- Hey, welcome back.

It's a fantastic day, and I'm certainly glad you could join me today.

So I tell you what, let's start out today, have them run all the colors across the screen that you need to paint along with me.

And they'll come across, as usual, in the same order as I have them on the palette, starting with the white, and working around.

I have my old standard 18 by 24 inch canvas up here, it's covered with a nice thin, even coat of the Liquid White, and it's all ready to go.

So let's just do a beautiful little scene today that'll make you happy.

And it's such a wonderful day, let's just have some fun, shoot.

I'm gonna start out here with a little Dark Sienna.

A little Dark Sienna, be right back, I'm gonna reach down here, grab a little touch of the Yellow Ochre.

So we have Dark Sienna and Yellow Ochre, just a little bit.

And let's just start up here in the sky, let's just start going around and making little criss-cross strokes.

Just little x's, like so.

And let it blend outward, outward, outward.

There we are.

Just nice happy little sky, warm colors today, we're just gonna make a beautiful, warm little painting.

There.

Okay, now I'm gonna take same old color, Dark Sienna, reach down here and grab a little Yellow Ochre, reach over here, and I'm gonna put the least little touch of Sap Green into it.

So we have Yellow Ochre, Sap Green, and Dark Sienna.

Little more of the Sap Green, ooh, that's nice.

A beautiful color.

And we'll just begin laying that right around like so.

Still making the little criss-cross strokes, x's.

Okay, little more of the color.

And we just bring it all the way out, like so.

Okay, and same thing on the other side, a little more of the Dark Sienna, Yellow Ochre, and Sap Green.

And just load both sides of the brush.

Jump right up here.

And we'll just fill that right in.

And when you're using a big old two-inch brush, it only takes a second here to cover the whole canvas.

That easy.

Now we'll just sort of blend it all together.

Go over the entire canvas.

Then we take a look-see, and see what we have.

There, very nice.

Now then, I've got several old brushes goin' here, so I don't have to spend all my time washing them.

I wanna take a little Titanium White on another two-inch brush, and maybe up in here there's a light spot.

We'll just take that brush, and work around.

And you can do this as many times as you want to achieve a desired lightness.

Then we'll just blend it all together, and it'll look like maybe, this is where the sun is, here up behind a cloud, there, far away.

It just gives us a sort of a little light source right there, and from that, we can work around.

Okay, shoot, this old two-inch brush is so much fun.

Let's go right back into our Dark Sienna, be right back, get a little more of that Yellow Ochre, travel over here, get a little Sap Green.

Put them all together, maybe a little more of the green.

Here we are.

Now then, let's begin making the indication of some little trees that live way back here in the distance.

So, let's just take the brush and hold it up here, like this, touch, give a little sidewards push.

See there, do the other side, push.

It makes it looks like a happy little tree out there.

And you can make two or three little trees, wherever you want them.

Now, at the same time, we can use the same color, and just tap, use just the top corner of the brush, and we could just tap, and make the indication of all kinds of little trees that are way back in the distance, far away.

We're not looking for a lot of detail here.

It's too far away at this point.

Later on, we'll begin laying in detail.

But right now, all we're looking for is distant shapes.

Okay, mix up a little more of my color.

And we're just mixing these colors on the brush.

Maybe right in here, there lives another happy little tree.

Same thing, we still are using Dark Sienna, Yellow Ochre, and a little Sap Green in it.

But that easy, you could make beautiful, beautiful background trees.

Just using a big old two-inch brush.

So often we avoid this brush, because it's big.

That son of a gun will do fantastic things for you.

Give it a chance, try it, you'll like it.

One more maybe right over in here.

There we go.

Now then, I want this painting today to be extremely misty.

Just very soft, and a lot of mist back there.

So we'll take a clean dry brush, and all I'm gonna do is, firmly, you can probably hear how hard I'm hitting, I'm gonna just firmly tap this.

I want to diffuse the bottom of it totally away.

Just totally, soften it until you can't even tell where it stops or starts.

There we go.

Just like so.

All right, now then, let's have several different plains in this painting, so let's begin moving forward.

I think today we'll use some Bright Red, what the heck, be brave.

Take a chance, experiment, enjoy.

That's what makes it fun.

Little white, Bright Red, Phthalo Blue.

We need a little more red in there.

Oh, that's nice, that's nice.

