 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. Hello and welcome to Painting Journeys. My name is Kitty Lynn Klisch and we're in the studio today. I would like to take you back to the painting that I was working on during our last episode. We were in Bayfield, Wisconsin and it was in the fall. I had blocked in the building and the and some of the greenery and some of the trees and everything and then I took it home to my home studio and I worked on it and I finished it. So here's the finished painting and this is the oldest restaurant in Bayfield. It's been around since the 1940s or maybe even longer and and it was fall. It was really beautiful and so this is my rendition of of Bayfield in autumn, Bayfield, Wisconsin. So without further ado, let's talk about what we're going to do today. I was in Depear, Wisconsin and I came across an older bed and breakfast and I thought that it would make a great painting so I pulled out all of my things out of my painting supplies out of my car and I set up and I sketched it in just with the different colored paint where I was going to put it. Naturally I was going to leave these cars out and just have this look like a hill or something. You have to when you're painting you have to be careful that you're not so true to the subject that you put in things that are not necessarily there that need to be there. So I took the liberty of just kind of washing that out and then I can't remember what happened. I got a phone call I think it was and I had to leave and I wasn't able to finish the painting and so this has been laying around in my studio. This board has been laying around in my studio with this drawing on it for a couple of months now. Well you can see it was summertime and I thought for today's show I would take you on a journey on the canvas and show you how I take something and use it as a springboard for a totally new direction. So today what we're going to do is we're going to journey through my memories as a child my parents traveled a lot around the holidays. We were always going someplace you know at Christmas time and I always wish that we could stay home and so as we would be driving either to or from somebody's house for Christmas I would look in the windows and imagine what it was like inside that warm looking house with the people all around the table and it looked like they were laughing and I would imagine how much fun they were having and I felt like I wish that that's where I lived instead of the backseat of the car. So anyway not to get too sentimental on you once again this is Painting Journeys my name is Kitty Linclish and today we're going to take an ordinary photograph and we're going to turn it into home for the holidays. Take my palette it's the basic palette that I typically use I don't change that too much as you can see I have all of my warm colors over here and I have all my cool colors down below here and I am going to be changing the trees the type of trees eventually when this is done it's going to be at dusk or twilight the house is going to be quite dark the windows will be all a glow there'll be a Christmas tree here with lights on it snow everywhere back here will be some tall pine trees and they'll have snow on them and the sky will be quite quite a bit darker so as you can see we've got a long ways to go we better get busy okay and thank you for joining us today this should be fun stick around and we'll see first of all I think what I'll do is just get some ideas of the values that I want to use and sort of dob them around the canvas to kind of get a darker feeling to this it's so light right now I it's hard to imagine making it look like a you know early evening Christmas scene but we can do it you know that's a wonderful thing about being a painter as long as you have paint you can do anything it's your baby all right got a nice dark kind of a grayed-green mixed up here and I'm going to go back over here behind the house and I'm just going to block in some trees now I'm working very fast and very loose because right now I'm just blocking in it doesn't really matter the snow everything else will have to come on later right now I'm just looking for shapes and values and I want that to be back behind a little bit I think there we go nice dark greens okay and then we're going to mix up a nice darker sky color you have to forgive me I forget to talk when I'm mixing I get so caught up in my thoughts concentrating on my thoughts hmm this looks pretty I think let's put a little bit of it up here and see what we think of it once it hits a canvas I am working on a canvas board today it's a little different than working on a stretched canvas in that there's not much give to it I kind of like that I have to mix up some more of it now want it to be nice and and that wonderful feeling and just as the Sun has gone down and it's not completely dark yet but it's almost as thick today now I know in the picture it shows a tree hanging down in the foreground I'm not going to have that in there I don't think it would just be more dark if I did and I don't I think by the time I'm done here we're not going to need any more dark in the painting you see I'm working very fast I want to get something laid on here so that I can I have to determine also if I want a cool painting or if I want it to be a warm painting if I want it to be warm then it has to be predominantly warm with just a little bit of cool so I may need to add a little bit of red to this sky to kind of warm it up kind of an orangey red here to kind of warm it up a tad because I do want this to be warmer looking there we go that's better mm-hmm yeah okay I don't want to get too much of that green in there okay all right and then maybe we'll just go in here in the dark in the top part into the upper sky and maybe we'll just darken it just a wee bit okay make that just a little bit darker so we have the feeling