 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 Lindquist and we're going to take another journey today. It's going to be to Bayfield, Wisconsin, but I'll tell you about that in a little bit. You're watching Painting Journeys and as you know this in this program I journey across the canvas and take you to different destinations. Well in our last episode I had taken you to see Old Faithful. Okay and here is the completed painting of Old Faithful. It was completed almost entirely on the show. When I took it to my home studio the only thing I had to adjust a little bit was the width of how of the steam coming out of the geyser at the time. But really it's very much very similar. A little has been done to it. I was able to call that finished when I took it with me, of which was a really good thing. Now I hope you like it. Today we're going to go to the northwestern edge of Wisconsin to Bayfield, Wisconsin. It's right on Lake Superior. In Bayfield in the fall they have their annual Apple Festival and it's really something. I mean there's orchards all over and thousands of people come but I was fortunate enough to be there last fall just before all of the other people got there for the festival. I was there just before the festival and we had some adventures but I'm going to tell you about those later. I want to tell you about this restaurant right now. This is a restaurant that I'm going to be painting and of course it's fall in Wisconsin. The colors especially in northern Wisconsin they start turning very early in sometimes in the middle of September and so this was oh I don't know it must have been maybe first week of October or something but the colors were already just gorgeous and my husband and I we were there together on a little mini vacation and he took me to this restaurant and it's one of the oldest restaurants that has been a restaurant in existence for since the 1940s I think or 30s maybe and you go inside and there's all these photographs of these different movie stars Humphrey Bogart and and Lauren McCall and Dean Martin and they're all signed photographs and you can tell they're really old because they're starting to turn yellow and wrinkle and everything it's really something it's it's the restaurant is quite entertaining and just just to be there and and look at all the memorabilia so this is what we're going to be painting today we're going to take you to Bayfield so I better just get busy right now and start blocking this in I think I'll first of all I'll get my the restaurant established and it's a those shadows were very strong that day so I'm seeing the restaurant is being right about in here and coming over to right about here now I'm not using the color that that it is because that's not important I just want to get something blocked in here for you so that you can see what I'm doing okay all righty and then we'll block in a couple of windows there today you have the fun of seeing me struggle from the start the absolute start of it I don't have any drawing on here and so this is when it's can be a little you know it's a little if and touching go situation like I always tell you 50% chance of a mess or a masterpiece let me see we've got a nice big window right about here and another one is over here but we can hardly see it not the same and then right underneath here is that was the entrance way it was a little bit wider and underneath here is another window and right here same on the other side it looks tiny but it was actually rather a rather large place and I see now that this actually comes over here and comes down and it's there it's really that big so we'll just have to take some paper towel and see if we can scrub some of this out this first line doesn't really matter because when we put paint on it we're going to get rid of it anyway so that's okay now then we have this gorgeous red tree right here in the center so I just want to I'm just going to block in the the the trunk of the tree because it's coming right up alongside where the house is and I don't want this to be in the center of the canvas because that wouldn't be very good composition I'm going to tell you more about my my journey and our adventures there a little later on right now I'm trying to concentrate really hard on getting this my placement proper on my canvas my drawing so there's branches that come across nope not that far low okay they're up here more alright see so I don't have very much paint this is almost like a scumbling technique I'm kind of scumbling in the painting now we have more trees over in here and we have a couple of trees here that are kind of interesting we have this is coming around here and then it comes around this tree here and it comes back this way and so see you see I'm right now I'm looking for the shapes the basic shapes of big shapes and then I want to put in the little shapes later find the shapes within the shape so right now we have this double tree right about here and it's back there and then there's another one coming up right about in here and that's going like that and coming on up and there now before I go too far with this I'm going to have to put the sky in what's behind there actually over here there's a street and there's more houses I don't really want to put well I don't think I want to put those in there's that gorgeous tree back there right here this one here I'm talking about see that yeah I want to put that in there so maybe I will have that one little cottage sitting in front of it there these little cottages were so cute you know it's I envy people that have these little cottages up north and they can just go to little special places like this and stay and and maybe just maybe just come for the for the apple harvest and make a little money and take the rest of the year off wouldn't that be lovely okay and I think there's another house over here that we would just might suggest there we go okay now I'm not going to put the cars in I do not like to see cars in paintings I I don't know I don't put in telephone poles or telephone wires either I just I don't like that I like things to look like like they're there without the the cars and things that show that people are all over I don't know I hope you understand what I'm trying to say okay all right there's a big long dark shadow right here let's just go ahead and block that in so that we have that shape and we don't lose it and there's a big long dark shadow over here like I said I'm not having much paint on your on your brush this is called scumbling it's just trying to get something laid down some sort of a pattern so that you have a little idea of where