This is gonna make sort of a lavender color.

Sort of a bluish lavender is what I'm looking for.

A little more of the white.

That's pretty already.

Okay, now then, let me grab a fan brush.

I think I'll use a fan brush today.

Let's just load a little color, just go back and forth with the fan brush, just get a little bit of color there, I'm gonna reach over here and get a little more white, I want it a little bit lighter.

Right, oh that's nice there.

Now then, I'm gonna take just the corner of the fan brush, and just scrub it.

All we're doin' is the corner, just the corner, just sort of rub it, give it a little push.

That's all there is to it.

And begin thinking about some basic shapes here, of some bushes and trees and all kinds of little things.

There, as things get closer to you in a landscape, they should get darker and darker in value.

There we go.

See, just all kinds of little happy things are goin' on back in here.

All right, layer after layer after layer, and that's what gives your painting depth.

That's what'll make your painting special, is it has depth and distance in it.

It's not just old flat painting.

Okay now we'll take a two-inch brush, and tap the base of that, only the base, though, we don't want to mess up those beautiful tops.

And once again, that'll help create that illusion of mist.

And that mist is your separator, it separates each plain and each layer.

That's what we're looking for.

Treasure that mist, it's very, very important to you.

It's your good friend, take care of it, treat it well.

Treat it like you treat any good friend, with respect, and care about it.

There we are, see another little bush maybe lives right here.

And you can sort of vary these colors a little bit, between the Bright Red and the blue and the white, so you have all different things happening.

And just figure out where you think these little bushes live, and drop them in.

Just layer after layer after layer.

A little more paint, shoot, maybe look right here, maybe there's a little tree, it's a poor little tree.

He's scrawny.

Scrawny little tree, that's, that's my word for today, from the South.

I live in Florida now, and I like some of those little sayings that we have there, this is a scrawny tree.

Maybe over in here there's some little bushes that just sort of fade back.

There.

Okay now, once again, back to this old two-inch brush.

And we're gonna tap.

I want to keep that misty area going in here.

It's very important.

Give it a little upward lift.

Now then, now it's time to start having fun.

Enough of that easy stuff, let's get in here and do it now.

Same old color, maybe we'll add a touch of blue to it, I want it to be a little bit more to the bluish side.

All right, let's go right up here, maybe in our world, there lives, boy there does now a nice tree.

He lives right here.

Just looks out and sees the whole world.

And all we're doing is tapping with a firm pressure, with a fan brush.

There we are.

Maybe he's got a friend.

Yes, he does, there he is.

You know me, I think everybody oughta have a friend.

Everybody oughta have a friend.

Let's put some indication out here, just some little leaves and stuff that are silhouetted out here.

We're not looking for a lot of detail, It's too far away yet.

There we are.

A few on this one.

There, just sort of decide where you want them, drop them in.

Shoot, that was so much fun, I tell you what.

Maybe, right here.

Just sort of look at your painting, make a decision.

Ooh that one's crooked, I like that.

I don't like them old straight trees.

There, they just look like future telephone poles.

I like trees with character.

And we'll give him a friend, too.

There, now maybe right down here we'll just take the corner of that brush and scrub it again.

Just to make the indication of some more little things that are happening.

But all you're using, is just a corner of the fan brush, and just rub it.

It's just like you're making waves in the ocean, almost.

Same basic idea, if you've painted seascapes with me, using the fan brush, then you know exaactly what I'm saying here, and you can do it.

Now then, I'm gonna tap the base of that.

Really get in there and tap it.

There, see how misty that looks.

Look at all the different plains in here, already, just one after another, it goes all the way up.

Can't tell you.

I like these trees, let's put another one in here.

Right about in there.

Shoot, put a few little leaves on him.

Don't wanna overdo these, 'cause it'll kill all the background, I wanna keep that background.

I like that, maybe out in here, we need a few.

Don't want this old tree left out.

He'll get angry and run off, and leave you.

There.

Okay, this one here.

I like these kind of paintings, they're so soft and so nice.

They just make you feel good.

Okay, now then, let's take our liner brush.

I'll dip it in paint thinner, and go right through some of that same color we were using.

Okay, maybe up in here, just look around and see, maybe there's a limb or two that's hanging off here.

Here and there, wherever you want them.

Wherever, little squirrels gotta have a place to sit.

Eat the pine cone that he finds out here.

