[Music] Hi, welcome back.

Certainly glad you could join us today.

I thought today we'd just do a fantastic little seascape and show you a very simple way of doing a seascape that I, I think you'll enjoy.

Let's start out and have them run out all the colors across the screen that you need to paint along with me.

Let's go on up here; let me show you what I've done.

Today, I took a piece of contact paper and cut a little oval in it, and just stuck it onto the old canvas, and I just covered the canvas here.

The top part is just a little Liquid White, and I have a little piece of masking tape across here.

This is gonna be my horizon.

And down here is Liquid Clear.

And we put the clear on because, down here, I'm going to have some dark colors and I don't want to dilute the color.

Up here, I want to dilute the color.

Okay, so that's basically all we've done.

Let's start out today and just have a good time.

Let's go with a little bit of, let's try a little bit of Cad Yellow.

We'll make a beautiful little sky today.

It's a super day, so it's a nice day to make a pretty, bright, shiny sky.

A little yellow, let's go right up in here.

Maybe, like this, right there.

Right there.

Maybe we'll put a little sun up in the sky; that sounds like fun.

Now then, without, without cleaning the brush, I'm going to reach right down here and get a little bit of Yellow Ochre in the same way, making little Xs, little criss-cross strokes.

Just lay a little bit of that ochre right around there.

And that ochre's sort of a gold color; it's very pretty.

A very, pretty color.

It'll make you happy.

There.

Now then, still, without cleaning the brush, we'll go right into Bright Red.

And let's just go right around the edges here.

Beautiful little color.

But, be careful.

it's very strong and it'll eat up your whole world in just a heartbeat.

There, maybe a little touch more.

You could always add more, but it's a son of a gun to take it off.

There.

Okay.

Something about like so.

Okay, now then.

We'll take a little of that Bright Red, a little touch of Phthalo Blue into it.

Be right back.

There we are.

A little Bright Red, a little Phthalo Blue and go right up in here, and we just, very quickly, dance in a little sky up here.

A little blue.

Okay, let me wash the old brush.

That's the fun part of this whole procedure.

Just wash it.

Shake off the excess, [laughs] and just cover everybody in the studio.

Now, with a nice, clean brush, we can blend this.

I think it was in the last series, we showed you one of our cameraman with his raincoat on.

He sits over there with his raincoat because I've been known to splash him.

There.

Now, then.

I beat the brush just to knock off any paint that I've picked up.

It's, it's much easier than going through the whole cleaning procedure again.

Okay, now we'll just blend this all together.

And you want to blend this to where you can't tell where one color stops and the next color starts.

There.

And when you're doing this at home, sort of step back and take a look-see at your painting.

It's hard to see it when you're very close to it.

So, step back and look and see if it's exactly what you want.

If it's not, blend it a little more, or add some more color, or whatever it takes to fix it.

There.

Take a little bit of Titanium White, now maybe we, maybe we're going to have a sun right up in here.

So, we'll take that white and we'll just begin dancing; I want a very light area right around the sun.

There, we'll just let that blend outward, outward, outward.

That easy.

Okay.

See, now we have a nice, bright spot right up in there and we can take... we'll just the old finger today.

We'll do a little finger painting.

Go right up in here and we just draw a little circle.

And make your sun round.

If you make the square or oblong suns, people sort of laugh at them.

We [chuckles] don't want anybody laughing at your sun.

Clean brush, and very gently, very gently.

You can just go right over that and sort of blend it a little.

And it gives you a nice little indication of a little sun way up there in the sky.

Okay, maybe we have a, a couple happy, little clouds in our sky.

So, for that, let's make some lavender, we'll take a little Alizarin Crimson, a little touch of the Phthalo Blue, just mix them together.

Now it's very difficult to see what color that is, so we'll take a little white, put it over here, check it, see if it's what you want.

That's pretty good.

Okay, let me grab the brush.

Maybe today let's use... we'll use the old fan brush.

Take a little bit of color.

A little color, a little bit of white so it's not real strong.

There.

Just load some color into the fan brush.

Back and forth.

Now then, let's go right up here.

You have to make some big decisions.

Where does the clouds live in your world?

Maybe there's a happy, little cloud that lives right up here and just floats around.

