- Hey, glad you could join me today.

You ready to do a fantastic painting?

Well, let's get started.

Okay, let's have them run all the colors across the screen you need to do this painting.

They'll come across as usual in the same order that I have 'em on the pallet.

While they're doing that, let's go here and talk a second.

I'm doing something a little different today.

I have my standard old 18 by 24 inch canvas up here, but I've covered the top with Liquid White and the bottom with Liquid Clear.

Now, that's just a clear medium.

It's just like the Liquid White, only it's clear.

I'm gonna do a little seascape today and I want my dark color to stay dark, so we put the clear in here.

Let's get started.

I'm gonna take off with a little bit of Prussian Blue.

Little Prussian Blue, into that, the tiniest little bit of black, Midnight Black, Prussian Blue.

Let's go up here.

Now, using little criss cross strokes, I wanna just drop in a happy little sky.

Let's have some beautiful clouds in this sky.

We'll just leave some general shapes where we'll put a little cloud.

There we go.

Just something like that, just happy little sky.

Doesn't take you put a second when you're using a big old two inch brush.

Now then, I'm gonna use the same old dirty brush, go right into some of the Midnight Black, reach down here, and I grabbed a little bit of the Bright Red, so I have Midnight Black and Bright Red.

Just mix 'em on the brush.

Let's go right up here.

Maybe there's a big old cloud and he lives right there.

We'll put the shadow in first and then we'll come back and we'll drop in some of the shiny stuff, some highlights.

Let's start off with a shadow.

All right.

Tell you what, I'm just gonna reach over here and grab a one inch brush.

Go right into Titanium White with the least little touch of Bright Red again.

Little sunshine color.

Load a lot of paint into the bristles.

Let's go right here.

Now then, just lay in your basic little cloud shape, using tiny, tiny little circles.

See there?

Just let these little rascals just float around in your world.

Let 'em float around.

All right, right in here, there's another happy little cloud in your painting.

You put as many or as few clouds as you want.

There we go.

We'll take a clean, dry two inch brush and we just sort of stir this up, just sort of mix it, using tiny little circles with the top corner of the brush.

Tiny little circles like that.

Okay, we'll knock off the excess paint and we'll fluff this cloud.

Just grab it, lift it, fluff it up.

Isn't that a fantastic way to make a happy little cloud?

Happy big cloud, that's a son of a gun.

All right.

Maybe in this painting, I'll tell you what, I'll wash the brush here real quick.

Shake it off (laughing) and redecorate the studio.

Maybe in this painting let's have a big mountain.

We'll really have some fun.

We'll have mountain made out of black and blue.

Black and blue.

This is Prussian Blue.

Cut us off a little roll of paint.

Okay, let's go right up here.

Now then, maybe this old mountain lives (grunts) right up in the clouds here.

There he goes.

There's a bump there.

Just make your mountain however you want it.

Maybe this one sort of leans over.

When he was just a little hill, maybe somebody stepped on him, pushed him.

He's got sort of a bend on him.

What the heck?

Scrap off all the excess paint.

Just really, see there?

Get tough with it.

You can probably hear how hard I'm scraping the canvas.

There we go.

Now then, take a two inch brush and very lightly, see there?

Just pull it out and let it blend right into the Liquid White.

Just like so.

There we go, there we go.

Isn't that super?

Now then, let us take where we use some Titanium White, pull it out very flat, and we need that little roll of paint.

Always get that little roll of paint.

Go right up here and we can lay in some highlights.

No pressure, no pressure at all.

Look at that, look at that.

Just sort of flow together.

Over here, grab it (humming).

See how you can make that old mountain just curve right around in there?

Look at that.

Let that paint break.

No pressure.

Can't say that enough times.

There it goes.

Okay, take a little edge of the knife.

We'll put a little (grunts) right there.

Maybe even some right in there.

Wherever you want.

Just look at your mountain and decide where you think light would strike.

We'll take a little bit of blue and white and with that, we'll just mix us up a shadow color.

That's a little bit too bright, so I'll put a little black in it.

That'll dull it.

There, it's much better.

Okay.

Now then, we can picking out the shadows here.

Look at that.

Bring it right on through.

Let all these things just happen.

Right over in here, there's a little shadow that goes right off in there.

