 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 I'd like to welcome you to the final episode of Painting Journeys. It's been a long journey. We've traveled many, many places together and if you are one of my faithful followers that I hear from almost on a weekly basis, just hang in there and keep on painting or keep on watching art. The world of art is a beautiful place to live but I must step back now. I won't be taking any more journeys and so it's time for the show to end. But this is our last, our very last show and so I thought in honor of that I should show you the first show, the first, from the first taping of Painting Journeys. This is the painting that I painted. The name of it is Tongues Narrows and we were in Ketchikan, Alaska. I'm sure you must remember that. It was my first Painting Journeys show and I don't know, we've come a long way. We've traveled far. We've been everywhere. We've been to Alaska, we've been to Ireland, we've been to Italy. We've been all over the United States and now it's time for me to bring you to where I live, coming home, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. And one of my favorite things about Sheboygan County is that we have the shoreline of Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan is so beautiful. It's just unbelievably beautiful, especially in the evening when the sun is setting and of course as we're looking out of the lake we're looking toward the east but there's something that happens when the sun sets in the west that catches the light and the clouds and there's just like a golden orangeish aura over the whole thing that is so beautiful. Right now this we're at North Point. Now North Point in Sheboygan along the Riverside is the most southern part of the town of Sheboygan that you can view the lake from and be right on the lake front you know and so I decided that this is what I was going to paint for our last show so that you could see what it's like for me when I come home. Okay so stay tuned. We're going to get started right now. I took the liberty of starting this painting this morning and I wanted to get that gold sky in there. I wanted to get the buildings and I can even name those buildings but I won't bore you to death with that but the smokestacks and at one time big ships used to bring freight and things into the port of Sheboygan. They would come up from Chicago and everything so it was a very active city as far as you know the water was concerned and the imports and things but then that all kind of evened out and the city became more of a manufacturing center and we've had some really great businesses there you know so anyway here we go now we have lots of lots of beautiful places where you live right on the right on the shoreline there and it's it's really neat and this this little red lighthouse over here oh there's a long walk that goes out there and it's just so exciting to be there with those big giant waves are coming over and you have to be careful because people have actually been washed off that walk that goes out to that lighthouse so it's kind of it can be kind of a dangerous place but anyway I think I really what I really want to tackle first is this big beautiful cloud up here it is so lovely with the pinks and the violets and the blues in it so I think that's the first place I'm going to go so without further ado we're going to get busy all righty here and my paint is all mixed up I'm using a I'm using a very I would say a smaller palette than usual I usually have more colors than that but on my palette but I decided to go with with a smaller color range and mix a lot because really and truly I wanted to kind of test myself you know I want to go out with a flourish of course so I'm going to try these little guys right up here and we we have to remember that there's light shining through so we have to keep the the cloud nice and nice and kind of translucent especially these little guys up here so I'm going to wipe my brush and dip it in a little tiny bit of oil to make it the paint a little bit thinner and I'm going to come up here and let me see that's right over that white building right there and it's right about in here and then it comes up in here and like that and we're just going to soften that in there we go there maybe we'll put a little pink around them pinkish orange whoops a little too much this is very juicy because I'm using this medium today and I don't usually use a medium because I I don't want my my paint to be so juicy but today I do today I do and then yeah there we go that does it I'm happy okay now we're going to come up here and we're going to try to come in there again with a little bit of the oil this oil is an extender and it really um and I I'm not going to tell you the brand but I am going to tell you what kind of a boil it is it's walnut oil and it's absolutely fantastic for making the paint flow putting on thin applications so that you can see that they look more translucent very uh that's that's a it's a very good oil for that type of of uh painting now we want that to be a little bit darker right in there and I don't want to get caught up in anything that is going to be too distracting with all these little tiny bits of clouds that are going across because my big dramatic cloud that's the one I want to go to town on that's the one that's important and he's coming right about in here there's a big dark spot right in there nice in nice blue I've got blue violet and a little bit of green sap green in there and I'm going to put this on kind of rough and then I'm going to come back over it and soften it in you know how