 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 Painting Journeys. My name is Kitty Lynn Klisch and we're going to be taking a journey into the canvas today, into the heart of a rose, the center of a rose. Anyway, but before we get on to that, I want to thank you for joining us today, for tuning in, and I also want to share with you what we did on our last episode and how I finished that up in my home studio. So if you remember, we were in San Gabriel, California at the San Gabriel Mission. And on our last episode, I had my painting pretty much blocked in, but I didn't have much detail or color and temperature. And so I've added some of the finer points of it, like on the arch, cleaned that up a little bit, added the fence, added a little more color, warmed it up in some places and cooled it off in others so that it would have a nice contrast for you. And so there it is, the San Gabriel Mission. It was the first mission to be built by the Franciscan Fathers in California, and it was also the mission that made all the candles from the olive oil forward to supply all of the new missions that went up along the coastline of California. So little history, too. There you go. All right, now I want to talk about what we're going to do today. This is my canvas. Let me tell you about this canvas. It is what they call a wrap-around. It's very contemporary in that you do not have to frame it if you don't want to, because it has this wide edge right in here that you just paint right on around. So if you're looking at the painting from, say, the side, you can see the painting extending right on around the edges. And I'm not going to do this whole bouquet of flowers. I'm going to pick out what I feel is the star of the show, and that's this one right here, and I'm going to render that onto my canvas and in all of its glory and let the petals come out over the edge and I can just see it. Now let's hope I can do it. Okay, here we go. The first thing I want to do is take some linseed oil. I have found when I paint florals that it is a nice idea to take a little linseed oil and put on your canvas to moisten the canvas and make it so that the paint moves. We want, especially with roses, we want that paint to move around the edges. And if you're wondering how I have this canvas mounted to this black board here, it's just taped on from the back side. Okay, so I'm putting on the linseed oil to make the paint be juicy. Hope I didn't put on too much, kind of wiping it down a little bit. Now we'll put this cap back on and then we'll let this sit over here. Now you have to bear with me. I purchased a new palette. This is the very first time I've used it and I'm not real sure if it's going to give me enough room to mix up my paint, but I'm sure hoping it will. If I like it, my next objective is to get a great big one like this, but I thought I'd try the small one first. Just see if I like the design of it. If you remember, I usually hold a more of a square looking palette. So here we go. Same colors as usual. Always pretty much the same palette. The only one I have on here that's different today would be my phthalo red rose. And I'm using that so that I can mix that with a little bit of my when it's yellow Indian yellow of which is a very translucent color and to make more of a coral because I see a lot of coral in the rose. Okay, so we'll start mixing here and then we'll be ready to go. Have to learn how to hold this guy. Now I have a nice red mixed up here, but I want to gray it just a touch. So I'm going to add a little tiny bit of the compliment and put a little green in there. I don't want it to be too bright. And then I'm going to take some of it, move it to the side and lighten it up with my white and see what we get. Do we get a beautiful coral? Oh, I would say we have a beautiful coral. Yes. Look at this. Look at this beautiful coral I have here. Whoa, beauty, beauty. I like it. Now then the inside of the rose is a deeper color. And so I'm going to use a little bit of a lizard and crimson to darken a little bit of my color here. And perhaps just a tad of blue. I want to make a nice dark color there because we have that rose is sitting in a cup and it's rather dark around the edges. So what I'm going to do now, one nice thing about painting the rose in this way with the linseed oil already on the canvas is that you don't have to worry about adding a medium as you're painting usually. Now what I'm going to do now is I'm going to just put on in the shape that I see it, the cup of the rose. And then I'm going to draw where some more petals are going to be. Just kind of give me a place for the petals to show. Starting from the center of the rose, I'm now going to take a little tissue and I'm going to wipe a little bit of this off. And what I'm looking for now is a little bit of the petal shapes inside the rose because they're very light on the edges. And you'll have to pardon me for being quiet because I'm thinking, always thinking and planning what is going to go next. A little baby center of the rose is right here. We have petals that are, now this is really, I really want this. I hope I'm not making my rose too small already. If I am, I'll just go ahead and add another rose. Because it looks like it's wanting to do something else. You know, you have to be open to letting the painting guide you. And if it wants to do something else, then let it. I'm seeing a really, some beautiful rose shape here. By wiping out like this and just leaving dark, some darks to show where the edges are, this helps me to define my rose. As you can see, my rose is almost, it's shaped already like a rose. This is the way of drawing the rose onto the canvas before you even begin painting this way. You have the lights and the darks where you want them to be. Now this is going to go around the corner. And this