Sort of bring that together.

See how you can create all those beautiful, beautiful effects?

I knew you could do it.

Knew you could do it.

All right, wherever you want a little thing.

Right in here, we need a little shadow.

There.

Okay, okay.

Clean, dry brush.

All of the angles we wanna create a misty appearance.

Just tap.

Just following those angles.

Over here, we go in this direction.

There we are.

Clean, dry brush.

Lift upward.

Just lift it upward like so.

Over here, follow those angles.

Always follow the angles in your mountain.

Most, most important.

Well, we got a wild-looking mountain there already.

Okay.

Now, down here we have the Liquid Clear, so let's just add some nice dark color.

I'm gonna go right into the blue.

This is Prussian Blue, Prussian Blue, Prussian Blue and let's take some Alizarin Crimson and add to it.

We've got Prussian Blue and Alizarin Crimson.

Okay, let's go right up here.

Now, you have to make a big decision here.

Where is your water line gonna be?

I think it should be right there.

Try to keep this fairly straight (laughs).

If your watering line is not straight, your water's gonna run right off in the floor and then you're gonna be angry.

There we go.

Maybe I'll put some more crimson in it.

Yeah, there we go.

Now, we have sort of a lavanderish color.

Now, that's pretty.

See, now, if you had Liquid White up there, when you did this, you would pick up the Liquid White and you would lose all your values.

Now then, we have to make some decisions.

Let me show you.

I'll just take a little Filbert brush here.

Come right up here.

We have to decide where we're gonna have this major weight.

Just take a little Filbert and you can just sort of sketch it in.

Maybe it comes along right in here somewhere.

Comes up here and crashes over.

Boom, right there.

Shoot, we'll have another one over here.

Wherever you want.

In these areas, if we're gonna have two little crashers.

That's technical talk, two little crashers.

Then we wanna have a little light area in there, so we wanna save that area.

That's one of the reasons I use that Liquid Clear, is so we can save the transparency.

The rest of it we can just fill in with a very dark color.

Just like so.

That easy.

Okay, we got that rascal in there.

Now then, I'm gonna go into a little touch of Phthalo Green right on the same old dirty brush.

Little too much green.

There, that's better.

I want some, see, now, don't kill that area that's gonna be transparent.

Good, right up into there.

Come up in here.

All we're doing is just blocking in some color.

Really not looking for a great deal of detail or anything else at this point.

We'll do that in a little bit.

Just lay in some color on the canvas.

Boy, that looks like a wild mess there already.

Okay.

Let me grab my fan brush.

Now, let's begin putting some swells back here.

We'll just go right into Titanium White.

Load that brush full of paint, full of paint.

Okay, let's go back up here.

Now then, right in here I'm just gonna be just barely touching the canvas.

Don't kill all the little dark areas.

Just sort of back and forth.

Leave some of the little dark areas.

Right in here, we'll have, there we go.

There's a nice one, there's a nice one.

Maybe right along in there, another one.

I wipe off the excess paint and very lightly here I'm gonna grab this and begin pulling it.

Just pull it, pull it.

Look at that.

See, that picks up all that beautiful color we have underneath.

Look at all the little things that are happening.

Isn't it super?

Did you know you could do a seascape that easy?

They don't have to be hard.

Now then, we come right along this wave, add a little light in, and pull it back.

Look at that, look at that.

See, and that creates the little swells.

We'll bring that down.

You could say this is a swell painting.

Now you know why I paint instead of being a comedian.

There we go.

That blocks all that in for us.

Let's go back to our little number six Filbert and I'm gonna take Titanium White.

Just pick it up with a brush and the last little touch of the Cad Yellow.

Titanium White, Cad Yellow.

Load a lot of paint on the brush.

Let's go back up here.

If your little transparency or your eye's gonna be right here, then drop it in.

Oh, isn't that pretty?

Let it come down and begin picking up some of this color.

See, let it begin picking up some of that green that we put in.

All right.

Now, over here, we decided maybe right here.

This is gonna be another one.

Let me move over a little.

It's gonna come right through there like that, like that, there.

All right.

Now, we can take a clean two inch brush and we wanna just blend this all together, so it's very smooth.

Look at that.

Now, we'll do the other one.

