(soft instrumental music) - Hi, I'm really, really glad you could join me today.

Today is a very special day to me and I'd like to share that special day with you.

Today marks sort of an anniversary for us.

With this painting, we will have 100 Joy of Painting shows.

Isn't that fantastic?

It's almost unbelievable to me that we a hundred shows now and I owe it to you because you've allowed me into your home each week, you've called your PBS station, you've wrote letters, you've made it possible and I'd like to tell you thank you and I hope you enjoy this painting.

So let's go on up and let's get started.

Let's see, today we'll have 'em run all the colors across the screen that you need to do the painting, starting with the white and working around and that that'll tell you everything that you need to paint this beautiful painting.

Let's talk a little bit.

As I have done on one of the earlier shows, I've taken and covered the canvas with Con-Tact paper.

This is just ordinary Con-Tact paper you can buy at your local hardware store or supermarket, whatever and I've just cut a design out here.

Now in all honesty, this design came from a placemat off my table (chuckles).

So anything that you can find to make a nice looking design, you can use it.

And then I've covered the outside of the canvas with the Con-Tact paper and we're ready to go.

And on that we'll do pretty little painting.

So let's get started.

I'm gonna take off with a small amount of cadmium yellow, just the least little touch.

Least little touch, we'll do a bright, shiny pictures.

Go right in here, and I'll just go across, just like that, just like so.

Without cleaning the brush, I'm go right into a little bit of yellow ochre, same old dirty brush.

And just lay a little touch, so it blends right into that, like there, there we are.

Once again, without cleaning the brush, I'm going into a little bit of the bright red.

Little bit, it's very, very strong, and I'll just put a little layer, red right across there.

Mmm-kay, that sorta, just very gently, very gently blend all those together.

You don't want it to look like stripes.

Just blend it together.

All righty, now then, now then, I'm gonna take a fan brush, and go right into a little touch of a midnight black.

Just a little bit, okay let's go up here, and up in here, I'm gonna bounce in some happy little, happy little cloud shapes.

Just let that brush play and just work right down into the red.

Keep the brush moving, little circles, little tiny circles.

Just let it go every which way.

Here and there.

Okay, now I'll wash that brush, just a little bit of paint thinner, and very gently, just gonna blend that black right here on the bottom, just sort of blend it all together.

Now then, under the black, I'm gonna go into the dark sienna.

Same old fan brush, okay, let's go back up here and just put in a little bit of this beautiful, beautiful brown color and let it play around.

Like that.

Just sort of warms up the sky.

And I have several fan brushes going so I don't have to spend a lot of time washing brushes.

So I'll take some red and titanium white, just to make a nice pink color.

And with that let's go right up here and we just bounce in some happy little cloud shapes.

Just little tiny, tiny circles.

Keep 'em going, keep 'em going.

And let it pick up some of that under color so it all mixes together.

There we are.

Some of the browns and a little bit of the black.

Now, with a clean, dry brush, very gently, very gently, just blend all of this together.

You don't want to kill all the little clouds now.

These dark colors underneath here will absolutely eat up your light colors so be very careful.

(chuckles) Don't want to eat 'em all up.

And you can make a fantastic little sky, that easy.

Very gentle here, there's three hairs and some air.

And you can beat the brush and that, that removes the excess paint, you don't have to go through all the cleaning procedures.

Look at there, now just gently blend it and you have an almighty sky.

All righty, we got us a little sky.

Let me wash this brush, and as you know we wash the brushes with odorless thinner, shake 'em off (laughs) and just beat the devil out of 'em.

All right, let's get the old round brush.

I'm go right into some Van Dyke brown, some of the dark sienna, maybe a touch of the sap green in there too, just a little bit.

Let's drop in some, some happy little tree shapes.

And we're gonna put in some little background trees.

Just tapping.

Just tapping.

You know as I said at the beginning of the show this is a very, very special show to me 'cause it marks 100 Joy of Painting shows and as far as we know as of the filming this show, that's, gosh that's the most painting shows any series has ever had.

That's unreal.

And there's been a lot of fantastic people that have helped make all of this possible.

A lot of fantastic people, and I would like to, I'd like to dedicate this painting to a couple of people that have really made The Joy of Painting possible.

