 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'm very glad that you join me today. This show is going to be a continuation of the last show that I did. You've always had the chance to see me start paintings and work on them in the middle but you haven't seen any finished work yet and I thought this would be a great opportunity. We're in Tuscany, Italy, San Gimignano at a working family farm that has been in the family since the 18th century and the farm is very old. A lot of people have lived there and done their work there, thrived, they have a winery, they grow all their own beef, their flour for their bread, they do everything. They're totally self-sustaining and not only that but they have a store. You can go there, taste wine. It was one of the most marvelous stops that I had in my tour of Italy and so today I want to show you what the painting place looked like and this is just a little piece of it and now I'm going to show you where I left off on the last show. It was what you call a sketch in oil, just trying to lay in my shapes and some of the values and colors and not a lot of detail as you can see. It's very loose, very sketchy and to tell you the truth with this particular piece I really took a leap and decided to challenge myself, do something a little more difficult, a little more intricate so I'm going to put this up here so that I can see what the photo looks like and I'm going to show you now what I have done in between the time of my last show and now today. As you can see from what I showed you before where we left off the building wasn't really refined at all. I didn't have the nice strong patterns of light and dark and the little detail of the stone underneath the plaster, the windows weren't done before, this area here wasn't done and the actually the wine ton was a really a little too large. Now I still have some work to do in this area here. I'm going to make that a little small and a little darker and I was looking at this before a little earlier today and I discovered that the door looks just a little crooked to me so I'm going to round this out a little bit more and straighten up the boards on the door and I think that will help the door to look a little like it's more upright. I've got the leaves from the ivy to put in and I've got this tree to put back in and then there's this marvelous little cart that looks like it's made out of out of branches. You see that there and and of course we have the pots of flowers and everything so today we're going to try for finish and I think I want to make my corrections first so with that said make it my palette and we'll get started. First of all because that door bothers me so much I want to step back and take a look at that and see what can I do here to make this look a little more convincing that's the word I want convincing I want to convince you that you're actually looking at a door that is from the 18th century if I bring it over a little bit this way that'll help to start straightening it out and I'll take my knife and as you can see I'm just this is my palette it's just the regular basic palette I have some mixtures on here that were from before the last time I worked on the painting I did spend quite a bit of time between the last time that I saw you and this time working on it about five hours to be exact because I just wasn't getting the feel of the of the environment of the place that I wanted it has to have a certain feel to it some some painters are they paint more intellectually and some painters meaning they paint out of their head technically with what they know and that's not a bad thing and some painters paint instinctually and they paint from their heart or their gut and I am one of the latter I have to feel what I am working on yes I know the rules and but their rules are you know they're made to be broken most of the time I'm straightening this up I'm kind of standing at an angle here so I'm counting on my instinct my intuition artistic intuition to tell me that I'm straightening up the the slats on this door anyway that's quite an interesting thing you'll see painters that you know that that whose work looks very correct very proper but maybe it won't grab you maybe it won't make you feel excitement when you look at it make you make you want to go into the painting and usually that's because those painters have our more intellectual painters that are painting from their head now I don't want to say too much about that because I don't want everybody to think I'm knocking anybody because I'm not we all have our own way of doing things with painting as well as with life so I'm not the set about that all right now I'm going to step back and just in a second here and just double check and make sure that this looks like it's a little straighter up and down and a little more and I see I need a little dark right over here in this corner to bring this edge down right here okay now oh that's a lot better I hope you can see that I hope you can see that that the change that what just occurred you know how I made the door look like it actually belongs in there instead of instead of just being there's a difference between belonging and being if you're just there you know you have no purpose but if you belong there then you have a purpose I'm gonna put a little dark in here and I want I have those beautiful 18th century hinges on the door so we want to put those on and of course the door handle and I'm just gonna highlight it with a little bit of gold just so that we know there's the door take that down a little bit there we go okay yeah that does it for me all right now I think before I get too much into the trees and things like that I think I better continue to adjust now I don't really look at this as fixing I consider it adjusting when when you paint you have to be open to the fact that the painting is going to tell you what it needs you have to be open to that you have to be ready you know you can't just say oh well I put that on there like that and now I'm going to leave it no you constantly look you constantly adjust and I know I'm coming in with some nice dark colors because what's underneath here is pretty dry and I'm just gonna soften that in but I think that's gonna be a much better shape and then this back in here I'm gonna have this be a little darker doesn't show it up here but that's okay that's okay if it doesn't show it up there I know that it should be a little darker in order to have the light show up without the dark there is no light try to mix up