 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 Clish and we are still journeying in Ireland. Our last episode I was doing this painting of this gentleman, gentleman farmer, Mr. Conlon. And I when I got the painting back to the studio, my home studio, I thought oh gosh this isn't right. I better add the other brother and the dog Lattie. And so it was you know anyway this is going to be a continuation of the last episode. I'm going to complete it. As you can see I have added the other brother. I've kind of like just mocked him in and the dog Lattie is going to be down here. I'm going to be adding the flowers and everything over in the windowsill and just doing some finish work on this for you so that you can see what it really looked like to me. But before we do that I wanted to tell you about my very first encounter with the Conlon brothers. They were so cute. They were so shy and so the very first time I went to their house I was standing outside and I was taking a picture. I was taken with this window and this window is the same one that I'm going to be painting today. Putting the flowers in. Anyway I was so taken with this window and they wouldn't come outside. They were just so shy. So anyway I caught them peeking out the window to see what was going on. So this is the Conlon brothers garden window and that was my first encounter with them and they were very sweet and then as I got to know them as I told you in the last show they invited me to lunch and prepared a nice lunch for me and we just had wonderful talks about Ireland and how they see what they see in their future. You know their future is like so many things here. It's becoming a bygone era and new things are happening there and changes are being made and what's going to happen to gentlemen farmers that don't farm anymore. So anyway I better start painting now. Thank you for joining me today. Okay here we go. I think I'm going to go ahead and block Laddie in the dog. Really sweet dog and everywhere these gentlemen were Laddie was right there with them. If we were in the house you know talking in front of the fire Laddie was right there laying there. I mean anytime they got up and moved Laddie went with them. He was such a sweet devoted dog and the funny part of it is is that Laddie is the not the first Laddie. I think these gentlemen have had many many dogs and I think they were all named Laddie. So this is probably Laddie the 40th or something. But anyway a nice nice dog nice dog and let's see we've got the leg coming over here. This is going to kind of help you to see a little bit more about what is actually going on here. This is a little lacquer up in here and then Laddie's got a little black right in here and a little bit black right here. After after our last episode and I was working on this I just I just when I got it back to the studio I just my home studio I just thought this isn't right. I need to have both of the brothers there and as you can see in this picture above they are very very close. Tommy seems to really like the dog a little better than his other brother but they seem to they're very they're very very close the brothers are. So and I wanted to show that I didn't want to leave one of them out. You see here I think I'm making Laddie a little too heavy looking here so I'll just come in. This is called coming in from the negative space to form your positive shape. I had a lovely email message from a gentleman in Maine a couple of weeks ago and he saw my show and he emailed me and told me how much he enjoyed it and he's a painter himself. He paints marine scenes and he belongs to a national marine painters society and he was seeing how much he enjoyed the show and that made me feel so good I hope to hear from more of you out there. I truly do because it really made my day to turn on my computer open up my email and and here was a message from a gentleman in Maine that has seen my show and was enjoyed it and he was so encouraging he said whatever you do keep on painting and if I could have been talking to him I would have told him yes I will definitely beyond a doubt this is my love this is my passion isn't wonderful when you can find your passion in life and actually follow your passion that's the most important thing in the world it really is and now I have to make the ears look a little more come out it's kind of hard to see here because laddie is so so dark so I'll be putting on some highlights and and we kind of get the idea that it's a dog there let me see here she has that little bit of a white foot coming right here and a little bit of a white leg coming down right from here it was cute the these gentlemen as they're sitting there and they're snacking you know in their chairs by their fire one of them will give laddie a snack and the other one will say no don't do that now she's getting too or he's getting too heavy you know don't give him any snacks and the other one would say okay and then you look over a minute later and there he'd be popping another snack down for laddie it's kind of funny there we go and maybe we'll put just a little bit of a nose on this I don't want to get the dog at the painting is not really about the dog and so I don't want to do too much on it I just want to give us a nice idea of the fact that it is a dog there and do one a little more light