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  • - Hey, welcome back.

  • I'm certainly glad you could join us today.

  • I thought today we'd do a painting,

  • it's very simple, I think you'll enjoy it.

  • Let's start out and have them run all the colors

  • across the screen that you'll need to paint along with this.

  • While they're doing that, let me show you

  • what I've got up here today.

  • I have my plain old 18 by 24 inch double prime

  • pre-stretched canvas, and I've just covered it

  • with a very thin coat of liquid white.

  • That's basically all.

  • We use 18 by 24 inch canvas, but you use any size

  • that you like when you're doing yours.

  • I thought I'd start with a little, just a little

  • two inch brush today.

  • I'm going to tap a little bit of Indian yellow into it.

  • Don't need a lot of color, something about like so.

  • Let's go up in here, and maybe right here we'll do that.

  • That's all there is to it.

  • Okay, got that one finished, it's that easy.

  • I'll go into a little bit of cad yellow.

  • Same way, just use a little two inch brush.

  • We don't have to even do anything,

  • just go around the edges without cleaning it,

  • touch a little bit of yellow ochre.

  • There, just working the yellows out here.

  • A little bit more of the yellow ochre, come right on around.

  • Something about like that.

  • If you put two eyes and a big smiley face in there,

  • it'd look like little orphan Annie.

  • There we are.

  • Okay.

  • Sort of blend those together.

  • That's all we're looking for today,

  • something about like that.

  • Still without cleaning the brush, go and touch

  • a little bit of the alizarin crimson.

  • Don't need a whole bunch.

  • And just begin blending that together.

  • I want to make a sky that looks like there's a,

  • maybe the sun's here, and it's shining out,

  • and it's a beautiful day.

  • We'll do this painting mostly in brown tones.

  • Sometimes it's gorgeous to do paintings in just one tone.

  • There we are.

  • Mmm, all right.

  • Now, then, I want to mix up a color.

  • I like brown made from

  • sap green and alizarin crimson.

  • That's one of my favorite colors.

  • There we are, and I'm going to mix it

  • a little bit to the reddish side.

  • Just a small amount.

  • Normally we don't worry about mixing color too well.

  • Today, I want to mix this pretty good,

  • because I don't want any green streaks up in the sky.

  • Okay.

  • That ought to do it.

  • Wipe the old knife,

  • then we'll go right into that brown that we made.

  • There, and we'll go up in here,

  • and let's begin using that.

  • See it?

  • It sort of matches all this, it sort of

  • works together.

  • It's really a gorgeous brown.

  • All right.

  • And some on the other side,

  • just right in there.

  • And then we'll finish the canvas up.

  • We'll just use a little vandyke brown.

  • Little bit on the other side.

  • And we're ready to wash the old brush.

  • As you know if you've painted with me before,

  • that's really the fun part of this whole procedure,

  • is just washing the brush.

  • This is the way, it's the way I get even

  • with everybody here in the studio that picks on me.

  • All right.

  • (laughs) You can certainly change the decor of a room

  • very rapidly if you're not careful.

  • I suggest when you do this at home,

  • you get a little device called a brush beater rack.

  • It fits down in the bottom of a waste paper basket,

  • it allows you to do all this without,

  • without ruining a happy marriage,

  • because you can certainly do that in a heartbeat

  • if you cover the living room with paint.

  • I'm just blending all these colors together,

  • like so.

  • All right, and then I'm going to wash the brush again.

  • I'm really just looking for excuses to wash the brush.

  • (laughs) There we are.

  • Now then, I want to brighten that a little more,

  • so I'll go right into titanium white.

  • We just put a little on the two inch brush.

  • Go right up in here.

  • Start in the lightest area, and begin working outward.

  • We want this to be the lightest, brightest part

  • of this whole painting, right here.

  • There.

  • And just begin blending that outward.

  • Now you can do this several times,

  • to achieve a desire lightness.

  • You can make it as light or as bright as you want,

  • but once you get our here in these dark colors,

  • I suggest that you clean the brush

  • before you bring it back into the center.

