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- hey. welcome back. certainly glad your could join us today. today i thought we woulddo the little painting that you had seen at thebeginning of the show. the one that's got the little character that walks in the snow. i'll show you how that one was done. but first let's start out andand them run all the colors across the screen that youneed to paint along with us.
while they're doing that, let me show you what i got done up here. i started with a regularold 18 by 24 inch canvas but you can use whateversize is convenient. took a piece of contact paper and i just cut a shape out that sort of, in my mind, resembles a window. that's all. then we took some masking tape and just
made a couple of littledoers with masking tape up and down like that. we've covered the entire thingthen with a very thin coat of liquid white just to make it wet. and it's ready to go. so, let's just have some fun today. let's start out today with a - let's start with a bitof the midnight black. just a small amount onthe old two inch brush
and a little prussian blue. just mix them together on the brush. it doesn't matter. little of each. alright, and let's go right up here. and we'll start up in here, just making our normallittle criss-cross strokes. little xs. and just paint right overthe top of the masking tape
and everything. just paint right over itlike it's not even there. cause if you are looking out the window the little cross membersin the window would be in front of what you are seeing anyway. so just paint it on. maybe a little bit in here. wherever. there. a little more of that color.
we'll put a little up in here. like so. there. just make the little xs though and it'll blend with the liquidwhite that's on the canvas and automatically your colorwill just blend together. there we are. something about like that. now then. we can just blend that.
see there are spots that arelighter than other spots. and we leave those in there intentionally. and you could go back witha little titanium white if you wanted to andbrighten those little spots. in fact, i'll tell you why notwash the brush and do that. just to show you. but you can make those little spots as bright as you want them. just shake off the brush
and beat the devil out of it. let's take just a little bit of white. maybe, right up in here wewant a little brighter area. it's up to you. and you can just takethe white and drop it in. maybe even one up in here. but that's all there is to it. ok. now this won't be an exact duplicate
of what you see at theopening of the show. but it'll certainly showyou how that one was made. alright. now, let's take - use that same old color.it's working pretty good. black. prussian blue and white. and we'll just mix them together. mix them together.
i'm going to make a light blue color here. something that's gettingpretty close right there. you just sort of mix it untilit's the flavor that you like. and i sort of like that. so let's wipe off the old knife. think i'll grab number three fan brush, since that's what i picked up. load it full of paint. and let's go right up here.
we have a little tree that's far away. so touch. now this time we are going to push upwards sometimes we push down with the brush to make little evergreens. today, i'm going to push upwards. go right over the masking tape. just like it wasn't even there. don't worry about it.
don't even worry about it. now then, and there's one right there. we just put these little trees wherever you think theyshould live in your world. there we go. i like making little trees like this. they're a lot of fun. but just push upward.
you're making the bristles bendtoward the top of the tree. push in some little bushy things. same basic way. we're just pushing upward with the brush. and that's basicallyhow we made the little background trees. you could take the knifeand you could put a little stick or twig. maybe there's a little tree that's
maybe not doing so well. maybe doesn't even have any leaves on him. just an old stalk sticking out there. maybe there's a coupleof them. i don't know. wherever you think they should be. just just them in that easy. but you want these just alittle bit darker than the sky. don't get too crazy. let's take that color andwe'll just lay it over here
for the time being. might use it later. who knows? prussian blue, black, crimson. throw a little alizarin crimson in there. we'll mix us up a pile of dark color. we're going to make somedark trees later on, so we'll have that ready. now then, since this is a winter scene we had snow in it.
cause i remembered the little guy, he walked around in the snow back here. now, believe it or not,the little guy was me too. it's hard to see. alright. now let's havea little bit of snow right here. see there. that easy. just pull it across. snow is one of the easiest things to paint
in this technique. there we are. that's simple. old two inch brush willdo it in a heartbeat. let's build a bigger tree and for that i'm going to get a bigger brush. i'm going to go to number 6, but you could continueto use number three. just a little faster with this one. alright, we have anothertree in our world.
there it is right there. same thing though. i want to give it an upward push. there. it's got some upstanding limbs in here. this one is very dark. pure color. there. same color as the other one but without the white.
minus the white, that's all. and maybe it comes down to about there. who knows. take the knife, i'll be scratching a littleindication of a trunk in there. i have several fan brushes going. so i'm going to take anotherone and put some liquid white, and some titanium whiteand mix them together. liquid white is in thereonly to make the paint
a little thinner. cause you know our golden rule, thin paint will stick to a thick paint. alright, and we'll go up in here and with this phthylo blue and white we'll just put theindiction of some highlights on this little tree. little sparklers. that will make that rascal stand out. i'm going to grab a one inch brush
and use some of that dark color and we have a little bush live right here. there he comes. just push in a basic shape. that's all we're looking for here. just a very basic little shape. about like that. see? but leave some ofthat background in there. it helps create the illusionof depth and distance
in the painting. and we'll dip the brushin the liquid white and pull it in one direction. one direction. to load it. liquid white and throughthe titanium white in one direction. look at the end of thebrush. a lot of paint on it. probably the biggest mistakemade is not enough paint.
