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- Hey. Welcome back.

Certainly glad your could join us today.

Today I thought we would do the little painting

that you had seen at the beginning of the show.

The one that's got the little character

that walks in the snow.

I'll show you how that one was done.

But first let's start out and and them run all the colors

across the screen that you need to paint along with us.

While they're doing that,

let me show you what I got done up here.

I started with a regular old 18 by 24 inch canvas

but you can use whatever size is convenient.

Took a piece of contact paper

and I just cut a shape out that sort of,

in my mind, resembles a window.

That's all.

Then we took some masking tape and just

made a couple of little doers with masking tape

up and down like that.

We've covered the entire thing then with a very thin coat

of liquid white just to make it wet.

And it's ready to go.

So, let's just have some fun today.

Let's start out today with a -

Let's start with a bit of the midnight black.

Just a small amount on the old two inch brush

and a little Prussian blue.

Just mix them together on the brush.

It doesn't matter.

Little of each.

Alright, and let's go right up here.

And we'll start up in here,

just making our normal little criss-cross strokes.

Little Xs.

And just paint right over the top of the masking tape

and everything.

Just paint right over it like it's not even there.

Cause if you are looking out the window

the little cross members in the window would be

in front of what you are seeing anyway.

So just paint it on.

Maybe a little bit in here.

Wherever.

Wherever.

There. A little more of that color.

We'll put a little up in here.

Like so.

There. Just make the little Xs though

and it'll blend with the liquid white that's on the canvas

and automatically your color will just blend together.

There we are.

Something about like that.

Now then.

We can just blend that.

See there are spots that are lighter than other spots.

And we leave those in there intentionally.

And you could go back with a little titanium white

if you wanted to and brighten those little spots.

In fact, i'll tell you why not wash the brush and do that.

Just to show you.

But you can make those little spots

as bright as you want them.

Just shake off the brush

and beat the devil out of it.

Let's take just a little bit of white.

Maybe, right up in here we want a little brighter area.

It's up to you.

And you can just take the white and drop it in.

Maybe even one up in here.

But that's all there is to it.

Ok.

Now this won't be an exact duplicate

of what you see at the opening of the show.

But it'll certainly show you how that one was made.

Alright.

Now, let's take -

Use that same old color. It's working pretty good.

Black. Prussian blue

and white.

And we'll just mix them together.

Mix them together.

I'm going to make a light blue color here.

Something that's getting pretty close right there.

You just sort of mix it until it's the flavor that you like.

And I sort of like that.

So let's wipe off the old knife.

Think I'll grab number three fan brush,

since that's what I picked up.

Load it full of paint.

And let's go right up here.

We have a little tree that's far away.

So touch.

Now this time we are going to push upwards

sometimes we push down with the brush

to make little evergreens.

Today, I'm going to push upwards.

Go right over the masking tape.

Just like it wasn't even there.

Don't worry about it.

Don't even worry about it.

Something about like that.

Now then,

And there's one right there.

We just put these little trees

wherever you think they should live in your world.

There we go.

I like making little trees like this.

They're a lot of fun.

But just push upward.

You're making the bristles bend toward the top of the tree.

There we are.

Something about like that.

Push in some little bushy things.

Same basic way.

We're just pushing upward with the brush.

Ok.

And that's basically how we made the little

background trees.

You could take the knife and you could put a little

stick or twig.

Maybe there's a little tree that's

maybe not doing so well.

Maybe doesn't even have any leaves on him.

Just an old stalk sticking out there.

Maybe there's a couple of them. I don't know.

Wherever you think they should be.

Just just them in that easy.

But you want these just a little bit darker than the sky.

Don't get too crazy.

Now then,

Let's take that color and we'll just lay it over here

for the time being.

Might use it later. Who knows?

Prussian blue, black, crimson.

Throw a little alizarin crimson in there.

We'll mix us up a pile of dark color.

We're going to make some dark trees later on,

so we'll have that ready.

Now then, since this is a winter scene

we had snow in it.

Cause I remembered the little guy,

he walked around in the snow back here.

Now, believe it or not, the little guy was me too.

It's hard to see.

Alright. Now let's have a little bit of snow

right here.

See there. That easy.

Just pull it across.

