[Music] Hi.

Welcome back.

Certainly glad you could join us today, because I thought today, maybe we'd just do just a little fantasy painting, one that's very nice, very simple, and I think you'll enjoy it.

We're going to use a lot of pretty colors, and we'd just do something that makes you happy.

So let's start out today and have them run all the colors across the screen that you need to paint along with us.

Now, come on up here, and let me show you what I've got done already.

I took my standard old pre-stretched, double primed canvas, and I'm using 18 by 24, but you use whatever size is convenient, and I've taken black gesso on a natural sponge and just sort of did this all over with the black gesso.

Then I've allowed the black gesso to dry completely, and on top of that, we've covered the entire canvas with a very, very thin coat of the liquid clear, and the clear just makes it wet.

That's the only reason it's there.

It allows us to actually blend the color right here on the canvas.

So let's start out today with, we'll use a little two inch brush, and just have some fun.

Maybe, maybe we'll start with just a touch, just a touch of the Indian yellow.

And we'll go right up in here.

It doesn't take much, just a little.

And we'll just put in a little touch of color, right along there.

Something about like that.

Very, very little.

All right.

Just a, just a nice warm color.

Without cleaning the brush, I'm going to add a little bit of the yellow ochre, and go right above it just to give it a little, a little golden color.

There.

About like that.

Okay, maybe, tell you what, tell you what, without cleaning the brush, let's just use a little bit of Alizarin crimson.

Not much, doesn't take much.

And since we're doing a painting that has a lot of beautiful colors in it, we'll just use these gorgeous, gorgeous colors.

When you do this, maybe you want to try it in some other colors or some other flavors.

It's up to you.

I just want to show you one way of making a very, very pretty little painting.

There we are.

Now then.

Just blend that together a little bit, and we're in business.

And that's really about all I'm going to do for this little sky.

Okay, I've got several of these little two inch brushes.

Let me grab another one.

Now, down here on the bottom, I'm going to take a little bit of phthalo blue and phthalo green, just mixed together.

A little green, a little blue, both in the phthalo colors.

As I say, I want to play with color today.

Just do something that makes you feel good.

We'll go up in here, and maybe down in here, we'll just go across and put some of this gorgeous color in.

Isn't that just a delightful color?

It's pretty, makes you happy.

There.

And all these colors that we've used are fairly transparent.

Some of them are very transparent.

But all of them are transparent enough that you can see this black design that we put on here right through them.

And we'll just cover that all up.

We'll make big decisions later on, what goes where, and anything we don't want, we just cover it up because, as you know, we don't make mistakes.

[chuckles] We just have happy accidents.

Time to wash your brush.

That's my favorite thing.

Wash it off with odorless paint thinner, shake it, [laughs] and just beat the devil out of it.

You can change the decor of a room very quickly if you're not careful doing that.

I suggest, if you're going to do this at home, maybe get a little brush beater rack, and put it in the bottom of a wastepaper can, and then you can shake the brush off in the can, and then beat the rack.

It's all contained.

It'll save your happy home and your marriage.

Let's take, let's take some Prussian blue, Alizarin crimson, and some black.

Pretty heavy, pretty heavy on the crimson though.

I'm sort of looking for lavender, sorta.

Okay, pull it out very flat like so.

Cut across, get a little roll of paint right on the edge of your knife.

There.

Tell you what I want to do, I want to take a little bit of that, put some white with it.

Maybe we'll make a little mountain that's far away, and then we'll make one that's closer, show you how to do that with the same color.

Put white in a little bit of it, and get a little roll of paint, there we are.

Now maybe, if we want to make a distant mountain, just take the knife, and put in a very basic little shape.

And the further away you want it to look, the more white you add to it, because, when it's far away, it'll be very light in value.

Scrape off all the excess paint.

Just really get in there and scrape it.

With a clean, dry brush, then you want to grab that and pull it.

Once again, because we have the clear on there, you can move this color.

You can literally pull it all over the canvas.

There.

And very gently here, we'll just blend it all together so it's very soft, and very far away.

Just a happy little mountain that lives way back in the distance somewhere.

There we are.

All right.

And that's all I'm going to do, because I don't want a lot of detail in the mountain that's far away.

Now we go to the solid dark color,