- Hi, I'm glad to see ya again today.

I thought today we'd do something a little bit different.

I have my ol' canvas up here, as usual, but I've covered it today with a thin, even coat of liquid clear.

Let me say it again, thin coat.

You need very, very little of this.

This is nice when you wanna use colors that are, say, transparent, and you wanna get sort of a different effect.

So, I tell you what, let's have 'em 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 and get started.

I'm gonna start today with a small amount of Indian yellow, just the least little amount on the two inch brush.

Just tap a little color in there.

Let's make a nice little, oh like a little sunset back here.

Like so.

We'll just start and drag a little color across, like that.

You know, since we introduced the clear several series back, we've got so many letters.

People are doing such fantastic paintings with it and I've used it mainly for seascapes.

The letters are asking "Can we do landscapes "and stuff with it?"

absolutely.

So today, I wanna show ya how you can do a fantastic little landscape using the clear.

Right into crimson, alizarin crimson.

Still using the same brush, have not washed it.

Kay, and we go right up above the yellow and just begin laying that in.

Because there was still yellow on the brush, you're gonna get a nice orangey color.

Beautiful little color.

Then we're gonna blend it down into the yellow.

These colors are very transparent, so you get some beautiful effects.

Let me get just a touch more of the crimson on my brush here.

Just blend it right on down.

Like so.

But you need very, very small amount of this liquid clear, can't say that enough times.

That's probably the biggest single mistake made, is putting too much of it on the canvas.

One jar, oh my gosh, it'll last you for years.

There we go, just gonna add a little bit of that same color down here into the water.

Like that.

Whatever we put in the sky, we'll add a little into the water too.

Kay, and just sort of blend that together.

Tell you what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna add a little bit more crimson because now we've wiped most of the yellow outta the brush, so it'll look a little more into the reddish hue.

I want it to be a little brighter right above that.

So we have just layers of different colors.

Very pleasing, nice little colors.

Now then.

Maybe right there, just a little touch more.

And we just let it wander up into the sky.

Wherever you want it.

It takes very, very little color when you're using transparent colors on top of the clear, very little color on your brush.

Now then, add a little more down here too.

It's a little brighter in the sky, should be a little brighter in the water.

Now then, we go into phthalo blue.

I have not washed the brush yet.

Phthalo blue, reach up here and grab a little of the crimson.

Very little crimson, just enough to give it a slight lavender hue but very blue yet, very blue.

And just drop a little bit of that off.

This phthalo blue is very transparent.

There.

We're just bringing it down to about like that.

And let it stop.

Same thing now, we'll put some into the water.

Just got to have some in the water.

And I'm not sure where we're gonna have land down here yet.

But it doesn't matter, cause you can put the land right over this color.

And wherever you want it, that's where it'll be.

Okay.

There, I'm gonna get another brush.

I have several of each brush.

Now then, with a good, dry brush I'm gonna blend this together.

This is very dry.

Be sure it's good and dry because the clear and paint thinner will react quite violently.

So be sure your brush is as dry as you can get it.

Might even wipe it across a paper towel before you do this.

There we go.

Okay.

Now then, what's really neat, after you have all these transparent colors on top of the clear, is to begin adding little layers of opaque color.

Titanium white, for example, is very opaque.

Let me show you here.

We'll take the ol' knife, pull the paint out very flat, and just cut across.

Get us a little roll of paint and let's put some little streaky clouds back here.

All you have to do is just rub it across the canvas.

Just rub, that's all there is to it.

Wherever you want 'em.

See there?

That little roll of paint is all you need.

And we got us some happy little clouds.

Very lightly, you can blend those.

See how that opaque color stands out against all the transparent colors.

You can take the large brush and maybe in here, you wanna put the indication of a little cloud, that's just sorta floating around.

Just take the brush and very quickly, drop it in.

It's unreal what you can do with this.

You can make some of the most beautiful and striking effects.

Now then, today let's build us a mountain.

I'm gonna start with black, Van Dyke brown, and a little bit of Prussian blue in it.