Snow is one of the easiest things to paint

in this technique.

There we are.

There we are. That's simple.

Old two inch brush will do it in a heartbeat.

Ok.

Let's build a bigger tree and for that

I'm going to get a bigger brush.

I'm going to go to number 6,

but you could continue to use number three.

It doesn't matter.

Just a little faster with this one.

Alright, we have another tree in our world.

There it is right there.

Same thing though.

I want to give it an upward push.

There.

It's got some upstanding limbs in here.

There we go.

This one is very dark.

Pure color.

There. Same color as the other one

but without the white.

Minus the white, that's all.

And maybe it comes down to about there.

Who knows.

Who knows.

Alright.

Take the knife,

I'll be scratching a little indication of a trunk in there.

I have several fan brushes going.

So I'm going to take another one and put some liquid white,

and some titanium white and mix them together.

Liquid white is in there only to make the paint

a little thinner.

Cause you know our golden rule,

thin paint will stick to a thick paint.

Alright, and we'll go up in here

and with this phthylo blue and white

we'll just put the indiction of some highlights

on this little tree. Little sparklers.

That will make that rascal stand out.

There.

I'm going to grab a one inch brush

and use some of that dark color

and we have a little bush live right here.

There he comes.

Just push in a basic shape.

That's all we're looking for here.

Just a very basic little shape.

About like that.

See? But leave some of that background in there.

It helps create the illusion of depth and distance

in the painting.

And we'll dip the brush in the liquid white

and pull it in one direction.

One direction.

To load it.

Liquid white and through the titanium white

in one direction.

Look at the end of the brush. A lot of paint on it.

Probably the biggest mistake made is not enough paint.

Let's go up here.

Now with that, we can come up in here

and we can put some little snow covered bushes

right under that tree.

There.

If you have trouble making that stick

add the least little touch of liquid white to it.

There we are.

Cause it needs to be thinner than what's on the canvas.

If the thinnest paint is on your canvas,

it'll come off and go on your brush.

If the paint on the canvas is thinner than the brush.

It's the most important.

You want the paint on your brush to be thinner

than what's already on the canvas, that way,

the canvas will literally pull the paint off.

It'll take what it needs,

just like a tax man.

There we go.

Come right in here,

and we'll pull that down.

Create a whole other plane in this painting

just by doing that.

Intentionally grab a little bit of that blue.

It makes gorgeous little shadows automatically.

Automatically.

There. Alright.

Now, are you ready for a big tree?

We'll just use the old fan brush.

Load it full of the dark, dark color.

Let's go up in here.

Make a decision.

Might as well just do it.

Might as well just do it.

An start pushing upward.

We're going to create a monster tree here.

A big tree.

There he comes.

Just keep pushing up.

Think about individual limbs and branches,

little arms on the tree.

Little squirrels have to have a place to go.

In the wintertime, they get sort of cold.

They have to go up here and build themselves a nest.

Sort of take life easy.

There we are.

Something about like that.

That's a big tree. I wasn't kidding.

I forgot how big that tree was in that painting.

But isn't that little opening neat

with the little guy walking back there?

That little opening is the idea of one of my

very good friends here at the station, Gerry Morton,

who is one of the engineers that puts all of this together.

He comes up with those.

There we are.

I don't know where he gets all of his ideas but

they are neat.

I'm going to put another one right here.

Alright.

I like that little painter guy.

For many years I wanted to take that little painter guy

and do a show with him.

Let him do all kinds of things.

And maybe, in the very near future,

we can do something like that.

I've had some fantastic people ask us

to come to Branson, Missouri

and do a little show with the painter man.

So, maybe we'll do that.

If you're there, stop by and say hello.

I'd love to talk to you.

Just take into pulling that out, like that.

And off we'll go.

There.

Now then,

find my little brush that's got the phthalo blue on it.

A little phthalo blue, a little white,

a little liquid white.

You know that we want it thinner so it'll stick on there.

Phthalo blue, titanium white, liquid white.

See? Brush is loaded both sides.

Let's go up here and we'll come right into here.

I use the phthalo blue because we use

prussian blue in the sky and I want it to stand out.

And it sort of makes evergreens look like blue spruce trees,

which I love.