that that the the darkness is ascending I know I work I paint very fast and I've had a couple of people that have seen the show ask me kitty do they speed up the camera your brush is moving so fast but I've learned that in order to get something going here in in an hour it's time the time that we have allotted for the show I have to paint as fast as I can it has a kind of a red roof so it's not going to it's not going to glow too dark but it is not going to be that bright of red so I'm darkening the red for that roof now remember all of this is coming out of my imagination and the experience that I've had from painting it's as always a 50-50 chance of a mass or a masterpiece but the nice thing is that I have that opportunity to take it home and re to fix it up you know redo what I need to correct and make it pretty for you all right so on my picture shows this is coming down just a little bit more like this and then this is just coming like that you know I may I may add a little more red to that I'll have to see as I go here yeah how well that shows up maybe I will add just a bit more but now now we're starting to get the feeling of of it not being so light we're starting to get the feeling of where we're going here with the the the dark is that fireplace there and this this is coming up here like so and then coming down okay and that's coming like that okay now then we have this red roof that's also coming right across here that's the roof of the porch this was a bread and bed and bread bed and breakfast in the pier I never stayed there but I thought it was such a quaint looking building that I wanted to paint it and when I started this I didn't have the idea I didn't know yet what I was going to actually do with it a little off there kitty okay now we're starting to now the building itself in the dark because it would be in shadow it would be quite a bit darker and it's brown so I take some the green and add to this red mixture that I've been using on the the roof okay I think that's a good a good choice get a different brush here and you're here there's no window there now there will be snow I don't know that I'll be able to put the snow on today it would be very hard to put the the snow today because the white would not darker right there okay I think I better do the windows put that soft glow of color in the windows the lights are definitely on in the windows it's warm but time we get done I'd like to have some Christmas lights in here alright now that'll all be lightened up later and I believe that this is like a door here that we're going to have lit up okay so window up here this fireplace is a little bit lighter have him in there and you can see we have the trees that I've drawn in here we're not going to have that I guess I could put a tree there though there was one but I don't want since it's Christmas I don't want it to be a deciduous tree I want it to be an evergreen so I'll put probably put an evergreen in there I think that would be better alright now let's we'll kind of get some light on here and for that snow as you can see I'm just sort of blocking it in now the snow isn't going to be white white it has different colors in it you know you never want to make your snow just white white it's it's not snow is made up of all different types of colors so I'm mixing up a real pale sort of a violet blue and and then I'm gonna let that set up a little bit after I put it on and then I'll put the color of the lights let's see here I guess I'll use this one here and be a good one okay now over in here that's going to be not real sure how I'm going to handle this yet but I just want to get some of this darker color on here for the for the snow and the snow here I think it's going to be coming in a downward pattern like it's falling like it's this is sitting up on a ledge I think that that would be really kind of nice to have that look like it's going there's a hill here and we can have the lighter snow right in there with a color on it maybe we'll have just a little tad bit of color coming on here to kind of perk it up a little bit and then may even go a little darker in here right there you may be a little lighter right in here now you know you have to bear with me because the journey today is through my memories and my imagination and that's quite a bit different than being able to refer to something that I'm doing and compare that's very it's very different so you have to bear with me because only I know where I'm going and quite frankly I don't know where I'm going what happens happens it's one of those kind of mystical moments as a painter I know I'm going to have a I think I put the Christmas tree on this side I was going to put it right in here but I think if I have a fir tree here and now you see you see how I have to think about what I'm going to do I have to to kind of like you know work this out in my mind what's going to be a good composition here that's very important what what shapes are going to be the most pleasing I think I had envisioned all the time this tree right in here and if I have a fir tree here I think what I'll do is I'll just make this house a little more and then have a smaller tree here yeah I think that's what I'll do and I'll still have the the Christmas tree here with all the lights on it yeah okay that's what I'm going to do so now we have some rolling snow and the snow is is getting darker the further back it goes now you can kind of see a little better where we're going it's looking like a very cool painting and that's okay that's okay it can be cool can be cool and we'll have all of our Christmas lights and that will give it the warmth that we want as I was saying earlier if a painting is mostly cool then you want just a little bit of warm in it somewhere and my lights will give me that warmth okay I want this to kind of come down all come on kitty you're getting into finish and you don't