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- Hi, welcome back.

Certainly glad you could join us today.

And as you can see,

today I have one of my little friends here with me.

This is a little nighthawk that I brought in for you to see.

I'n't he the most gorgeous little character?

He is somethin' else.

I love these little animals so much,

every so often I just like to share one with you.

So I say this is a nighthawk,

and he flies around at night and eats insects by the ton.

Just flies around with his mouth open.

This one's been injured, he only has one wing.

But he's doin' very, very well.

Anyway, this is a painting show,

so I think we should paint.

Let's start out today and have them run

all the colors across the screen

that you need to paint along with us.

While they're doin' that,

I'm gonna set this little fella down.

So if you'll come right up here,

I'll show you what I've got done already.

'Kay, set him right over there.

Today I have my standard ol' 18 by 24 inch canvas,

but you could use whatever size is convenient.

And I've just covered it with a very

thin, even coat of liquid white.

So it's all ready to go.

And I thought maybe today,

we'd just do a painting that's a lot of fun,

I'll think you'll enjoy it.

Let's start out with a small amount,

oh, we'll use a little phthalo blue.

Take the two inch brush,

just tap a little into the bristles.

Somethin' like so.

Let's go right up in here.

And we'll make a happy little sky in this painting.

Just by making little x's, little criss-cross strokes.

We start at the top, and begin working downward.

And that way, the color, the phthalo blue,

will mix with the liquid white that's already on the canvas.

And automatically, automatically,

your sky will get lighter and lighter

as you work down toward the horizon.

And in a landscape, that's exactly what we're looking for.

So it works without you even worryin' about it.

There.

I'm a very lazy person, so I look for easy ways to paint.

And this is one of the easiest,

most effective ways I've ever seen.

All right.

Somethin' about like that.

Now I wanna make the corners a little darker,

so it'll bring your eye into the center of the painting.

For that, I use a little Prussian blue,

'cause it's much, much stronger, whew.

Much stronger.

So just up here in the corners,

and I'll let it blend downward,

we'll add a little Prussian blue.

Little bit over on the other side, too.

Right over here.

All right.

And when this is done,

that really will help bring the eye into the painting.

There we go.

Now I thought maybe today we'd paint a happy, little cloud.

I like little clouds, so, we'll just do that.

I'm just wiping some of that blue

down on the bottom, get it off the brush.

And we'll just use it for background material.

No use wasting that good paint.

Yeah, then let's wash the ol' brush,

that's a fun part of this.

We wash our brushes with odorless paint thinner,

since this is oil paint.

There we are.

Shake off excess.

(thwacking)

(chuckles) And just beat the devil out of it.

That really is a fun part.

Now, I'm gonna take titanium white,

just plain ol' titanium white,

and tap the brush into it.

Just tap it, like so.

One corner, basically.

Let's go up in here.

Now maybe, see I left a little area sort of open there,

because I want a little cloud to live right in there.

I'm just sort of gonna tap it in,

and let it wander right off the canvas.

Little more of the white.

We just sort of let it wander around.

Clouds are one of the freest things in nature.

They just sort of float around,

have a good time all day.

There, something about like that.

Wherever you want 'em,

that's exactly where they should live in your world.

Exactly where they should live.

Maybe, yeah, why not, we'll have one up here, too.

Just drop 'em in.

Mm-kay, we'll grab a little blender brush.

With a blender brush here,

we can very gently just blend this.

The blender brush is so soft,

that you can go right over the paint,

without causing any major disasters.

There we are, fluff it up a little bit.

I'n't that one of the easiest, nicest ways you've ever seen

of making a fluffy, little cloud that lives in your world?

There, you can do it.

There we are. All right.

Shoot, we'll just keep using

that same brush we were tappin' the clouds in with.

I wanna touch a little bit of phthalo blue.

Little white, little phthalo blue mixed together.

I want a light blue color.

And let's go up in here and maybe,

hm, maybe, yeah, I like that.

See it's just a little darker than the sky is.

Just a little bit.

Just enough so it stands out.

Maybe in our world back here

there's a little footy hill that lives right there.

Wherever you want it, you decide.

Just tap in a basic little shape.

Somethin' like so.

Give it a little upward lift.

Look like little trees, far, far away.

Far away.

I'm gonna put a big tree over there,

so I'm not worried about it.

You know me, I like big trees,

so I'm gonna have one there.

Now then, we'll put another layer.

Same color, only we'll make it just a small amount darker.

Just a little darker.

But it's the same color.

And, right there.

As things get closer to ya in a landscape,

they should get darker and darker in value.

See there, that easy.

Already it looks like it's closer to you

than the first one we did.

Sneaky, huh?

