There's one way to make the art world better-- improve your art!

[piano plays in bright rhythm & tone] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ There's one way to improve the art world-- improve your art!

Oh, we already said that!

[laughs] That's great.

So today we're going to do a "Morning Visit."

I want to show you the complete painting.

This is the completed painting, and we're going to do the first stage today, stage one.

We have a priming of 1 Payne's Gray, 1 Permanent Green Light, and 6 White.

Gee, I almost forgot, been using it all the show, So bear with me, thank you for being there.

Those of you at home were you are trying to prompt me?

Thank you, I could feel your prompting.

What I want to do first is just to tell you something about this.

I don't know what to call her name, because when I first did a portrait of this gal at the river, it was one of my art students, an adult, and her name was Renée.

Now, beautiful Renée died early, maybe, oh I don't know how many years after that, 8 years after that.

No direct relationship, of course.

Then my Brenna, who is my granddaughter, came over and she posed like that in the living room!

So it's a combination of the two.

Anyway, there's a story that you can carry with you.

Let's take some of our Emerald Green.

We saved some from last week.

I don't have any of the mixtures from last week; I was experimenting a little bit, but this is going to be this week.

So I have Umber equal with the Green.

I'm going to put out, I didn't have enough Cadmium Yellow.

Oo, I love these colors.

I love the colors, and I love the names of them.

So it's 1 Green, 1 Umber, 1 Yellow and 1 White.

This is merely to help us-- I'll hold this up there-- I need a little more Yellow, so we'll double the Yellow amount, 2 Yellow.

Dip into the Walnut Oil.

The reason I'm dipping into the Walnut Oil is because I did not put Walnut Oil on the whole thing to start with.

And you say, well, why didn't you?

I don't know.

We'll have to ask Barb.

Oo, that looks good.

Now, I've put on the drawing what you will be able to see if you get the DVD.

Since you've gotten the DVD, if you get the DVD.

I keep thinking, this is PBS!

This goes across the country.

A little bit in-between the arm and the hair, a little bit here.

I felt doing it this way would make it so that I can judge the flesh color and her dress color against the green just a little better.

That may not necessarily be so, but that's the way I chose to do it... even though we'll put some character into this later.

Okay, that's plenty there.

I like the way you look already!

Brenna Renée.

So as far as the flesh color, let's go to that next.

I have a nice badger bristle.

And I'm going to bring over some Azo Orange, some Burnt Umber, that's equal parts, and some White.

Let's see if the White is also equal.

Looks like it.

Oh, gee, that's pretty good.

I'm going to choose to go a little bit more Umber.

So I have decided now, 2 Umber.

and 1 of the Orange and 1 of the White.

You can experiment around, you can find that sometimes you might want to make it a little lighter depending on the nationality of the person, ethnicity.

Oh, that's a great color.

That looks so good against the green Now, when I do this, I'm very fortunate to have the drawing there, but make sure you go out so the line is kind of disguised.

I don't really mind it being a little bit showing for a little character.

Now, this doesn't come in quite as far as that.

I'm looking at the model.

So I'll have the flowers that come up close to there.

So let's see, what else?

Okay, down on the leg.

Renée was such a great person.

She was in my art class that I taught, and I'd come by, and she'd need some help maybe on painting a seascape.

I'd sit down, and she'd say, oh, that's perfect!

Perfect!

I'd go on, help the others, come back to her, and she had changed it.

I said, you said it's perfect, why did you change it?

[laughs] I don't know how she answered that.

I don't remember.

But that was so funny.

Just a little bit, like that.

Now, I was talking about up above where I came over and kind of disguised that line a little bit.

I haven't done it here, because when I disguise that, the lines on the bottom of the feet in the back of the leg, I would want to go a little darker color.

So that's what I'll use to do that.

Okay, let's come on her neck... chest.

This is so nice.

I'm glad I didn't put any Walnut Oil on to start with.

I seem to have a little more control by doing it a little more dry brush.

What I like doing, and I just did it there, when I put this on, I put it on, then as I flatten it, it kind of widens just right so you can control it by knowing the right time to flatten it, to widen it, and then to lift it for more narrow areas.

I'm just wondering on that hand.

I'm going to go ahead and use this same brush.

So the little finger that's right there... the thumb.

Okay now, let's put some on her face.

It looks like she's saying I've got a headache, Buck, help me.

Make me look good; make me look perfect.

Since I'm talking about teaching and being a teacher, I want to mention something that is very important to me.

I may have mentioned it before, but that's all right.

After 20 years of PBS, I might repeat a few things.

Fair enough?

And that's this.

Each one, see, I was Renée's teacher.

But you need to make sure that you're not doing what I call the teeter-totter method Here's a teeter-totter.

I could teeter-totter with my kids, I could have 3 or 4 there and me.

It depends on where I was on the teeter-totter in order to make it work.

But I would go down, they would go up.

I'd move in, they go down, I go up.

That's great, but don't do it with your art teachers.

You don't pull somebody else down to make your art teachers look better, or your art look better.

Appreciate it all!

That's my teeter-totter technique for today.

Okay, let's take now just some Burnt Umber straight.

This is going to be the start of the hair.

And both Renée and my Brenna have nice dark hair.

Very similar.

And this goes out.