  • There we go.

  • Something about like so.

  • Once again, you can make it

  • as light as you want it when you do your painting.

  • Or leave it as dark as you want.

  • It's really an individual thing.

  • Now, very lightly.

  • I just want to take out the brush strokes.

  • Now, then.

  • If you want to put the indication,

  • knock off the excess paint,

  • if you want to put the indication of a little sun,

  • we can do a little finger painting right there,

  • and just take your finger and make a little round sun.

  • Those square suns sort of bother people.

  • Make it sort of round.

  • Of course, then, you have to clean your finger,

  • and you beat it against the easel the same way.

  • All right.

  • And just barely caress it,

  • and the indication of a little sun

  • will remain right there in your sky, that easy.

  • See there?

  • It's all you need.

  • Okay, let's have some fun.

  • We're still using the same old brush,

  • a little white, a little bit of that brown color

  • that we made out of the sap and the alizarin mixed together.

  • Maybe in our world, way back in the distance,

  • there's some little foothills that live back there,

  • so let's do them.

  • All you have to do is decide where they live in your world,

  • and begin tapping them in.

  • You know, when you paint,

  • tell little stories.

  • It makes painting easier, it makes you understand

  • why things work in your painting.

  • Shoot, sometimes I get carried away and

  • maybe talk about the old trapper that lived in the woods,

  • maybe fell in the river, just crazy things like that.

  • But it gives you a reason for that old, abandoned cabin

  • being there, or something like that.

  • But make up little stories.

  • I know, I know, you're going to say your

  • friends and relatives will sort of

  • laugh at you, standing around talking to yourself painting,

  • but that's okay.

  • That's okay.

  • Now, then.

  • I'm going to lift gently upward,

  • just to make it look like little trees are growing

  • on those hills, far away.

  • Short, little strokes, tiny, little strokes.

  • There.

  • Just a little bit, don't need a lot.

  • Just a little bit.

  • There we are.

  • Maybe I'll even take a little of the titanium white,

  • I'm going to put the least little touch of Indian yelllow

  • in it, and just here and there,

  • touch it a little bit, so it just stands out a little.

  • You can lighten it up a little.

  • There, lift upward.

  • But that's all I'm looking for,

  • just enough to make it stand out, like the light's

  • zinging across there.

  • There.

  • That's all we want.

  • Okay.

  • Now, we'll use this little number three fan brush,

  • take a little white, a little more of that brown.

  • I want to be a little bit darker than what we have up there,

  • but not a great deal yet.

  • All right, let's go up in here,

  • maybe there's a little stand of trees

  • that live right here.

  • Little group of trees.

  • Happy little family of trees, right there.

  • I don't know, you decide.

  • In your world, you put trees wherever you want them,

  • as many as you want.

  • There, see?

  • And we can come back with our old two-inch brush,

  • and we just tap a little bit.

  • That easy.

  • And create a whole other plane in our world.

  • I'm going to lift up, sort of bring it together,

  • make it work.

  • That's all there is to it.

  • And back to our white, with a little bit

  • of the Indian yellow in it,

  • and we can begin just showing some little dooders

  • that climb up the hill like this.

  • This'll just show different planes in your hill,

  • and that's all we're trying to do,

  • something about like that, lift it up.

  • There.

  • And maybe over in here, it just sort of disappears.

  • We don't know where it goes.

  • Don't know that we even care.

  • Doesn't matter.

  • I'm just going to cover all this up

  • with that nice brown we made.

  • There.

  • As I say, I want this painting to have a

  • sort of a brown flavor to it.

  • I love this color,

  • and I like paintings that are almost monochromatic,

  • just one basic color.

  • All right.

  • I'll tell you what, sometimes,

  • sometimes you have to get a little crazy.

  • Let's take a little bit of that white,

  • and get a little roll of paint,

  • right on the edge of the knife there.

  • Let's go up in here, and maybe

  • we'll just make the indication,

  • just by doing this, that's all you have to do.

  • Just like this, just enough so that it separates,

  • and we can begin putting little things like that.

