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- Hi, welcome back.

Certainly glad you could join us today

because today is a very special day for me.

Every once in a while when we can get him off the road

from teaching, I have my son Steve come in

and do a little painting for us and today

is one of those days.

Steve is quite a painter,

he's been painting all of his adult life and in fact

he sold his first painting when he was 12 years old.

So I'll tell you what,

we're going to turn it over to Steve today

and let him do a fantastic little painting for you.

Steve.

- Thanks, dad.

Hi, glad you could join me.

I've already covered the canvas with a thin even coat

of liquid white so you want to go ahead and do that

and while you're doing that,

they're gonna run all your colors across the screen for you

right down at the bottom of the screen.

And let's see, I think I'll paint something with

a big waterfall in it today, mountains, and clouds,

and maybe a big waterfall.

So, start off with your two inch brush

and we'll go into just a little bit of phthalo blue.

Very light, drag out a little bit of paint,

tap it into those bristles

and then we'll go up here.

Oh, I like that color.

I think blue is my favorite.

There we go, little x strokes.

Little x's everywhere.

Some little dark cloud areas in here.

Then maybe a little bit more phthalo blue

with a touch of phthalo green.

And let's just pull that right in.

Just recently came back from California.

I've been traveling all over the country teaching classes

and I ended up way over there on the west coast.

I really like it out there.

Got the ocean right there

and got the mountains right there beside you.

People are really nice, too.

Okay, let's go ahead and use a clean dry big brush.

I had a spare there, see?

I pulled a sneaky on you.

And we'll just blend out that light area.

Wow, look at that.

It gets real soft.

I'm pushing hard in areas that I think are too heavy

with paint and areas that I like

I go over 'em real soft.

Just like that, very light. Very light.

And maybe down here in the water

just some straight horizontal strokes,

just like painting the side of your house, real simple.

And maybe down here at the very bottom of it we'll make it

extra dark, just add a little bit more of your phthalo blue.

There we go.

That's almost too easy to believe.

There we go, easy.

Okay, let's do a couple little clouds up in the sky.

We'll go in with a little bit of titanium white

and maybe just a tiny touch of alizarin crimson.

Let's go ahead and just throw 'em right in there.

Heck, we're not worried about it.

Real free and simple.

This might sound a little bit nutty but

as you're doing your painting with me today,

kinda think about the things that you're painting.

When you're doing a cloud, think like a cloud.

Real light, fluffy.

Just like that, like the wind's blowing.

Feel that wind in your hair when you're doing clouds.

It's kinda like dad says,

"You don't have to be crazy to do this but it helps."

There we go.

Just real nice clouds, real nice clouds.

Whenever I'm painting anything,

I'm always thinking to myself how wonderful

it's coming out, you know?

I don't get into a bad frame of mind ever

because I know no matter what I do,

I'm doing it for me

and that I'm gonna enjoy it.

No matter whether it's a Leonardo da Vinci

or Micheal Angelo lookin' thing,

I'm not worried about that.

There we go, a few clouds.

Then you can just blend those out with your two inch brush

real light, real light.

Think soft.

There we go.

Now lift very gently.

Just a couple of hairs and some air breezing

across the canvas.

And then go across those also very light.

I like those little hints of pink in there,

makes it look like the sun's shining on the clouds.

Real gentle, okay.

Let's do a mountain.

We're gonna use a little bit of van dyke brown,

a little bit of midnight black, some crimson,

and prussian blue.

That's all in equal parts.

And we'll mix that up real good

and get a nice roll on your knife just like that.

Very nice roll.

Come up, push in.

Oh my gosh, it's a grand teton.

I can tell already, look at how high that peak is.

I might have got a little carried away.

But more than likely, it was just a happy accident.

Look's like it was, it's coming out okay.

You have to do that, you know?

Compliment yourself a little,

tell yourself you're wonderful.

It's good for you.

People are too hard on themselves these days.

That's just my opinion but

when I'm watching the new and stuff,

it seems like people almost want to hear bad things.

I don't want to hear bad things,

I like to hear good ones.

That's why I paint.

I can get off in my own little world

not worry about what anybody else is doing or saying

and just feel free.

There we go, there's a mountain shape.

Now I'll just drag that out with my big brush.

Try not to get too close to those top edges,

you might accidentally get some birds out there

that you don't want.

There we go.

Or maybe you want birds in your world, I don't know.

Heck, it's up to you.

There we go, something like that and then

let's put a little bit a titanium white on the knife.

And a touch of crimson in it, maybe.

Good, there we go. Okay.

Cut the little roll on the knife again

and we'll just real gently come on down the mountain.

Well, I gotta admit it gives you quite a powerful feeling

to know that you're moving mountains

I really like that feeling.

I can't think of anything else in the whole world

that makes me feel like painting does.

It really, really is special.

And you know when I first started doing it,

yeah, it was a little difficult.

But riding a skate board is, too.

I'll forget the first time dad said,

"Oh, I can ride that skate board. That's no problem."

Well, you can kinda imagine what happened

first time he stepped on it.