is a big petal that's coming down from right in here and right there. All right, now let's see. Maybe we can get a little more to that rose. Let's come over here and make a petal that is coming off and then coming back on and coming there. All right, that gives it some nice balance. We'll darken this a little bit, darken this. And let's see here. Well, we're doing it. Let's just keep going. Okay, this here will come from over here and come down like this and come under here and over. And then we have this one and this one. Let's have one, a little one coming up here and coming down here. And then we'll have another one coming here and coming around here and there. Oh, now we're building a nice big rose with lots of petals on it. It's more petals than I see, but I don't really care because I have an idea that I want this rose to be a very contemporary rose and pretty much cover this canvas. That was my idea today. So it looks like it's going to work for me. Maybe we'll have one more coming right across here. There we go. Now we'll get rid of that and we'll take a different, a different brush and we'll start in the center there. I'm looking for just the right brush. Sometimes the oldest brush is the best one. I don't know why that is, but it's just they seem to take on a character and they're the best. Put a little yellow in this. I want this to be a little more yellow. All righty. Yeah, I kind of like that. That's pretty. This rose, particular rose is called the peace rose. So we're going to come down and we're going to find this little, little tip there. We'll have to come behind it to show it up a little bit. And then we have a lighter, a lighter petal in here. We have a lighter petal in here coming down. It needs a little bit of that red in there to kind of bring it up. We're just right now we're building. We're building our petals. This is a little, comes a little darker and there's a little darker petal there. It's a little dark center up here. This is a little more like this. And then we have a petal coming around here. We have some little petals, smaller petals coming in here. Once I get out of this area it'll move faster. This is kind of an area that is a little more picky to define. Now, this is going to come down like this. I'm real happy with that little petal right there. I'll just come in here and make him a little bit smaller. There we go. That's it. That's what we wanted. And we'll have a little deeper in there. All right, and then this is coming like this. And then we have a petal that is here. That's coming up there and that should be very light right there. That's coming right there. And this one has a really light looking little chip on it. Okay, and I will get down in here and add a little bit of dark. A little light right here coming over that petal. It's very important to get this cup right in here. And the only way we can do that is with our lights and our darks. I think we need a few more petals in here to kind of show in a little more dark right in here coming down to show that little center guy. Now then, this one right here is going to be down in here. I'm going to use light. I'm really working hard now to show you what I'm trying to do here. So forgive me if I don't talk and to, you know, it's just it's so much fun to be able to create and but you have to be when I'm talking to you, I have to be on both sides of my of my brain at once of which sometimes can be a problem for bringing that cup down. I think that needs to come over there and that needs to come over there. Let's see here. If this is right here here and in here down here and then a little light and so I guess what you're really going to get today is a real journey into my thought process as I create this rose and this is going to be more of a of a teaching show I think. At least I hope it is. I hope you're all learning something out there wherever you are. Just keep mixing up the right color that I see here and this seems to go down now right in here and we need some more dark. I think is going to have to come around here. I might not be able to do those sides. I might have to do that in my home studio for you because in doing the sides I have to stand in front of the in front of the painting and that's not going to be a a good thing. We'll just bring this down and it should get darker right there. As these petals go out they need to be quite a bit lighter. There's that little cup in there from the rose from the center of the rose. Now we're going up and around and we're coming down here with this petal. I have to outline that a little bit better. Still keeping in in this color scheme here. I want this to be nice and soft here for you right there so that you can see that this is that this is coming down. Now then this is going to be lighter and a little more yellower and there again that's going to go up into here too that color and it's got to be darker where we have this coming under here. This has got to be very dark so that it shows. Now then what I'll do just to give you a little touch of finish here. What I'll do right here is I'll hook a little thing right like this and and put that on so that that goes around and it looks like it's coming around there. We'll probably take this and go like that make another petal right there to kind of if but if we put the petal down then we have to put the dark behind it so that we can see it. There we go. Okay this this petal is going to be quite a bit lighter. They go almost to white and so I want to get that on there have that ready more ready center coming out here. Now I mean I almost think that I'm probably putting too many petals on here but I'm having to make it because we I'm trying to make it larger I'm having to add a few petals and so that I can make it fit the canvas. So now we'll go back in with the dark and that's going to be