You know, here's the thing that's so important to me as I paint things-- watch your edges.

You say okay, that's the edge of the hair, but what's hair like?

It's soft, it's soft, it can move.

See, I'm painting hair from memory.

I don't have as much as I used to!

But that's okay, what I have is for somebody else to look at.

I don't have to look at myself.

Right?

Okay, let's come down over here.

And we'll come between the thumb.

I think I just knocked the thumb down a little bit, so we'll come back and put just a little bit more of the thumb in there.

Good.

Good job.

Thumb surgery.

I'm softening that slightly with the finger, just washing that.

I'm going to continue with the hair down just a little bit more.

This is right in here.

That nicely comes across the arm.

Use it as a little bit of shadow under the chin as well.

I'll take this small round brush, and just spot in.

I want the Umber, but I want it to blend quite a bit.

This is in the eye.

Hm, just a little bit more paint.

I didn't want to make it too dark, and in so doing I made it closed.

There you are.

Okay, on this side.

♪ You're a beauty.

♪ And we all give her not much under the nose, just maybe a little bit, and just a small suggestion of where the lips are starting.

I'm going to round, let's see, I've change my mind.

I'm going to use the round brush, and on the hair I want to come down just a little bit so she has more on the forehead.

Okay, I'll leave her momentarily.

Are you sure you want to leave her momentarily?

Let's just narrow this a little bit more.

Give her just a little less of a Paulson chin.

Okay, I have some Phthalocyanine Blue Red Shade You will be tested on that later.

Okay, I have one part of that.

Let's see, I think it will be easier if I add into the White.

I have the big White, and this is about 1/5th White.

Let's put some more Blue in, and hold that up.

Oh my gosh, Buck, you did a good job!

So coming back with the bristle brush, I'm cleaning the brush.

And I've said this before, if you just dip in and squeeze it off, then you're not going to make your cleaner, your Walnut Oil won't all be muddy.

Okay, taking this, I'm going to take just a touch of Walnut Oil on it to help it spread.

Mm.

♪ You are a beauty.

♪ A little bit over the shoulder.

Oh, we spent a lot of time on her, I hope we can... be sure and come back next week.

We'll put just a little bit over there, a little bit just to show a little form there.

A little bit in here also helps with the feeling of form.

She looks like she has a boxing glove on.

It's going to be a bouquet pretty soon.

All right, let's see what we have.

We all have just a little bit of the green that we put around on the outside.

We'll put just a little bit in there.

It'll make it possible for us to throw some flowers in there.

And for the flowers, what to I have?

I have a Naphthol Red, Naphthol Red and White, one-on-one, 1 to 1 And I'll have some of it that's going to have even more Red.

And when I say that, it's pure Red.

So have some a little bit darker and some a little bit brighter.

This comes over quite a ways there.

Okay, let's put on the waterfall.

Excuse me, when I say the waterfall, yes.

I'm going to first take some green.

I have this light green that we made.

We'll add a little Permanent Green Light here and a little Yellow.

So that's Permanent Green, 1 part, 2 parts Yellow.

And I'll have this so that we can judge the waterfall And the way I want to do on the other side is take some of the Burnt Umber.

And I like using what I've just done.

The little green still in the brush works so well.

I'm going to take some of the blue, let's see, this is her blue.

I'm taking 1 White and 1 of that mixture of blue.

Just a small amount of sky showing, both there and over here.

And let's take a large brush, well, it's not a large brush.

I guess what I'm saying is a large amount of oil, and come down with the blue through there.

I need to wipe just a little bit there because some of the water is coming down from the side.

Now, what I find sort of needed on most paintings that I see that have a waterfall it isn't just... Wham!

You watch the water as it comes down, and I'm taking White and when I say White, I'm hoping I have just a touch of blue still on the brush, so you always have that chance to go lighter.

So I'll put this on, but you kind of watch this path.

Here it's a little more narrow, then it jumps out again over here.

Then we have some of this that is coming from the side and down here close to her.

Then it hits the bottom, and it goes each way.

So those are there, I won't do anything else to them right now.

Let's go ahead with some green on the left side.

I'm taking some Umber, and I'm mixing in with this greenish color that I have.

And see, it's a little more golden green, which is nice, a nice variation from the other side.

Hurry Buck, hurry, hurry.

Ah, she needs something to stand on, so I'll just put a little bit of this over there.

That just suggests a little dark.

It kind of makes it so you have the focus on her.

I'll put a little dark in here too.

She is the focus.

Then up above, some of the green and Umber.

A little more the Umber.

And the distance.

Ah!

Okay now, this that we've put on for the foam, I have a nice bunny brush.

Oh, I love that brush.

I've loved it for years and years.

A soft, soft touch.

And you feel, you want to feel like you're in the water.

How is it moving?

Is it moving fast, is it banging against the side, is it hitting little bumps?

Okay, let's put just a little work on her.

Rock-- what color do we have there?

It looks like Umber and White and a touch of Red.

More Umber, more Umber.

Renée, It's not quite perfect, but you were.

You are.

We'll put a little Umber on the side Come on Umber, do your stuff.

Okay, we're going to have to say good-bye to you.

As we say good-bye, let just a little foam come down there.

Thank you for watching!

You come back next week and we'll make her beautiful.

See you later, bye-bye.

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