Black, Prussian blue, and Van Dyke brown.

Should be very dark, mostly black.

Kay, once again, we cut off that little roll of paint.

Let's go right up here.

Now then, let's have a big mountain that lives, there he goes, right about here.

We let him drop down, see there?

You just put him wherever you want him.

Very dark though.

And, the only thing you're worried about is this nice outside edge.

You could care less what's happening inside here.

We just let him flow right off here.

Big son of a gun.

Really push that right into the fabric.

Right into the fabric.

Now scrape off all the excess paint.

Really get in there and scrape it.

Now then, we'll take a large brush, grab this, and pull it.

Because it's wet, because the clears on here, it'll move.

There we go.

Just let it blend downward.

This removes that excess paint and also gives the illusion that there's mist at the base of this mountain.

We just let it run to right off.

We don't know where it goes, don't really care.

Wherever you want it to go.

See, just take the brush and tap.

Okay, now then, let's put some highlights on there.

I'm gonna take some dark sienna.

Clean off a little spot here.

We'll take dark sienna, take some bright red, and I'll reach up here to get some white and pull it through.

Add a little yellow ochre.

Just add all these colors sorta into layers here.

See?

Don't over mix it.

Let all kind of things happen.

When you cut across there, all those different things will be right in that roll of paint, all these different colors.

If you just cut straight across, they're still there.

You can come right up here, no pressure, and you can just lay 'em all on here like that.

All kinds of little different things are happening in there.

All kinds of beautiful, beautiful colors.

That easy.

Kay, put some up here on this big son of a gun.

Let it come down to wherever you want it.

There, see?

Just let all these things happen.

People will think you worked for months to get all these different colors.

And it's all in the loading in the knife.

All in the loading.

It happens automatically.

You don't even have to worry about it.

I'm gonna get the small knife.

I'm gonna go over on the other side before I do too much here.

We'll put in some shadows.

I'll take some Prussian blue.

Little touch of white into it.

Let's go right up here.

Got a little bit of dark sienna in there too.

Just pull it down.

Prussian blue, dark sienna, and I'm not mixing these very much.

Don't want 'em hardly getting mixed at all.

Just pull down.

Maybe we'll do it that way, right in here.

Got a little bit more.

See?

That's simple.

You can put in all kinds of beautiful striking little highlights.

Maybe right here we'll have this one come right on down.

We'll have a little projection here and we'll just sorta let 'em meet right there.

Just wherever you want 'em.

Just sorta work your colors back and forth, let 'em come together.

Come together.

Like so.

But you can make some of the most fantastic little effects and they just sorta happen.

Just sorta happen.

Now then, we'll bring this maybe right on around.

Just make up your mountain the way you want it.

There we go.

Let's take a little bit of light color.

Maybe the lights really zingin' right through there.

Plays all in that dark area.

It's a super way to make some of the most beautiful little mountain effects that you've ever seen.

There.

Okay, that gives us a pretty nice little mountain.

Let me find a clean, dry two inch brush and I just wanna tap the base of this mountain.

I wanna create the illusion of mist out here.

So all you need to do is just tap it.

Following the angles and then gently lift it upward, gently, gently.

Always follow those angles though, it's most important.

See, and that'll create the illusion of mist at the base of that mountain.

Let's take, we'll use that same basic ol' mountain colors black, and blue, little brown in it.

Very dark though, should look black.

Continue to pull it out flat, get our little roll of paint right out on the edge.

And maybe here, let's do this.

Let's get brave today.

Maybe this big son of a gun just comes right on down.

Put a little bump right there.

Just sorta let it go.

Very dark, I want this to almost be black, very dark.

And we'll play some games with contrast here.

If you had the liquid white on the canvas when you done this, it would dilute your color.

It would not be near as dark.

And I want this to be very, very dark.

It should look black.

Now we'll grab that and just pull it.

There we go.

That is very rich.

Very dark.

Now then, I gonna take Prussian blue, and white but mixed very, very dark.

