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- Hi, glad you could join us today.

Today I thought we'd do a fantastic little painting

that I believe you'll enjoy.

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

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

While they're doing that, lemme show you

what I got done up here.

Today I have my plain ol' 18 by 24 inch

pre-stretched canvas, and I've just covered it

with a very thin coat of liquid white.

So it's all slick and it's ready to go.

I use an 18 by 24 inch canvas,

but at home you use any size that's convenient for ya.

We just use that because

it sorta fits the television format.

Other than that, use any size.

Let's start today with a little yellow ochre, what the heck.

Let's do a painting today that's very bright,

has alotta colors in it, and just make you feel good.

It'll warm up a room if you hang it in it.

Small amount a yellow ochre on a two inch brush.

and let's go right up in here.

(fast paint strokes)

And we just put a little color in the sky, that easy.

That easy, no problem.

And it's continually mixing with the liquid white

that's on the canvas, and so automatically

it'll get a little lighter in value.

There.

The more you blend it, the lighter it'll become.

So you hafta make a decision.

How light do you want your sky?

How dark?

How bright?

Up to you.

When you have this much power,

you have to make tremendous decisions.

There.

Ok, now let's take

a little bit.

I'll tell you what, let's do.

Let's mix up a little lavender color.

(scraping)

We'll take a little alizarin crimson,

a little thalo blue, mix 'em together.

Proportionately much, much more crimson than blue.

Proportionately.

Blue is much, much stronger.

(low airy whistle)

It'll just eat up your whole world in a heartbeat.

I'm gonna mix two or three different values.

Over here I've put even more blue.

So I've got some here that's got alotta blue in it,

some that's got a little, and that way

we can just sorta play around and have

several different variations

without continually mixing color.

There.

We'll just use that same ol' brush, it's workin pretty good.

I'm just gonna tap the corner of the bristles

right into a little bit of that color.

I don't want a lot of color on there.

Just a little, just a little.

And let's go up in here, and let's test it.

Ooh, I like it.

Ok, we did well.

Now using the top corner of this two inch brush,

let's just begin putting in some basic little shapes.

We're not looking for alotta detail.

I want this just to be little shrubbery

and things that live far away.

Way off into the background.

Way off into the background.

There we are.

Ooh, we hit a little blue there, that's nice.

Happy little accident.

There.

But see, all we're doing is just looking for basic shapes.

When objects are far, far away from you,

you don't see detail.

You see basic color, and basic shapes.

And that's all we're looking for in this.

Sometimes we can even do like that,

just to blend it.

So you just have little splotches of color.

Maybe that's way far away.

(grunts)

Just let your imagination go.

Your imagination can take you to any land

that you wanna be in.

Any land.

All you need to do is have a vision in your mind

and believe in yourself, and off you go.

Off you go.

Cause I know that you can do anything

that you believe you can do.

There.

And we believe we can do anything, don't we?

Anything that we're willing to try and willing to practice.

Alright, something about (mumbles)

Mmmk, little bit more of that color.

And I'm just gonna put layer after layer here.

So that it looks like there's many, many layers

of little things that live back here in the distance.

Ok.

Now then.

Lemme get a clean brush.

I've several of these old brushes going,

so I don't hafta spend all my time just cleaning brushes.

And here I'm gonna tap to soften the bottom edge.

I wanna soften it til it looks very misty,

like it's little layers of mist floating around in there.

Ok.

Softer and softer.

Didja ever think you could take a two inch brush

and paint such things like this?

It looks so delicate.

You can, you absolutely can.

Let's see, a little more of the color here.

Maybe this comes over.

We don't know where it goes.

Maybe I'll have a big tree there,

so we don't hafta worry about it.

I like big trees, as you know.

So maybe we'll just put one right in there.

Alright.

One of the things that makes this so great is that

we do no sketching, no drawing.

You don't hafta be able to draw to do this.

All you hafta do is be able to

hold a brush, and off you go.

Now then, take a little little bit of this color

that we had here, had a little more of the crimson in it.

A little more crimson.

Just tap a little into the bristles.

We'll warm it up a little.

Yeah, gettin' nice.

Let's get more crimson.

There, I like the alizarin crimson.

It's such a beautiful, beautiful color.

Alright, now then, I'm gonna beat the brush.