on the ears coming back there we go and then laddie's tail is coming around and is coming over his shoe right there kind of laying on the shoe I think it'll take a little bit of light and put some light on that so we can see that little light here and there we go maybe a little highlight on laddie a little bit here coming down to sort of show the the form of the dog a little better there we go and that looks pretty good I can't wait to get to the flowers in the window too and oh and that that's true if we have to do that that's true for sure today so if you just joined us this is part two of our visit with the conlon brothers the gentlemen farmers and they live in Athlone or outside of Athlone and their their storytellers for the Catholic parish where they live they in Ireland they have these gentlemen and they make they make it their their profession to actually well it isn't a profession really it's just kind of like well like if you met once you're quite so well maybe like if you had it we're on a bowling team okay and you'd meet all your friends and you'd bowl okay well in Ireland they have these gentlemen that are really very gifted and they go and they tell stories in the the bars and stuff like that or the little pubs and they tell stories about you know just everyday life and what's happening and they make them up as they go and they're really quite entertaining and that's what these gentlemen do I never got to see them in action but I know there was I saw another gentleman one time and he was while I was there and he was just hysterical he looked at me and just started making up this story about the way I looked what I had on and everything it was kind of like a an Irish version of our rappers how they make things up as they go along and tell a story there we go alright that looks like a dog okay now let me see here I know that we did have you can't see it but I remember it there is a wire that's coming under here and it's hooked up to this this is their electricity box so I'm just gonna go ahead and put that in there just just you know it isn't anything that I want to make really predominant it's not that important I want to add a little bit of brown to this piece of wood that's coming down here and this is actually the box where the electricity is hooked up it goes in the house okay and I want to come under here and I want to darken this a little bit going across this is so much fun I'm glad I decided to do this I'm glad I decided to spend another show with you to finish this painting and do it properly show these fellas I don't know if you remember or not but during our last visit why I I was telling you about this marvelous lunch they fixed and how I didn't know if I I felt kind of funny eating it because you know they don't have much and it looked like they put out the best China and some really good-looking stuff there you know that had to be a little expensive for them and I don't know I just really made me feel special okay so now let's get that door jam finished here let's get that blocked in that's a little darker here I'm seeing a little bit of that blue-green it's darker than that I'm just working with a just you know the regular palette same colors that I worked with last time they're just your basic palette I have a few extras on there this this color this phthalo red rose I really like that a lot it makes pretty flowers so all right now we're going to come in under here make that door jam have to be careful there because he is standing in front of that and I want his hat to be coming over that so I have to be a little careful there there we go maybe I've made that a little too lightness here need some this in here lighten that up just a tad that's the door jam here and I think perhaps I have that a little too wide right here I think this needs to come up so I take my handy little wipeout tool there wipe that off and I'll come back in with that beautiful combination of paint gray and alizarin crimson and make this darker up here bring that dark up and that's gonna that's gonna make that look a whole lot better I'll fix his head a little bit and a little bit here there we go and then this is underneath so we have to come and put a little little shadow under there there we go there's a little shadow under there there that looks a little better okay now I can fix his hat has got kind of a light highlight on the top of it just gonna soften that in there we go there that brings it more to life there he's got his hat pulled way down over his eyes okay and we have a little bit of it of Patty's hand I think I called him Tommy before but this is Tommy and this is Patty so there I'm mixing up a little bit of a flesh color for his hand he has a very ruddy complexion his hand is in his pocket here of his pants and so I need to take a smaller brush and come in and put a little bit of a shadow on that hand where it's coming out of the jacket there we go and we need to put make kind of like the the pocket there where the hand is going into there we go okay whoops drop that brush I'll get this one now his pants as you can see are very worn very shiny I think at one point they were probably black but they're not black anymore we have a little bit of a shadow right underneath there and there's a shadow there you're right in here there we go and then this is a