you're going what you're doing and then okay now I'm going to come back behind I see all of this is tree right in here so I only need to worry about sky in this little area here and sky in here and then sky all in here and then the trees are going to go on top so now we'll mix up some sky paint and the painting is the the dominant color of this painting is red and the complement of the red would be the greens that we see and that's why it's really a very perfect subject matter because so much of this is already in the photograph it's already figured out for you you know and how the the red restaurant the Sun where it's hitting on the restaurant right here it just glows so this area right in here is where my focal area is going to be because that's where the lightest light is meeting the darkest dark we'll add little more drama in some of the other places but this is this is a very exciting area to me as well as the tree of course now I'm gonna I'm not gonna make the sky a blue blue sky I'm going to make it a little have it be a little more greenish blue I think that that would be because of our dominant hue being red and our complement being green I think a bluish green sky would be appropriate you know just because the sky looks blue in the in the photograph that does not mean that that's what we have to do as the artist we have the license to put in what we want how we want it to be okay I think I'm coming up with something I I like here I'm just using my regular wooden palette with my limited palette colors my reds my warm colors my white and my cool colors keeping it simple that's the most enjoyable way keep it simple okay now let's see I think I think that needs a little more white in it right in here I'm sorry that it takes so long to mix the colors but I don't want to have them pre-mixed because as an a la prima painter meaning that I paint all at once wet into wet I I don't like to have my colors all mixed up beforehand I like to just be able to mix them as I see them because I'm constantly making decisions right on the spot and I may I may change my mind and so I'm gonna have this blue in here now I think that's too dark I'm gonna lighten it I want this to be really really light down here as we all know at the horizon level the sky is lighter and so that's what we're gonna do here we're gonna make this a little little bit lighter there we go and then that's gonna come up in there and it's gonna keep getting going up and I'm good I see a little bit in here and I'm just gonna kind of poke it in where I see it here in a few places that doesn't mean that it's going to that's a little bluer now okay now we're gonna just scumble this sky in and if I have to wipe out I'll just wipe out where I want the tree to go on top okay and you see how that's getting a little bluer little darker as we go to the top of the canvas dark over in here now this way this shows us a a sky that is variegated and it's light towards the bottom and darker towards the top and that's the way it should be that while we were up there the weather was just gorgeous absolutely gorgeous and we would walk each day for miles it's a beautiful beautiful little town I I think maybe I'm not sure you could look it up on the internet but I'm sure there probably are more than about 1500 permanent residents there but it's very very nice little town and they this is where you go if you want to go to see the Apostle Islands I'm happy with my sky yeah I'm happy with that and I'm gonna have to wipe out now where I want some of these red trees to be here so that's gonna I'm gonna be wiping out here because I want this red of this tree coming down through here not everywhere just a little bit in through here and coming out over here and there's some wipe out here and then we have this right in here that's still kind of light this red tree is coming is coming in here and then it's coming up there and this is coming down just a little bit okay and there's a little bit here okay now I think I'm gonna get the dark greens in anyway as I was telling you you can rent this tour boat and it takes you out into Lake Superior and it takes you all around the Apostle Islands and the islands I mean it's a day-long tour and believe me the water is cold and the wind is cold you know but you're really quite comfortable if you want to stay inside the boat in this tour going around the Apostle Islands it showed how there was caves that were that went back into the sides of the islands and I guess there are some hearty young people that actually kayak back around the islands and go back into those caves I don't I wouldn't be that brave myself but it some people do it and the caves are all different shapes and and they have the I think they're called stalactites and stalagmites these conical things coming down and some going up when you the boat took us over close by so we could see so that was really interesting massing in this dark where I want it here and I'm going to put a little dark on this side too kind of balance that out right in here okay now I think I'll go ahead and start on the little houses so that was that was really a lovely thing to do is take the the ferry or the tour boat in tour they had a book I was absolutely enchanted with a captain of the tour boat absolutely enchanted with it he was so handsome and they were calling these books about the Apostle Islands and so I bought one and I chased the captain down and I said would you please autograph my book and he would very graciously did but then I looked up and I saw the rest of the crew on the boat and they were all laughing so I don't know I guess I felt a little silly afterwards but that was okay I was what I wanted you know so that was okay to do that what the heck I didn't hurt anybody there is tunnels that we walked around and through beautiful tunnels and I remember one day we were walking on this one trail and these two boys came out from underneath this culvert and they kind of scared us we were on a very narrow bridge crossing it and these boys came up and I don't know we just kind of scared us you know we didn't know if they were gonna try to mug us or what but not it not don't misunderstand me not that it's that type of place it just it was just a scary thing you know the boys had obviously been down underneath the that big culvert or something you know either smoking or hopefully not worse and they came staggering up and so anyway that was a mini adventure okay we're gonna put this tree in here it's got a little bit of yellow in it very pretty tree coming through here a little bit too I think I'll use a little bit of this I think this is