That just takes off excess paint, cause I wanna soften this.

There we go.

K, wherever you want these little things to be,

it's exactly where they should be.

Just little layers of color in here.

And then very quickly we'll just blend that away.

But see, already it creates the illusion of distance

in your background, and you've done virtually nothing.

You could even take, well let's.

Let's do it.

Let's take a little blue, maybe a little touch of

yellow into it.

That'll make a gorgeous green.

Little more to the blue side.

And you can adjust this back and forth.

And maybe let's get crazy.

Try that color.

We'll just put a little of that in there

just to change the flavor.

Just a little cad yellow, thalo blue.

But mostly blue.

Just enough to give it a little hit of color.

That's all we're looking for.

Just a hint.

Just a hint.

Alright.

Shoot, we're makin all kinds of little background doers.

When you're at home and have unlimited time

practice with this, play with it.

It's unbelievable what you can make,

absolutely unbelievable.

Alright.

Let's take our little script liner brush

and a little bit of paint thinner,

just to make a very thin paint.

Turn the bristles, that'll bring it

to a nice, sharp point.

And let's go up in here, and here and there,

and there and here.

Let's just put the indication of a few

little sticks and twigs that're livin back in here.

We don't want a lot, do not want a lot.

Cause they're too far away.

You would only see major tree trunks

that live this far away.

But a few little indications are very nice.

It'll give the illusion of distance

and depth in your painting.

Alright.

something about like that.

Ok.

Let's have some fun now.

Let's mix up.

Well, we'll just keep using that old lavender color

we have here.

We'll put some black in and some brown,

alizarin crimson, a little bit of thalo blue.

(scraping)

Like that, it's ok.

It doesn't matter.

Wipe off the knife.

We'll just use one of these old brushes

that we were workin with.

Put a little bit of that color on there.

We need some dark in order to show light.

So let's begin designing our painting maybe?

Hey, alrght there, right there.

Maybe there's little bitta land right back in there.

This is just dark so that when we put

a light color on there it'll show.

That's really all we're looking for.

Really and truly.

We'll worry about other things as they happen.

But in our world, we just sorta let things happen.

Just let 'em happen.

Very quickly you learn to work with

anything that you create.

See because, once again, we don't make mistakes.

Watch it here.

If you was to do somethin like this

Ok, watch watch.

(laughs)

This is your BriBri test already in this painting.

You take the corner of the brush.

Lookit here.

Maybe in our world there lives a big old tree.

We can have a big tree, right there.

Right there, that easy.

K, now we can take a little yellow ochre,

a little indian yellow. maybe a touch of the bright red.

Maybe Jack Frost has stopped by here

and we're beginning to see some gorgeous fall colors,

same old, dirty brush.

Let's see what we get here.

Lookit there.

Looka there.

That easy.

Can just make all kinds of little duders.

Put a few highlights on it and already

we have the start of a nice little tree.

And if you have trouble making your paint

stick on top of this, add a little touch of

liquid white or paint thinner.

Liquid white will brighten your color a little.

Sometimes you want that, sometimes you don't.

Want your color to stay pure and use

just a little paint thinner.

Just a little paint thinner, that's all.

Ya know, when I say little, let me emphasize little.

It takes very, very small amount, very small amount.

And we're just using the corner of the brush, like that.

See there.

Mmk, now then.

Let's take a little sap green, mix it in here

Sap green and some of our yellows,

we'll just make some beautiful colors here.

Let 'em happen on the brush, don't worry about 'em.

Mixing with all of our yellows, and there's

a little touch of red here and there.

And we can go right up in here.

Ok, look.

Watch, watch, watch.

Lookit there.

We'll just make a nice little hill right here.

Wouldn't that be a fantastic little place to

take your shoes off and let your naked feet

run through there?

I like to run through a meadow or somethin, bare footed.

Always feels good.

When I was a kid we lived way out in the woods in Florida,

and we used to do it all the time.

Shoot, I didn't even wear shoes until I was about 12.

And that's the truth.

Even to school we didn't wear shoes.

There we are.

Ok.

See the little hill coming down?

That easy!

But pay attention to angles.

The lay of the land is very, very important, very important.

Lemme grab another brush with some dark color on it,

we can play here.

As I say, I have several brushes going.

You ready?

Let's do it.

We have this whole side open over here.