I love a soft look in my paintings I really do yeah okay now up here on the bear canvas it's going to go on a little nicer because it's not sitting on top of what I've already painted um so that's going to work a little better here for me and I'm going to make this kind of dark here because because I want to that's why yeah because I want to nothing wrong with that all righty now we'll take another brush let's get a bigger brush I think on my last painting for you I should use a bigger brush just to show you that I know how to use a bigger brush okay right up in here we're going to have some gold it's going to be kind of bright right there it looks a little redder doesn't it we have to make it a little redder right in here there we go that's what I wanted and there's a little touch right in there too okay and a little bit over in here a little bit down in here all right and remember how I told you many many times it's we're not trying to copy the photograph we're trying to create and so it's very very important that you keep that in mind if your painting does not look exactly like the photograph then good for you because that means that you have created and not copied always remember that create don't copy now this is I mean this is okay I'm going to be putting some blue in it but I want to get that nice and clean in there so that I know that it's going to stand out really good right in in the area where I see that okay and as I soften it and then I'll come down into the blue again a little bit of light in there and wipe the brush and here we go with a little a little lighter violet a very sweet gentle violet coming right down here and I'm making this cloud a little bit bigger because to tell you the truth to me this cloud is one of the most important things on the on the painting so I'm making them a little bit bigger and there again it's my painting I get to do what I want to do and that's what's the fun the fun part about being the one with the brush in your hand okay that's not too bad now I'm going to take a clean brush and I'm going to try to soften this just a little tiny bit of oil my walnut oil and I'm going to try to soften this and make it all come like it's cloud there and now you see what's happening we need a little dark on top here we're getting a little too light up in that area just a little darker just so we remember that there are those darker parts of the cloud that the sunset is not hitting as much it's kind of sad for me to be ending this series my former series gallery works I know a lot of you watch that show for years probably some of you are still seeing it and rerun and now you'll be able to see this in rerun so it's not like it's going to be off the air you'll still be able to see it and if you should ever decide that you'd like to have your own personal autographed copy of the painting of a painting or of a show you just email me look for the information at the end of the taping email me and I will and just put tv show on it and I will make sure that you are sent your own copy that will be autographed of the of the show whatever show you like okay now that looks like it needs just a little more yellow orange right up in here because I'm seeing a little bit too much of this violet and I don't like that there we go now I think that looks pretty good I have a little bit too much coming down so I'm going to go back into my sky and I'm just going to clean this area up a little bit okay and that's how you do it just clean that up a little bit and there we go there we go that looks okay maybe we need just a little bit of blue a nice light greenish blue coming in from the sky color it's lighter and it's really really uh it's such a soft color all the colors of the sky are so soft and I want to just put that in there to kind of like show you what that sky is like right in there there we go and maybe just a little touch right here so that we feel like there now that that cloud is gorgeous I think and I'm going to start on the water just like that let me see I see blue and green um see lots of blue and green in that water it's really a gorgeous turquoise color and then down here if you see you can see the the reflections in the water of the purple and the blue in the sky beautiful beautiful beautiful sky I don't like this over here I'm going to go back in there taking a second look at it and I've decided nope it's not going to work for me so because it's my painting and I can do it I'm just going to go back in here and clean this up a little bit and that'll look better of course see don't be scared don't be scared you know attack that painting attacked it with gusto paint it like you love it mean it make your strokes count all righty let's see here we're going to get some blue green together I'm just mixing a nice a nice mixture of sap green and French ultramarine blue and let me put that up here am I close pretty close yeah I am pretty close maybe a little bluer and then I'm going to add a little bit of white and I've got some of that violet in there too so um that's going to give it a little oh just a little hint of a of a nice soft color all right now we already have our violet going across to show distance I have the lighthouse quite bright and I'm going to leave it that way and I'll tell you why because um that bright that lighthouse when the light hits it at a certain time of the day it just looks like it's on fire I'm going to leave it there and I know you don't see a lighthouse here in the picture in this photograph of north point but trust me there is right about over here on the edge there is a lighthouse so I took the prerogative