Now, you can begin creating the shape of this wave just by pulling down with the brush.

Same thing over here, same thing.

Gonna grab another fan brush.

I have several brushes going, so I don't have to stop and continue to clean 'em.

Take a little of that dark color.

This is blue with a little Phthalo Green.

Where this is gonna be crashing, we need some dark in here.

Need that dark in here so our light color will show.

Gotta put the dark in so the light'll show.

Look at there.

We're gonna have one over here too.

Put that dark in, all right.

We got it.

Okay, get that brush all cleaned up.

Now then, we can come right along the top of this.

This is just the old Filbert and a little white and yellow.

We want a nice highlight on top of that.

You could do that with a fan brush.

Let's do it with a fan brush.

See there?

Smooth there, but leave that little bright ridge on there.

That's pretty.

That's pretty.

Okay, now then, let's take a little Titanium White on the fan brush and come right up here.

Let this crash right over (mimics crashing).

Make little noises, little sounds.

Look at that (humming).

And over here, there's some more.

That easy, that easy.

Okay.

Now then, we'll take some of this lavander color.

That's Alizarin Crimson and the blue mixed together and we'll put a little touch of white in like that.

Good.

Let's go up here.

Now, right in here, we're gonna have some crashes.

We gotta put the shadow in first.

Want the shadow in first, then we'll come back and add the nice bright area.

There it is.

That is really crashing up here.

Over here, we want this one to have a little crash on it too.

Okay, put the crash in and then we can go back to our Titanium White with a little bit of yellow in it, just a small amount.

Let's come back in here and put some highlights on this.

Push it, push it, bend that brush.

Just bend it.

All you're doing to start with is just laying it on.

We'll come back with a clean brush and smooth it.

Right now, just looking to get the, oh, there we go.

Get that nice shape there.

Just like so.

Okay, a little bit over here.

Same idea, same idea.

There we go.

Now then, let me clean this brush up a little bit and we want it good and dry.

This brush needs to be dry to do this.

I just have a paper towel.

Now, I'm gonna just take the brush and rub it.

Just bring all that together.

See there?

Don't let this get too light on you.

It's almost a natural tendency to wanna jump in there and make this all shiny and white.

It doesn't work well.

Okay, now, with a clean brush, very gently, very gently just sort of mix that up a little bit.

Okay, gives us a little crasher.

Now then, we can begin coming in here and begin making little foam patterns, little things, which are just traveling right up the wave.

This is where you shape the wave.

Give him some personality.

See that?

Right on over here too.

Don't want him left out.

See, create all kinds of little things.

In here, this'd be out of the shadow of the wave, so it'll be a little brighter, just a little bit brighter.

All kinds of little things.

Now then, we need something for this big crashing wave to be hitting.

I like to have stones in there.

I'll take a little Van Dyke Brown, a little Dark Sienna mixed together, pull it out, get that little roll of paint on the knife.

Need that.

Okay, now, big stone lives right there, right there.

See there?

Just drop him in.

Now then, gonna take some Dark Sienna, some Yellow Ochre, and mix it together.

I'll throw a little bit of Bright Red in there too.

What the heck?

Cut us off a little piece and go right up in here.

No pressure.

Just let this sort of graze that.

Make that quite bright, so you can see it well.

All right, now, we'll bring some water right around his little foots.

See, just bring it all together, bring it all together.

Need these little foamy things in here.

Tell you what let's do.

I'm gonna go right into touch of Dark Sienna, little bit of Van Dyke Brown and let's put some sand right here.

We're gonna have some sand.

Let it get lighter, and lighter, and lighter.

Lighter and lighter, right up to the water.

Maybe the least little touch of Alizarin Crimson.

Oh, look at that.

Isn't that nice?

Lookie there.

fantastic, fantastic.

I knew you could do it.

Clean the old brush up; give it a good shake.

(laughing) Just beat the devil out of it.

I get the biggest kick out of that.

All right, I'm gonna take a little paint thinner.

Go right into this.

This is a Phthalo Blue and white.

Let's go in here and just begin adding a few little details, just here and there, just to sort of make some of these little things just sparkle.

Just make 'em sparkle.

Then with paint thinner, I'm going right into this is the Titanium White with a little touch of Cad Yellow into it.