supposed to be coming out here kitty because this is over this cottage you better look again girl look a little more carefully here this tree is coming out here there's green on it I didn't wipe out enough okay this is coming up here there we go you know we're gonna have the the green on top of it we'll come back to that later let's get the house in the restaurant that's the dark side the green leaves are coming over the rest of it and this is going to be a little bit lighter here on this side and this is coming down like this you know I always want to when I go to a place like this I always dream about you know being able to take my easel and along and and paint I never do though because a person does have to have a vacation once in a while that's most important vacations are good for you everything about this restaurant was so old and I don't know we almost didn't go in there until somebody said the food is absolutely delightful so we went picking up some greens here there that's what I want and that part of it is dark it's a little darker hill we're in here and then we've got the sky up here and you know hard to see looks like there's a tree there we're in here yeah there is a tree coming up right in there so we'll go ahead and and put that on and better get a different brush here let's see I'll go for this one I think I'm going to make that really light bright red then I see first they had all sorts of things going on as far as hay rides and all these farms apple apple orchards you know and they'd have these barns and you could tour them and they'd have fresh apple pies that you could purchase or apple homemade apple butter you know and it was really a lot of fun as far as that was concerned at our bed and breakfast every morning they either the gentleman or his wife would fix this tremendous breakfast I mean food like I've never tasted before it was it was just so unusual and good good tasting you know you'd go out of there well I would should say you felt like you rolled out of there to go on about your day but the only thing that kind of bothered me was that the the host he really liked to talk and so it was kind of hard if you were on a schedule it was kind of hard to get away from him you know that's okay that's okay too there we go there's a little more dark inside of here and trying a different color today that I haven't used before a friend of mine told me to try it and so I'm trying it not completely sold yet but I'm trying it I think I better lighten up this edge a little bit so that that shows better but this is darker over here those are some good windows aren't they oh well you know we can fix those things as long as we have paint we can fix okay now up in here we have some really dark darks that the is underneath the the reds of the tree and notice how I don't like to change my brush too often you know when I was teaching I always used to tell my students you know have a different brush for each color but for myself I just find that that just slows me down I I don't I don't know I know it's not good to have all your paint all muddy together but oh well so where I do it okay now we've got some brighter stuff coming right in here you notice I'm kind of leaving this blank for that big red shape there let's see there's a little bit of a brighter green in coming down right in here underneath there oh I see okay there's tree trunks here so we'll make a little bit of a marble lavender ish purple put those tree trunks in and we'll come back over and fix it with some bright yellow okay I don't want to do too much finish in there I do see a little red right there all righty don't want to get too carried away with a spot putting a little bit of green underneath here and it's coming down and then when I come back over this and we'll really brighten that up and give it lots of oomph right now I think I'll do the windows a big window right there we should have a shadow coming under here we have some little dark in here in the windows now these windows over here they're pretty dark because they're in the shadow there we go now then this shadow to echo that so I'll take my bigger brush and do that and that's coming right from behind this tree here get a little more blue in it so anyway if you're ever in Wisconsin and you want to see a really beautiful beautiful place you'll want to go to Bayfield it's enchanting it's kind of on a built on a hill and well it's very hilly in that area and as you walk down I mean as you look down the main street then it just dead ends right into the Lake Superior Lake Superior is very cold as a rule I don't think too many people swim there we've got a little bit of light right in front here that I want to get in okay now I'm gonna take my wipeout tool and I want to suggest that white trim there I'll probably leave this for later this is coming down like this and it's kind of dark behind here and this is not here there is a bush or something there a little touch of white right in here that's important because that's where that highlight that's where our focal area is there more I play with it the messier I guess I would just have to clean it up what was I saying about not using many brushes I see I've got a lot of them going now I want that even brighter and hotter right there on that corner that's really important around that window that that is super super bright and hot now then we have the little awning and it's pretty white too maybe with a little blue in it you've ever been to some place where you just felt like oh gosh I wish I could live here that's how I felt when I was there I didn't want to come home of course I'm kind of like that wherever I go wherever I think I'm a gypsy I have a gypsy soul and wherever I go lay my head that can be home to me we're dragging in some of that red but that's okay it gives us a little shadow and then we'll put a little highlight of of the white on top to kind of perk it up there maybe a touch more who says we can't use thick paint I think I'd like to clean this up a little bit this is kind of bothering me all right maybe that is better okay let's see now this underneath here that door is dark right there and then there's the red again dark under there and red this is very very dark back here I'll put those little white poles here they're holding this sign I'll do that later I just want this to kind of have a chance to sit up a little bit before I some of these things on this painting because it's a rather busy painting and has a lot going on I may have to just wait and finish in my home studio and then show you the the finished results on our next program I do hope you watch try to