- Hi, I'm glad to see you again.

Thought today we'd just do a fantastic little winter scene and I'll show you how you can do a very, very nice little scene quite easily.

So let's have them run all the colors across the screen, that you need to paint along with me.

While they're doing that, let's go on up here.

We have our standard old canvas up, it's all prepared with a liquid white, it's all slick and wet and ready to go, so let's go too.

I think today I'll start out with a small touch of Alizarin Crimson.

Just pull a little bit out and tap the bristles firmly, firmly firmly, right there, and that assures a nice even distribution of color all the way through the bristles.

Good, let's go on up here.

Now sometimes when you do winter scenes, they can get so cold, that they're almost unpleasant.

So I like to put a little tiny warm spot in my winter scenes.

But it's just a matter of personal preference.

If you want it to look colder, just leave out this little touch of crimson, because this is your painting, you do it the way you want it.

If you want it to be very cold, just leave out this one little bit right here, and that'll do it.

Okay, little touch more, right in there.

Now we don't wanna set this sky on fire.

All we wanna do is just put a nice pinkish glow in the sky.

Something like so.

Tell you what, without even cleaning the brush, I'm gonna go right into a small amount of a Phthalo Blue.

Now the blue is so much stronger than the crimson, you don't even have to clean your brush.

Just go right in there, and just tap it, same way.

Okay, now then let's come right up in here, just dancing a happy little sky, just using little crisscross strokes.

Like so, like so.

There we go.

And bring it right down to the crimson, once again, the blue is so much stronger, it'll absolutely eat your crimson up and kill it.

There, very lightly.

Okay, we're gonna have a little winter scene today, so let's just go ahead and put some blue down here.

This'll end up being shadows in our snow, or water, or whatever, I don't know.

We'll sort of make that decision when we get there.

There we go, just drop it in.

Okay.

It's also a good way to clean off the excess paint off your brush.

Shoot, while we're doing that, we'll drop a little crimson in too.

Just a little.

Okay, let's wash the brush.

Scrub the old brush.

Shake off the excess, (laughs) and then just splatter everybody.

Alright, with a good clean dry brush, I wanna go right back up here, where this pink and blue come together.

And very gently, very lightly, just using the little crisscross or X strokes.

I just want to blend it, so it's very smooth, so you can't tell where one color stops, and the next color starts.

Just blend it, blend it, blend it.

There, start in the light area, and work toward the dark area.

Okay.

And that gives us a nice quick little sky.

Alrighty, let's do a fantastic mountain today.

I'm gonna start with some Midnight Black.

We'll take some Prussian Blue, Prussian Blue, oh a little Van Dyke Brown in there, what the heck.

A little crimson, whatever.

Looking for dark color, it should look black.

Okay, pull the paint out as flat as you can get it.

And then just take the knife and cut across.

Get that little roll of paint right on the edge of the knife.

Let's go right up in here, maybe we'll have a big mountain that lives way up here in the sky.

Boy, that's a big son of a gun.

But this'll give you some practice at making mountains.

And if you can make mountains, you've certainly, certainly made friends with a knife.

If you can make these mountains, then you can take the same effects that you learn making these, and create just unbelievable things.

Rocks, stones, roads, houses.

Entire paintings can be done with a knife, once you make friends with it.

So this is excellent, excellent practice.

There.

And, I lived in Alaska for a dozen years or so, and I'm sort of crazy about mountains.

They're a lot of fun to paint.

Okay, after you have your basic outline on here, take your knife and firmly, get tough with it, scrape off all the excess paint.

You can't get it all off, the value is in the fabric.

Scrape off all that you can get off though.

And the more of that paint you get off, the easier the next step is.

Okay, now then we wanna just, this removes even more paint, and blends it out.

Because the canvas is wet, the paint will move on here.

Just grab it and pull, firmly.

You're still trying to remove excess paint.

There we go, firmly pull it, pull it.

And then just blend it.

Just blend it.

See and you can soften points and peaks, there.

Okay, that gives us a very nice little base, to do a fantastic mountain.

Okay, I'll wash the old brush again.

Shoot, that's the most fun of this whole technique.

Just washing the brush.

(laughs) You can take out all your hostilities and frustrations and anger, you can get all those bad feelings out, just beating the brush.

Okay, I'm gonna just take Titanium White.