Gotta think about them, just make up little stories about the little creatures that live out in here.

And then there's a reason for all this.

Makes it so much easier.

There.

Just more and more, wherever.

These little old things are always hanging off the old trees.

Especially if they're evergreen-type trees of some kind.

There's always a lot of them out there.

Okay, now then.

Just using a little bit of brown on the liner brush and go back in here and, here and there, drop in an indication of a few little trunks that are showing back between these, wherever you want them, maybe you can see an indication.

There.

Okay, that gives us a basic idea of how to put in a whole bunch of little twigs and sticks and all kinds of happy little things.

All right, let's go up here and get a little of the Van Dyke Brown.

Like so, I'll put some Sap Green and Alizarin Crimson in there.

Those two colors mixed together make a beautiful reddish brown.

There we are, now then maybe in here, ooh, isn't that a beautiful color?

See, maybe in here there's some more little bushes and stuff that they just go right on over.

Where do we want them, where do we want them?

There we go, just wherever.

Make a decision, drop them in.

Maybe this comes right up here, under these big trees.

If you run out of paint on one side of the brush, turn it over, and use the other side.

That's the reason they put two sides on a brush.

So you can paint with both of them.

Okay, now here and there, we can hit a touch of the Titanium White.

Just to change the flavor of it a little.

Same color, we're just changing the flavor.

A little lighter, a little darker here and there.

So, look at it, and make a decision.

Wherever.

A little more into the crimson side.

I like these kind of little paintings, they are really very very pretty.

Back to the white.

I'm not cleaning the brush, I'm just varying color, right on the same old dirty brush.

There we go.

Okay, let's get crazy.

Find a big brush here.

That little rascal's too slow.

I'm gonna go right into a little Van Dyke Brown.

Let's just put some color on the canvas.

Right along, like so.

I know, you're saying, Bob, you have certainly, certainly done it this time.

You may be right, too.

But let's just see.

I know all this needs to be dark.

'Cause I want to put a lot of nice things in here that need a dark base, so we can just paint all this dark.

What the heck.

There.

That's a lot easier than worrying about it.

Just throw it in.

Good and dark.

All right, now then.

Let's take a little brown on the knife here.

Maybe there's a little hill over here.

We just take the knife, just sort of let it flow right down, like that.

Right on out.

We'll put some rocks and some stones, and all kinds of little things over here.

There they are.

Just wherever you want them.

Wherever.

Okay, we'll take some white, a little Dark Sienna, just mix it up, like so.

We'll put some black in there, too.

Nice, leave it color marbled, like that.

Cut off a small roll of paint, so you have that little roll right out there.

And let's go right in here, and just drop in the indication, here and there, of some little highlights that live right along in there.

But see, you get all those variations because you didn't over mix your paint.

If you over mix the paint, then you just end up with one flat old dead color.

And we like paintings that have a lot of life in them.

Shoot, we want happy paintings.

Happy paintings, if you want sad things, watch the news.

All right.

And I'm just gonna go right in here, and just pop in some little, get a little color on the brush here, few little things that work right down.

Like so.

Use a little, small knife, then we can create the illusion of some nice, strong rocks.

Here, put a dark edge under.

There, see all these little things are just happening.

Maybe right out in here, shoot, maybe we got all kinds of stones right out here.

Just wherever you want them.

Just nice rocks and stones.

I know, you're saying, that don't look like rocks and stones to me.

All right, doesn't to me, either, now that you mention it.

Let's cover them up.

So to cover them up, take another fan brush, I'm gonna dip it into Liquid White, and then go into Titanium White.

Be right back, and get a little tiny, tiny bit of the Phthalo Blue.

But there's a lot of color on the brush.

I put the Titanium White in there only to thin it.

Okay, let's go back up here.

Now maybe these rocks live down here, but underneath, there underneath, maybe... Maybe just, just a happy little waterfall.

Maybe it lives, yep, right there.

Right about in there.

See, and it hits down here, and there's little splashes going on.

There, tiniest little bit of blue, though, not much.

And you let all kinds of little things go on.

Maybe there's little stones in there, and you can just have little splashy doers.

Here and there, and wherever.

As many, or as few as you want.

Now we can grab this, I wanna pull this down, straight down, go across, just like we were making a reflection.

Because that's what we want it to look like out here.

And then come right along in here, and we can decide where all these little pools are.