I think in our world, add a little bit of

dark sienna to that color.

In our world, our world we gotta big

What the heck?!

Do it.

Do it.

There.

Steve's always telling me, don't worry about it dad,

just do it!

And that's what we'll do.

Right there.

Just drop in a huge tree.

Let it come right in front of this tree.

Don't be afraid of it touching.

Ya know, in nature, trees just grow

however make 'em happy, so just drop it in.

Don't worry about it touchin the other tree or

goin in front of it.

In our world we can put trees wherever

we want 'em, and we can move 'em if we want to.

We can move 'em.

We can do anything in our world.

Maybe that comes right on out here.

See, already I'm beginning to see things in here.

Practice painting without really knowin

exactly what you're gonna paint when you start.

You'll be amazed.

You'll be amazed at what you can do.

Just have a general idea in your mind

of a time of day and a time of year and go for it.

There we are.

See there.

Tell you what, listen.

Let's have some water in here, hmm?

This easy, you could, look, look.

It looks like the right place to have

a little touch of water.

Just give it a little downward pull.

Just a little downward pull, that easy.

Alright.

A little more dark color over here.

There'll prob be something over here too.

I don't know yet.

We'll put somethin in, no matter what.

Now, very lightly go across.

See, and we have instant water.

(laughs) That easy.

And you can see it shimmer.

Water might be one of the easiest things

to make in this whole technique.

Now as a traditional painter, water and reflections

was very hard to make.

I'm just mixin up some more color here.

But in this style of painting, it is very, very easy.

Reflections may be one of the easiest things that we make.

I just ran outta paint.

I decided I want a tree over here on the other side too.

Right there.

(tongue clucking gently)

It's our world, so we can put in ya.

Maybe he lives right there, I dunno.

I don't really know.

Doesn't matter.

All we're looking for is just a basic shape.

Okay, here it comes, here it comes.

Right on out, like, yeah.

See?

That's all you have to do.

Once again, let your imagination take you

to all these places, don't worry about it.

Alright, I'm going back to the brush

that has my light color on it.

I'm gonna put a little touch of,

oh, scuse me a second, let me dip right there.

Little bit of liquid white.

Just mixed a little liquid white in there.

It thins the color and also makes it

a little bit lighter in value.

Alright, let's go right up in here now.

And, and, and, and?

Maybe.

Yeah, look.

I want just enough color variation so that shows.

There.

Put a little bit of red in there, now that'll pop it loose.

I wanna change the angle here, change the angle.

We have one layer coming down,

now the next one's coming back.

Maybe, there's a little, might even be

a little stream back here, we can't see it.

We don't know, we don't know.

Leave some mystery in your painting.

Leave a little mystery.

There we are.

Sometimes it's nice to not know exactly what happens.

There.

It's like looking at a beautiful lady.

It's much nicer if there's a little mystery there.

Yeah.

Alright.

Ok, now then.

I'm gonna take, just put a little color on here,

I'm gonna make that tree,

let's put some fall colors in that tree.

We'll take a little red.

We can get a little alizarin crimson too, that,

ooh, nice color.

Alizarin crimson and yellow ochre

make a beautiful fall color.

Let's go right up in here.

Now I added a little touch of paint thinner to my brush,

so this paint is getting quite thin,

and it'll go on there easier.

If you have trouble making it stick,

add a little paint thinner.

Just a little though, takes very little.

Very little, doesn't take much.

There we are.

See there?

All kinds of little doers, they just live in there.

Think about shape and form when you're putting these in.

Don't just hit 'em at random.

No, not at random.

There we go.

Alright.

And just keep working in layers, always working in layers.

Toward the bottom of the tree

let it get darker, and darker, and darker.

You want some deep shadows at the bottom of the tree.

That's where all my little friends live.

I know if you saw him, I gotta little Peapod,

the cartoon, up here. (laughs)

He's on top of my easel.

He's watchin me paint today.

See?

Isn't he cute? (laughs)

He even got his own brush.

I better watch it, that rascal be a paintin on here.

Mmmk, let's go over here on the other side.

If you've painted with me before

you know these little animals are very special to me.

I work with people who take care of 'em

all over the country, and try to support 'em.

Most of these people who work with injured and orphaned

animals are doing it strictly on their own.

They get no help from the government or anybody else.

