 Funding for Painting Journeys is provided by Veritas. Financial Knowledge is Power. Be Empowered. God's beauty is all around us and my goal as an artist is to capture and interpret that beauty on canvas and to take you, the viewer, along with me on this painting journey. Welcome to the show. My name is Kitty Lynn Klisch and this is Painting Journeys. And we're taking a journey today to Laguna Beach in Southern California. If you've never been there, well, you're going to enjoy this show. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm just kind of blocking in the painting, the drawing, and I didn't like what I did. So I'm working a little, working it over a little bit. Let me tell you about my colors. I have on my palette, starting with my white, my warm colors are all down here. My white, my yellows, my reds, and then I go into my greens, then into my blues, violets, and then paints gray. I never use black. Okay? And so from that, I mix all the colors I need. Right now I was just trying to sketch this in, kind of have an idea of where I wanted to go with this particular painting. I would say that this is more of a study of a rock and wave study than an actual studio type painting. And the reason I'm doing it today is because with only an hour, it doesn't really give me much time to complete a painting. And I want to see if I can finish this study today. So anyway, as you can see the water, right now I'm starting to block in some of the darks. As you can see the water is, has a little bit of a dark greenish hue to it. As opposed to the painting that right here that I did, this is of the Italian Riviera. The water was very blue and today seeing the water has more of a greenish hue. So that's what I want to try to get in here. And so I'm taking a little cooler green and adding just a little bit of white to it. Okay, now I bet you this is going to be much better. Once again, this is Katie Lynn Klisch. You're watching painting journeys and I'm really glad you joined us today. So hang in there and when we're done, hopefully we'll have a painting. Can you hear the scratch of my brush there as it's working? Let me tell you a little bit about Laguna Beach. I'm a California girl. I was born there, lived there quite a few years. And one of my favorite places to go in the summertime was Laguna Beach. It's just really beautiful. There's such a contrast of color and the plants and the landscape, the cliff sides and the rocks. It's not like Newport. Newport is quite flat, so is Balboa. But Laguna is wilder and the rocks stick out in the water like this. And it's very exciting watching them come in. Right now I'm just going to try to block in something here that I can go back in and paint over. I just want to get some color on this canvas. Anyway, I had the opportunity to travel to Southern California this past summer. And I hooked up with a dear friend who's been a friend of mine for I don't know how long. And we went, of course, to Laguna, our old haunt. And it was just so glorious being there with the friend sitting on the beach, watching all the people. And just to see it once more after all these years. I've lived in Wisconsin now for 26 years, so it was a real treat to go back. It's like going home in a way. There's some real dark wave action in there. And this is even darker yet. So as I'm saying, we went and we were walking around going to our usual haunts. Had a nice lunch, watched the volleyball players on the beach. They have leagues. Of course, they're all very good at what they do. But mostly, I just photographed because I wanted to bring what I was seeing back to share with you the viewer. I wanted to share my love of this area and the ocean with you as we journey across this canvas. This is a little bit lighter. It seems to be a little bit bluer. You know, sometimes you may have the best of intentions, but you just don't hit the mark. But that's okay. You don't want to give up. Just keep working it out, working it out. And sooner or later, it'll start looking like something. And then if it doesn't, then we just take it home and wipe it off the canvas and try again another day. But I think this will work out okay. It's more violet. The vegetation along the coastline there in Laguna is quite a mixture. You see some cactus, palm trees of course. But then you'll also see flowers like the type that you see here in the Midwest. It's kind of a mixture of vegetation. Well, let me just show you a picture here. Are you going to stay there? Now this is a really nice picture. And it shows what I'm talking about with the cactuses and the yellow. Now that's definitely a Midwestern type flower. And then you see the greenery over here. And of course the water looks a little bluer here. This one here, this picture here. Now this shows you a little bit more of the type of plants that are there. I guess you would call them succulents, but they have a super amount of color to them. And when you are standing there and you're looking at this, the landscape, and then you look beyond and see the sand and the ocean, it's absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. I