I want it very dark.

Add a little black to that there.

Very dark.

Cut off a little bit of paint and I just want to put the indication here, just here an there, that maybe a little light is striking this whole dark, dark mountain.

But there's virtually nothing there.

It is very dark.

Just a little shadow here and there on it.

Don't even know if that'll show up hardly.

There we go.

Now then, while we have that dark color on the brush, let's make us a little reflection underneath that.

We're gonna need a reflection, so all we have to do is grab a little of that and pull it downward, straight down.

Just like so There we go, down, straight down.

And very lightly, just come across.

You can push that paint and make those reflections wiggle and move.

Now maybe, let me find a fan brush, maybe back here we'll take some yellows.

And we'll get into some greens, dark green here.

Dark, dark green.

Maybe there's some little land areas back in here.

This is very dark green.

Just push these in, like so.

There.

Just push 'em in.

Now, go back into the same yellow color and just add a little more to the brush and it'll be lighter.

A little yellow ochre, cad yellow, Indian yellow.

Kay, let's go back.

Now then, I wanna come back in here and just put the indication of a few little highlights.

These are distant little trees and bushes that are far away, can't make out a lot of detail on these.

There, just enough to make 'em shine a little bit.

Now we'll take a little brown and just put in the indication of a little bit of land.

Just Van Dyke Brown.

Right along in there.

Take a little bit of the liquid white, pull it out very flat.

With that we can come right in here and cut us in a waterline.

See how that stands out?

Dark against light, contrast.

All this wild contrast.

There we go.

Take a fan brush, this is a number three fan brush.

Don't even know if these'll show.

I just want to put the indication here and there of a distant Evergreen tree.

Just a few right in there.

When you do 'em at home though, you'll be able to see 'em much better.

Just the little Evergreens back in there.

Okay.

Tell you what, let's really have some fun now.

Take the ol' two inch brush.

I'm gonna go right into Van Dyke brown, pick up some alizarin crimson, little bit of dark sienna.

Just whatever.

Even a little sap green, just throw it all in there together.

Tap some color in there.

All right, let's have, right in here, let's have some beautiful little bushes and trees.

Just tap, use the corner of the brush and tap quite firmly.

Maybe these sun of a guns just, there they go.

Go right on off the top of the canvas here.

Oh, right over my mountain.

Begin making some nice branches and limbs.

I'm gonna go right into a little touch of yellow ochre.

And just begin mixing that right on the canvas and in the brush.

Want it to get a little lighter toward the top.

There.

This is the back of the tree.

We paint the back of the tree, then we'll com back and paint the middle of the tree which is the trunk, and then we'll put the highlights on.

Kay, go back into a little more of the brown.

Have to start makin' some big decisions here.

Where do you want your land to go?

Maybe it goes right out here like that.

Just wherever.

Maybe out through there.

Just decide where you want it and drop it in.

Pull that straight down a little bit.

Go across, give us the indication of a happy little reflection.

And maybe over here on the other side, maybe there's some more over here.

Same colors, brown, little bit of alizarin crimson.

There, just whatever you got.

Good dark color.

Maybe there'll be a little reflection here too.

Now then, let's come back in here and we need a tree trunk or two.

I'm gonna go right into Van Dyke brown with a fan brush.

Right in there.

And back in here we'll make some few little trunks.

We don't know how many trunks are back here and you maybe can only see parts of 'em here and there.

Just wherever.

Maybe there's one right here.

Comes down.

And you know me, I like these ol' big trees.

There's one, choom, just throw him in.

He's got a friend here, this friend is really a big tree.

He lives a little further into the foreground.

Big son of a gun.

It'll sorta give you an idea of where your trees live.

Tell you what, maybe there's one or two on the other side over here.

We can just sorta block 'em in while we have the ol' brush going.

There's one, there it comes.

Zoop, that easy.

And we'll give him a friend.

There.

Just like so.

Now then, go back to a two inch brush and I'm just gonna tap it into some of the greens and the yellows.