some of that darker kind of a stucco like stuff that they have over this and coming in here that's not quite dark enough kitty anyways I was saying you know you have to be open to change painting is almost like giving birth or watching a child grow you know the child grows and changes you have to adapt yourself to grow with it or neither one of you flourish okay that that looks better now I think I'll go ahead put some nice rich color on that wine ton that looks like it would hold a ton of wine doesn't it pretty big just a little bit now here we have a something that's a little bit of a challenge to paint because we have something this that is a circular but the slats are horizontal but the movement of the object is vertical so we're kind of like fighting ourself here so we're going to have to get the colors that we want on there and then we're going to have to go back over with the brush and make some changes in the direction with the paint I see a nice kind of a grayed dark brown it's kind of grayed though put some blue in there maybe you know right in here okay see how that's kind of hazy right there and I don't have to I don't have to do a lot here just a little bit just to get it going and then right here we do have those bands that go around that are holding everything all together okay so now I'm going to come and try to suggest the fact that they're that these are boards just a little little touch whoops I didn't want to get into that red kitty Lizrin crimson my favorite color it's so much my favorite it jumps on my brush not too much detail we don't want too much detail okay then we'll come back over and make a place for the bands as I was telling you in my last show when I was talking to you about how we had the most marvelous lunch all the wine we could drink the owners were such gracious hosts and was just such a marvelous place to be there were children and goats and chickens and everything all running around and all free nobody was caged up everything was just peaceful beautiful I'm using my wipeout tool to take a little bit of that out I don't like that it's a little too bright a red right there see no matter how far along you are as an artist you still make mistakes and when you do you have to realize it and be open to correcting it there we go okay now I'm making I'm gonna try to make some places for the bands to be so we have one two three and then in towards the back of the barrel we have three more be careful to follow that curve that I have there now then inside those bands we need to put a little paint I'm just taking a little bit of orange and calming it down a little bit and I don't even have to go all the way down and around so suggestion and then the same thing in the back I don't want to make this so identical to the to the photo that the viewer wouldn't doesn't want to to see the painting because they just feel like they're seeing a photo there we go that's looking pretty good this is here for Torio for Toria San dominato San Jimignano that's a mouthful isn't it I don't speak Italian as you can tell okay I think I'm happy enough with that and I think now a better sketch in this little wagon here and get a start on him soon do a preliminary sketch on him now there is a going from the window down window down it's overlapping the back of this so there is a pot sitting right here not a pot it's like a like a kid and that's right there okay so I'm gonna sketch that in because my cart is going from this corner and behind that and it's coming out here I'm gonna have to go a little lighter I guess this is more of a how-to-show then you're used to seeing when you go on one of the journeys with me but I just thought it would be good for you to see what goes into the actual finish work of a painting okay that goes a little bit further than the window now of course you know when you're when you're judging from something that you have up already on your canvas you best hope that you're correct with where you have everything because if you're not then what you're painting is not going to be the correct shape now so this is where the back of the cart is and here that's even a little darker colored because it's more in shadow and here is the bottom of the cart whoops coming right here to here okay you take the wipeout tool and wipe out that wrong line wipeout tools are so neat and just get rid of stuff so easily alrighty now then there's something that's coming over here like this and coming down and we have the tire or the wheel and it's a big wheel now this is from the painting before and is obviously in the wrong place and we'll have to move those pots over but it looks like that I have condensed this quite a bit and you know really that's okay too okay here's my wheel and it does have the hub I'm going to stick that where the axle goes across and that's going to be a little bit darker and that's going to be going back here this way and I'm not going to pay put a whole lot into this because it's not to me it's not the most important part of the painting I just want to try to suggest it alright over here just like I came a little too far here this should only come to here okay and then there's a line going down so we'll just get rid of this see how easy that is mess up you just touch it up a little bit there you go okay now this is quite light on this wheel right here all right so that is there that's coming down the wheel is coming right from about here and around okay and then it gets darker as it goes down and it's back here and there's the other hub right here now the front of this is much closer together and so that's coming down like like so and coming across to here it's coming to here okay and then we have another wheel right in here and this one is darker now I really should have what's painted behind there painted first but there is a pot right there that is going to cover that eventually okay now we have a lot of of this has got some bright highlight on this one over here too and as I said I'm just going to suggest this I don't this painting is not about this little cart as cute as the cart is it's not about that now I see a cart coming I hope you do too it's like we need a little more shadow under this area here set that down a little bit that's going to have the green plant in front of it that could be so I have a little more shadow you know I hate to admit this but when I was in Italy I gained so much weight and I'm still fighting to take it off that was just an extra little tidbit there probably didn't want to know it's