And once again, pull it out as flat as you can get it, just really get tough.

Then go down here, cut across, Get our little roll of paint.

Always loading the knife the same way.

Okay, let's go right up here, now then, you have to make some big decisions here.

Where is the light striking your mountain.

Touch, and just let it flow right down the mountain.

See there?

No pressure, no pressure.

I know you get tired of hearing me say that, because I say it over and over.

But it's most important, that's the number one problem that people experience, when they're trying to make this knife work, is they get too strong with it.

Take a weak pill.

(laughs) Very, very gentle, very gentle.

There we go, give it a little pull right there.

See, and you sort of just form your mountain.

Decide where you want everything to live, put it in Because you can create all kinds of fantastic effects.

Just let it flow right down the side.

One thing that's really worth mentioning here, notice the angles, all these angles are basically the same, because if light is coming across here, it's only gonna hit on a given angle.

So, a sort of a good rule of thumb, is keep all of your angles basically the same.

They don't have to be exactly the same, but basically the same, you know.

There.

There we go.

Maybe this comes right on round wherever, wherever.

There we go.

Very little pressure though.

That little roll of paint is actually all that's touching the canvas.

The knife blade probably is not even touching it.

Except when you run out of paint.

Maybe this one here comes right down like that, wherever you want it.

This is just straight Titanium White, now you could add a little color to it if you wanted to.

It's up to you.

Okay, now we'll take white, white, let's use a little Prussian Blue with it.

White, a little Prussian Blue.

Blue Prussian Blue.

This is a very strong color.

Extremely extremely strong color, be careful with it.

Okay, now once again, cut off our little roll of paint.

Just like so.

Now we can go back up in here and begin making big decisions is this peak behind that one?

if it is, do this one first.

Touch it, just give it a little pull.

Okay, next one.

Let it just gently flow, no pressure, no pressure.

Right over it.

You see, that easy, it pushes that one back.

Pushes that one back.

Tremendous power you have.

No pressure, and we'll just bring these together right here.

Just sort of let them flow together.

Okay.

Right in here we'll have some shadow.

Basically, for every highlight, you need a shadow.

There we go.

Just drop them, drop them in.

Maybe right in here there's another one, wherever.

And you can just sort of work back and forth with your color here.

There, you can firm up those edges.

Maybe this one comes out here, sort of comes around, there it is.

You can do unbelievable things.

Now behind this one, once again, we need a little shadow.

A little shadow, maybe that's right out here.

Maybe this shadow comes, there it is.

There it comes.

It's unreal.

I've painted a million mountains, and every time I paint another one I get excited about it.

Because it's just unbelievable.

Watch right here, maybe, there it is, maybe there's a peak that lives in there.

Just put him in.

See it doesn't look like too much right now.

But watch what happens when you give him his own private little shadow.

See, once you give him a shadow, then he becomes an individual, just pops right out there.

Let's bring him right on around, like so.

Isn't that fantastic what you can do?

And you can.

You can, maybe, what's here?

We'll just play some games today with mountain peaks.

Anywhere you wanna show a little peak, just put in a little highlight, then come back and drop in a little shadow.

See, there we go, there we go.

And you can put as many or as few as you want in your mountain.

Son of a gun, better watch out here, I'm gonna cover this whole canvas with just layer after layer of mountain.

Which is alright, it's a super way to learn.

Any time that you learn, you're not losing.

Because if there's a secret to this style of painting, or any style of painting, it's practice, that's all.

Just practice.

Now I'm just tapping the base here to create the illusion of mist.

but follow the angles, all of those angles.

That's most, most important.

Most important.

Like so.

There we go, lift upward, see.

You can make it so soft, and here you can just sort of bring it together, try and keep my arm out of your way.

There.

Just bring it together to soften it all up.

Boy you've got one son of a gun of a mountain there.

Now then.

We got us a mountain.

Let's begin working forward into our scene, see what we can make.

We can use that same old mountain color, let's see what we've got here.

Into that, let me add some white.

Some more of that (mumbles) see what we've got.

Maybe a little more white.

There, looking for a blue gray color.

Like so, yeah that's a pretty nice color.

Okay let me clean the knife off.

And, and maybe, yeah, we'll use the old fan brush.

Let's just go right through here with the fan brush.

Load both sides of it, just like so.