let's go up here. now with that, we can come up in here and we can put somelittle snow covered bushes right under that tree. if you have trouble making that stick add the least little touchof liquid white to it. cause it needs to be thinnerthan what's on the canvas. if the thinnest paint is on your canvas, it'll come off and go on your brush.
if the paint on the canvasis thinner than the brush. it's the most important. you want the paint onyour brush to be thinner than what's already onthe canvas, that way, the canvas will literallypull the paint off. it'll take what it needs, just like a tax man. come right in here, and we'll pull that down.
create a whole otherplane in this painting just by doing that. intentionally grab alittle bit of that blue. it makes gorgeous littleshadows automatically. automatically. there. alright. now, are you ready for a big tree? we'll just use the old fan brush. load it full of the dark, dark color.
let's go up in here. make a decision. might as well just do it. an start pushing upward. we're going to create a monster tree here. a big tree. just keep pushing up. think about individual limbs and branches, little arms on the tree.
little squirrels haveto have a place to go. in the wintertime, they get sort of cold. they have to go up here andbuild themselves a nest. sort of take life easy. that's a big tree. i wasn't kidding. i forgot how big thattree was in that painting. but isn't that little opening neat with the little guy walking back there? that little opening isthe idea of one of my
very good friends here atthe station, gerry morton, who is one of the engineersthat puts all of this together. he comes up with those. i don't know where hegets all of his ideas but they are neat. i'm going to put another one right here. i like that little painter guy. for many years i wanted totake that little painter guy and do a show with him.
let him do all kinds of things. and maybe, in the very near future, we can do something like that. i've had some fantastic people ask us to come to branson, missouri and do a little show with the painter man. so, maybe we'll do that. if you're there, stop by and say hello. i'd love to talk to you.
just take into pullingthat out, like that. and off we'll go. find my little brush that'sgot the phthalo blue on it. a little phthalo blue, a little white, a little liquid white. you know that we want itthinner so it'll stick on there. phthalo blue, titaniumwhite, liquid white. see? brush is loaded both sides. let's go up here and we'llcome right into here.
i use the phthalo blue because we use prussian blue in the skyand i want it to stand out. and it sort of makes evergreenslook like blue spruce trees, which i love. when i lived in alaska,i had a huge blue spruce that lived in my front yard. gorgeous tree. absolutely one of god'smost beautiful creations. darker, darker, darker downhere toward the bottom.
less and less. and this one back here in the back, i don't want a whole bunch. it's too far back. don't want him to be reallyimportant in this painting. quiet little tree. in our little painting thatyou saw at the beginning, we had a couple of huge birch trees. so let's do those.
we'll take midnight black, andjust a little blue in there but it's mostly black. mostly midnight black. let's put a little vandyke brown in it too. pull it out flat. cut across and get a little roll of paint. there you can see it. right under the edge of the knife. ok, this really is your bravery test.
we're going to start way down here and we're just going to begin working up right across the tape. right across everything. just let this tree go allthe way out of the top. that's a big tree. that was serious, wasn't it? it is a big tree. but they're a lot of fun to make.
and if you don't wantthe tree in your world to be quite that big,make it a little smaller. it's totally and completely up to you. any size you want him to be. alright i like big trees because theyreach right up to the sky. nearly touch the sun. alright, well not quite. if i remember, somebodysaid the sun was about
93 million miles away. i guess a tree is not quite that tall. but he's a big tree. oh right through my evergreen,but we know he's back there. we know he's back there. and we learned how to painthim, so it's not wasted. anytime you learn, it'snot a wasted effort. and i like to paint birch trees, and other kind of trees too.
when the paint is dry youcan literally feel the bark, just like a real tree. now, let's got back to our titanium white. i'm just going to usestraight titanium white. and i want to touch and sort of give it a, i'm exaggerating, a round pull. touch, and sort of give it a - and it makes the tree look round. and those little squaretrees, they're sort of rare.
you need to make your treehave a round look to it. it would be nice if theycame in square, wouldn't it? you could just cut twoby fours off of them without even runningthem through the mill. big old birch tree. and this one. now i've decided this one is in the front. so we'll do him last. always do the thing that, in your mind,
is the farthest away. and then work forward, forward, forward. these are fun. i like to make old birch trees. when i lived in alaska, iused to do a lot of paintings for the tourists there. and they always wanted birchtrees and northern lights. of course that's sort of whatalaska is noted for i guess. and they were a lot offun to paint anyway,
so i don't mind. there. a little dark in there. and you can just keepplaying back and forth and building this up untilit gets to any degree of thickness or color that you want. of course you can piddle it to death too. let's take our liner brush, paint thinner. put quite a bit of paint thinner up here.