We just with this put a few little sparklers up here on the water.

Don't get too many, or you'll lose their effect.

Just a few.

You could overdo real easy.

See, I'm gonna put a few little things coming down the wave, down through here.

There.

All right, all right.

Now then, more paint thinner.

Picked up a little bit of dark color.

I wanna make a little line underneath the edge of my water here.

Just a little line to set it off, just to set it off.

Okay, gently, gently blend that.

See how that makes that sort of set upward?

Very nice, okay.

Tell you what, let's grab that old fan brush here.

I'm going to Sap Green, Sap Green, Sap Green.

We'll grab some black and some brown, and we'll just make a big old gooky color here.

This is green, brown, black, all those good colors.

A little more brown into it.

Let's go up here.

Maybe back in here far away, there's some little trees that live.

We can make the indication of little distant trees just by tapping down with the old fan brush.

We're not looking for detail; it's too far away.

When things are far away, you don't see a bunch of detail.

There, let that run right on out like that.

Just to give the indication of trees far, far away.

All right.

Now, we can take a two inch brush.

I'm gonna go right into Dark Sienna, Van Dyke Brown.

Just tap some onto the brush here and maybe underneath these little distant trees, there's a little bit of brown.

Comes right down through there.

Shoot, we might even have some nice cliffs.

We can just lay 'em in with the brush and then highlight them.

It doesn't matter.

Comes right out.

Isn't that neat?

Maybe there's another one and he lives there, just like that.

Okay.

Now, with another two inch brush, I'm gonna go into Yellow Ochre and Dark Sienna.

Just mix 'em on the brush.

Okay, let's go right up in here.

I just wanna tap some nice little highlights right on there.

Make it look like little grassy things way back like that.

Okay, and we can take the knife and we can firm these edges up here a little bit.

Look at that.

You can just put as many of 'em in there as you want.

I'm gonna grab the old fan brush.

We'll take some yellow.

Yellow, Sap Green, a little Yellow Ochre.

Just mix 'em together here.

A lot of paint on the brush.

Let's go back out here.

Now then, maybe there's some little grassy things that grow right down these hills, right almost out to the water.

A lot of nice color.

Just let 'em come right on out.

This is where you create the lay of the land.

See there, all those little things just happen, just happen.

Now, let's put some little things, see here, we're gonna make this sand wet, so pull that down.

Go across.

Line our brush and we'll go right into a little bit of blue and white.

We want this paint to be as thin as water.

Okay, let's go back up here.

Now then, maybe right along these edges here, see if we can clean up all those nice little edges.

Here's a little ripple.

He lives right there.

Let's let him go right on back.

Just all kinds of little ripples happening like so.

See there?

Add as many of 'em as you want.

Okay.

Tell you what, we need a couple of nice trees in there.

We'll take some Van Dyke Brown and some Sap Green and just use the old one inch brush.

Tree lives right there.

Nice big bush and he lives right there.

We can highlight that.

We'll use a little yellow, a little yellow, a little green.

Okay, let's go back up here.

Now, we need some leaves on this little tree.

Don't want him look naked out here.

Put some clothes on him, so he really sparkles.

Look at that.

That easy, that easy.

Back in here, we'll just take a little white, clean up these edges, so it all comes together.

Now then, tell you what, let's have some fun.

We'll take Van Dyke Brown.

We'll use this old Filbert brush and maybe there's a tree.

(humming) He lives right there, right there.

Maybe he's got an old arm (grunts).

Trees that live out here, let's give him a friend.

Trees that live out here, well, they catch the devil.

I mean, this is some rough living.

We'll give him another little arm here and there, wherever, wherever.

I'm gonna take a little bit of the Liquid Black.

Put it on my pallet.

Liner brush and I added paint thinner to it, so it's even a little bit thinner.

We'll just put a couple of old, tired arms out here on this like so.

There, see?

Just an old, tired arm.

With a fan brush, we'll just use some green and brown.

Let's put the indication of a few leaves out here.

Not many, most of 'em have already, boy, they got tired and quit.

Just the indication.

This is a rough place to live right here.

I think with that, we've just about got a finished painting.

The old clock on the wall tells me I have to leave you for this week, but I really hope you've enjoyed this one.

Until next time, happy painting and God bless.

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