Just like so, okay.

Now maybe back in here, lives all kinds of little trees.

All I'm doing is tapping downward.

Just tap downward with a fan brush.

See there.

It makes the indication of distant little trees.

Just an indication, we're not looking for a lot of detail because it's too far away.

When we get into the foreground, then you'll begin worrying about detail, but back here, back here all you see are basic shapes.

Just basic shapes, and maybe right on, wherever.

This is the easiest way I've ever seen of making a lot of little trees very quickly.

Very quickly you can paint a whole forest.

And maybe a few of them here and there, maybe you can make out a little detail on them.

Just like so.

See, maybe there's another one here, wherever you want them.

Wherever.

Maybe even in here, there's another one.

Just drop him in.

Maybe this one here, see you can make these son of a gun grow right before your eyes.

There.

Now we just drop in a little color down here at the base.

Same color, same color.

Take our two inch brush, maybe we'll have some water.

So, all we do is pull straight down.

Just grab that color, pull it straight down, and it creates an instant reflection.

Instant reflections.

Go across, now then.

Take another fan brush, and with just a little bit of white on it, I'm just gonna tough here and pull up.

Makes sort of an indication like there's trunks way back hidden there.

Touch and just pull it straight up, see?

Just touch it, and pull it up.

If you get a little too much, just keep working it, and the color will eat up that white and it'll go away.

Just go right away.

Maybe right there, there we go.

Wash out the old brush.

Grab that knife, touch a little bit of the liquid white.

Pull it out very flat, just as flat as you can get it.

and sort of cut across.

Let's go up in here and just begin cutting in a little water line.

There.

There you go, see there?

All kinds of little things happening there.

There.

As many or as few as you want, it's up to you, up to you.

Okay.

Tell you what must do.

Grab the old fan brush again.

Think it's time to have some fun.

Think we'll have some fun, let me clean off a spot here.

Got too many things going on on this one palette.

That's one thing I've already mentioned, I have people write and say they went out and got a palette, and it's not like mine.

It's real clear.

My palette normally is crystal clear, crystal clear.

But for television, they make me, take sandpaper and sand it so it's not shiny.

If it was shiny, all the lights would reflect off of it and you would get big flares on your television.

But it's just like your palette.

Even the ferrules on the brush, are taped.

So they don't shine.

I'm just mixing up all the dark colors here.

Okay.

Tell you what, let's use the old one inch brush today.

Could do it with the fan brush or the two inch brush, let's do it with the one inch.

I'm gonna make some happy little evergreen trees.

Pull the brush through the paint, and wiggle it as you pull it.

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, And then sharpen it.

And that'll bring that brush to a super sharp chiseled edge, look there.

It's sharp and it takes a lot of paint.

If you don't have a lot of paint on the bristles, they're not gonna stick together.

That's the only thing that holds these bristles together.

Is a lot of paint.

Maybe right there, see how sharp it is though?

You could literally make a line with it.

Let's take the corner of the brush, and let's just make us a happy little evergreen tree that lives right there.

Tap downward, using the corner of the brush as you work down the tree, you use more and more pressure so you're using a larger portion of the brush.

But you start with one corner and you use that same corner all the way through the tree.

Just sort of work back and forth, back and forth.

Okay, tell you what maybe, yep, you're right, you knew there was a tree there.

There he is.

And just let him grow right out of the brush.

They live in there, you have to sort of scare them out sometimes.

But they're there.

Maybe, let's have a whole forest today, give you a lot of good practice.

Making some nice trees.

There, see, there's another one.

Maybe he comes right on down, wherever you want him.

See you can just make them rascals grow (laughs) There, a little more paint.

And normally I reload the brush after each and every tree.

Let's go over here on the other side.

Maybe, shoot, I think let's get crazy.

Yep, maybe there's a big tree.

Maybe, he lives right there.

And he goes clean off the canvas, boy that is a big son of a gun.

He probably picks on these little ones here.

Right over your mountain, oh, that hurts.

After you spend so much time making a beautiful mountain, then put a tree over it, it's no fun.

Okay, there.

Down, down, down.

Still tapping.

There.

Boy, I said big tree I wasn't kidding was I?

We'll come back and we'll put some highlights on these trees.

All we're doing here is just painting the back of the tree.

I tell you what, maybe there is two big trees.