When I lived in Alaska, I had a huge blue spruce

that lived in my front yard.

Gorgeous tree.

Absolutely one of God's most beautiful creations.

There we are.

Darker, darker, darker down here toward the bottom.

Less and less.

And this one back here in the back,

I don't want a whole bunch.

It's too far back.

Don't want him to be really important in this painting.

Quiet little tree.

There we are.

Alright.

Now then,

in our little painting that you saw at the beginning,

we had a couple of huge birch trees.

So let's do those.

We'll take midnight black, and just a little blue in there

but it's mostly black.

Mostly midnight black.

Let's put a little Van Dyke brown in it too.

About like that.

Pull it out flat.

Cut across and get a little roll of paint.

There you can see it.

Right under the edge of the knife.

Ok, this really is your bravery test.

We're going to start way down here

and we're just going to begin working up

right across the tape.

Right across everything.

Just let this tree go all the way out of the top.

That's a big tree.

That was serious, wasn't it?

It is a big tree.

But they're a lot of fun to make.

And if you don't want the tree in your world

to be quite that big, make it a little smaller.

It's totally and completely up to you.

Any size you want him to be.

Alright

I like big trees because they reach right up to the sky.

Nearly touch the sun.

Alright, well not quite.

If I remember, somebody said the sun was about

93 million miles away.

I guess a tree is not quite that tall.

But he's a big tree.

Oh right through my evergreen, but we know he's back there.

We know he's back there.

And we learned how to paint him, so it's not wasted.

Anytime you learn, it's not a wasted effort.

There.

And I like to paint birch trees,

and other kind of trees too.

When the paint is dry you can literally feel the bark,

just like a real tree.

Alright.

Now, let's got back to our titanium white.

I'm just going to use straight titanium white.

And I want to touch and sort of give it a,

I'm exaggerating, a round pull.

Touch, and sort of give it a -

and it makes the tree look round.

And those little square trees, they're sort of rare.

You need to make your tree have a round look to it.

It would be nice if they came in square, wouldn't it?

You could just cut two by fours off of them

without even running them through the mill.

There we are.

Big old birch tree.

There.

And this one.

Now I've decided this one is in the front.

So we'll do him last.

Always do the thing that, in your mind,

is the farthest away.

And then work forward, forward, forward.

There.

These are fun.

I like to make old birch trees.

When I lived in Alaska, I used to do a lot of paintings

for the tourists there.

And they always wanted birch trees and northern lights.

Of course that's sort of what Alaska is noted for I guess.

And they were a lot of fun to paint anyway,

so I don't mind.

There. A little dark in there.

About like that.

And you can just keep playing back and forth

and building this up until it gets to any degree of

thickness or color that you want.

There.

Of course you can piddle it to death too.

Alright.

Let's take our liner brush,

paint thinner.

Put quite a bit of paint thinner up here.

And let's make some thin paint and we'll paint some

arms on these little trees.

Gotta have an arm on him.

But it doesn't have any leaves.

It got too cold.

The leaves chickened out and they went south for the winter.

There we are.

But there, just,

the paint thinner will allow you to flow.

The paint will flow right off the bristles.

Right onto the canvas.

If you have trouble making it flow,

add a little more paint thinner.

This one seems to be working pretty good

so we'll just keep on going with it.

There we are. Big old arm.

We can come back and put a little highlight on it,

maybe a little snow.

But just pretend that the tape is not even there.

Just let the branches grow the way they would grow

if the tape wasn't there.

Don't worry about it.

When we pull that off, it'll make it look realistic.

Alright.

See?

And this is where I get letters from people and they say

"Bob, but I don't think I can paint.

I've got a little nervous twitch in my hand."

This is your painting.

Because if you have a little nervous twitch

it really works better doing these tree branches.

I have youngsters in their nineties who write me and tell me

that they never believed that they could paint.

And they're doing it.

And they're doing it everyday.

It's fantastic to hear success stories.

There we are.

So the tree over here says, "he needs a limb too."

Now this tree, we decided was in the front.

So his arm will go right over the top of the other one.

So we'll just start him right here.

and he'll go distinctly over,

that makes him look like he's in the front.

There.

I don't want him to get angry at us.

Nothing worse than a mad tree.

Alright.

