- Hi, I am outside in a gorgeous place and just finished this sketch and I'm gonna show you how to do it, how you get the equipment out, how you use it, how you even set it up so you know what you're gonna put on the piece of paper.

It's not really involved and everything winds up coming out of this one little bag so I don't have to carry anything else except the seat I'm setting on.

And it's really comfortable, it's fun.

Come along and enjoy (happy music) - [Speaker] Funding for this program is provided by Sedona Hypnosis LLC, healing your past, creating your Future.

Muriel Walsh Estate Sales representing people is our business.

And by viewers like you - I'm out in a park in Grand Rapids and John Ball Park.

I'm just looking around sort of, I'm looking at what I wanna sketch and, gotta figure it out first place.

What's there that I like or don't like?

This is my uh viewfinder and I'm looking over to the right a tad and is that good enough to use?

Mmm get a car now and then, is it a vertical or horizontal?

(geese honking) And what's included?

That the... (chuckles) There are geese running everywhere.

You can't, you can't miss 'em.

So you start with a sketch, and, still looking at it trying to figure out where to put things.

There's a really pretty little yellow tree.

(geese honking) And some of that and, over here it goes; swings up on a red tree and there's a bit of a building.

Nice looking German Shepherd going by right now.

You just can't miss seeing everything that's out here really.

And you gotta keep the pad in the shade.

If you don't, your eyes burn out.

That's, not good.

Just try to get a little bit of a building that's part of this park and just enough of it so it works.

(geese honking) Now there was that red tree that went up.

There's another set of trees that's pretty remarkable.

It's on up in here.

Terrific dark dome.

(geese honking) And this is a dark area but it's got more than that.

It's got something really important in it.

Then sort of keep building in the rest of the sketch.

Look for the darks.

That's the dark coming in there.

It's a real dark.

There's a dark under, the red tree.

Better tilt because it's right in the middle of the page.

It's bad design.

If it, it goes straight down.

So there'll be another one, right about there.

I've got me a bee; at this point it's not a problem.

(chuckles) Now I probably have a ticked off bee.

And you have to kind of be ready for such stuff like that.

Okay, the yellow tree is a beauty.

I got a little hill over here.

And some darks coming through here.

(truck driving) You know when you're outside you may get anything.

I got to understand Van Gogh's, um sweatshirt over his face.

Working in around near Jackson Wyoming.

There wasn't anything that didn't bite.

I watched a deer fly take a hole outta my hand while I was painting with it.

It was that bad.

I literally, thing bit a hole outta my hand.

And if you wore two sweatshirts, I'm still sketching.

If you wore two sweatshirts double, had just your eyes sticking out Then he had enough cover.

That's why he wore that ridiculous looking outfit.

Probably.

It might have been other, other problems.

Okay, that's the upper tree.

Wanna be sure I get that cuz it's cool.

That's light, not dark.

There's a dark over here cuz there's a hill.

Right about coming through here.

And it's dark.

Leave room for your fingers.

Okay.

At this point, to get everything out you simply put the pad under your wing, (cap opening) water's next.

Lid goes on the outside.

You don't wanna put anything down, you put anything down you're likely to leave it behind so you don't.

Paint set is out.

At this point.

You plug any paints back in that might have fallen loose.

Stuff in the lid is of course all for mixing.

Get the brush ready to go.

Then the pad comes back out.

Then it goes right on the lid.

If I need more mixing space or red, it's right there.

Predominant colors.

I wanna be sure, oh this is important.

If you're, have something right over the water you're gonna wreck your brush.

So make sure you don't.

I wanna get some of that very light yellow that's over in here.

And I don't necessarily always start, with a color but I wanna be sure it's in here.

Some of it's over here, not much.

(geese honking) And that weak red; weak really weak, is gonna come through here.

That's all just enough to let me remember.

(geese honking) Those geese are incredible.

Okay, wanna be sure I get these guys up here while I remember what I'm doing.

Cuz I like 'em.

It's very dark; behind these trees.

Very dark.

I bet this is too red.

Nope, that's a good dark.

That is a wicked dark.

It's coming right in there.

Up in here.

As the paint goes out of the brush, there will be less.

That might seem like logic but when you're painting you fo, you forget it.

Get that into solution.

That's a good dark end there.

Wanna get that kind of light edge at the top.

It's sort of a yucky green.