want to go there all right let's see here let's finish blocking in this building we'll fix the windows later crooked windows kitty crooked windows all right there we go there that's so better okay now over here we have the dark and it's right in here you notice I put the windows in first so that I can hopefully resize them okay so that's the building on that side now then there's a dark area coming like this that is darker on this roof right here you know what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna come in with my my skybrush and I'm going to re-come over this sky right here there we go things get all crazy and so we'll just come in from the back side and fix it and the little bit of the color of the roof this in the sky that's all right it's a painting not a photograph okay so this is coming down like this and that's a little bit darker on that side and pretty soon we're going to have to put in the this porch is going up like this and there's an angle there's an angle right here this underneath here is very dark because that is a porch that is sticking out right there and there are fence and not fence but porch you know the posts on the the porch railing all that'll have to go in but there again these things are what have to be put in after after the painting sets up a little bit it's not anything I can do today so you'll be in for a nice surprise when you see this next time all righty here we're just gonna scumble that in get it covered I just got noticed that we're already halfway through the show I don't know how it happens that it just show goes so fast and then this is dark over here even a little darker this is dark under here okay now that's where we're gonna go back just a little bit further here I'll probably put in a window on the side here we'll have to wait and see though this is where a tree is going to be for a tree and it's gonna have some snow on it it's gonna be coming up you can probably cannot see the difference now of this tree how it's going to be but don't worry it's going to be in there add a little bit of blue here maybe that'll make it pop a little bit more for you so that you can see it a little bit more green and the branches are going to be coming out here be quite a big tree when we put the snow on it it will show up so much better okay I'm going to have to wipe out now my wipe out tool is here I'm gonna wipe out because I want those branches coming way down here I want him to seem like he's very close to us all right isn't this fun doesn't look anything at all like what you saw at the beginning I'm working fast because I want to have a little better idea for you before the show ends so that you'll know what you have to look forward to in our next episode of painting journeys there we go see starting to look like a tree can I say now we'll have we will be putting a little more snow on there now then let's wipe out where the little shall we make it a Charlie Brown Christmas tree remember Charlie Brown Christmas trees where where they were kind of skimpy and small lopsided crooked should we do that hmm I don't think so okay here we go I'm gonna put it right here and I'm gonna wipe it out with my trusty wipe out tool and to be I wanted to be kind of of a wide tree I like I like little fat trees up where I live for part of my childhood in the Pacific Northwest we had beautiful beautiful trees to decorate for Christmas you know the holidays they always make you feel so nostalgic and you just you just you know you remember all those things and how it was and you know and it's a good thing oh you know we're so lucky to have those memories we truly are whether they're good bad or or somewhere in between we're still very lucky that we have those memories because no matter no matter what there's good in there somewhere good memories good times good memories and our memories are what makes us I believe part of what makes us who we are how we've lived with our lives what we've given to others what we've received from others that's all part of of our life in our memories and we have those to to thrive on to to feed on during the holidays it's a blessed time it's a wonderful time I'm making this tree a little bit lighter and he is going to be a little bit lighter because he's going to have Christmas balls on him lights Christmas lights all different colors I'm gonna make the big old fashioned ones I like the big old fashioned ones the ones they have nowadays are those little LED lights sure they may take less electricity but oh goodness they don't glow they don't have the the feeling the same feeling but he's going to have a lot of light and a lot of snow on him so that's why I'm making him a little bit lighter instead of painting him really dark okay and then all this snow down below here is this underneath him is going to be covered with color he's going to be putting casting color across the he's going to be casting some yellows he's going to be casting some reds just a little bit here and there you see what I mean you kind of get the feeling now yeah okay now let's see here he needs a trunk I think that should be a little browner a little darker in there there he is he's just waiting for some Christmas lights and I'm just going to put a few on just for the fun of it just so you can kind of get the idea of where I'm going here a little star on the top you know red is my favorite color so I'll probably end up with more red lights on my tree than than in the other color I should put some blue on there to put some blue let's put some pretty pretty blue and then oh they don't doesn't show up good all right well lighten the blue okay so that works and then I think in the foreground here we're going to have to darken that a little bit the blue we have in the foreground in here let's darken that a little bit there because we want that to look like and then we'll take a little bit of this lighter more