Just floats around and has a good time.

There.

But just use the corner of the brush and make little tiny circles.

There, maybe there's one that comes out and it comes right across the sun.

Wherever.

Maybe, let's go right on down... there's one down here.

But in your world, you put as many or as few clouds as you want.

Because painting is very individual.

Everybody sees things differently, and so you should paint things the way you see them.

There.

Maybe over here there's a nice cloud, just floats right along, and this'll be the horizon right here.

So we'll just let this cloud float right along in here.

Okay, maybe there's some little stringy clouds, and to make those all you gotta do is sort of pull the brush like so.

A little more color on it.

There, those are the easiest kind of clouds to make.

Okay, maybe up in here...

Shoot, who knows?

Maybe there's another little cloud lives right here.

As I say, when you're doing this, decide how many clouds you want in your world and just drop them in.

Just drop them in.

Maybe up here there's another little tiny one.

He lives way up here in the sky; he watches all this down here.

Now then, take a good, clean, dry brush and, very gently, we're just going to sort of stir it up using just the corner of the brush.

This'll blend it all together and it also removes any excess paint that's on there.

There.

And then very lightly.

Very lightly, just blend it.

And fluff it a little if you want to.

Lookie there, though.

Isn't that a super nice, easy way to make some very, very effective little clouds.

Now these stringy ones here, all you have to do is just pull those, just give them a little pull.

And you can, since the canvas is wet, you can move them.

Zoom, there they go.

There.

And maybe there's a little sunlight playing across some of these.

Let's take...

I have several fan brushes going here so I don't have to spend all my time washing them.

We'll take some white, Titanium White, get a little bit of the Bright Red.

Don't want too much.

Just enough to, just enough to sparkle it a little bit.

A lot of color on the brush, though, really got to filled up.

Now then maybe, in our world, maybe a little light plays right through here, just bounces right across the tops of some of these little clouds.

There.

Don't want to over do.

But just here and there, wherever you think light would just hit and sparkle and...

There.

A little more color.

Maybe there's a little over here, too.

Okay, super.

Maybe, maybe, right here is a little indication right on top of a little light playing on that cloud.

Then a little there.

Wherever.

Now this cloud, maybe, add a little color right along here.

Like so.

Just sort of make a decision where you think the light would hit it.

Needless to say, it's going to hit right under here, right along in here.

Now, then, the good, clean, dry brush again.

Be sure it's dry.

If it's not, it's going to sort of just moosh together.

That's a new word.

There.

Just sort of wind it up.

I like to do seascapes, but I like these that have a lot going on in them.

Sometimes they're sort of hard to do in the time we have here.

I know recently I did one that was-- Ooh, gosh, it just, it hit so nice.

I just couldn't get it down where I could do it in 30 minutes, so we featured it in the newsletter.

So, everybody will have a chance to paint it.

There we go.

Okay.

All I'm doing is just blend that out a little bit.

Okay, I like that easy.

We've got quite a nice little sky going there.

Now you could use this idea for a sky in any kind of scene that you wanted; it doesn't have to just be a seascape.

Maybe you want to do a nice landscape or something, but you needed a sky like that.

And, of course, it'll [chuckles] work just as well.

No problem.

Let's clean off the old fan brush.

And we just wash these in thinner and wipe them on a paper towel.

Now, then.

Let's start down on the bottom.

That's where the fun will start.

We'll take, mix up a little more of that lavender color.

Alizarin Crimson, Phthalo Blue, proportionately much more crimson than blue.

Much, much more.

And once again, it's very difficult to tell what color that is, so take a little white paint lay up, check it, and see if it's what you're looking for.

That's pretty good.

Now, then.

We have this piece of tape here.

This is just to keep our horizon straight.

So we'll take that off.

You don't have to have that there, but it certainly makes your life easier.

Make sure our mat's still down there.

And we'll just use, we can use a two inch brush, go right into a little bit of that.

And we're going to come right up here, and just going to cover this part of the canvas with a little bit of this lavender color, and you could use any color you want.

Just thought today we'd use a little lavender.

And we try to keep that horizon as straight as we can.

There we are.

As I say, I enjoy doing these seascapes; they're a lot of fun.

And you can really play with color and make some very interesting seascapes.