dark right there. That light is going to come up here and cross over and this is all going to be one petal right there. Okay now then we have this petal and it's coming down here and then we'll have a petal coming like this and so the inside of that is going to be darker and we're going to have a dark edge very dark edge that comes around here to show that that petal is ending and another dark edge to come right here and show how that petal right there is cupped there. Now you see how that light in the dark forms the petal there and that lifts it right up. All right now we'll do that over here on this side and so we have a little bit of dark coming under here and right under here and back here a little dark there. Okay a little bit of dark in there is necessary to kind of you know give it a little bit of a value change here. This is one petal right here so I want my dark to be coming right here and right underneath it. Now this may be contrary to what I sketched out before but there again I have to be open to what the painting is telling me it needs. Let's use this little bigger brush. We're going to take some light. I'm going to put a little yellow in it. I see just a little tad of yellow and I'm coming down over that dark because that dark is the shadow of the petal that's underneath here. Let's see here. Okay now then don't want these to be quite so hard. I want to lighten up those edges just a tad. Fingers are wonderful tools. They had fingers before they had paintbrushes kids. Okay now we'll come under here with a little bit of our dark and just kind of carve that petal out a little bit and make him be a little bit darker under there and perhaps we need to have some shadow. This little gray shadow here color to put in here and perhaps right in here there's a little shadow behind that one maybe there too and of course we do need that dark edge coming up right there and then we'll just kind of make that come like that. Different brush maybe the shadow is, oh goodness don't tell me I didn't bring the right brush. Let's put a little shadow right in here and we'll put just a little shadow on the on the side of this to make him look like he's going down. He's turning around then we'll come back up and we'll bring this down a little bit there. Now we'll take some dark and put behind here a little bit behind here and I'm afraid my roses are my rose is turning out to be much darker than the one I see and I think that's because red is my favorite color and I just can't get away from the red. When I do red, when I do roses I always love to paint red roses and I think that's the problem here. I'm wanting to paint red roses, red roses instead of a kind of a peachy white rose but I can always lighten it up before I bring it back to show you on the next show. I'm kind of wanting to do these these florals right now because you know it is springtime and the flowers are going to be blooming soon very soon and I don't know it just seems like it's the time to think about flowers and gardens and rose gardens and beautiful beautiful things like that. When I when I lived in California I had the most gorgeous rose garden. It was just absolutely marvelous and I had every color rose that you can think of and you know what was so wonderful is that they bloomed all year. It was just it was just a miracle how they could do that but they did and so on. I naturally had a very nice rose garden. I had other flowers too, amenities. I hope I'm saying that right. They're really something. They grow so well in that warmer climate. I had a whole my whole driveway was completely, totally lined with them one year and the neighbors and people driving by would stop and they would say how in the world did you get that to look like that to grow like that for you and I really really don't know how I did it but I did and it was wonderful. Truly was. Going under here with some red. Going to curve in here on this little tip a little bit. Maybe we'll put just a little tiny bit of the blue and make him make him turn under just a little bit right in here. Now he looks like he's turning backwards a little bit. This fun. I'm having fun. I hope you are too watching me. I hope I haven't lost you. I do thank you for for joining me today on painting journeys. Every every week I well every episode I guess we do one or episode a month but every time it's a different subject matter. Usually we travel someplace on our canvas you know some some foreign place or some place just across the state or maybe across town and and we talk about that. It's you know it's just this is I feel very blessed that that I was blessed with the ability to do this and it's also very nice to be able to share it with you. My viewers I can't really tell how this guy is turning out until I back up and get a chance to look at him but I'll just keep going with him here and see what happens. Let's see here. Get this out here. I bet you can hear that brush can't you? Yeah it likes to sing. It's not scratching. It's singing singing to you. Yes. Great big pedals. Oh my. Yes. Yes. And I guess we better do this one behind here because it looks like it's going to be left out right here. So we better put a little red back there and have a little pedal coming around the corner here and we'll put some light on it and that'll go back there and then we'll put some more light right in here to show this edge. Maybe that needs a little more red in there. I use that white and it just looks kind of chalky and I don't like that look. You know each time you start a canvas it is a learning experience. It's a journey. It's you know you sometimes it'll work. Your ideas will work and other times they won't but that's what it's all about is just getting in there and having a vision and trying to make your vision a reality on your canvas. And if you don't do it just exactly the