little bit lighter coming right up here that it seemed like from sitting the knees of his pants were a little shiny there we go that's a little the they both you know really were they were dressed in older clothes but they I think they were rather natty the way they were dressed the they that's an old expression isn't it natty but you haven't heard that one in a long time anyway I think they were dressed rather nicely they their clothes were old but they were they were like it looked like they were their good clothes I want to put some highlights on that green coat or patty I always wondered if the patty you know because it's pronounced patty like it's P-A-T-D-D why I always wondered if if if it's spelled that way or not I should have asked just seems to me that but maybe maybe in Ireland they pronounce the the D's as or the T's as D's whatever guess I'm sort of rambling huh okay there's a little color there and I don't have the right color for that coat let's see here I made the mistake of cleaning up my palate before I left and I wiped everything down and that makes it very difficult to match when I do want this to be a little little brighter he's got these lines coming in here we want to we want to see there's all these wrinkles in the arm there that's nicer there you go patty so as you notice I talk to my paintings and no they don't answer me back not verbally but they certainly give me indication when I'm on the wrong track I can tell you that much so that's how they respond okay I think that's looking pretty good let's see here he's got a little bit more dark underneath there these both of these fellows have a little bit of a tummy on them I wish more than anything I could just get in touch with them and send them these paintings I know that they would just get the biggest kick out of this to think that here somebody in America is painting them and they're on television in America they were so so shy and sweet and withdrawn and until you got to know them so we probably really be quite the thing for them to find out about this and I think I want that to be a little bit lighter on his shoulder there a little few highlights here and there to kind of perk it up just a little bit there we go and then this is coming down a little bit lighter this is a little lighter and I think I'd like to try to brighten up the faces a little bit I think I have them I know they had ready complexions but I don't think they were quite this quite this dark so I'll just like lighten that up just a wee bit he had the sweetest smile he was blind he's blind and one eye here so I think he had a glass I put in and so that's why I'm showing him with a with the one eye as being a little larger than the other one that's better and they come over here make patty look a little nicer see here little light in here little light in here not much though he's really quite he's really quite a bit darker complexed than his brother we have to soften that so that a brother bulbous nose and this is a little lighter right up in here and that is a little darker right up in there and his cheeks were quite dark looking right in here okay I think that yeah that looks a little better maybe I'll take a little tiny brush and try to make the eye come out just a little bit here let me see what did I do with my little tiny brush tiny tiny brush let me see and I just got can you believe it I just was given the message by the cameraman that were already halfway through the show I can't believe it where does the time go when we're together there we go I think that helps now go back and lighten that up a little bit right under there and clean that up this little bit there we go oh yeah that's much better yeah good okay so now then we're pretty much I think what I'm gonna do next is I'm really I've just been dying to get to this to this let me take my knife I don't want to mix with my brush I'm just dying to get to those flower pots see and they were there was a nice caught like a clay a clay pot so there was a nice clay pot there and then there was a couple of darker colored pots sitting there so we'll put the clay pot in and let's see here I'm looking back because I'm trying to see by my other painting that I did what was actually there in the window is where I keep turning away from you there and then the other pots I believe were kind of a grayed blue yeah kind of a real dark almost a gray color and so there was a larger one here and a little one right here and boy did they have the flowers in those those were just the flowers that they had in those pots were so pretty they had the little lace curtain I think from the other picture that I was showing you it when they when they were serving when Tommy was serving us lunch I think that showed the the lace curtain there in the window if you remember from the last segment now we'll just put a little bit of a highlight on the pot in this one now we're going to take my one of my favorite colors here alizarin crimson and we're going to put in some flowers massing them in and dark then we're going to put some lighter over it maybe we'll have oh it looked like that was purple petunias there can't we try to stay as true as possible to what was really there purple petunias yes we like petunias here we go we're going to put in some dark for the petunias it was growing up a little bit