of moving it in because I want you to know what it looks like so there we go all right now here we go okay now we don't see any waves and I'm going to have to come back over that and hit it with some dark paint because that's a cement wall right there and I just obliterated it with my big brush so I'm going to come back in and try to get that back in there because that that's important there we go okay the director of my show um painting journeys is also an artist a very well known watercolor artist and his motto that he learned from his instructor was to keep it simple and so I thought in honor of my director for my last show I would try to follow his advice and keep it simple now darn it went back over it again well you know what happens then we're not afraid of it we just fix it there we go okay now as we're getting a little closer we're going to want that um water to be just a little darker and I'm going to start coming down with my with my brush strokes I've got my back laid in where we don't see any any waves or anything like that um but now I'm going to start coming in with lights and darks and um all right now I just notice something else see this dark line right up here right there I have to go back and I have to take care of that I want that in there that's important you know that's what happens you step back away from your painting and you see stuff that you've either painted over or you've missed so it's always really good to step back and then take a look at it and then go back and attack if you well maybe attack is kind of a strong word but all righty let's see here I want this right in here this little this little bit of dark right in here that I'm seeing and I want this to be darker up here too I think I lost some of that when I um um was kind of softening so now we'll take that where is that clean brush at oh dear hmm what happened to the clean brush I don't think we have it anymore we'll try this one and see how it works just to soften that in a little bit there we go I add there we go yep I like that I'm gonna put a little bit more violet right in here coming through here that was lost and then of course now I want to tell you because somebody emailed me um a week or two ago and they were asking about this tool this is a wipeout tool all right as you can see it is pointed on one end it's rubber the center part that you hold is wood and the other end is kind of chiseled okay and it makes the absolute best tool because it's rubber for wiping out when you want to remove paint so I'm going to show you in a demo this okay here you go right here see this beautiful light kind of area right in there I'm going to remove the paint so that I can make that area a little lighter with the violet and now I'm going to take some a little bit of a lighter violet and I'm going to put in there okay and you have to be careful not to dub too terribly much I see a tiny little bit of orange in here also tiny little bit right in there just a little you know the colors of nature are so difficult to capture on your canvas because it's God's creation and us mere mortals we struggle there we go now does that look a little better I think it does I think it does yeah all righty have to be careful because I'll get in that trap where I want to make it look like a a photograph and I don't want to do that I really don't want to do that I want this to be my rendition or my I can't think of the word right now but anyway I want it to be how I feel about the the lake I want it to be my interpret that's it interpretation that was the word I was looking for thank you whoever said that okay I think we need to get a little bit more blue in here I think I have a little bit too much green so I'm going to put more blue in and I know that looks funny but you just wait and see what's going to happen you know because we're going to be doing some pretty good stuff here pretty soon and all this dark down here is going to have we're going to put the highlights on it and everything okay all right now I just got the word that the show is half over I'm sorry kids we're halfway there inga but that's okay that's okay because we're doing good stuff good stuff for you I'm really glad that you are with me today I'm glad that you're watching the show I hope you're enjoying it I hope you've enjoyed all of the shows that I've done on painting journeys taking those trips with two with me to the different destinations that we've gone to gosh we've gone to Germany we've gone oh so many places local in the state in the united states in washington state remember the beautiful pacific ocean paintings that we did I mean we have just we have journeyed so long together now it's been I think it's been a little over three years and almost 40 different shows and it's just yeah it's just really really been a wonderful wonderful experience to share my journeys with you and I'm so glad that you tune in all right now let's see here now I'm going to take the wipeout tool well not quite yet I'm going to take this a smaller brush and I'm going to go for some waves back in here just a little now by making the brushstrokes go down then when I come back over them it'll look like this is deep water but it has a surface on it that's the sole purpose of making those strokes strokes go down and then coming back with the little tiny brushstrokes to create a wave look and a surface on the water we do have lots of lots of uh of waves coming in so this is probably going to be kind of tedious for you to watch I'm working with my microscopic brush again I don't know kids I just can't seem to get away from that microscopic