Certainly glad you could join us today, for this is

the last show of the 22nd Joy of Painting series.

So I'll tell you what, let's start out today, and have them

run all the colors across the screen that you

need to paint along with this.

While they're doing that, let me show

you what I've got planned for today.

Today, as you can plainly see, I have

a canvas here that's painted with a black gesso.

I've allowed it to dry completely, and then

on top of that, put a thin even coat of liquid clear.

We put the clear on there only because it makes

putting transparent color on top of this,

much much easier.

You really don't have to have it, but it makes

your life so much easier.

Then on top of the clear, I put a mixture of

sap green, pthalo blue, and a little Van Dyck brown

to dull it down.

And I thought today we'll just do a happy little scene,

maybe that's deep in the woods.

I've had a lot of requests for paintings that have

big trees in them, so.

Let me just show you an easy, easy way

to do just that.

Let's take an old two inch brush today.

Take the corner of it, just the corner,

and go into a little bit of titanium white.

Then let's go up in here.

Now once again, this has green and blue and

a little brown on it.

So, color will just jump out at you.

All you have to do is just take and put a

little bit of white on there, and watch what happens.

It's beautiful, beautiful.

This is a fantastic painting to do as a demonstration

for friends or relatives or just people who are going to

watch you paint, and dont let them see you put

the color on, and they'll think you started with a

blank canvas, and then you touch it with a little

bit of white, and they'll, they'll absolutely think

that magic is happening.

And, you don't have to tell them any different.

Let them try to figure out how to do it.

But these are truly a joy to do, and the black canvases

might very well be my favorites.

There. Just spin it and work it, keep it going, move it.

Just have fun with it. Just have fun with it, and let it go.

There. Okay.

Now i'll just keep adding a little touch

of white here and there.

And if we're going to have deep, deep woods, this

is a nice way of making a background.

Maybe we'll put some big trees in here.

This is a nice way of making a background

that you can see between the trees,

and it looks like a lot of things that are happening,

and you didn't have to hardly work at all

to do it.

And this is truly the lazy man's way of painting.

That's why I'm here. There.

All right. Now then.

A little bit more on this corner, and let's put a little

over in here too.

Be sure to leave some nice dark areas in here.

Don't just cover it all up. Don't cover it all up.

And the other thing is you can do this

with any transparent color, or semi-transparent color.

It don't have to be totally transparent.

Semi-transparent.

And the way to tell if the paint is transparent,

what i'd do, is just take a little put on my finger

and touch the black.

If it's transparent enough for this,

it'll still look black.

The canvas will still look black.

You will know immediately whether

it's transparent enough to do this.

Some colors, like the cadmium yellow, the white,

are very opaque.

Other colors are semi-transparent, and some

are very tranparent.

So, test a little.

You'll find exactly what you're looking for that way.

All right.

We just sort of wind it up and play with it

here and there.

And when you're doing this, maybe it's a good thing

to step back and take a look-see and

see what it looks like.

If it needs to be blended more, just

blend it a little more.

Sometimes you need to go back and add

some little light spots or you could even

go back with the original color,

the green and the blue, and put dark

back in here if you wanted to.

If you overdo this light.

There.

Just sort of wind it up like a ...

Ok down here at the bottom, I want it to be

much darker, so I'm not putting much color here.

I want it to really look like it's far away.

Something like that.

All right.

Then very lightly just brush across it,

and that will take out the brush strokes and

let you sort of take a look at what you have.

And if you have one that you don't like, or it's

too bright, you can change it.

Or you could move it, anything that you want to do.

Anything that you want to do in here.

All right.

Now then. Maybe, let's find an old thin brush today.

let's go ahead into a little touch of the,

a little touch of the midnight black.

Just load the brush full of color, and let's begin making

a few trees in the background back here.

In my mind I see a tree, it goes right there.

Just pull straight down, applying more pressure

as you work down the tree, and that will give you

a nice trunk, that easy.

That easy.

It's the easiest kind of tree to make there is.

Take a little white, a little white, be right back,

get a little touch of the bright red.

Just a little. It's very, very strong.