you know what the lovely thing about painting is that you can make your flowers grow any way you want and then the other one looked like it was maybe pink pansies so we'll make some pink and this has some little pink flowers in it now I'm going to come back to the purple and I'm going to add a little light to it and I'm going to bring these little purple flowers more to life oh there we go yeah there see okay now we'll take a different brush and we'll put the greens in the greenery I should say boy you talk about green I haven't I didn't know what the color green was until I went to Ireland and traveled over there all it's just so beautiful it's just marvelous I mean it just you just you drive along and it's like a feast for the eyes of course I didn't go to too many big cities like I didn't I didn't bother with Dublin I wasn't really interested in in the larger cities I wanted to get out into the rural area and see what do the people that live in the rural areas what is their life like what are they what are they doing and friendly warm flirtatious very flirtatious of which I enjoyed it's kind of nice to be flirted with and so we'll put just a little bit more green in here we go now we've got some flowers there we go see nothing is too nothing is too worked up too hard on it's important to kind of keep it keep it more impressionistic keep it more like it's just you're just catching a moment in time it's all impromptu you know you're not laboring if you have to labor it's not any fun it's more fun to just you know let it flow go with the flow that's a good way to say it I do want to put a little bit of dark on this pot over here on this side and a little on that side maybe a little tiny bit of orange in the center there to kind of bring it more to life there we go that's cool yeah see how that brings that right out there now I'm really loving this with the flowers the flowers in the window just say everything but you know what I can't leave that window without putting in a hint just a hint of that lace curtain so I'm gonna take my brush I'm gonna wipe it down and I'm gonna use what they call a dry brush technique and this is where I will come in with a dry brush is this dry not quite and that's good okay and I'm just gonna barely touch this and see if I can get the effect of lace of a lace curtain in the window I'm going to take just a little more paint and I'm gonna make kind of like a little scalloped edge there and a little scalloped edge there there we go now we have our lace curtains see that's the way to do it I like it yeah maybe I don't like that quite so curved straighten that just a little bit maybe I'll add a little more lace you know what the hack it's different kinds of lace some are heavier than others there we go now we have the feeling that there's a lace curtain in the window beautiful flowers on the windowsill the fellows look just great they do need to have their lips a little more defined and I have to be careful there because I don't want to make them look like they're wearing makeup but I do want to make them look like they're smiling come on Tommy and patty give me a smile give me a smile Tommy and patty there we go just a little smile Tommy's got one here we go the corner on the side there yeah they're smiling now they're very very happy they say whoa girl you're going to town here on us all right now let's finish putting the siding or the that stucco like stuff that's all over the building I had started doing that in my home studio and I really I was using a knife and I really love that effect I thought that worked so well just kind of mixing up the paint and then moving it around and and it just gives it such a nice let's see here we need a skinny knife's worth and put that right above here this now this here is going to be coming kind of kind of down behind in here and can you hear that that kind of sound like putty like I'm putting that's what it's like and the paint is just sticky enough that it's just creating that little bit of movement on the canvas is fun there we'll go into here on in here let's see here okay now that's I think I think that's looking pretty good I've got to get to this bottom part right in there whoops I went over Tommy's pants a little sorry Tommy not that really to look like real thick stucco there so you realize how how thick that stuff was there there we go now then I got it I have to take that off of Tommy's pants where we kind of went over and I'll have to put the pants back on him whoops took his pants off now I'll have to take a put them back on maybe we'll give you your pants back good enough okay now this down here this definitely needs it needs a dark kind of a little bit of a shadow underneath it and then it's that kind of blue blue gray and it's that's to here we go kind of like that right back there in between there in between hands that that's where the we're coming out of the house there out of the doorway so that would be a little bit darker but I do want to lighten it up a smidgen because light would be coming through there let me see here okay and I want to make this darker here so that Lattie's tail shows up better so I'm gonna make his pants right there a little bit darker so that Lattie's tail you can see Lattie's tail coming out okay take that up just a little bit there there we go and then