nothing like the truth maybe if I own up to it I'll be able to get rid of it just a little bit here and I'm going to be moving on here pretty soon I'm just going to make a few little goodies like this and a few in the back and then we have this big post that's coming across there and another one that is coming down it's a little more red in it and there's a tongue for the wagon to be pulled by coming out right here it's a little bit of dark in the center there okay and I think we'll come back to that in a little while we're finding a little bit more but at least we have it in there now we know where it is let's get this little barrel open barrel it's really quite dark now in order to have the dark on there we have to or in order to have this light enough we have to have the dark so something has to be the light is obviously coming from this direction so we have to have some areas there that are a little darker on this okay and this has a nice bright orange pot sitting on it and it does have some rather everything is there's some things on here that I want to be really identifiable and some things that I just want to suggest because that will make it much more interesting than if I make the whole thing very perfect you want to be a little painterly and have a suggestion more of a suggestion with some light on this side there we go okay now this has purple flowers in it and I think that would look good on there some purple flowers and there's two little buckets inside there two little flower pots rather that are sitting here I'll have to just put those in and then put the the board across in front of them go over them and put that in now we'll just take the this and make it go across there again there we go okay here you want to see some dark spokes and right up in here we need a little bit of dark underneath that that needs to be soft and a little bit comes back here like that and then there is something that is kind of bright that comes over like that and I'm not sure what that is but I do see it oh okay I see what it's doing it comes down to the end of the hub right in there it's kind of now see there I go I tell you I'm not going to go for detail and what do I do I start putting in detail just what I didn't want to do I want this to show up somewhat for you you know I'm really glad that you tuned in today and that you're joining me on this journey across this canvas way over to Italy and they certainly do things differently our next show I was thinking I'm not quite done with Italy yet I was thinking for our next show that we would go to the Italian Riviera that's some good the Italian Riviera yeah for our next show that's where we go we'll see the beautiful ocean gorgeous over there that was gorgeous here too I don't know where isn't it gorgeous when you can paint and you love that you have been blessed with the gift of creating where isn't it beautiful it's beautiful everywhere then again I guess it is what you make it huh okay now I want some really nice darks back behind all of this greenery so I'm gonna come in there oh that's not nice I don't like that at all so I'll wipe it out my teacher always told me when in doubt wipe it out pretty good huh pretty simple rule works every time now maybe this will be yeah that's it that's what I want I just want to kind of scumble this in I just I because I am going to put leaves and things over this but I have to have a base I have to have something underneath this for the leaves to cling to and it's dark it's dark underneath there and then all those leaves are coming out sticking out so we want this is coming over here like this and then there's a little mess right mass right there miss yeah I missed you there and then this is coming down here over the little porch or the shelter whatever you call that I can't think right now here we go coming over here up here and down here and down over the window and down in here you're probably thinking to yourself oh my gosh what is she doing she's making a total mess oh yeah I am but I'll fix it okay there we go now we got we got stuff growing everywhere you know I had thought because when I was in Italy there were roses on the bushes rose bushes everywhere and I had thought on my way to the studio today about making instead of just making this ivy I had thought about making it turning it into a pink rose bush what do you think should I I think it'd be kind of cool yeah why not let's see what happens if we do that well first of all though we've got to get some nice bright greens on here I'm hoping the cameraman lets me know how much time I have left here pretty soon because if he doesn't tell me then I'm gonna run out of time and I'm not gonna get this finished for you so cameraman I'm waiting for you to tell me how much time I have now you see here I'm just going in there maybe these leaves will have some a little bit of pink on them to better use a different brush you know what happens when you paint with the same color brush all the time you end up with mud trust me it's total complete mud okay now what I think I'm gonna do is I think I'm gonna put the roses in quite dark we do want roses right right we do okay like that a lot yeah that looks good okay now I think I'm gonna go a little bit lighter and I'm gonna put a little bit of orange into that alizarin crimson color and make just a little bit of a coral look to kind of highlight some of these roses now that's too light see that doesn't look real now because it's too light so I'm probably gonna have to go back in there with some green make that a little darker but I do like those flowers I do I love flowers and everywhere I went the flowers the fruit and flowers were so abundant in Italy it was just marvelous I'll come back in here with a little bit of the green and I'll come in between and break that up a little bit and then it won't look like such a big clumping of stuff all right now we'll just kind of like leave that like that we don't want the same amount of detail everywhere we already talked about that didn't we yeah okay I love that all right don't misunderstand me it isn't that I love what I'm doing I just love the way it looks because it's just so much fun to make it pretty so now we're gonna have some light over here and we're gonna put some a few roses a few more roses in there and just some leaves and some little bit around here hanging off just who knows maybe there's a little rose coming over that window right there coming out here a little bit up there a little tiny bit up here because they kind of