Nothing fancy.

(Car driving) Now I'm not gonna have much time to do what I wanna do next.

This has to get just a tad dryer just a tad to get what I want next.

Again, this is a weak color.

It's a weak green.

It's all coming out of the same brush.

It gets weaker and weaker.

Now I want some dark at the bottom there.

Pick it up here (goose honking) move it.

(Goose honking) That's darker.

This is getting ready.

It's close.

(goose honking) (birds chirping) (children playing) That's what I saw up in there, we'll come over and make the edges look a little bit more realistic.

Branches might cut across there.

That's fine.

That worked.

It's kind of cool when it works.

Okay, now come on down in here and catch more of this little light green tree.

Yellow, green.

Now by this time that wash is dry I'm gonna have to do a little bit of correcting to get the kind of color I want here.

Some of it's over in there.

A tad is down here, (Geese honking) Go a little bit lighter.

Water it down.

But just reach down and grab some water.

That's working out okay.

Now remember there's a red, reddish tree over near by the way the grays.

Grays are wonderful Grays Make your colors work.

There's the one that's there.

(geese honking) (chuckles) I got a chorus; of geese.

It is so fun.

(geese honking) What if they don't like each other?

(geese honking louder) Mmm.

Hahahaha Is that gonna go on?

All, all fall?

(chuckling) - Love it.

(chuckles) We're really close to migration.

And I wonder, does that go on, the whole time they're migrating they argue between clans?

cause that, that's a clan.

Those are clans over there.

You can watch 'em and see different geese come and go.

When they're not arguing.

(car honks) They're, pretty dignified.

(chuckling) This is funny.

Somebody thinks honking at a goose is gonna make it move.

That's about thinking your cat's gonna come when you call it.

It just doesn't work.

By the way, here's a neat thing.

Outdoors.

You can, you can flick.

You can't do that in somebody's nice living room.

(geese honking) It's one things, One of the things I just love about being outdoors.

Ooh, that's wet in wet.

That's what happens.

Now I can't touch that area because it's dripping wet.

Might be able to dry it off a tad.

So the pad is the way the paint set works I probably can get it to go a little flatter and push that up a tad, there so that it'll dry faster.

What's gonna happen here?

I didn't plan on any people or anything like that.

I've got a red building there.

That red is a really nice red.

But I'm gonna go a little bit sharper.

(goose honking) That's too much.

Pick it up.

(car driving) I want more there.

Don't always get, which, they just flow down.

Now I'm gonna want some darks next to it and there're gonna be a couple of whites and I gotta, plan on those whites.

I need a yucky color.

What have I got; going right over there.

(goose honking) You're gonna want a dark; a dark that's pretty nondescript, under the eve.

The building can be dark.

Don't get right next to that.

Outdoors things dry fast so you don't really have to knock yourself out.

(geese honking) Gonna want that a little brighter in the end and I gotta wait for that.

Okay, above it Little bit of blue sky up there.

I'm okay with this tree.

I want that to come down as if they're clouds; then it probably will.

Obviously I had planned something else here.

There must be trees that go behind cuz I wouldn't have that line in the sky.

They're gonna be bluer and lighter and where's the blue?

See if that works.

It's a little, bit strong.

That should water it down.

There's some trees that are farther back.

Put a little bit more color in that set of trees.

Mixed.

What if they're pine trees?

That works.

What if they're pine trees?

Then they're gonna stay dark.

You can move anything; almost.

Okay, then what if, get a little bit more blue in there.

Switch blues, see if this works better.

Yeah, that's blue.

Then in a minute I'm gonna come back and put a little yellow on the bottom.

Probably right now Actually.

Push it.

Because that oughta work in and work out, Work okay.

That's be a, got a real darker cuz I got a branch there.

Is this dry yet?

Gotta check a little bit of bright light.

Sorry about that.

Over in here.

Dead looking bushes.

They don't have much color.

Not that dead.

Little bit more green.

See as you work this stuff out, it just takes time.

And you put something up and you say, mm that's not right.

So you do it again.

I'm waiting for go a little darker down in here.

Darker.

There.

(geese honking) All those geese remind me of having the fun of having some white tailed deer come right up to me, Right up because the wind was in the my favor then they came absolutely up.

There were five of them and because their eyes are in the sides of their heads they have to turn their head like that and like that in order to see what they're looking at.