way you want to the beautiful part about oil painting is that you can always wipe it out and try it again. Soon there's no there's no crime in having to wipe out something and do it again. No crime whatsoever. I want that little darker in there so it looks like it's coming out of the center of the rose. Now I can use my bigger brush because I have bigger spaces. You know bigger brush for bigger spaces and there we go and then we're going to have this leaf end right there and now we can put some of that lighter color. Perhaps that lighter peachy color come on to it. I don't think I want to have a little bit of my, excuse me here while I pull my paper out, little bit of my shadow right in here to show he's going down he's tipping down and he's tipping down to he's turning and this right in here should be a little shadowy too. Okay just a little bit not much and then right now then we'll go and we'll put some light some nice light a rich light yellow I think we're going to use and see here what happens. Okay so we're going to put that there and then along here a little bit and then right there so that he looks like he's turning. Now we got to soften that in. Now that is one big petal isn't it? Might be too big but we'll wait and see. We'll wait and see and we'll have just a little bit of a light come right there to show where he's going underneath. Okay and then I think I want this petal here to look more like it's coming up so I'm going to put some light on that and bring that down and around and into here. There we go. Okay let me see now my rose is really looking like I need to make this a big rose that comes around up here too. With all these petals here what I'm going to do is I might not be able to do that today for you because my nice cameraman just let me know I only have ten minutes left. So I think what I'm going to do though when I take it to my home studio I am going to make these larger petals come out around here so that it really looks like a big full rose. Yeah that's what I'm going to do there. Got that figured out. So we'll put a little more light here. We want this to kind of be here and then come around and then we want to take that darker brush and I believe that was this one and hey I think this palette is going to work for me. I just realized I'm getting used to it. Now there we go there we go kind of soften those edges there. Yeah there we go and let's see here this needs to have a little bit of more coral coming in here because it's a big old petal it's just coming out of there. Yep there we go. My like him he's pretty. Okay now let's see here what we got going on over here. Let's see well if we're going to make this the petals go all the way around here. All right and I'll just draw them in here so that you can kind of get an idea of what I'm talking about. Okay then what's going to happen is that's going to be fuller and this is going to be shaped a little bit differently and this this petal right here is going to be coming down in here like so. There we go. This one is going to come underneath. Need the dark first. Always the dark before the light. See when I put that dark in there that really helps to set those down and have it make sense that these what these petals are. There we go. Okay this is coming across here. We want to soften that in just a tad. There we go. Okay now then we have that on there so we'll take this brush and we'll come back here and we'll start this petal right here and oh darn it I think we're going to run out of time kids and that's not very fair. I'm just getting warmed up. I could paint here all day for you. Let's see. Well I'll tell you what let's do. Let's make this come a little bit like that and there we got a petal and then we need some dark on this one right in here inside of it and we need some light. I hope if you grow roses and if you like to paint you'll just pick one of those roses bring it into your house and just do yourself a rose painting and if you would like to have a copy of this DVD then you can just email me and put painting journeys on the subject line and you will be sent a copy so just check to the at the end of the credits for more information on that because if you want to try this technique then I have the DVD for you to try it with. There we go. We're going to come down here where we probably are not going to get this canvas covered but we aren't going to worry about it ask me am I worried no I'm not worried because I know what I'm going to do and you'll have to be sure and tune into our next episode so that you can see what I did too. I mean is a 50-50 chance the whole thing might look different when you see it next time or it might be improved upon greatly. Here we go. We'll put some light down here. You can see we need a little shadow and I think let's see here we only have a few minutes left so like I said if you do want a copy of this show tune into the watch the credits tell you how to get one and I'm really glad you joined me today. I'm really glad you joined me today. We've had a lot of fun we've just been gabbing away and talking about roses and other stuff but it was fun and we'll just we'll just do this because we don't want to then we'll take some dark lines and we'll make some rose shapes and there we go and now it's a little more covered and then we will finish it in our home studio and when I come back to see you next time you'll see it all done so I I think I better just touch this up a little bit up here too little color. Yeah there we go. It's pretty much covered oh maybe just one more stroke one more stroke right here yep there we go and have fun look at that that was fun I hope you enjoyed the show today and yeah it's your show I'm doing it for you thank you so much for joining us once again this is Kitty Lynn Klisch and you've been watching Painting Journeys bye bye for now