really enjoy being in that area. So now let's get back to this. And we don't want to take up too much of our time fussing with this. We've got to get some darks in here, though. And I'm just not hitting the mark yet, but I think I will. I think I will. I have a little train that's going, I think I will, I think I can, I think I can, yeah. That's me today. Alrighty here. Just bear with me, though. Don't leave me, don't leave me out here hanging by myself. Just bear with me. You can go no place, you can't go any place but up. It'll get better. See, and I don't really want to put any white up in this area here because I want to save that for my lighter areas of paint to show the waves, the top of the waves. And, you know, the wave itself has an anatomy, there's an anatomy to a wave, and you have to understand that. Artists have to study the ocean for many, many years to really understand how the water is moving. And when you come to a place like Laguna, where the water is going in every different direction imaginable, it can be confusing, overwhelming even to try to paint that. I'm just going to come down here. This is getting lighter in here. Now I had a viewer from New Jersey contact me and she asked that I, she said she loved the show, but she asked that I please tell the viewers what colors I'm using when I mix. And I'm really sorry to say that I can't really do that because, I mean, I'll try to as I go along, but most of the time I'm moving so fast and it's so instinctual that if I took the time to say, well, now this is the Viridian Green and now I'm using the Alizarin Crimson, it would just, you know, it would be very distracting and I don't believe it would flow as well for me as the creator or you as the audience. But I really appreciated hearing from the viewer in New Jersey and I hope that she'll continue to watch the show even if I cannot accomplish what she thought she would like me to do. So there we go. A lot of quick movement in here. And okay, and I'm going to save this up there for later. Now down here, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to put in the sand because I think it's, yeah, I want the sand to set up a little bit while I'm working on those rocks and then so I can come back in with the water that's over it. Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. Alrighty, big decisions, big decisions. And we'll take a knife here and we'll make up some nice sand color. Now as I look at that, I'm seeing there again a little violet. We want to make the painting harmonious and then it's dulled with some gold. Ooh, I made hot pink. Wow, beautiful, beautiful color, but it doesn't look like sand. Let me see here. Let's try a little blue in there. And let's see what we can, what kind of a mess we'll make here. All right, a little white. All right, now we have a beautiful icy blue and we're going to put some more yellow ochre in it. No, we'll put a little bit of orangey red in it there. Let's see how that looks. Okay, it's turning, it's turning. I want to watch the progression of what happens when you put different things in the paint, the different colors. You can see, I hope you can see anyway, what is happening. Now if I take my knife and I put it up here and I put it next to that, you can see that this is my, what is here, needs a little more of an orangey look to it. It needs to be warmed up just a bit, just a bit. Now is that too much? No, it's not, see? It's right on. Just what we wanted. And all those changes that that paint went through, as I added the different colors to it to make that, you'd never believe that it's going to turn out okay, but an educated guess every once in a while does help. Okay, now I'm just going to put this on really quick because I don't want to take any more time than necessary. It's just going to be really quick put on here. And I want it thin because I want to put that water over it. I'm sorry about the annoying sound of the brush. Now I can come back in and I can lighten some places and make it look more warmer or cooler just by adjusting the temperature of the paint on my palette. But for right now, we just want this to look like a thin coating and it'll hopefully set up for us and that'll be the last area that we come back to. I do see some dark shadow underneath the rocks on this side that is kind of like making the rock, casting a shadow in the water just ever so slightly. And so we want to try to be sure and get that in. It's very important to have our shadows in the darks that kind of help to set the object down onto the canvas. This is coming down here like this. And it needs a little warmer look to the shadow. So I'm adding a little more red to my dark here, especially right in here. Oh yeah, okay. There, that's quite nice. And then we soften that edge out a little bit to make it look like it's more of a shadow. And then there's some shadow over here and a little bit down here. And if I go like this, then it kind of helps it to look a little more like a... All right, now... Okay, so I want my rock right in here to be much bigger. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my wipeout tool and I'm going to come up here and I'm going to wipe this out right here and I'm going to redraw this and be more careful because this rock... Oh, not up that far. This rock I want to be a little more important. All's fair in when you're painting all's fair. You want to use your fingers, use your fingers. You want to use a brush or a knife, use that. Anything that works, that's what you want to have at your disposal when you are painting in... Okay, now where's that brush I had with the blue on it? Oh, there it is. Okay, see I want this to come down a little bit here. Even lighter, yeah. All right, yeah, this is going to come down and you see there's nice and light in there and I see that, so I want to make sure that I have the right value next to each other because that's what helps tell the story. Now then, this little rock here, that's coming down, that's coming like that and then it comes over here and then there's a little piece that comes out there and then I see a little piece coming up here like this and then this isn't so mounted or so high, it goes down a little bit further right in here. I'm trying to be very careful to get my rock to look like the rock that's up there. I could just put anything up here but that wouldn't really represent what I'm painting and we don't want to do that. Okay, now I think right over in here we've got some nice pale green right in here, too dark. It's even a little bit lighter right in there. It looks like it's a little more of a sap green or a yellow green. That's coming up like that and then of course there's the water, the foam line and that makes a big difference right there and then this breaks it up then and there's foam in there. I want to do this because I want to make this have some movement going the other way here and then this is all foam up in here. There's a little bit of violet. I'm thinking so hard and probably whispering and I don't mean to be okay, let's see. Right up underneath this foam here I'm seeing violet and I'm just going to put it in there and I see some down in here, too and I definitely see some violet over here, right in here. Okay, now let's get this rock going here and I think that I will put the dark in take the dark, I'm going to take that Pains Grey mix a little bit of alizarin crimson with it, okay. Here we go. This is very very dark right in here. I need a smaller knife. There we go. Some dark coming up in here and some dark coming up in there. Now there's not too much, not too much of it we had to brown it up a little bit here a little darker right in there. This is quite near. I think I need to just go back to the brush. Here we go. Brush dance a while. There we are. And then it's coming down here. We have a little rock coming here. There's some dark shapes. Just looking for the dark shapes right now that are the light is obviously coming from the west of which would be behind these rocks. It's behind and kind of coming down at an angle like so and so that's why this side of the rocks are all dark. Coming up into here. All righty. Take that paint off so that it doesn't contaminate what we're putting on here. Some dark up in here and then right in here. Probably would have done better to just have blocked the whole thing in dark and then come up with my highlights that might have been a better choice to make with this. That's what painting is all about. It's about making choices and sometimes you know you'll make a choice and it won't work and you'll have to switch gears but that's okay. You learn from that. You learn something from it. Every time there are no mistakes. There are only lessons. And boy are we learning them today. Wow. So anyway, okay let's see here. Let's start getting some darker or lighter stuff on this and I want this to kind of like soften down here because it's supposed to be going into the water here on the edge. There we go. There's some bright right in here, the sand. Now then we'll come with a little more red. So now then there, okay. One of the really interesting things that happened that day while we were there at the ocean at Laguna was there was lifeguard school going on and it was really, really something to behold because there was all these boys and girls and they were all lined up in the water sitting on the edge of the water and they each had their hand, their arm around their neighbors so they were like so. Everybody was like this, okay. Well, let me just show you a picture. It was really, really something to see. There was a big wave coming, a picture here. There was this big wave coming and here they were all lined up, okay. Whoops. And they've all got their arms around the back of each other. They're all in their t-shirts except for some of them and they're waiting for this great big wave to wash over them and they're going to try to hold their place, I guess. It was really a very, very interesting lesson there to see them all sitting in a row like that. I asked my friend, I said, whatever in the world are they doing? And she said, oh, it's lifeguard school. They have to, this is the way they train. So pretty