I won't tell you that, though.

I don't want to embarrassed dad, you know.

(laughs)

Okay, let's take a little bit of titanium white

and a little bit of prussian blue and we'll mix those up.

Leave that kind of marbled, don't mix it too much.

Just about like that.

Get a little roll on your knife and then we'll

put a little shadow behind these, just a little shadow.

Actually, the less blue you use, the better.

Leave a lot of those dark holes showing through.

Use the small portion of your knife if you'd like

in those real small areas.

That'll keep you out of trouble.

There we go.

Real gentle, real gentle.

I love to paint mountains.

I'd say they're about my favorite thing.

As I've been traveling around the country,

I have seen so many types of mountains that I've

never even thought of before.

I mean, oh gosh. It's wonderful.

All the new information I've picked up.

Between that and the people you meet,

I'd say there's just no better job

than being a painting instructor.

And I think for anybody that's interested

in working with people,

it'd be a good idea to join the program,

get involved.

Become a teacher yourself.

Little bit of snow cap at the top of these.

Okay.

Now down at the bottom of the mountain,

we'll just kinda touch it up a little with some mist.

Just tapping into the paint very gently.

Just like that and then lift up into that paint,

lift up, lift up.

Pull out, pull out, pull out on that dark side.

I'm use to that being a teacher, you know,

saying everything two or three times like that, so.

Let's see here.

Okay, that looks pretty close.

Now I'll go in with a few little foot hills.

I'm just gonna mix this paint on my brush.

We'll go into a little sap green, midnight black,

alizarin crimson, little prussian blue,

and get a little white on your brush.

There we go.

Oh, I dirtied up my white, didn't I?

Okay, now touch right into that color

and come in here and push down, push down, push down.

Maybe there's a little one coming from right back in here.

I don't really know.

To be honest with you,

I'm just making this one up as I go along.

Just pull up a few little trees on top

and then we'll come in with the big brush

and get rid of that bottom, get rid of that

lower area.

Tell you a little secret.

If you get rid of the bottom edge of everything

in the background, it'll look further away.

Remember that.

That's one of the rules that really helped me.

And you know, as far as perspective and contrast go,

they're very easily explained.

In short, perspective tells us as things get closer

they get larger

and contrast tells us as things get closer

they get darker cause they get further away from the sun.

So, see those rules are very simple.

You don't have to make a whole book out

of one little thing like that.

I try to keep things very simple in my classes, too.

Pound out the bottom of that foothill,

get rid of that bottom edge.

See there? Now we got two foothills.

One infront of the other.

If you want the back one lighter and the front one

darker, you just use more paint on the front one

and less paint on the back one, no problem.

Okay, we're tired of goofing around here.

Let's get serious.

Let's take a little bit of the dark color we just made

and pound in a nice big foliage area right back here.

Wow, listen to that canvas.

It sounds like a drum, doesn't it?

By the way, I'm part Indian.

I know I don't look like it but

I'm a quarter Cherokee Indian

and I'm very proud of that fact.

And I'll tell you what,

beating on this canvas kinda brings me back

to that Indian thing, you know?

Sounds like a drum, listen to that.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

(laughs)

Isn't that crazy?

You gotta think of little things like that, though,

when you're creating something.

Indian's were very creative, still are.

Okay, grab and pull, grab and pull, grab and pull.

It's a clean brush

and you'll get a reflection out of that.

That's pretty simple, isn't it?

And just go across it and it looks just like water.

Okay, maybe back on these trees,

they're pretty far away so let's just go with some

scratch in type trunks.

Just scratch 'em in, little y's, little v's.

There we go.

People will think you spent hours going to all that work,

but really we know it just took a few minutes.

Or even seconds.

Okay, pull through your paint,

pull through your cadmium yellow.

You're going to need a drop of paint thinner in this,

just one little drop.

Cause remember, thin paint sticks on top of thick paint.

Maybe a touch of phthalo blue in that to turn it green.

Wow, that was a big touch, wasn't it?

Okie dokie,

Very light, very light.

Oh, man. We are really having fun now.

I love highlighting trees and bushes.

So many different things can happen.

Look at that.

There you go.

Hey, let's change that color a little bit.

We're getting a lot of green in there.

Let's go for, I don't know, maybe a little crimson

in that same color.

Crimson, green, and yellow.

Look at that, kind of an ochre-y type color.

And if you want to make some grass,

you can just kinda pop that right in there.

Just use the side of the brush, same loading

and everything, just the side.

Okay, and possibly a little reflection in the water.

That's easy enough just pull it right down.

And as with all reflections,

you want to go across that very gently.

Soften that grass down just a little.

There we go, good.

Okay, maybe a little piece of land

underneath that.

We'll go with a little van dyke brown on this part.

Pull that paint out, get a roll on your knife

and then you're ready to come right up here

and touch, touch.

Pull, pull, pull to the right, pull to the right.

It's about a 15 degree angle to the right,

let's get technical, why don't we here.

No, really I don't think of things that way

in degrees and stuff.

I'm just trying to give you a little bit more detailed

instruction here.