  • If you just rub that very hard,

  • and keep it pretty level, when this is all done,

  • it'll look like,

  • well, watch, it'll look like there's a,

  • maybe a little river back in here somewhere.

  • But it's far away.

  • We don't want a lot of detail in it.

  • Far, far away.

  • Just something like that.

  • And we'll come along, and we'll

  • put something in the foreground,

  • but maybe there's some little rapids back here

  • that are slowly running over.

  • And it's just to give an indication.

  • Too far away to have a lot of detail in it.

  • All right.

  • We don't know where it goes back here,

  • don't know that we even care.

  • Doesn't matter in our world.

  • Something about like that.

  • Okay, now.

  • I'm going to grab a clean,

  • clean two inch brush.

  • I'm going to take that same brown that I made,

  • but this time I'm going to add a little bit of

  • midnight black to it.

  • I want to start getting very dark.

  • We're getting into the foreground now,

  • and we need to get much darker.

  • But we load it the same way, scooping here.

  • Okay, bravery test.

  • Maybe.

  • Let's put some nice, dark color in here.

  • Very dark.

  • You need dark in order to show light,

  • and that's all we're putting this in here for right now.

  • The only reason we're putting it in here.

  • There, we'll just make a nice little hill.

  • See, and it pushes all that back very, very far.

  • That easy.

  • And you can just decide where you want this to live.

  • Now, you could really put this in any old way.

  • I suggest you practice this tapping,

  • because we're going to put grass on top of this,

  • and it gives you a chance to practice those strokes,

  • and anytime you can practice,

  • it'll make your life so much easier,

  • and besides that, it's more fun than just

  • painting it on there with a paint roller.

  • All right.

  • That's coming along pretty good there.

  • Something about like that.

  • That's really all we're looking for,

  • it's just a dark area.

  • Then we'll come back,

  • begin putting all the beautiful little lights in there.

  • All right.

  • This is interesting, this is the 30th series

  • of "The Joy of Painting."

  • Shoot, there's nearly 400 shows now.

  • If you hadn't got a chance to see them all in your area,

  • give the station you're watching this on a call,

  • because they're available to them,

  • and if you'd like to see them, let them know.

  • That's the only way they know that you're interested.

  • There we go.

  • Something about like that.

  • Now, then.

  • Going back to my old two inch brush.

  • I'm going to take some sap green,

  • a little bit of the cad yellow, yellow ochre,

  • all those beautiful little colors, just tap.

  • Now, then.

  • Back in here, I want the indication

  • of a little bit of grass area,

  • that lives right along in here.

  • Something about like that, but just tap.

  • All you have to do is tap.

  • Just tap.

  • You decide.

  • About like that.

  • See how you can make all those little things?

  • And the more you tap it, the more it'll mix

  • with the color that's already on the canvas,

  • and it'll get darker and darker automatically.

  • Automatically.

  • You don't even have to worry about it.

  • If you want it to be bright, don't tap much.

  • If you want it to be darker, just get in there and

  • tap the devil out of it.

  • There.

  • All right.

  • Now, let's get crazy. (laughs)

  • You've painted with me before,

  • you know I really like trees.

  • Let's take some vandyke brown, alizarin crimson,

  • and midnight black, and mix them together.

  • All right.

  • Let me wipe the old knife.

  • Let's grab, I'm using a number six fan brush this time.

  • Number three would work okay, doesn't matter.

  • Whichever one you happen to pick up.

  • Load it full of color.

  • Maybe up here on the top of our little hill,

  • lives, yeah, you guessed it, a happy little tree,

  • right there.

  • I like little trees.

  • They're some of the nicest people in the country.

  • There, see?

  • There he lives.

  • I don't want him to be lonely.

  • Maybe there's a little family up here that lives together.

  • What a magnificent view to set up here and look at all day.

  • Mmm, I'm envious.

  • We'll even have a little one right there,

  • then we got a whole family.

  • Three little trees on the hill.

  • Now, then.

  • I just want to scratch in the indication

  • of a little tree trunk here and there,

  • something about like that.