brave, pretty brave, especially since some of them look like they were not very old. Okay, I'm trying to mix up a nice warm sort of look for the light parts of the rocks that I'm seeing up here. Just a little light, you know, where the light is hitting on the tops of them here, over here, and up in here. And then, of course, there's areas down here where the light is, too, because the rocks are all over the place as far as having shapes that vary and small shapes, large shapes. Yeah, it's... And I think I want to take my knife now and give that knife a try now and come up with some good-looking rocks here. Make them look a little... Okay, now this is a nice flat area on that one. And then there's another little flat area coming right here. And there's some flat coming in there. I hope you're enjoying this. I hope it's beginning to feel like the ocean to you. There's a little red there, a little too red. We need to tone that down. All right, let's see here. There we go. And I think that it probably wouldn't hurt to have some blue in here in the rocks, too, because the water is coming over them. That may be something that I have to do when the paint is drier. Sometimes it just won't allow you to... You get too much paint on it. It just will not allow you to put anything over it without it turning muddy, mixing with what's below. That's why I wanted to let this area set up a little bit before I tried to do any brushwork as far as putting in the water on these guys. If I don't get this done today, I will take it home and I will finish it in my home studio and I'll bring it back on our next show. I'll show you what it looks like when it was completed. I always try to do that for you, the viewer, so that if you watch the next show, you'll have an idea of how the painting turned out and any changes that I may have had to make on it. I think that's important for you to see the finished work because oftentimes I'm not able to finish it on the show here. I guess when I step back a little bit, it's starting to look a little bit like a bunch of rocks. It needs some more highlights on it, but in order to get it light enough, I have to make sure that the other parts are dark enough. That's another important thing with painting is in order for something to be light, you'd think you'd add more light paint, but you don't. You make your darks darker and then the light part shows up better. You seem to be like rocks and things coming out here. I want to take some of this dark here and spread this down here. I'm going to try to take a little bit of the white and the blue. See if we can just get just a little bit of the haze here of the water right in here. There's some water. This area right here doesn't look right to me. I'm going to cut that off. Well, maybe I am. Maybe I'm not. There we go. There's that blue brush. That doesn't look right. I wouldn't doubt wipe it out. That's what my teacher always told me. Boy, I'm really mumbling today, aren't I? Sorry about that. Sometimes you think whatever in the world made you think you could do this. Okay, all right. Let's soften that down just a little bit and that too. Okay. Now I think we'll put just a little bit more dark in it. Now that I want to get up here, get underneath that wave and it has a little tiny bit of violet in it and that viridian green. The anatomy of a wave is quite interesting. I'm going to show you a picture of that in a minute here as soon as I get this on here. This is coming right down in here too and there needs to be more action in it. It needs more paint. I'm just talking to myself. Just talking away here. Make another brush. Come under here and I'm going to make this darker. Right under there. We want that very, very dark right there and right here, dark. This right here becomes a lighter green and it seems to be coming down into this and we've got a lot of crisscross things in it. Need a bigger brush. Water movement in here. This is much lighter back here. Oops. It makes it good. There we go. It needs to be just a little more violet. There we go. Yeah, there we go. It's like the shine. There's a shine on it back here. The water is making the shapes. Put this over here too. I'm working hard. I am working hard. Or am I hardly working? What is it here? Let's see here. Okay, now that gives us the feeling of that water back there and then we want some of this light to come in between here to show this dark shape right there. Okay, and then there's this light coming right in here. Okay, now then this needs to be lighter at the top. I think maybe I'll just add just a little bit of the yellow to it right here to show right up in there that there's a little bit of a light warmth up in there and the top part of that water and now we'll go down into the darker part. We'll just, oops, that's not dark enough. Okay, let's see here. Then we have that little bit of violet coming back into this, this behind here. Now I want to put just a little more of the white on this wave part right in here this breaking and coming out here. There's a little bit breaking right there. This is all coming down in here like so. This