Let's see, a little bit of titanium white and the brown

together and you can make a highlight color.

Very, very light color.

Go across that, it almost looks like snow.

And let's see.

There we go.

Now,

if you pull through your paint

and kind push into it a little,

you can come up here and make some grass coming

down on that land, very simple.

Don't be afraid to get thick areas of paint

on the canvas, either.

Some people don't like thick areas of paint

but I think they look really neat.

They add texture to the painting

and they really make it poke out at you,

give it that three dimensional look.

Pull down a little bit of your dirt reflection,

you have to reflect everything about the water

and remember when you're pulling reflections down,

reflections are only as low as what's above them

that's high.

Okay, just a touch of your liquid white.

Spin that around on that palate just like that

real gentle, touch through it

and let's make a waterline.

This is where the water's kind of bouncing off the shore.

Apparently, it's bouncing quite a bite today too.

(laughs)

Look at that.

Maybe a little bass jumped out here.

There we go.

That's not bad.

Remember, you gotta keep telling yourself these things.

Tell yourself you're good.

Okay, pull through your paint like this.

Pull through that van dyke brown

and maybe we'll make a little,

oh I don't know, maybe a little tree right here.

Just a little tiny one, just touch, touch, touch.

I see a little dead thing back there,

little bit of the same highlight you used on you land there

and we'll touch on that, touch on that.

Just like that.

And it possibly has a limb or two on it.

Little bit of van dyke brown and thinner on the liner brush.

And we'll go up here and just put a couple dead limbs

on that, oh boy.

You know, you gotta have life and death in nature

cause it shows reality.

And plus, those old nasty lookin' dead things make

everything thing else look so beautiful in the painting.

There's a place for everything, god made everything

to have a place in this world.

Okay, now you just cover up his little foots down there.

There we go, get rid of that.

Okay, looks just like he's planted.

Alrighty, let's make a waterfall.

We'll go in with the big brush,

get a little bit of prissian and phthalo blue both

on the brush.

Very, very dark full load of paint

and then we'll come in here and about right here

pull down.

(makes crashing sounds)

See, you gotta make sound effects like that.

It won't work if you don't make the sound effects.

There we go.

And a little bit of your liquid white

and titanium together.

I'll tell you what, I've barely got a white are left here.

I'm making a mess.

Okay,

pull across and drop down.

Isn't that a fun way to make splashing water?

Look at that, comes right over.

Comes right over.

And do it fast, looks good if you do it fast.

Just like that.

Pull in, pull in.

Then take the brush and pull the top of that waterfall

out, pull it out.

There we go.

Then we'll just take a bit of van dyke brown

and we'll start in on some cliffs on the sides.

Just pull it right across.

Remember, you're the creator here.

You want to throw it in just like you're

actually creating a world

which is really what you're doing.

There's very few times in life you get to play

with a position of serious power, especially if you're me.

I'll tell you what, my girlfriend, she's rough on me.

There you go.

Yeah, maybe a few highlights on that.

Like I was saying,

it feels good to be able to know heck,

I'm doing all this myself.

Creating it all on my own.

If I want this or that there, I can put it in.

If I don't like something, I can take it away.

There we go.

Maybe there's one down here, too.

Okay, you want to wipe your fan brush out

before you do this.

You want to grab and pull down, pull down, pull down.

That makes these look like little plateaus back here.

There we go.

Pull in towards the center, in towards the center.

There we go.

And while we're at it, let's add a little dark paint

down here at the bottom.

Super dark, chop off the sides of that waterfall down there.

There we go.

Okay,

we could probably have, I don't know,

a big tree on the left hand side, maybe.

I like big trees.

Just mix up your green, brown, and blue again.

Touch, then let's just smash it right in here.

We are certainly not messing around here.

We're crashing in trees, and mountains, and bushes.

It's cause we're powerful.

We can do anything we want.

There we go,

get that limb out there.

Look at that.

A lot of this is brush manipulation.

You're just forcing that brush to make

the shape that you want.

You know, after a while

the equipment actually becomes like a shifter in your car.

It's an extension of your body, just like anything else.

And maybe there's a small little tree over here.

Oh boy, that one looks like it had a hard year.

Look at that, gee whiz.

Or maybe a bush or two,

there we go.

Now, a few little highlights on these trees and bushes.

Not too much highlight on your evergreen trees though,

cause you know they're very, very dark in the forest.

Very dark.

Maybe this bush got hit by the sunlight just a touch

on the sides there, just a touch.

Little grass down under their foots there.

There we go.

Make them sound effects.

Okay, and as a final step in this painting,

I believe I'll add a little bit of foam.

Touch into your paint,

just white and titanium white together.

Liquid white and titanium,

and push right in there.

Look at those splashes coming up in that waterfall.

It's exciting, isn't it.

Makes you feel good.

Look at that.

And maybe we'll come in with a little

piece of root,

if you can believe that,

hanging off this land edge where the water

washed away.

Okay,

I think that's it for that one.

Thank you very much dad for having me on the show

and thank you for watching me

and we'll see you next time.

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