They do it strictly on there own.

So for somebody in your neighborhood, and there probably is

if you look around, let's do it now, go see 'em.

You'll be pleasantly surprised at

all the little creatures you can see close up.

And not only that, they need your help.

They need your help.

Sounds like a commercial for 'em,

and I'd almost do that.

They really are special people.

Here in Muncie I work with a beautiful lady

named Diana Schafer, who loans me

a lot of the animals that you see on the show.

There.

I'm gonna go back to my brush that's got

the dark paint on it.

And, we have to decide where this is gonna go.

Wherever it's gonna go, there oughta be a reflection.

So just put a little dark, reflect it.

Alright.

Now that we need a little water line.

Let's take some dark sienna, some Van Dyke brown,

some hoyt, mix up together.

(clucks softly)

Like that.

Don't over mix, leave it marbled.

Leave it marbled.

Let's see, just pull it, little roll of paint.

Let's go up in here and put the indication

of a little, maybe a little shore there,

little shoreline.

There we are.

There.

Just pull it the same basic angle

you have the grass growing.

Wherever, wherever.

Mmm, we can highlight it with,

I'll just use dark sienna and white for the highlight.

No Van Dyke

Don't cover up all the first color though,

just enough to sparkle it, to make it stand out.

There we are.

Alright, back to our brush that has

all the pretty colors on it,

put a little liquid white with it.

Hooo, that's nice.

Little more crimson.

Alright.

Now then, let's begin bringing down the little grassy areas

and decide where they go.

Where they go

You may call those big decisions.

Maybe, tell you what.

Maybe, maybe, maybe in our world,

maybe there's a little bush right here.

So for that all we need is to put a little dark in.

You need dark in order to show light.

Go into a little paint thinner.

Let's get a little sap

green

Make a very thin paint.

See that little ridge of paint right there?

It's most important. That's what we're paintin with.

That's what we're paintin with.

There we go.

Make a little happy bush right there.

Shoot, we're in business.

But you can put as many or as few

little things in here as you want.

Maybe over on the other side.

We'll have to make some decisions, that comes right there.

I know now.

That's where we want it.

Go in here with our nice grassy colors,

put in all kinds of little duders.

There they are.

Maybe there's another one right there.

It's up to you.

You decide how many little bushes

and trees live in your world.

You put 'em in.

There we are.

Want this to be a little darker up here

so it doesn't show quite so bright.

There.

There's a little bush.

Wherever.

There we go.

But that easy.

Now let's put a little bit of...

little bit of land there to hold all that up.

Mmmk.

A few little grassy things runnin down to the land,

so it doesn't look too much like you just cut it off.

Take a little liquid white, just a small amount.

Don't want a real bright water line here,

just want enough to indicate that there's a separation.

Might even want to add a little brown to it

if you don't want it to get too bright.

Cause it really will get very bright.

Somethin about like that.

Over to here.

Right, like that.

That's really all we need.

Now, let's get crazy.

(laughs) You know me.

We got a second left here.

Let's take, in our world (breathy whistle)

maybe (breathy whistle)

yep, you guessed it.

Big tree and his friend right there.

Just use the fan brush, a little dark color.

We can take a little touch of...

Little touch of white with a knife.

Just touch it.

Maybe this is an old birch tree here.

We'll just let him go,

like so.

There.

Alright.

Now take our script liner,

little bit of the dark brown color,

and paint thinner.

Lot of paint thinner, make it very thin.

Then with that, we come right up in here

and put the indication of some tree limbs here and there.

We put a few little leaves on here, so we don't need many.

We don't need many, just drop 'em in.

Indications.

If you have trouble making the paint flow on here

just add a little paint thinner.

There we go.

Now let's take our little oval brush.

(laughs) We got just a second left,

we'll have some fun.

Take a oval brush, load it full of color, lotta color.

Lotta color.

Put a little red in there too.

Alright, give it a little push.

We'll go up in here.

Using that, take advantage of the little curve

that's in that brush.

And we can just put all kindsa

little leaves up here on these.

Thinkin about fall, and off we go.

See there?

A few on the other side, right here on this tree.

And it's that easy to make a beautiful little,

see this does look like autumn to me.

Think we'll call that one finished.

And from all of us here, I'd like to wish you

happy painting, and God bless my friend.

(70s easy listening music)