right here, oops, wrong one. Is that the wrong one? Hmm, where that brown came from. Okay, all right, let's see here. There I am racing against the clock. I just got the 15-minute signal and racing against time here. I know what I want to do. Can I do it though? Are you with me? Are you sticking with me here as I'm journeying across this canvas and trying to give you my impression of what the Pacific Ocean looks like? There's some darks in there and there's darks coming up underneath here. Under here there's dark. Okay, let's go down here below and get a little bit of water mark on the sand and that's going to come out like so. Not real thick, a little bit that's coming over here. There's more coming here. This is kind of interesting on this side right here because it's like it's coming down like a swirl and that's really interesting looking and interesting pattern makes you wonder what was it about the water or the sand or whatever right there that created that circle-like impression in it. Be careful because I'm picking up what's below beneath and it's making my paint muddy. Now let's see here. We can just touch this with the lightest of hand and keep cleaning the brush and that'll help a lot. There's a lot of water action right in this area. That circle coming around. You know, I am really enjoying myself. I'm having fun. I may not look like it but I'm having fun and I hope you're enjoying it too. I really do. It's a battle. It's a battle with a brush but it's fun. I love it. And I especially love being able to share it with you and share my travels and my stories and my creative process. I love to being able to share that with you and I'm really glad you joined today. At least I hope you're still there. Let's just soften this out a little bit here. Make it not be so. I always say less is more but I always get carried away. We'll fix that later and save it for another day. I want to get more water on this right up in here. There's a way that you can take your brush and just stand back and load the brush with lots of paint and just spatter it. And that's a lot of fun especially if you're working on a painting that is like where the water is crashing over the rocks and we'll have to do that sometime too. Try that technique. This is kind of coming this way. And we do have that little bit of water there and we do have some dark up here. Still there's that little bit of dark right in there and some dark right here. Right in here it seems like the water wants to come down like so. Like it's coming into here. Same way with here. There's little bumpy things and little highlights as that water is coming down. There we go. That kind of comes up like that and then down. I see right here kind of goofed up with this edge right here. That doesn't look like that. So I'm just going to wipe that out right here and let that come down with the water there. It'll give that a better shape too. And my handy little wipe out tool is one of my best buddies to paint with, I'll tell you. And this is nice and light down here too because it's foamy and it's kind of hitting me against these rocks right in here. Boy, that brown, I'll tell you, it just really bleeds. But that's all right. I'll fix it later. We have something that looks like anything here. I hope so. Let's see here. Maybe we can put just a little more violet right in here. Just kind of picking around here trying to as the clock winds down a little more movement right in there. This area here. That just looks so in need of a nice dark color in here. Does that help any? I hope so. Can I do it? I just got the five minute sign so what do I do? I put brown up here in my blue. Okay, let's see here. This fixes. This is getting to be ridiculous, kitty. Well, anyway, if you ever get the chance to go to Southern California, you won't want to miss. Trust me, you will not want to miss a trip to Laguna Beach to walk along the cliffs and look down and see the water, see the beautiful water crashing against the rocks, the wildness of it, the free-ness of it. That's why it's so important that we take care of our oceans and our waterways. Just a little little bit more right coming right in here and maybe just a little bit in here. A little drizzle. A little drizzle in there. Can we get it? There we go. Because we kind of want to get the rock to you know, to kind of have a few highlights on it so that it looks like the water is coming over it and washing over it and down. Right in here too. Just a little bit and a little bit running down there. I think that kind of helps to give the feeling. This was a tough one today. It was a tough one. I hope you stuck it out and I hope you enjoyed the show and I hope you'll join me next time. Once again, my name is Kitty Lynn Klisch and this is Painting Journeys and today is Painting Laguna Beach in Southern California and we did a little rock study jutting out of the beach there at the on the Pacific Ocean so with that I'll say bye bye for now and thank you for joining me. Funding for Painting Journeys is provided by Veritas Financial Knowledge is Power and we hope to see you again next time.