  • That's all we need.

  • Take that same brown color,

  • maybe add a little bit of the bright red to it.

  • Not much, just a little bright red.

  • There, maybe even a little touch of titanium white,

  • just to get it to stand out a little bit.

  • I don't want a lot of highlights on these.

  • Yeah, that's plenty.

  • Just enough so that you get the feeling

  • there are some highlights.

  • But they don't distract.

  • There, this one next.

  • You have to decide which tree lives in the foreground,

  • which tree lives back.

  • I think this one's right in the front.

  • So we do him last, so he's in front.

  • Hope that shows up.

  • Now, we can go back to our brush that has that sap green,

  • a little Indian yellow, all those colors.

  • All the different greens, so we can begin

  • bringing this together.

  • A few little dooders back there.

  • But isn't that neat?

  • See, got a little family of trees that sit here.

  • They look out over this beautiful view.

  • Mmm, it is gorgeous.

  • I'd like to live in a place,

  • well, I'll tell you what, why not?

  • If I was going to live here, I'd need a house.

  • I'm not very good at sleeping on the dirt.

  • So, let's come right up in here,

  • and let's build us a little,

  • maybe it was a little house there.

  • We'll just scrape us out a basic shape,

  • something like so.

  • I want it right in front of these trees.

  • We'll take a little vandyke, a little dark sienna

  • mixed together, and let's just paint this in.

  • A quick little house.

  • This is just a happy little house up here on a hill.

  • Like that.

  • There.

  • Gives us a nice roof.

  • Got to have a roof to keep the water out.

  • There we go, something like that.

  • Now, when you do yours, maybe you want to have a house

  • that's different, maybe you don't want to have a house.

  • Maybe you want to have a two story house.

  • You can do that.

  • Anything that you want to do.

  • Painting gives one almost total freedom,

  • at least on this piece of canvas.

  • A little brown and white,

  • no pressure.

  • I want this to be sort of an old, raggedy house.

  • There.

  • As we mentioned earlier, doing stories and stuff,

  • maybe there's a trapper that lived here,

  • and he went down to the river one day

  • to check his beaver trap, and maybe he fell in.

  • Who knows?

  • Now we can do a cabin-ectomy.

  • In other words, just cut it off.

  • Get it the way we want it.

  • Better have a door in our cabin.

  • It's easier to get in and out if you got a door.

  • It's hard climbing through the window sometimes.

  • Here we go.

  • Take a little dark color,

  • put the indication of a few boards and stuff on there

  • if you want them.

  • And you could have made a log cabin just as easy.

  • Let's take a little red,a little white,

  • a little dark sienna in it.

  • Let's see, maybe,

  • yeah, why not?

  • Maybe this has got little red roof on there.

  • It's not in too good a shape either.

  • Not in too good a shape, the whole shingle's about fell off,

  • it's got some holes in it.

  • Yeah, a few little highlights, right up here on top

  • where the sun's really zinging across the top.

  • A few little dooders down the side here,

  • so it stands out.

  • There.

  • Got us a little cabin.

  • All right, now we can go back to our

  • brush with a grass color on it,

  • and we can begin putting in all kinds of little

  • grassy areas like this,

  • right up here by the trees.

  • These trees remind me of my little squirrel.

  • What'd be a good place for him to live?

  • I want to show you my little squirrel one more time.

  • Shoot, I've showed him to you a couple of times

  • in this series.

  • He's one of the cutest little devils that you've ever seen.

  • He's Pea Pod Junior.

  • He likes to live in my pocket.

  • Of course, by the time you get to see this,

  • he'll already be turned lose, and he'll be free,

  • probably living in my backyard, and

  • he'll have a little condo back there in a tree.

  • I love these little old rascals.

  • I raise a bunch of them every year, turn them lose,

  • and they go back to nature, where they're supposed to be.

  • Hope you enjoy seeing those little rascals,

  • they're really special to me, and

  • I like to share them with my friends.

  • All right, maybe over in here,

  • okay, I see a thing happening here,

  • it's a place for a path, right there.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see it.