brush but then these are little tiny waves because they're way in the back all right so we don't want those to be too big we want them to look smaller and I think back there there's usually a lot of wave action right around the pier that goes out to the the lighthouse so I think back here I'm just going to put just a little bit of white so that we can kind of get that feeling that there's waves coming up on that pier now now I'm making stuff up okay but that's my prerogative because I know that they're there so I'm going to put them there all righty and then more more little waves we want the water to look very very choppy that's one thing about Lake Michigan when I first moved here I was so sad to leave California and and and leave the Pacific Ocean I mean that's where I had grown up and I had loved it so much out there and you know I the first time I saw Lake Michigan I thought oh my gosh it's so big and beautiful it's just like and with the beaches clean beautiful beaches and and so so beautiful that I thought my gosh the only difference is that the waves keep coming in they don't go back out they just keep coming in coming forward you know and that's the only difference it was just as beautiful to me as the ocean was and I was really surprised and happy at that because I'm really a water person I love the water I love it a lot now you see that surface that we're getting now it really looks like the water has a surface on it and that's by making those strokes go down remember that put your strokes going when you're doing water put your strokes going downward first then come across the top with another brush with paint and you can make your waves or your or even a dry brush you could even dry brush this and and have the effect of of of the water okay okay here a little more turquoisey color back in here and got a little a little light on me all righty let's see now I think we now we have to start making some dark waves as they're coming closer I'm sorry I'm not talking I'm just kind of this is this is a I'm getting to the down to the nitty gritty here and I want to I want to be sure and make this water look like I want it to look and I just come across here with some little areas of light so that I can make those little areas of the reflection of the sky onto the water need a different brush and now let's see here perhaps do we have a bigger brush yes this looks like a good one nice light over here I think we need some of that orange too in here nice light in here let's see here we'll come back and we'll oh we'll keep that brush and we'll start making these waves a little bit bigger and darker all righty and right in here and I think I don't see any foam but I really like waves to have a little foam on the top so I'm going to put a little a little foam on mine the water is getting pretty choppy up there just like I wanted it's just the way it looks and we'll put some little reflections in it from the cloud and then we're going to take some white and make just a little bit of a white cap okay oh I didn't bring enough brushes today did I well you know what just have to work with what you got don't complain just make do all right well this guy work let's see I'm thinking about just a little tiny bit of a white cap on this guy and maybe a little bit on this guy here and he's coming down to maybe we'll just have some little white dots back there in the water to just kind of show the little white caps maybe we need to go back even further I think I see I want them even further back I saw a painting one time where someone had painted on glass I'd never seen anything like that before in my life and they had painted the ocean on glass and they took on the back of a piece of glass okay and they took a pin and they pulled holes in the paint of their in the water of the paint and so the the light coming through looked like those little sparkly things on the on the ocean that you see when you're looking out there it was it was really amazing and and quite a technique I've never had the nerve to try that but I I never have forgotten that either okay let's see here okay maybe we could have a little more yeah yeah that looks like it's coming in pretty good and then we could have a little more here okay looks pretty choppy I don't want to try to do too much I don't want to mess it up I want to get some of that let's see here it's kind of a it's peachy but it's yellow and and it's got all these cool colors in it and I I think probably my director he's probably looking at me now and he's saying kitty you're not doing it you're getting too fussy keep it simple okay I will I promise maybe maybe not there we go mumbling to myself all right now right down here we have some beach and we have uh there we go nice little light color of beach and then it's coming right along in here and that needs to be lightened up there we go here we go and that comes down there and now if I were to if this was a class I would tell you that this is my discord this color down here that would kind of be my discord and there are some little birds there and I have to kind of soften along in here a little bit and make this a little bit bigger right there because it's coming into the beach it's coming into the water there okay so we're going to soften that a little bit there we go and right here we're going to have a lovely nice little whiteish white kind of a foamy type thing that comes up onto the water right here there we go and then that's going to be pulling back like so now we need some of the strokes of the violet to be coming across here because that's where our our biggest amount of reflection