crawl right that's right they do they're climbers yeah okay yeah and we'll take that pink brush again and we'll add a few more roses now these are gonna be quite dark I'm gonna go real dark at first okay and I'll wipe that off and I'll go back into my coral warm it up a little bit now we'll just hit some little highlights on these guys kind of make them pop I like that okay all right so now we got a pot over here with flowers and let me see you know I think we'll have some yellow flowers instead of those drab purple ones you see that's the thing it's our painting and we can do anything we want with it if we want the flowers to be yellow instead of pink or purple or whatever we can because it's our painting so let's just have some yellow ones right there I think that would look pretty cool now first of all though we've got to have a little greenery for them to be growing out of and so let me see here my cameraman just gave me the high sign that I have 15 minutes left I cannot believe that I've been with you already this long and I have to start wrapping it up here where does the time go huh okay yellow flowers here we come first of all we're gonna put a darker type of yellow on here to kind of oh I know what these will be they'll be hibiscus they have hibiscus all over the place yellow hibiscus that's cool now the only thing that we need though is a little more orange on the pot there little little little more of a highlight I'm getting really excited now I'm excited about what I'm doing because it's I can see how it's coming together and coming to not coming together so much as coming to life it's coming to life and it's exciting then we'll just put a little highlight right here now we have to soften that in a little bit there you go oh that's getting oh I love it I love it okay alrighty let me see now now we got to kick it see yellow brush yellow brush went we'll just take another one we'll take a clean one and we'll put some nice little highlights on these little guys in here okay there we go we want to lighten that barrel up just a bit it seems just a little too little too dark just take a little tiny bit here and just lighten it up just a little now these little pots down here I think that's where we'll have the purple flowers what do you say we have the yellow so we may as well have the complement of the yellow which would be the violet so we'll have some pretty little violet flowers down there in those pots that are in the wagon you know how much fun is this I'll tell you I feel like the luckiest person in the world to be able to just do what I love and love what I do you know what more could you ask for and they did have flowers everywhere in this place so I'm so glad that that I'm taking the risk and adding these flowers and adding that excitement okay now we'll have to get busy here and get this other tree on and thank you my cameraman just told me 10 minutes okay kitty so we are gonna have to rush now we certainly don't want to see this painting on the next show that's for sure so we're just gonna take it and get it in there this would be kind of dark right here be a shadow coming out under there maybe there'd be a little bit of light behind it there we go okay we need just a little highlight on the wagon right here okay now we need to finish this tree and laying the brush flat I don't want a real thick I have the under painting on there but this is a very feathery looking tree so I'm laying the brush sort of flat so and kind of like scribbling it outwards so that I can get the look of a really feathery looking tree soft and feathery that's what I'm thinking that's what I'm telling myself soft and feathery that's it there we go all right now for the most part that looks just fine okay because see all of our intensity is right here so we don't really need that much intensity in this tree and we've got a couple of other things that we definitely want to do be so that we can call this done you know I think I put too much highlight on this I don't care for that I'm gonna knock that down see what I mean about you constantly have to adjust adjust and readjust and don't be afraid to go back into it but don't overwork it that's the thing if you put a highlight on or you put something on that you don't like then don't just keep smudging it just quick little brush stroke and let that be it there we go we've got the highlights on there whoops trying to go too fast I guess all right we'll just knock that down a little bit there we go good okay now we've got this pot in the foreground I'm probably talking faster now too because I'm really trying to crank it out now I think that pot looks kind of blue in the foreground over here right in here lighten it a little bit and then we've got to put something there that's inside that pot hmm what would be inside that pot well it could be a little tiny baby cypress tree we wanted it to be real interesting or it could just be some greenery there we go and then right in here now we have another pot hmm now I've got five minutes left kids whoo whoo time to hustle I want this orange pot right here and it's gonna be sitting right there in front of that wagon wheel okay right there and it's pretty good size little splash of warmth on it whoa not that much kitty boom boom knock that down okay and then I think we'll have more purple flowers on that right in front there okay right in here we're gonna have more purple flowers coming up who knows what they are we don't care just as long as they read right they read like um like flowers and their flowers okay and then oops that's a little crooked there we've got to put a little bit of a dark shadow underneath certain things here to sit them down see how that dark shadow sits up right down there we go okay and now then we're going to take this big brush and some light we're gonna lighten this up all the way right up to that doorway this back here we'll still be in shadow and there would be some shadow right back here from this spot under here would be shadow and over here little shadow from the wagon and we've got some shadow in here this would have some shadow in it we'll just kind of go like that okay all righty and then I think I will sign my name all it done okay there it is it's all done and I had a lot of fun painting it for you thank you so much for joining me today on this journey through painting on canvas and be sure and catch the next show when we will be on the Italian Riviera once again this is Kitty Lynn Klisch with painting journeys thank you and bye bye for now