And in your painting, you put as many or as few trees as you want.

Because we each see nature through different eyes.

So paint it the way you see it, paint it the way that makes you happy.

Because painting should make you happy, it should set you free.

It has no boundaries, you can go anywhere you wanna go in a painting.

You can do anything that you wanna do.

You can make any kind of world that you want.

You can create your vision.

And that's really, that's the joy of painting.

Is the fact that you can create, it gives you freedom.

Gives you freedom, and we're all looking for a touch of that.

There.

Okay.

Boy, I'm turning this whole painting into a forest.

That's alright though.

At least we're getting some good practice making trees.

There's another one, he lives right there.

See after you've finished this painting, you won't ever again have problems making evergreen trees.

There we go.

Now normally when I'm doing winter scenes, I don't use any green in my evergreen trees.

Mainly because if you're having snow below those trees, if you ever pull a little bit of the green into your snow, It just doesn't look right.

Green snow is just, that's worse than yellow snow.

So, I normally just use these dark colors with a blue base, and then you can intentionally, I'll show you, we'll put some snow in this, shoot.

Why not, why not?

Why not?

I tell you, let me grab the old fan brush here, that'll do.

Let's do one with the fan brush so you can see how.

Maybe there's one that lives, right here, right here.

We'll show his whole trunk, just by tapping, all the way down, there's his, there is his little, or maybe this tree, maybe he's not doing too good.

Maybe he's a little sick.

Little sick.

See, and he just has some little limbs living here and there, but you can see a lot of his trunk.

Poor tree.

There.

Something like so.

Now then, tell you what, let's just go right in Titanium White, let's do some snow.

We don't need all that water.

I'll use the big brush here.

Let's go right up here.

Decide where you want your snow to start, grab it and just pull.

Be brave, grab some of that dark color and pull it.

Now you have to begin forming the land here.

So you wanna grab that dark, it makes nice shadows underneath the trees.

Look there, and then just play some of this white right over the top of it.

But see how easy it is to make all kinds of fantastic little snowy areas.

And smooth, it's very smooth.

This is virgin snow here, nobodies walked here and (mumbles) it.

Nice and smooth.

See there?

Now a super nice way to make a little snowy area, maybe somebody wants to walk down here.

So let's make them a little path.

I'm gonna take white, and a little touch of Phthalo Blue.

White, just on a fan brush.

Something like so, okay?

Now decide, where do you wanna walk here, maybe there's a little path, comes right down, just sort of back and forth here.

And let it get bigger and bigger as it gets toward you.

As it comes toward you let it get larger.

Where does this go?

Maybe right on over here.

There.

And you can make it as distinct or as soft as you want.

It's your path, you do with it as you please.

Take a little white here, watch, and maybe you want to bring out a little, little projection right there, bring it right into the path.

Like so.

Okay, tell you what I'm gonna get a one inch brush here.

I'm gonna dip it right into a little touch of the liquid white.

Then you can go right into Titanium White, pull it in one direction.

Load a lot of paint into it.

Let's go right up here, maybe there's a, some little snow covered bushes, that live right up against these trees.

Just touch and give the brush a little upward push.

But you need it against that dark so it shows up.

If you put it against just white snow, you're not gonna get anything.

Okay, maybe there's another one right there.

Little frosty bushes, see how easy those are to make?

Then they're beautiful little something that should look like lace, look just like lace.

I don't want this side to be left out, let's put one or two over here.

There's one lives right out there.

You know this is the last show of the 12th series.

It's always sort of sad to come to the last show.

And I'm gonna miss you for a few days, but we have another series already under production, we've already started to do another one, so if you'll have us back, I'll be back.

As I mentioned earlier, there's now over 150 Joy Of Painting shows, and if you haven't got to see them all, give your local station a call, and tell them you'd like to see them.

They're available to them.

And I'd like to thank you for once again allowing me into your home.

I've had so many super, super friends I've made.

And I appreciate it, really truly appreciate it.

A little Phthalo Blue and white, on the fan brush.

I just wanna come along in here, and here and there.

Put the indication of a little highlight on these.

Just here and there, not too much, don't want to lose the contrast.

Like so.

Okay.

And with that, I think this painting is finished.

Once again, thank you for allowing me to be into your home.

And until next time, keep the old brush working.

Happy painting and God bless.

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