golden snow and bring that down and so that it kind of looks like drifts yeah there we go maybe a little more pink over here whoops it's too heavy oh but I do love that color I love that color yeah and then we're going to have we're going to have some gold shining out of the windows kind of a light gold color because the windows are going to be on the reflecting on the on the snow and we're going to have the reflections of all this and maybe we'll see here okay see if we can do something more with those trees in the background let's jazz them up a little bit and make them look a little more like like trees and of course they have snow on them too but we do want them to be kind of dark maybe they should be just a little higher what do you think I think so I think we should have one this a little higher here that's coming up and we need to get back into this darker color here okay we want that to be really dark behind there I'm too happy with the way that's looking there again you know when you have an hour to make something look somewhat presentable okay now we only have 15 minutes left kids whoo right let's see here okay this is going to be very dark back in here so that this little tree shows up in front of it and this is going to be a little more shadowy back in here I guess that lighter look is helping to make it seem like there's snow on that that's kind of a good thing I think this is going to be much brighter right in here okay let's see here let's see if we can take our you know what I just realized this roof should have snow on it what was I thinking of course it shouldn't be red it should be have snow and there should be icicles hanging down see here we can do that real quick okay now we got to wipe that pretty clean because if we don't that red is going to bleed through and we're going to have a pink rough so only thing I don't like about painting over red it really bleeds through it's a strong strong color but oh am I going to like this better was snow on the roof I can see it already yeah what a difference this is going to make okay so I'm just going to probably put it on pretty thick right now because in order to try to cover that to cover that red not that thick oh boy that's going to make the difference isn't it I can see it now now please please please please let's make a straight line here not too bad oh yeah that's looking a lot better I won't worry about this little off-color stuff I'll I'll take care of that later I want to get this on here and what a difference this makes I'm so glad I thought of it see you truly are journeying through my with me through my imagination and my memories and my knowledge as an artist of what to do and what not to do and sometimes even though I know what not to do we do it anyway oh well there we go there that's looking better and let's see here we have a little light coming right over oh I just got the word now we only have ten minutes why do we have to stop hmm why do we have to stop why do we have to say goodbye till the next time there that's so much better I like it I like it like it like it that is so much better all right now let's see here let's see if we we can add a little interest to those windows maybe this window up here maybe it'll have a little pink in it well I think this is really too that's too but it would be better not to have it be so bright yellow so we will go ahead and try to calm that down just just a little bit and then we did have there yeah that looks better without it being so bright I'm picking up some of the background and it's going into my color of the that I have put on here but it looks better because it's softer it's not so garish there we go and this window over here we'll just kind of put like a little bit of red in this window maybe not we need is some feeling like maybe the snow is a little higher in some places that's coming down that way there we go that's going up this way here there we go oh I see we haven't wiped out that the porch this is such a tricky handy little thing this wipeout tool I just love it because it just takes that paint right off of there I think as I used to tell my students I think your wipeout tool is one of the most important tools in your tool case now now we'll put some white on there and and of course now this is going to have a little bit of the glow of the the window on it so it's going to be not quite so gray windows lighting that up the rest of the snow over here is a little bit darker you see that how the the window is shining on the on the snowy roof I hope you can see it it's pretty subtle I know this is coming here so this is coming here and then this side over here is going to be a little bit darker snow is going to be a little bit darker I think right in here yeah there we go okay and I think that this should be just a little bit darker too let's see here well it's it's a start we've got a lot of way a long ways to go on it but it is definitely a start let me see here I don't dare I don't know if I dare put this porch on or not I know that there's some a post coming here and there's a post coming here and there's a post coming right here so let's see what can we do here real quick a little two-minute shot here need a little bit of light to make it show up whoops okay all righty let's see I think that I better not touch too much I think we better just go ahead and call it quits for today but I hope you can can get the feel of how this is going to be when I take it back to the studio and finish it there's there's a lot of finished work on it but at least I took it from from the photograph that I showed you and I've made it into a Christmas-like scene and I think it'll work what do you think I hope you'll join us next time my name is Kitty Lynn Klisch and once again this is Painting Journeys and you've been journeying with me through my past and my my imagination and I hope to see you next time bye bye for now