right let me see hmm want this to be a little darker under here you know you just you step back and you look at it and you let the painting tell you what does it need it's I'm pretty happy with the way things are going here I don't see too much that I want to change I want to get to that to that thatched roof now let's get that thatch on there and we're gonna have to move fast now all right because we're coming to the end of our time together so to get concentrate and really get busy here that thatch was kind of a yellow yellowish orangeish sort of stuff and there was plenty of it and so I think I think that's too light of this in it kind of dances along here for that edge so you can see that it's sticking out there there's darks and lights and all kinds of things in there and go a little bit lighter here as we're going on across all right now we're working hard because we want to finish and I love the way that looks like it's just sticking out you know I would venture to say that there's probably I don't know how many pounds of straw on their roof because every time it kind of like disintegrates they just go up and put another layer on I mean it's it's fascinating to think about how simple life can be we have to have a new furnace they just put another layer of straw on their roof and that you know and when you think about it it's just I don't know who's got it best okay I think I'm happy with that yeah I think I am getting happy with that all right maybe just a little bit of lighter in here in some places oh maybe not I don't think I like that see you don't know unless you try it and I see so many artists that that are afraid to let it fly you know what's the worst thing that's going to happen so you wipe it out or you change it you know you certainly if you don't like the way it looks you certainly don't want to leave it that way oh I think that looks good I just think we need a little more gold over in here that got just a little too gray I want to carry that gold we'll pretend that they just put new straw on this roof there we go yep okay now we have the this this sidewalk that they're standing on and I want to warm that up also but not I don't want to make it too warm or too light so I'm trying to make a nice warm gray now if I take my red cad red light and I put it in my pains gray and then add some white to that what do I get I get kind of a pink and I'm not happy with that that's kind of icky color so let's just take some of the roof and we'll duplicate the roof color in the foreground I think that'll be better and I really should have a bigger brush okay and then we probably are gonna have to have a cast shadow here actually we don't really have any shadows because the light seems to be coming right at from from up up high and right on them so we really don't the shadow would be behind them so I'm not gonna worry about a cast shadow I just I want to make sure that they look that's gonna be too yellow I don't want to use that just a little too warm but I think maybe in here I'll just add just a little bit I'll probably sign it there yeah okay I'll probably sign it over in here and I see one mistake on Tommy's ear right here so I'm gonna have to pull that off right there whoops went in my hair that's okay too good place for it rather than the floor okay and we're going to take a knife and come back in here and put this back on in there and I wonder if we don't want to just take a little bit of that light color and just a little tad of it come over a little bit there and perhaps a little light on his coat there to kind of make him not look so I don't want them to look like they're cut out and pasted on I want them to look like they belong in the scene here in there in their background so I'm kind of softening them in a little bit and let me see here what else could we do to make this better well not a whole lot really you know there has to come a time when you say to yourself I think this is pretty much done so I I think there's a couple small corrections I can make by coming in here and making his sleeve a little more pronounced right in there and right in here make this a little more pronounced we go okay the same way over here okay his shoe there should be a shadow a cast shadow underneath here and maybe there would be a little bit of a cast shadow going up no I don't think so see see now I'm making things up and that's not good that's that's that's a no no we're taking that out of there there we go probably what we could do here is one last little dark place right in here along in here to kind of make that sit down just a little bit there kind of make that sit down a little bit I don't want it to be too alrighty there we go alright and now I'm gonna sign it if I have a small enough brush and I think I will sign it in darker red over here I know I should really sign it in green I think yeah you want to you want to you know repeat color and I have his green coat in here so if I sign right in here okay there they are my gentlemen farmers Tommy and Patty Conlon with their dog Lattie it has been such a pleasure to be with you once again this is Kitty Lynn Clish with painting journeys and please do not miss our next episode because you know what I think we'll come back to the United States perhaps the Southwest how does that sound see you next time bye bye for now