And maybe here's one

that goes off that way.

We don't know where it goes.

Don't know that it even matters in this particular painting.

You could just put arms wherever you want them.

And I'm going to clean the brush

and just dip it into a little bit of the liquid white.

This is just liquid white.

And maybe we can come back here and there

and there and here.

Just put the indication that there's a little snow

sitting in some of these places on here.

Something about like that.

But isn't that neat?

It's all there is to it.

Ok and with that, that gives us a pretty good little tree.

Down here at the bottom grab a fan brush.

Put a little liquid white on my brush.

Titanium white.

Let's go down in here, grab a little of the color

and we'll put a little snow right down there.

There we got a little of that color.

I want the color in there for a shadow.

Something about like that.

Ok. I can pop in a little indication of a little bush.

See? that easy.

Alright. Now then.

Over here, we had a little fence.

So for that, I'm going to take a little Van Dyke,

a little dark sand and mix them together.

And right here, just lives what remains

of a little old fence.

It's about gone.

There. Something about like that.

Come back with our one inch brush.

Let's put a little brush on his foot.

Just a little bush lives down in here.

Something like that.

Liquid white.

And we'll go through titanium white,

same as we did before, maybe a little blue on that one.

Cause there's white behind it,

we need to separate with just a little phthalo blue on it.

A little snow-covered bush lives right there.

Little bit of the titanium white to pull that out.

Isn't that easy?

Shoot, we got that rascal in there.

Now, while I have liquid white and titanium white

mixed together, I wanna put the indication

if you're looking out the window, on the old window

supports here, there's a little snow

that has just collected in here.

This is a gorgeous painting to give as a christmas present.

See? You can just put it on right there like that.

We'll have some up here.

Go right over the tree branches

because this would be right up front.

There. But this paint is a little thinner.

It's got liquid white in it.

And maybe it's on all of them here.

And here's one right here.

Let's put a little bit right in there.

Little more of the liquid white.

Brighten that one up a little bit so it shows.

Alright.

Even a little down here on the bottom.

What the heck.

Just a tiny bit.

Something about like so.

Alright.

Now let's take us a script liner brush,

dip it in a little paint thinner,

and we can go around here and there and there and here

put in a few little sticks and twigs.

Just little things that look like little finished details

in your painting.

There.

See? just a happy little old stick that lives out there.

And some little weeds around the fence.

Shoot. Maybe there's still even an indication of a little

little wire hanging on some of those.

Not much.

Tell you what, I'm going to take some white

and a little touch of dark sand.

A little white and a little dark sand.

Cut off a little roll of paint.

Let's go right up in here.

And let's just highlight this so it stands out

a little bit more.

Oh yeah.

That's much better.

Sort of rest in there. we want it to pop out.

There we go.

Now, it looks more like an old fence.

Now I can go back and put a

few more little sticks and twigs in there.

Maybe theres one down here.

A wiggly one.

Let your hand just sort of jerk around a little bit.

Make all them little weird sticks and things

because they're always there.

They sort of stick up through the snow,

wherever you want them to be.

We got s second lift here.

Maybe I'll put just a little more detail on some of these

limbs because I like to have a lot of

little sticks and twigs on my -

There we are.

That's what makes it interesting.

If you try this painting, take your time and

do a photograph and send it to us.

I would love to see what you're doing and

every so often we put them together and

put them on a little board show them on TV

so you can see what people all over the country

are doing with this.

There are some that are fantastic and some that

are better than that.

So just it's wonderful that people have so much success

in painting.

There.

Alright.

Ok. We're about to get this little devil finished here.

Just figure out where you want little sticks and twigs.

Any old where. There's some.

Right in there.

Ok.

I think we're about to the point where

we can take the old contact paper off

and see what we got here.

So bring the camera up here.

And pull this off.

Isn't that fantastic?

It does look like you're looking out a window.

But as I say, it's a very simple little painting

that you can do. Try it

because I really think that you're going to enjoy this one.

Sort of different. Makes a beautiful gift

to give to friends and relatives.

Especially, as I mentioned earlier, around christmas time.

And no one appreciates a gift more than one that you produce

with your own hand.

From all of us here, I'd like to wish you happy painting.

God bless my friend.

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