is and I have to before I forget I have to thank my favorite cameraman Richard who's been with me all these years been faithful and doing the shows and putting up with my with my wishes and making it the best he possibly can I have to really give him a big thank you because he has been a jewel and I have to thank Sarah who's my camera lady and for all that she's put into making this show what it is all right you know it's just I don't think this is working for me come on kitty get it in gear here well I don't know if that looks like water or not what do you think huh no don't answer that oh goodness sakes the fun we have there now it looks like water and then down in here I think what I did is I did too much of this business up here I'm going to soften some of that yeah that tiny brush business oh boy and this guy here he could really use a little more water coming down like he's really coming in there and he could be a little flatter there we go there we go yep hey that looks not too bad all right um let me see here where do we go next what do we do well I think I'm going to go back up into um here and I want to make this cloud show up just a little bit more so that you can see this low hanging cloud right in there there a little bit better okay and typically when we're down there uh when I'm down there at north point there's a little bit of smoke coming out of these chimneys okay so I'm going to just put that little bit of smoke there can you see that there we go and now let me see what else do I want to put in here okay I think um the backside of my cloud needs to be a little bit darker over here there he is and I think I'm going to put just you know what I'm doing right now kids I am killing time because I thought I would be so smart and get some of this done because I wanted to have this painting done for you by the end of this show and sometimes you're out smart yourself okay so I'm killing time but that's okay because I'm making my painting better I'm gonna put just a little bit of bright red on the roof there we go that shows up a little better and coming down here there we go that shows up nice all righty and oh let's see here I see I see some ducks down here I think maybe I will make a duck yes I'm going to make a duck they're always down there they're always begging for food they chase after you it's a funniest thing you know you throw that food and they all just come running like little crazy people it's crazy I love them so I'm gonna put one in my in my final painting here just for you he's going to be and we need to put he needs to be darker he's not showing up so we're making just a little bit darker and we're going to give him a friend and maybe one floating out here okay now we'll put some highlights on them and I think I need some highlights on their heads so they show up just a little better okay and this one's in the water so oh well I don't know if we needed that or not I now now that I look at the painting I'm thinking to myself that lighthouse is too dark I mean too bright too bright it's far away and I've made it too bright so sometimes you have to trust your eyes and not your mind your mind will tell you one thing and if you look real hard your eyes will tell you another so somehow or another I have to balance my hand and get in here and darken the back side of the lighthouse all right much better much better okay let's see maybe if I put I know those birds are dark but I don't even see them I know what I'll do I'll lighten the area that is around them because it's dark against light and light against dark so if the birds are too not showing up it's because the they're too dark it's because the area that is around them is not light enough so I'm going to just put this in here like that and then that'll just show a little beach and here we go no I probably should just take these guys out they look kind of goofy huh oh well I don't care maybe I'll put some red in here red is good yeah and then I'm going to put a little green over it and then I'm going to make some more waves we're coming down to the wire and I want to sign it for you I'm going to make some more waves here have those ducks more out in the water okay I know what I'm going to call it done um this bothers me and I keep saying that don't I I'm going to call it done and then I say this bothers me but this needs to like that there we go now I'm going to sign it and where's my signing brush let me see here I'm sure I brought it and I'm sure I put it out it's a tiny little guy right here okay now where to sign it where would be the best place to sign it I don't want to sign it over here I don't think because my ducks are there but if I sign it here with all of this that's going to make it too heavy so I think what I'm going to do is I will sign it over here with the ducks and that may hopefully will distract the eye from those ugly ducklings all righty here we go taking some of my brilliant alizarin crimson my most very very favorite color in the whole wide world and I'm going to sign this for you and now when I sign it kids that means I can't touch it anymore it's a done deal now okay I really want to thank you this has been a marvelous marvelous run I thank you so much for joining me as I said earlier if you ever want to have a copy of a show just email me and put tv show on it and I'll make sure you get an autographed copy of the show I want to thank the staff and here WSCS television for hosting my program all these years and I most of all I want to thank you the viewer for tuning in and watching me it's with sadness that I leave but it's bye bye for now thank you so much