Indian yellow, yellow ochre.

Just tap it.

Now then, let's begin putting all kinds of just little grassy things that are growin' out here.

Wherever you want 'em.

Wherever, there's one.

Tell you what, let's have some nice rocks that live out here too.

We need a nice stone that lives, there he is.

Nice big ol' stone.

And in your world you decide where all these little rocks and stones live and just drop 'em in.

Just put 'em wherever you want 'em.

Give 'em a little touch of highlight up here.

That's pretty.

Pretty.

There's some right there.

See how easy it is to make all these little rocks?

Yeah, we can't leave this side out.

We'll put a big one right out here.

It lives out here on the corner.

He watches and sees what happens out here.

There we go.

Put some highlights on him.

Some little brightey, shiny things.

There they are.

It's the same colors we used on the mountain.

Just sort of mixed on the knife.

Sorta let 'em happen.

I think I'll take a one inch brush here.

Let me get a one inch brush.

Go into a little touch of the liquid white, right into some of my yellows and greens.

Pull that brush in one direction, let a lot of paint on it.

Let's use that and come up here and put some bright sparkling little bushes.

And use it sidewards and just push these rascals in.

Wherever you want 'em.

Maybe there's some hid back in here.

These are a little darker.

Not as much light is gonna hit 'em back in here.

There they are, see 'em?

Now just bring them down so they cover-up the edges of your rock, make 'em look finished.

All I'm doin' is just pushing up with the side.

Work in layers, completing the most distant layers and coming forward.

Maybe there's another big stone that lives here.

See?

There he is.

We'll put a little light on him.

Zoop.

Maybe there's even a little blue on the side here to make a shadow.

That easy.

Then we can put some little grassy things down here at his foots.

Let's go over to the other side and do that over here too.

That's a nice one.

Just wherever you think they should live.

Don't get carried away and cover up all your little rocks and stones though, be careful.

Now then, we'll go back into our liquid white.

Put us in the little waterline in here.

Just like so.

See, it cleans up all the edges and brings it all together.

Now, if you don't have the clear you could certainly do this with liquid white.

It'll look a little bit different cause your color won't be as transparent.

But it will certainly work.

Just scratch in a few little sticks and twigs here and there.

Tell you what, let's take these big ol' trees here and just put the indication of some bark out here.

Touch it, sorta pull it around.

Give it a little round pull.

Just like so.

It's those same ol' mountain colors, I'm still using 'em here.

There.

Maybe a little bright color where the lights striking.

Let's go over to the other side.

Don't wanna these little trees left out.

We'll put a little color on them too.

Now they'll stand out against those dark, dark colors in the background.

Is this fantastic?

I thought you'd like this and it shows you what you can do using clear.

Take a little thinner or you could use the liquid clear, put some clear on the brush end.

But you wanna thin this paint down.

And here and there let's just put a little stick or twig or whatever.

There we go.

Now then, let's put some limbs out here.

For that I'm gonna use liquid black today.

We'll take the black, I'll just put a little on the palate, and let's come right in here and begin drawing in a few little branches.

This black is thin, it'll flow.

It's liquid black.

See there?

And just however many you want on your tree.

Hope you can see that, hope my hands not in the way.

They don't show much over that dark but we know they're there.

You could a little touch of light to them, get 'em to pop right out.

Kay, back over here on our big ol' tree.

Big limb that comes out through here like that.

Wherever you want 'em.

Wherever.

There comes another one.

Back in here.

Just a few, indicate a few.

I'm gonna dip my brush into a small out of the clear and I'm gonna go right into yellow ochre, tap little bit of the bright red.

Just tap it.

Now I wanna put the indication of some little leaves out here, that come all in front of the tree.

Just like so.

See there?

You can just make thousands of little leaves just with the corner of the big two inch brush.

And you put 'em wherever you want 'em.

Isn't that super?

Really hope you've enjoyed this one.

Think we'll call it finished.

See what you can do with a liquid clear and from all of us here, happy painting and God bless.

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