There.

Maybe we'll have a, maybe we'll have a little beach down here.

So, instead of putting the lavender all the way down, we'll wash the brush.

I just like to wash this brush.

And we'll just [chuckles] beat the devil out of it.

Now down here on the bottom, we'll go into a little Dark Sienna.

Now we have the clear down here, so that does not distort the color.

There we go.

Maybe, a little touch of Van Dyke Brown right down at the very bottom.

So we have Van Dyke Brown, Dark Sienna, and then the lavender color that we made, and we just sort of blend those together.

Alright.

See, if we had put Liquid White on here, we would have diluted all these colors, and I don't want to dilute the color at this point.

Now, then.

I get to shake the brush again.

Alright, let's play with a little filbert.

First thing I would do, is decide where the major wave's going to be in here.

So come right up in here and you make this big decision, and just sort of take the brush and sketch it in.

I don't want this to be a very big wave.

Maybe just a little one that lives right in there somehow.

Sketch out a basic shape.

And there's several ways you can do this.

If the eye's going to be right here, you could take a paper towel, and you can remove a little of that color, or you could just paint right over, but it's a little easier if you just remove a little of it.

Let's take a fan brush.

And, let's outline where our major waves are going to be.

Here's one back here.

[Bob makes "tchoom" sound] Like that.

That'll be the, the little curl right there.

Now, then.

Clean our little brush.

Now, all we're interested in is what's behind here, so very gently, take this, and I'll exaggerate, we're going to make a, a motion like that.

And I'm exaggerating it there.

But, that'll create the trough between the waves.

That easy.

And back here, same thing.

See already, you begin to get the impression of waves there, and you haven't done hardly a thing.

It's a very, nice, easy way of making a, a little wave that's quite effective.

There we go.

Nice, clean brush.

Now, let's take, we'll take a little Titanium White, the least, little touch of the Cad Yellow into it.

And we're just going to use the old filbert brush.

What the heck?

Load some color on it.

Let's go right up in here.

Now, let's do the eye of the wave.

That's always the most fun part.

That's what everybody wants to do immediately.

So let's do it and get it out of the way.

Put a little color in there and just scrub it in.

Just scrub it in.

Now you can do this several times to achieve a, a desired lightness, if you need be.

There.

Now we'll take a clean and be sure it's really dry.

If nothing else, wipe your brush on some paper towels, and then feel it to make sure it's good and dry.

It's important.

If it's not dry, it's going to just, it'll all go together.

Now just put the tip of the brush right here, and just turn the handle.

It sort of just winds it up.

And you can't believe.

See there?

Good shot, good shot.

You can't believe how smooth it will, it'll make it.

There.

There was a time I would never have believed you could have painted paintings like this using great, big brushes, but you can.

You really can.

There.

Now, then.

Let me wipe off my little filbert brush, and we can begin working on the foam.

For that, we'll take a little white, a little of that lavender color, what the heck?

There we go.

That's a nice color.

A little of that lavender and white.

And let's go up in here and think about where the foam's going to be.

We'll put in right here.

And just scrub it in.

[Bob makes "tch" sound] Think about that water crashing and having fun.

And this is the shadow we're putting in now.

We'll come back in a minute and put in all the highlights, but this is just the shadow, just to give us an idea of where the foam's going to turn and curl.

Now, go back to our fan brush, put Titanium White on it, and we can begin putting that nice, sparkly area behind.

Just let that wave crash right over.

[Bob makes "tch" sound] It really, it really helps if you make these little noises.

There we go.

Now.

We can go back to our little filbert brush that has some white on it.

Now, we can come in here and put the goodies on.

[Bob makes "tch" sound] Just splash those in there.

Wipe your brush off when it picks up some of the color.

We'll let it just barely break the horizon there.

Now, back to our large brush and we want to just blend that foam together, very gently.

You could use the one inch brush for this if you're a little more comfortable with it.

It's sort of an individual choice.

I seem to get along better with this old big brush, though.

Now if you want to create the illusion of little things splashing up in there, just take the color you've picked up on the brush and just touch.

See, it'll make all those little splashes and they're usually there.

They're usually in there.

Alright.

Let's let that wander right on off into nothing over there.

Okay.

Now, then.