(geese honking) (chuckles) Just probably leave that.

Little darker.

Don't wanna blow it now.

That'll work.

Then come in here with shadow and sunlight.

And light green, rich light green cuz it's close.

I'm gonna be kidding, quitting this.

That edge is dark.

Come back up and get the edge.

(car driving) Then it gets lighter again over here when you're outside of the shadow.

But this should be out of focus.

And it should be darker beyond it.

So I'm gonna make adjustments there.

Little bit of a trunk.

Another one.

What about over in here?

Are there any trunks over here that can be seen?

Is it dry?

If it's not dry, it's gonna run all over the place.

Slightly brighter red on the posts on the buildings.

That'll do it, for both of them.

Can't put, come in at the roof yet because it's a real wet spot right there.

Now, I'd like to have the sun dry that up really fast but I can't.

Cause I'll have that glare in my eyes and you don't want the glare.

Here comes the bottom of that bush over there because I'm gonna have a light in the foreground.

(cars driving) That's okay I'll.

The bushes in there.

I'd like to get a scrape in there if possible.

Maybe a bit more red, maybe a pretty bit.

What would happen if I put a little more red in there?

Just a bit down low.

That is not a bit.

Look at that run.

Let's see what it does.

(car accelerating) You don't have to be locked in.

That's runny; but I think it'll stop when it gets to the bottom.

This is gonna take you off the side of the paper.

So wipe it out a touch.

It's just fine what it did.

It's running along the bottom.

It's cool.

Now up here, go into a richer, warmer, color cause it's close to you.

It's green.

What happens if I put this yellow in it?

And I do not want to hit, gotta fly.

Don't wanna hit, that spot.

Or it's gonna run like mad.

Come in right below it if possible.

You're gonna have some red in it.

That's okay.

So come back and get some red.

If I know that I've got it over here.

And it's not as garish as this just was.

So pick it up.

Long as you got a little bit of hold on the paper you're just fine.

(bird cawing) Gonna bring some of that in there, some of it in there.

Few little sunspots.

And this is gonna wind up with some shadows.

Can I do the gray yet?

Almost.

Just almost can't quite put it in there yet.

These two little spots here are gonna attract attention.

There's So many things happening in here.

I wanna lighten up my yellow tree.

This is getting into the very end of what you do at the end to make it work a tad better.

There's some of this in here.

There's some really neat effects, happening with the paint itself and you just sometimes have to go with that.

Is any of this, this bright?

No.

Down in there.

Bring some of that, Ah, that's a nice change.

Can I do the hot, the roof yet?

And look, I'm gonna look for a gray.

I want a cold gray.

That's a green gray.

Oh, by the way, if you're wearing sunglasses I forgot to put mine on.

If you're wearing sunglasses when you look at the paint, you actually make adjustments.

I want a light gray.

Cool.

Not totally blue.

It's gonna look blue because of that.

Gonna neutralize it a touch.

Don't want a green.

Still looks like a green.

Bet that makes it more so.

Is that a green?

No, it's blue.

It's okay.

Watch that you don't hit wet things.

(truck driving) (goose honking) Now.

Is there any other characteristic on that building that I need to get?

There's a door in here that's darker.

There's other stuff.

Shadow coming down in there.

Umm, dark in here.

You wanna really see the posts.

And bring the bushes up just a tad more; in front of it.

Well, and then come back in here with a shadow.

Shadows are cast across something.

Is it wet?

Somewhat.

I can see somebody that would be fun right now.

Some of us have macabre sense of fun.

Ooh, that worked.

Do it.

Same thing probably back there.

Got tree branches.

I bet I can do it with this.

Edge of that roof.

That's probably enough.

It may not be the greatest.

They're not always, you know sometimes you get things that aren't too good but we're okay.

I'd quit.

It's fun.

Been outside.

Got to enjoy it.

(happy music) That's the whole thing.

You're out here, you're enjoying the sun.

Keep the shade on your paper.

If you have the sun on the paper it's really really rough on your eyes.

So try to keep the paper in the shades.

That means you have to move it tad.

But thank you for being here and happy sketching.

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- [Speaker] Funding for this program is provided by Sedona Hypnosis, LLC healing your past, creating Your Future.

Muriel Walsh Estate Sales.

Representing people is our business.

And by viewers like you.

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