But that's one of the little things

that'll make your landscape

absolutely special when you do it.

There we are.

Somethin' about like that.

Now, once again, I'm gonna just lift upward.

It'll pick up some of those

little pieces of paint we laid on there.

Make it look like little trees, far away.

Far, far away.

Now you can spend all day with your

little, tiny ten brush and

paint each one of those in, individually.

But shoot, why?

I think this looks just as good.

And you can do it very quickly.

Ol' two inch brush'll do wonderful things for ya,

if you just give it a chance.

Let's take some Prussian blue and some black.

Let's get crazy here.

Prussian blue, black, I'll be right back,

get a little sap green, some crimson.

And I'm just brush mixin' these,

it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter, we're just looking for

a good, dark color here.

We're moving into the foreground more.

Big decision time, maybe, yeah, right there.

This dark we're applying only

so we can put some light on top of it.

You need dark in order to show light,

so that's all this is, right here.

Just tapping in the dark.

(grunts)

But think about the lay of the land.

Begin thinking how you want the land to flow.

Like that.

I like these little distant foothills.

Aren't those gorgeous?

Some of the beautiful states,

you know, like the Carolina's, and etc., Missouri,

you have all these little rolling foothills.

Gorgeous. I love 'em.

And you can make layer after layer after layer.

Shoot, we do a lot of traveling

and when we go through there

we always got our camera out,

'cause it's so pretty.

Mm.There.

And we'll pull straight down,

I want a little pond there I think.

And in our world, if we want a little pond, it's that easy.

All you gotta do is pull downward.

Straight down though.

Decide where it lives and drop it in.

There we go.

It's most important these lines come straight down.

Otherwise, it'll look like your water is tilted.

And still water is always flat.

It's lazy, like me.

Now then.

Shoot, I'm just gonna use that same ol' brush,

it seems to be working pretty good.

I'll go right into some of the yellow.

So I'm gonna use all the yellows.

Every once in awhile I want a little touch of bright red.

But I want to tap that to get a little bit of paint.

See that little roll right along there?

There's one just like it on the brush.

And with that, then we'll come back on this dark,

and we'll begin putting in some little grassy areas,

that live way back in the distance there.

There they come.

Just load a little more color on the brush.

You decide where they live.

You can put 'em wherever you want in your world.

Wherever.

That's what I like about painting.

It gives you freedom.

You can, you can create any illusion that you want.

Any illusion that you want.

At least in this piece of canvas.

About like that. There.

I've got several brushes goin' here.

Let me grab another one.

I think way back in the background

we're to have a tree.

Grab the knife here.

Let's mix up.

We'll just use a bit of everything.

I'm gonna put some phthalo green in there,

Prussian blue, black, crimson.

We just throw it all in there.

Maybe even a little Van Dyke brown.

As long as it's good and dark.

I like that phthalo green in there, though,

it'll give it a beautiful, beautiful color.

I wipe the ol' knife.

Now, same thing.

I'm just going to use a two inch brush,

load a little color on it.

And let's go up in here.

Time to make some major decisions in our world.

Maybe there's a happy little tree, lives right there.

Somethin' like that.

Once again, all we're doin' now,

is putting in some dark color,

so that we can come back and highlight it.

Maybe that tree lives there.

I don't know, you decide.

In your world, you have to make these decisions.

Where these trees live, rivers flow.

All right.

Shoot, that's pretty good.

Maybe we'll do another one.

'Bout like that.

Basic shapes, that's all we're looking for at this time.

That's all we're looking for, don't worry about it.

Let's go on the other side.

I want a tree to be over there, too.

Yeah, why not, right there.

You know, when you paint,

you just sort of look at things

that are happening in your painting,

and make decisions.

Learn how to compose what you're painting.

All you need to do is start out

with the time of day and time of year in your mind.

And sort of let it go.

You need to know the time of day,

so you know where your light's coming from.

Need to know the time of year

so you know if there's snow on the ground

or it's bright green.

But other than that,

just have a basic idea of where you want to go.

And let your imagination carry you

anywhere that you want to be.

To me that's really the excitement in painting.

There.

Now this is quite dark,

so, I want the reflection in the water

to be much darker here.

That easy. We got it.

See?

That's all there is to it.

Take a little script liner brush.

Take a little bit of white.

I'm gonna get a little dark sienna.

We'll just mix 'em on the script liner brush.

And with that, we'll put the indication here and there

of a few little tree trunks.

We don't have to worry about 'em being too great,

'cause we're gonna cover most of 'em up.

Few little things in here.

Then let's go on the other side,

and put a couple over there.

And those little trees, don't want them left out.

You could actually just take the knife

and scrape through the paint.