There's been several that I'd really like to to mention by name.

First of all, my wife Jane, she's stood behind us and kept this thing going.

And it takes a special lady to live with a crazy man.

And two other people that have really, really been super, my business partners and closest friends, Walt and Ed Kowalski, without them there would have been no Joy of Painting and would like to publicly say thank you very much.

And let's take a little brown here, this is the dark sienna, a little Van Dyke, and let's begin putting in some happy little things, right along here.

This is where we begin creating the lay of the land.

Look at there, see how easy that is?

And maybe right over here.

All this dark is is just, just to give us a base color so the light will show when we put it on top.

There we go.

All right, all right, we'll take the liner brush, a little bit of paint thinner on it, make that paint as thin as water, turn that brush.

Pull it, and let's put some, let's put a few indications of some little tree trunks way back in the, way back in the distance.

There's one, boy he just come right up above the trees.

See?

There.

Okay and you can put as many or as few as you want in your painting.

There we go.

Just all over.

Now let's start putting some highlights on there.

I'll just go back into this little round brush.

Same old dirty brush, I haven't cleaned it.

We'll tap in some yellows, grab a little green.

This is sap green and we just tap it in.

Let me get some yellow ochres, cad yellow, a little Indian yellow, okay let's go up here.

Just using the very top corner of the brush just put in some happy little shapes.

Don't kill all your dark areas, don't kill 'em all.

Look at that.

See if you put too much detail then it's gonna look too close and we want this to look like it's far, far away and very quiet, soft.

There, add a little bit of the bright red to that color.

Oh, look at there, there's a nice one, nice one.

Okay.

Right there, all kinds of things.

And work in layers, layer after layer after layer, and that's what'll create the depth in your painting.

Mmm-kay, now we can come down here put in a little more of the dark, and we can start putting in the highlights.

As I say, this is where you really begin figuring out the lay of the land.

Just begin dropping it in, like so.

Mmm-kay.

And once we have this dark area there, then we're ready.

So, same old dirty brush, I'm gonna go right into some of the yellows, and tap it, see, just tap it.

Okay let's go right up here.

Now then, just begin touching.

See, very gentle, like so.

And you can make layer after layer after layer.

When you're doing this, if you have trouble getting your paint to stick, add a little bit of the liquid white or a small amount of paint thinner just to make your paint a little thinner.

There, I added a touch a the bright red there, just to get it to stand out a little.

See, you can just make layer after layer.

Nice and bright.

There we go, anywhere you want a hill, just put a little bright area and it creates the illusion of a happy little hill there.

There.

We'll just put another one there and let it work right on up there.

And just sort of let your imagination go when you're doing these at home.

See over in here we'll just pull that across.

We'll come back and play with that later.

Watch here, now we'll take a fan brush, and very gently with a fan brush, let's make the indication of just just a happy little path that lives right up here.

All you're doing is grabbing a little bit of that color and just pulling it.

If you want to, here and there, you can add a little bit of brown, just to make it look more like dirt.

But allow it to grab these colors, just pull it right on out.

See there, and you've got a little path, that easy.

I added a touch of titanium white there, just to make it look like there's a little sun playing through there.

Just a little sunshine.

Mmm-kay, we can take the knife and just scratch in the indication of a few little trunks back in these distant trees, little background trees.

Just here and there.

Now then, let me find my fan brush.

We'll go into some brown and some of the midnight black.

Let's build a little tree, let's have some fun.

A lot of paint on the brush, just go right up here.

Maybe there lives, right here, right here, just a happy little evergreen tree.

All I'm doing is just, just barely touching the canvas.

And we'll take the corner of the brush and give it a little upward push.

See, give it a little ooh.

We'll put some little limbs out here on him.

Just like so, make his trunk nice and strong.

Give him a little foots, he's gotta have something to stand on.

Something to stand on.

Okay maybe he's got a friend that lives, yep, right there.

Right there.

His friend's a little bigger, a little stronger.

Maybe he's got two friends.

Just like that.

Now then, on these, they're a litttle closer so you'd see a little more detail.

I'm gonna take a little white on another fan brush and just very gently, very gently, come along this edge and put a little bit of highlight, just to make him stand out a little better.

And you can take your script liner brush, a little bit of the liquid black, and put a little limb here and there.