  • As you, (laughs), I'm sorry to get excited,

  • as you paint, you begin seeing things here.

  • They just sort of happen.

  • Watch here, watch here.

  • We take a little brown, a little brown, and maybe,

  • you see the indication of a little path coming out here,

  • maybe sort of disappears, comes out here,

  • around.

  • It just, these things happen.

  • Don't fight them when they happen.

  • Very quickly, you'll learn to use anything that happens

  • in your painting, and it might make

  • some of the most interesting compositions.

  • A little bit of brown and white,

  • just a small amount, and we can highlight a little,

  • just so it stands out here and there.

  • All right.

  • Tell you what we need here.

  • Let me find a liner brush.

  • Take a little paint thinner,

  • and we need a few little sticks and twigs that live

  • right along in here.

  • Maybe, maybe even

  • something on out in here,

  • old stick that lives there.

  • Might've been a little tree there that

  • didn't have such a good time, things got rough on him.

  • Okay, let's get crazy.

  • We've got a minute left here.

  • Take a little bit of the midnight black,

  • vandyke brown mixed together.

  • All right, bravery test.

  • Here it comes.

  • (whistling noise)

  • Got to make those little weird noises.

  • We got a happy little tree that lives right there,

  • and he's got a friend, too.

  • See?

  • Now we got two little trees that live there.

  • Now let's go back to our liner brush.

  • Need the paint thinner though, to make the paint

  • very thin, so it'll literally flow

  • right over the top of the paint that's already on the cavas.

  • Turn the bristles in there.

  • That brings it to a very sharp point.

  • There, you can see it?

  • See, just turn them, like that.

  • Now,

  • Now, if it's thin enough, it'll just flow

  • right over the top of that paint,

  • without mixing together.

  • About like that,

  • and you can put in all kinds of little arms on your trees.

  • Just wherever you want them.

  • You have to decide though, like,

  • which one's in front?

  • Which one's behind?

  • These are decisions that you make in your own world.

  • Gives you a lot of power, doesn't it?

  • There we are.

  • Okay.

  • You know, every day we get letters from

  • fantastic friends all over the country

  • who are picking up their brush and trying this,

  • and they're saying, "You told me I could do it,

  • and I never believed it until I tried.

  • Now I have my whole family painting."

  • That's so wonderful, when families

  • do things together, because this is something

  • you can do with your spouse,

  • with your children, with friends, neighbors,

  • or even people you want to be your friend.

  • It's a good way to meet new people,

  • because people who paint just seem to be

  • some of the nicest people.

  • There we are.

  • All kinds of little dooders.

  • And you decide, once again.

  • You must make these decisions.

  • We don't want to tell you how many limbs

  • to put on your tree, or even

  • what kind of tree to paint,

  • because painting is a very individual thing.

  • There.

  • I'm going to take a little white,

  • a little bit of the midnight black,

  • paint thinner,

  • just mix them together a little bit,

  • black and white,

  • or white and black,

  • and I'm going to come right along here,

  • put a little highlight right on the side of that tree.

  • There.

  • If the sun's up here, zing.

  • Just to make him a little sparkler on the side there.

  • Something about like that.

  • All right, go back to our brush that's

  • got the sap green and all the yellows on it.

  • Tap a little color.

  • And let's just clean up the bottom of its foot here,

  • bring all that together.

  • Maybe, maybe there's a little

  • baby tree down here.

  • He's going to take over one day.

  • One day, he'll be the big tree,

  • but now he's just a little baby,

  • and I think with that,

  • shoot, we've about got a finished painting.

  • Take a little paint thinner, a little bit of the bright red,

  • and let's sign this little rascal.

  • Really hope you've enjoyed this little painting.

  • It's a very simple little painting.

  • It'll work for you.

  • If you have time, take a photograph and send to us.

  • All of us here at the station would love to see

  • what you're doing.

  • So, until then, from all of us here,

  • I'd like to wish you happy painting,

  • and God bless, my friend.

  • (theme music)

- Hey, welcome back.

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