and let's make some thinpaint and we'll paint some arms on these little trees. gotta have an arm on him. but it doesn't have any leaves. it got too cold. the leaves chickened out andthey went south for the winter. but there, just, the paint thinner will allow you to flow. the paint will flowright off the bristles.
right onto the canvas. if you have trouble making it flow, add a little more paint thinner. this one seems to be working pretty good so we'll just keep on going with it. there we are. big old arm. we can come back and puta little highlight on it, maybe a little snow. but just pretend that thetape is not even there.
just let the branches growthe way they would grow if the tape wasn't there. when we pull that off, it'llmake it look realistic. see? and this is where i get lettersfrom people and they say "bob, but i don't think i can paint. i've got a little nervoustwitch in my hand." this is your painting. because if you have alittle nervous twitch
it really works betterdoing these tree branches. i have youngsters in theirnineties who write me and tell me that they never believedthat they could paint. and they're doing it. and they're doing it everyday. it's fantastic to hear success stories. so the tree over here says,"he needs a limb too." now this tree, wedecided was in the front. so his arm will go right overthe top of the other one.
so we'll just start him right here. and he'll go distinctly over, that makes him looklike he's in the front. i don't want him to get angry at us. nothing worse than a mad tree. and maybe here's one that goes off that way. we don't know where it goes. don't know that it even mattersin this particular painting.
you could just put armswherever you want them. and i'm going to clean the brush and just dip it into a littlebit of the liquid white. this is just liquid white. and maybe we can come back here and there and there and here. just put the indicationthat there's a little snow sitting in some of these places on here. but isn't that neat?
it's all there is to it. ok and with that, that givesus a pretty good little tree. down here at the bottom grab a fan brush. put a little liquid white on my brush. titanium white. let's go down in here,grab a little of the color and we'll put a littlesnow right down there. there we got a little of that color. i want the color in there for a shadow.
ok. i can pop in a littleindication of a little bush. see? that easy. alright. now then. over here, we had a little fence. so for that, i'm going totake a little van dyke, a little dark sand and mix them together. and right here, just lives what remains of a little old fence. it's about gone.
there. something about like that. come back with our one inch brush. let's put a little brush on his foot. just a little bush lives down in here. something like that. liquid white. and we'll go through titanium white, same as we did before, maybea little blue on that one. cause there's white behind it,
we need to separate with justa little phthalo blue on it. a little snow-coveredbush lives right there. little bit of the titaniumwhite to pull that out. isn't that easy? shoot, we got that rascal in there. now, while i have liquidwhite and titanium white mixed together, i wanna put the indication if you're looking out thewindow, on the old window supports here, there's a little snow
that has just collected in here. this is a gorgeous painting togive as a christmas present. see? you can just put iton right there like that. we'll have some up here. go right over the tree branches because this would be right up front. there. but this paint is a little thinner. it's got liquid white in it. and maybe it's on all of them here.
and here's one right here. let's put a little bit right in there. little more of the liquid white. brighten that one up alittle bit so it shows. even a little down here on the bottom. what the heck. just a tiny bit. something about like so. now let's take us a script liner brush,
dip it in a little paint thinner, and we can go around hereand there and there and here put in a few little sticks and twigs. just little things that looklike little finished details in your painting. see? just a happy little oldstick that lives out there. and some little weeds around the fence. shoot. maybe there's stilleven an indication of a little little wire hanging on some of those.
not much. tell you what, i'mgoing to take some white and a little touch of dark sand. a little white and a little dark sand. cut off a little roll of paint. let's go right up in here. and let's just highlightthis so it stands out a little bit more. oh yeah.
that's much better. sort of rest in there.we want it to pop out. now, it looks more like an old fence. now i can go back and put a few more little sticks and twigs in there. maybe theres one down here. a wiggly one. let your hand just sort ofjerk around a little bit. make all them littleweird sticks and things
because they're always there. they sort of stick up through the snow, wherever you want them to be. we got s second lift here. maybe i'll put just a littlemore detail on some of these limbs because i like to have a lot of little sticks and twigs on my - that's what makes it interesting. if you try this painting,take your time and
do a photograph and send it to us. i would love to see what you're doing and every so often we put them together and put them on a little board show them on tv so you can see what peopleall over the country are doing with this. there are some that arefantastic and some that are better than that. so just it's wonderful thatpeople have so much success
in painting. ok. we're about to get thislittle devil finished here. just figure out where youwant little sticks and twigs. any old where. there's some. right in there. i think we're about to the point where we can take the old contact paper off and see what we got here. so bring the camera up here.
and pull this off. isn't that fantastic? it does look like you'relooking out a window. but as i say, it's a verysimple little painting that you can do. try it because i really think thatyou're going to enjoy this one. sort of different. makes a beautiful gift to give to friends and relatives. especially, as i mentionedearlier, around christmas time.
and no one appreciates a giftmore than one that you produce with your own hand. from all of us here, i'd liketo wish you happy painting. god bless my friend. [music]