See there?

Just a couple happy little limbs.

Head back to our two-inch brush, and just sort of blend his little foots right into the, right into the little grassy areas.

That easy.

Back to our black and brown mixture.

Let's go up here and maybe, yeah, there we are, it's a happy little leaf, little limbs, little leaves on these trees.

Just live right about there, like that.

Now then, same old brush, I'll go right into a little bit of yellow, because there's black on there, when you hit that yellow it's gonna turn a beautiful green color.

Load it full, let's go back up here.

Now you can come back and just put some highlights, don't want to cover all the dark.

Maybe I'll make that a little bit brighter so you can see it, a little more of the, there, that shows up a little better for ya.

See there?

Something nice leaves there.

And maybe there's even a few shining on this one back here, he's farther away, you're not gonna see as much detail on that one.

All right, I think we're, I think we're coming right along here, we're at, now then, let's have some fun.

Let's bring the camera right up close here.

This is where the fun starts.

You grab this Con-Tact paper, and you take this off, look at that.

Look at that.

Isn't that fantastic?

See it already, you have all your nice borders and round here, and what's really fun, when you're doing this at home, you might want to paint this, oh like a nice tan color or a very light, like chalk powder blue.

You can do all kinds of things so it looks like borders, looks like it's matted around there when you get all finished.

I get, I get excited about these.

They're a lot of fun.

Okay, hmm go right into some alizarin crimson, a little bit of the pthalo blue, proportionately much more crimson than the blue.

Much more crimson, just tap that big brush in there, round brush.

Now here we go.

Now this is what's fun to me.

I like to come out of these borders that we created and let the painting actually extend right out of the borders.

And all we're doing here is just tapping in some very basic little shapes where we want some happy little things to be.

Just like so.

See, they were totally killing this border.

Mmm-kay.

Now then, I'll just use same old brush.

We'll go right into some Van Dyke brown, some dark sienna, and we'll put another little tree, lives right here.

Just all kinds of little trees.

See all those little things happening?

Maybe there's a happy bush that lives right here.

Mmm, these are really fun paintings.

I hope you try some of 'em.

They're so, so effective.

Maybe that comes right on down, wherever you want it to go, wherever.

Over here, not much color, let it, like a vignette, just let it get softer and softer and softer over here toward the edges.

There we go, all right.

Now then, we'll take the liner brush.

Let's put some paint thinner on it and go right into our brown, turn that brush.

Bring it to a nice, sharp point, okay.

Now then, let's go right up in here, and here's some nice tree limbs.

Let's let 'em protrude right out onto the pure white canvas.

See there?

Look at 'em.

Mm, just here and there, just here and there, wherever.

There's some wee over there.

Look at there, you can just make all kinds of happy little limbs.

This is just brown with paint thinner so it flows.

There we go, but you have to make big decisions here.

How many limbs live in your painting?

Just however many you want, that's all.

Okay, and maybe down here, just to change things a little bit, maybe, maybe this tree has a white trunk.

So I just use a little bit of the liquid white, and we'll put a, a little white trunk in there.

It's that easy.

I like to turn that brush, it picks up all those under colors and makes beautiful little effects.

See there?

See how that stands out though?

If you put dark against dark you wouldn't have a whole bunch, but when you put this light against the dark, oh, they stand out and shine for you.

There and maybe there's a little one right here.

However many you want, that's up to you.

Now we can have some fun.

Let's take the ole two-inch brush and we'll go right into some color here.

This is yellow and green and I'm just tapping it.

Like so, okay let's go up here.

Now then, right along in here, just barely touching the canvas, just putting a happy little leaf here and there and let some of 'em extend out over your dark under color.

That helps create the illusion of a, of a vignette.

See there?

Mmm, these paintings really excite me.

This is, this is the reason I chose to do this type of painting on such a special day.

I'm really glad you joined me for this day.

This, as I say, you just can't believe how special this is for me.

And you've made it possible.

There, there we go.

Now let's put some, let's put some things in here.

I'll go back to the the round brush, it's a lot of fun.

I'm just tapping into a little yellow ochre and a little green, reach over here and get a touch of the bright red, just a touch.

It's very strong, very strong.

Just go up here.