See there.

Just create all kinds of little illusions.

There we are.

So, super, super nice and easy way to make a happy little waterfall.

There we go, okay.

Let's get over here.

Shoot, I'm gonna take some more of this Van Dyke Brown, maybe over here, let's come right down in here.

Maybe there's a big, big projection, or a big rock that lives, yeah, there he is, he hangs out over here.

Big stone, maybe, tell you what.

Maybe there'll be another one here.

Just wherever you want them.

Just sort of look at your painting, make a big decision, there it is.

And drop it in.

Drop it in, wherever you want them.

Okay, find the old fan brush, there's one.

We'll take some of the brown, and some of the white, and just mix it together, right on the fan brush.

Maybe over in here, some little bushes live out here on this projection.

There they come, you knew they were there.

There, and they go right on up.

We're still using just the corner of the fan brush.

And I just wanna show you how you can use just the corner, and make the illusion of all kinds of little bushes and stuff that live out here.

Now then.

Okay.

Take the knife, we use a little bit of this highlight color, it's just brown and white, come right out here, let's put a top on this big rock, see, by putting a top on it, looka there, that son of a gun just jumps right out at you.

Pull that downward, and allow it to grab just the least little touch of that color, and pull downward.

Maybe this one, here.

Maybe it comes right out here, it's up to you.

It's up to you, wherever you want it.

Wash off the old fan brush.

Go into a little white, a little brown, this painting is done almost totally in browns.

That's what makes it so very nice.

Just a very nice little painting.

There we are.

Okay, right along in there.

Tell you what, while we got all this brown going, maybe there's just an indication of a little path comes right along, right on out of the painting.

There, and right on around the corner.

We don't know where that rascal goes.

Little touch of white on it, so it stands out a little bit.

I want it to be very subdued, though, very quiet.

Okay, maybe over in here, we can put the indication of some little bushes and stuff that live here on the side of that path.

Shoot, we can even get crazy and have a, maybe there's a big old stone or two that lives in here, and there, each side.

Little touch of highlight on it.

See there?

Okay, a few more little bushes.

There.

And in yours, you just put anything that you want, wherever you want them.

Okay.

Shoot, let's get crazy.

I'm gonna go right up to straight Van Dyke Brown.

A lot of paint on the brush.

Maybe in our world, there lives right here, a huge tree.

Big strong tree.

There we go.

If I move to the side, you can see him a little better.

He lives right out here.

And maybe he had a friend, oh, he lived right here, maybe he fell over.

Maybe he took the week off.

Just fell over in the stream there, somewhere.

Okay, now we'll take a fan brush that has light color on it, and we just take Titanium White, and go right along this edge.

Zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, just bang it on there.

Right out here on the stump, like so.

Now, take the brush, grab it, give it a little, tiny little pull.

See, that's all there is to it.

Just give it a little pull, blip, blip.

That's why I told you not to worry about it.

There, makes a beautiful tree.

We can take some of our brown, maybe there's a limb or two, lives out here.

Wherever you think they should be.

Just here and there.

Okay, maybe let's have one over here.

I don't want this side left out.

There's another one, big old son of a gun.

And he's got a little friend.

But isn't this a fantastic way using basically just a fan brush, a knife, and a couple of little pieces of equipment to make a super little painting.

Maybe there's one, crooked one.

You know me, I like these old crooked trees.

There he is, that's where he lives.

Back to our white.

Come right along the edge, grab it, pull it over.

Pull it over.

See, that makes a tree look round.

Put a little paint thinner on the liner brush, we want this paint to be thin, like ink.

And let's go in here, put in a limb or two.

Wherever, maybe over here on this old stump.

There's still a limb or two hanging on.

There we go.

Just all kinds of little things.

There.

And, we need a few leaves on this one.

And this old painting will be about done.

There we go, not too many, not too many.

Maybe a little one goes right on off the canvas there.

Shoot, a few finishing touches.

And in yours, you put a few sticks and twigs and limbs wherever you want them.

That brings it all together, and makes it interesting.

I think we're about ready for a signature.

Take a little of the paint thinner, little Bright Red, we'll sign this one, right over here.

I hope you've enjoyed this one, it's sort of different.

It'll certainly, certainly give you a little challenge.

So try this one, let me know how it works.

Drop me a line, okay?

From all of us here, happy painting, and God bless.

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