

And maybe there some big ol' stones that live out here.

You decide.

You decide where they live.

Shoot maybe, right here at the base of this ol' tree

there's a stone or two.

And you can put these things anywhere you want them.

Just like that.

(grunts satisfyingly)

It's a neat way to make a stone, isn't it?

You can make the highlight and the shadow

all in one stroke.

Then we put some little grassy areas right around here.

Something about like so.

But that easy.

You can do unbelievable things.

Maybe, we got a second left here.

Maybe you want to change your mind.

See this tree here?

Let's bring it all the way down to the bottom

so it's in the foreground.

It's that easy.

You can do it.

Put a little highlight on it.

And that easy.

You pull that tree right here into the foreground.

Shoot, I think we 'bout have a finished painting.

This liquid black is wonderful.

I hope you try it.

And if you have time

take a photograph of your work

send it to us.

We'd love to see what you're doing.

We'll sign this one and call it done.

There.

With that, we have a finished painting.

And from all of us here,

I'd like to wish you happy painting

and God bless, my friend.

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