And it would give the indication

of some tree trunks,

and you wouldn't even have to do anything.

There. Now then.

We'll just keep using this ol' two inch brush.

Seems to be workin' okay.

And with that, we'll tap in a little bit of color.

And let's begin putting some highlights

on these little trees.

Now you could use a one inch brush.

And I get letters from

fantastic people all over the country.

And sometimes they'll say,

"I'm more comfortable with a one inch brush."

It will do exactly the same thing,

maybe not quite as fast.

But if you don't have a mean, ol' director,

then you have unlimited time.

You can just paint it any way you want it.

So at home if you want to use a

one inch brush to do this, try it.

Try both.

See which one works the nicest for you.

The only thing we want to do here is give you ideas.

Show you how to make effects

and turn you loose on the world.

Let's go over to the other side.

This little tree.

Don't wanna be left out.

Let's start with this one down here.

There, see?

Now he's a happy, little tree.

He was sad 'til we put some leaves on him.

But in our world, everything's happy.

There.

I spent half my life in the military playin' soldier.

And now I just make happy little things.

All right.

There's no military allowed in my paintings.

There.

No bad guys, no good guys,

just people who enjoy life, like God's creations.

That's all we have here.

And you can create any world that you want on canvas.

Now if you have trouble makin' that paint stick at all,

add the least, little touch of paint thinner to your brush,

and then go through the paint.

It'll thin the paint

and it'll stick right on there, no problem.

Add a little sap green to my color.

There.

Maybe, yeah, there.

Now see how you can just make

all these little bushes and stuff?

That easy. That easy.

It's not difficult at all.

You decided where they live, and drop 'em in .

Very quickly, if you paint,

you'll learn to see and you'll learn,

you'll learn what imagination is.

Shoot.

Oh, I gotta have a little house here.

This is just perfect place for a house.

Let's right here, right here.

I see him.

I would like to live right here

under this group of trees.

So we'll just scrape out a basic shape.

Somethin' about like so.

I scrape it out to do two things.

To lay out the basic idea of the house,

and to remove excess paint.

We'll start with Van Dyke brown,

dark sienna, just mixed together loosely.

Loosely, so you have both colors.

Leave it marbled.

Both of 'em in there.

We're just gonna block it in using these browns.

Then we can decide what we wanna do with it.

There, see?

Maybe, yeah.

There's a side right there.

Let's get crazy.

Shoot, maybe, maybe there's a little shed

that sticks right out on the front here.

There.

Now then, we can take a little bit of white,

little brown and I'm gonna put

some yellow ochre in it, too.

White, brown, little yellow ochre.

And let's come right along in here.

Doop, doop, doop, doop.

Put some boards in this old place.

Just a few little duders.

Wherever. There we go.

See 'em?

Somethin' about like that.

I wanna take some bright red,

little bit of dark sienna mixed with it.

Little touch of white.

End of that.

I like red roofs, so I'm gonna put a red roof.

But now, when you do your painting,

maybe where you live, there's a different color roof.

That's okay. It's okay.

All I wanna do is show you how to

make these little rascals.

You design 'em any way you want 'em.

Maybe where you're at they're any color roof,

I don't know.

As I travel around I see just about

anything that you can imagine.

Somewhere.

Let's take, just wanna firm that edge up a little bit.

Not much color over here.

It's away from the light.

Not gonna see much over here.

Let's see, we're gonna have a little

little attachment onto the house.

Little shed, maybe.

So that easy.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

That easy. See?

We got him.

There, that's all there is to it.

So it's quite a nice little house.

He's okay.

Maybe it's a, looks more like

a little farmer's place out here.

Maybe this was a farm a long time ago.

Maybe it sort of grew up around here,

like at my house.

All right.

Now, we take the liner brush,

little paint thinner, little bit of brown.

Maybe, yeah, if this was a farm,

maybe we can still see a little bit of fence,

that goes up, goes over the hill back here.

We don't know where it goes.

You decide.

But just to give the indication.

All right.

Time to have fun.

You know me.

I want a big tree.

And the big ol' tree is gonna live

right up here in the sky.

Here he comes.

Big ol' tree. There.

See?

Be brave, throw him in.

Don't worry about him.

Don't worry about him.

On this piece of canvas,

anything that happens, you can take care of.

Don't worry.

When you first start painting,

the thought of hitting this big ol' piece of blank canvas,

sort of scary, I know.

But once you jump in there and do it,

it just works great.

I wanna take a little dark sienna,

little white, mix 'em together.

I wanna put a little bit of indication

of some land right out through here.

Just a little bit.

Don't want too much.

Somethin' about like that.

There, comes right on around.

There we are.