Now then, just using the top corner, just the very top, gonna just tap in all kinds of little leafy effects.

Now if your paint won't stick, I've said it over and over, add a little bit of the liquid white, or a little bit of thinner.

Let 'em just come right on.

Because a thin paint will stick to a thick paint.

Thin to thick.

It's probably our golden rule.

See a little of this project right on out past the dark.

There's another happy little bush, lives right there.

See?

I knew he was there.

You did too didn't you?

You knew he was there.

There we go, there's another little bush.

He lives right there.

Mmm-kay, come in right on forward, ooh there's one, he's, looks like he's got little flowers on him.

Happy bush, that's the only kind of bushes we make.

They're always happy.

And we'll just sort of let some little things just, just graduate out into here, just let the color just sort of disappear.

Gentle, gentle, light, little touch, see there?

These are very soft little paintings.

These make excellent gifts for all your friends.

People really love these and when you frame 'em, oh you can't believe how pretty they are.

Can't believe and your friends'll say, "You didn't paint that."

But you know you did and you can.

You can do it.

And ah, there, take just the clean point of the knife and scrape in a few little sticks and trunk indications here and there, just like so.

All right, you know me, I'm not happy when we paint unless we have a big tree in there.

So let's put a big tree.

I'm gonna go right there into the midnight black and the Van Dyke brown, la la la la la la la la la la.

Just be happy, mix up all these colors.

Look at all the paint in that brush.

Okay let's go up here.

I said I wanted a big tree so let's do a big one.

I think my big tree lives, don't yell at me, don't yell at me, he lives right there.

There he comes.

Oh, goodness, big ole tree, he goes right off the canvas.

Strong tree, big tree.

Look at that, be brave, be brave.

Maybe he's got a big foot that comes right down here, like that, big ole foot.

All right, now I've got another fan brush, that I used earlier, that's got white on it.

So we'll just take it, and we'll come right down the side here, come right down the outside edge first.

See?

And tap, just tap, this makes the tree bark look sort of fuzzy, and that to me is the way, the way old evergreen trees look.

There you got your sort of textured bark, rough.

Maybe right in here, see how you can divide that tree up and create a little hollow in there?

Shoot that's, that's where some little creature lives, right in there, he needs a little house.

Now then, liner brush, right into some of the liquid black and let's take and put a limb right there.

Right there, see?

You can put as many limbs as you want in yours.

We'll just put a few in, just to show you how.

This is just straight liquid black.

See?

There we go.

And have some in there that are broken off.

Evergreens especially, boy they have, they have a lot of old limbs that get broke off.

Yeah this is where all the little squirrels come and sit and play.

They have to have a good time too.

Now, while we have this liquid black going here, let's just work on, look at there.

We'll just have a big ole root just come right on down, just sorta hangs right on, off the canvas.

Look at that, and there's one, right there.

And maybe, maybe there's one that comes over the other way.

Just use your imagination here.

Let some of these little things just sorta happen.

Okay we can go right into a touch of the liquid white, and put a little highlight right out here, just like that.

Just like that, isn't that something?

Isn't that something?

I like these little paintings and I really hope you do.

And I'm glad that you've been with me today, this year, this special day, thank you very much for painting with me today.

I'd like for all my friends to, to enjoy special days with me and I have so many beautiful friends all over the country that the painting shows have allowed me to meet.

All right, let's go back to our brush that has the black in it.

This is just midnight black.

Let's go right up in here and let's put in, there they are, just some beautiful little leaves on this big evergreen tree, wherever you think they should live.

See now I like this here because it breaks the border there but leaves it there so you can see it.

That's one of them happy accidents we're always talking about.

Learn to use 'em, learn to make friends with 'em.

That ought to be enough to show what I want to show.

Right there, right there, right there.

There we go, there we go.

Mmm-kay, now then, take another fan brush, we'll use yellow, and sap green, yellow, sap green.

Load a lot of color on the brush.

Okay, let's go right back up here.

Now then, come right along in here, and highlight these, just put, some happy little highlights, right in there.

That easy and it'll make your painting complete.

So if you've painted along with me, all you need right now is to sign your masterpiece and it'll be finished and we're gonna call this one finished.

Once again, thanks for being with me today.

Happy painting and God bless.

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