watch the programs in order because when I finish when I work on a painting on one segment if you watch the next segment then you'll be able to see how that painting was completed if I had anything to do to it or not so it is kind of important if you have the opportunity depending upon how your station airs the program it is important for you to try to watch them in and you know one after another in the same way that I that I am taping them for you I'm very proud to say that I found out at my last episode that the show my show is being downloaded in about 45 states now well maybe not maybe 35 states about 35 states and it's nearing the 800 download so that means that there's 90 or more cities in these 35 or 40 states that are seeing the program and this makes me feel absolutely wonderful I love the fact that I'm able to come into your home and spend this time with you and share share my gift with you the gift of my painting you know it's it means everything to me that you are able to to watch this and and enjoy it I hope you enjoy it I hope you like to see the things come to pass how they how they materialize on the out of the end of my brush now you can see right in here we're gonna put just just you know some of these things I'm doing now because I want to show you what's gonna happen when I do something here I want to show you how an area is gonna sing when I when I bring it to life a little bit I can't bring it to life all over but I want you to be able to see in different areas what that is gonna look like okay oh I just got the 15 minute sign where is the time going today I'm a slowpoke I think today guess I better just start concentrating on getting this masked in here I don't care I'm gonna put a little bit of highlights on this back here so you can see what that would look like and then behind this tree we have a green tree so we're gonna mask that in and that's all green back in there this is a darker green here and a little brighter okay that little house there seems to be kind of a gray color and then front will make a little bit brighter and that's a little cooler on this that in this line a little door in there we'll just suggest it you see here I'll get a big brush and get some of the driveway in there so we can get more canvas covered see how we're doing here kind of a violet driveway there again in the red tones now you can see how I'm really kicking it I have to get busy here and get get something on this for you I can't leave you with with looking like this and just got the 10 minute sign I don't know where the time went today I really don't you know I enjoy I enjoy this so much I enjoy being with you being able to talk and share my experiences share my travels with you so much that I guess I should have talked less and painted faster but oh well here we go again with the big brush alright now let's see here I want to get my tree in there that's kind of important this tree right here and it's coming up and it's coming out and it's going that way okay and it needs more color that needs to be a little bit bigger okay and that's what all that red is going to be on alright now over here we have a couple of very dark trees so they're going to be this one is coming right down here and this one is in here and he's quite dark quite quite dark and we're going to make him just a little bit bigger because the thing you don't understand or a lot of people don't understand maybe you do but a lot of people don't understand is that when you paint from a photograph rather than life everything is smaller and because the photograph makes things go back and so it's smaller this over here I'm just going to make all in in the trees in the reds and dark reds all back in here I'm just going to let this just be all tree I don't I don't want a bunch of houses I don't want it to look like a street I'm just going to make it look like this and then I want to cover this shadow right here and that's coming right in there and across here and it's coming out in here let's say here we have lots of the golds in here too so we're going to have a little bit of gold coming out lighter yellow I keep watching that cameraman I know any minute he's going to say five minutes and then I'm going to think oh my goodness let's see here okay I think we need to bring the shadow up a little bit and there I see some red in the shadow yeah there's lots of red because the the leaves have fallen and so they're all over the ground down here too and the shadows coming down over here too alright in there this is actually much lighter back in here and let me see there's a dark on this little house tree that's right in front of this little house right here now I'm going to have to really do some serious work on this when I take this back to the studio with me but I do hope that you can see where I'm going with it and let me just quickly block in some reds down in here and over in here now this is this you know this isn't finished this is just trying to give you an idea of what we're going to have when we get it the way we want it whoo-hoo I just shouldn't use that yellow on oh well that's okay pick a little bit of that up put it someplace else back a what over here okay and then of course we have this area right in here that's coming up like this okay this is you know this is dual time it's between me and the clock at this moment I'm gonna have to put some branches on this but I think I did get the canvas covered at least that's good put some little red in here maybe some more greens right up in here okay we're down to four minutes four minutes and counting too yellow boom boom all right let's pop this out here a little bit get a little bit of yellow in there okay and we want a little bit of dark on the side of this tree couple branches coming oops little branches coming well I guess I can't do those right now I do one little bit of yellow right in there come on now be nice to me be nice to me okay well like I said at the beginning it's a fifty percent fifty fifty percent chance mess or a masterpiece and I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder right I think it's redeemable I truly do I think this is redeemable we are going to be able to fix this and the next time you watch the show it's going to be lovely it's going to be very nice because it was a beautiful setting and a beautiful time in Bayfield Wisconsin and I want you to be sure and catch me next time I think next time we're going to go in from fall into winter what do you think hey you've been watching Kitty Lindquist with painting journeys be sure and catch us next time and thank you so much for watching bye bye for now