Take a little touch of the liquid white,

pull it out as flat as I can get it.

We'll put a little waterline back here.

Just a little light area to sort of separate the two darks.

There.

And little bit right in here.

All right.

We're gettin' crazier now.

Just put all these good dark colors in here.

Yeah, let's do this.

We'll just close this little pond right in.

You can just do anything that you want here.

Just fill this up.

All kinds of little duders.

Just think about the lay of the land here.

You can really put this in with a paint roller.

But it's an excellent way,

well, maybe not a paint roller,

but you'd put it in just any ol' way you want.

It's an excellent way, though,

to practice with a brush.

Make friends with it.

I would suggest you practice the stroke

that you're gonna use next time right here.

Don't ever waste an opportunity to practice.

All right.

Little sap green, little yellow.

And we can come right in here

and we can make a little grassy area

out of that, that easy.

That easy.

Maybe on, oh yeah, I like that better.

Little bit brighter right there.

There.

Somethin' about like that.

Now then, maybe up here in our tree.

So, a minute ago I mentioned

you can just take a knife, and you can scrape,

and you can make the indication

of tree trunks just like that.

It's up to you.

Whatever way is easiest for you .

Sometimes you wanna take your time and paint 'em in.

Sometimes you just wanna scratch 'em in keep right on goin'.

It's really up to you.

Put a few little leaves and things

up here on this tree.

See?

Don't want him left out.

But i'n't it fantastic,

that with a big o'l two inch brush,

you can do things that look so detailed.

And with practice, mm, you will be amazed.

I have people write me everyday,

and they say, "You know, I did some paintings the other day,

and I took 'em to show 'em to my friends,

and they actually started looking for numbers on 'em.

'Cause they didn't believe I could do that."

I hear that every day.

Every day.

And nothin's greater than hearing

about people's successes when they do this.

That really makes it all worthwhile.

So thank you very much for sharing that with us.

There.

Another little tree lives right here.

Little bush.

Happy little bush, huh?

There. Wherever.

You decide. You decide.

See I'll show you another way.

I'm gonna show you another way.

You can make grassy areas,

maybe these are closer to us,

and they're a little bigger.

I'm gonna use a fan brush.

Just number six fan brush.

You can use any size you want.

I like a number six.

Same colors though.

Same colors.

But there's a multitude of colors happening on that brush.

'Kay, let's go up in here.

Now, you can just take and just give upward push.

Now sort of adjust the brush back and forth.

'Cause if you go straight, well, let's do it.

See, you get this big smiley face.

So adjust the brush, until it's going fairly straight.

And you can just give it a little push,

and all those little grassy things will happen.

That easy. That easy.

And it makes grass that looks like it's closer to us.

There.

I'll tell you what.

Now let's take a little bit of our brown colors.

Maybe we can see a little soil,

little dirt through there.

If you want it in your world, just drop it in.

We take a little brown, little white,

mix it together.

And very gently.

(scrapes)

That easy.

That easy, just run right over it.

Now we can come back with our little fan brush,

and just pop in some little grassy areas around it,

to make it look like it's part of the painting.

That easy. See it?

There.

But i'n't that a fantastic way of makin'

little grassy, little grassy areas

that are little closer to ya.

All right.

And a little practice with this,

and you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish.

Absolutely amazed.

I know I am, every day.

Every day is like a gift.

Somethin' new happens on the canvas.

Study it when it happens.

Even, sometimes, even a mistake,

or what you think is a mistake,

turns out to be a learning experience,

that maybe is better than what

you were trying to do.

Evaluate it.

We don't make mistakes, you know.

We have happy accidents.

(chuckles) I'm wanna take a number three fan brush.

Doesn't matter what size you use,

I just happen to pick it up.

Maybe, in our world, there's a,

maybe an ol' tree was cut down,

or fell down right here

and there's part of the stump,

still lingerin' around.

We'll just put it in like that.

And we can take the knife

with a little brown and white on it.

And we just sort of highlight him.

There we are. Poor ol' tree.

Him fall down. Probably hurt.

But he's okay now.

And then we just sort of fill that up

with some little grassy areas.

And he lives right in there now.

Take our knife, and just scrape here and there.

And put in all kind a little sticks and twigs and

happy little things that live all out here in the,

this beautiful, little scene.

Now I think, I think, let's take our ol' liner brush.

Little bit of the bright red.

Paint thinner.

Think I'm gonna sign this one,

call it finished.

Hope you've enjoyed this little painting.

It's very simple.

And it will teach you how to use

all the equipment.

And it's a lot of fun.

And with the ol' signature on here,

think we're gonna call that one finished.

From all of us here,

I'd like to wish you happy painting,

and God bless, my friend.

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