Eat up your whole world.

Okay, now, I'm gonna get a little bit more paint,

put it right here, and that one, we'll put

some of the pthalo blue.

Maybe even add a little black to that to dull it.

Thats better. Don't want it too bright.

Use black to dull. There, All right.

Now then. Clean the old knife.

In my world, today, I think the light is coming

from the right.

If you're right-handed, as I've mentioned before,

you will probably find that it's easier to have

the light coming from the right side.

So let's just start off here with the knife, and just

put the indication of a little highlight

right there on the edge here.

There. Now then.

A little bit of the bluish color, I'll put on the back.

Not a great deal. This is just to indicate a little

reflected light.

Now we take a little bit of the pure black,

and touch, all I'm doing is just taking the knife

and touching, just touching.

The canvas will pull of what it wants.

And this way you can blend all those colors together.

And it will actually give this tree texture.

When this painting is dry, you can actually

feel bark on it.

Of course you can feel it while it's wet too,

but it's gonna get all over your finger.

So just wait till it's dry.

Let's take, let's take, get some paint thinner,

go right into a little bit of the black,

a little black, pick a little bit of the dark sienna there.

Once in a while even some of the Van Dyck brown,

just to get a little brownish flavor.

A loaded brush full of color. Okay.

Now then.

We can put just indication here and there.

A few little limbs. Just a few.

Maybe these are evergreen trees out here.

Or whatever kind of trees you want.

Giant redwoods maybe. I don't know.

Just these, just friendly trees.

There. A few little arms sticking out on him.

Now then. We can take us a, here's one.

We'll take us an old two inch brush, and put a little

black on it, a little sap green, go right.

Of course the black and yellow will make green.

But black is once again just used to dull.

Just push. Tap a little color right on there.

And maybe, this little tree up here.

There's a few little limbs, leaves, that are

hanging out here.

Just use the corner of the brush, and sort of tap

some of these little rascals in.

There.

Just think about where little arms would stick out,

little leaves would grow.

It's the easiest way I've ever found of making

very effective, gorgeous trees.

There we are.

It's one of the things that we're doing demonstrations

for charity groups and PBS stations and stuff

around the country. When people see the paintings

that we do up close, one of the things that

I always hear, is that I never realized

there'd be that much detail on it

when I saw it up close.

So this really does work quite well.

It really is an exceptional amount of detail,

believe it or not.

Tell you what. Shoot. I just had another idea.

Maybe, I'll show you a couple of tricks.

Maybe, let's take, let's take, I get excited sometimes,

I begin seeing things in here.

I want to put, yeah, watch here, put a nice little

bush, right back here.

And I want this bush to be in front of this tree.

Show you how to put that little rascal

right back in the woods.

This bush, or collection of bushes, bushes,

lives right there.

Like that.

Maybe, maybe there's another old bush that

lives right here. Just sort of let your imagination go.

Wherever. Wherever.

Maybe might even have a friend here. There.

And, maybe, back here, let's get crazy.

Maybe. Watch, watch.

See here. I'm putting in all kinds of little areas.

There. Just sort of blend them together.

And all I'm doing is just tapping down, here and there.

Adding a little yellow ochre, a little Indian yellow,

a little bright red once in a while.

There. But not much of the bright red.

I think I'll keep this mostly in the greens.

Use the red to dull the green. Just to dull the green.

There we go. Okay. We got a whole bunch of bushes.

And, maybe come in right down here, there's a couple more.

But see already, that tree is being pushed back.

I want to push it back into the forest.

You didn't know you could move trees, did you?

Or maybe you did. Hmm. There we go.

There. Okay. Now.

Let's take ... let's put some trees in the foreground,

and really push everything back.

I'm going right back into the black here.

Maybe ... woozh, be brave. Right there beside.

At the bottom of this one, I'm gonna bring it

farther down.

So everything's behind it.

Everything is behind it.

This is a stronger tree.

Bigger.

And it may just be that it's closer to you, and

thats the kind of impression that we're trying to make here.

That it's just closer to you.

Maybe, maybe he's got a friend.