 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 really glad you joined us today. We have an exciting adventure journey that we're going to be taking but first of all I want to talk to you about our last episode. If you'll remember on our last episode I was doing a demonstration of a peace rose and here it is it's all completed is what you call a kind of a contemporary approach because I've painted around the edges and you don't normally frame that type of painting and it's larger than life of which is kind of fun to paint really big once in a while and so here it is my peace rose I made quite a few corrections from the show. I deleted a lot of the pedals that I had I'd gotten kind of carried away as I was painting and talking to you and so cleaned it up a little bit and here it is and I'm quite happy with it I like it. So today we're going to take a journey to Freberg Germany and a beautiful beautiful place it's in the southwestern part of Germany and it's well it just I have some photographs let me share these photographs with you because it's just really so beautiful. One of the big things about Freberg is that they have this marvelous square it's called the Munster Plaza and it is the Munster Square in Germany called Munsterplatz. It's the central square in Freberg and the the big red ornate building on the left side of the photo is the historical merchants hall and that was built in 1500s and they're they actually found silver and and they were a very freeberg was a very wealthy city until it ran out in the 14th century that's how long ago that their their silver mines went not dry and then the city turned more towards it's focused more towards culture and science it's a really really warm friendly place and the and it's just one of the sunniest places in Germany in fact they call it like the Mediterranean of Europe. The Freberg Munster or Cathedral of Our Lady was started in a Romanesque style as shown in this picture in the in the 1200s Freberg did not join the Reformation and remained a strong center for Catholicism so that's just one side of the of this huge enormous cathedral that everything is kind of centered around this is another side now this the architecture continued when it did continue it continued in 1230 in a more Gothic style as you can tell by this and there's actually gargoyles that look like they're mooning people and there's a legend there that the gargoyles were actually the architect didn't like the fellow across the street and so he made the gargoyle look like it was mooning the person across the street but of course that was just a legend that was just a legend anyway here's the interior of the church it's just inside the cathedral it is so beautiful and at the very far end is the tower the tower was completed in the Gothic style in the 1330s the Allied forces actually bombed the city in 1944 and everything was destroyed but north and west of the cathedral but the Monsignor had the good sense to take the windows out of the tower and the blast did not harm the church or the tower so that was really something they have a market there the markets every day but sunday everybody brings their wares it's really something they just they anything that you could think of that you want to eat or or purchase they have it but back hundreds of years ago they had no way to really weigh or tell how large like say a loaf of bread was so they actually in in the church they actually cut this this squares in the church by the where the marketplace was and they carved it and they used that as a measurement for size to determine the price of bread and other goods that they were that they were selling so those different sizes that were carved right in the stone they could just hold the merchandise up there and they'd know how much to charge and then you know when you visit someplace like that it's just so hard to decide you know you you you look at all your pictures and you think oh my gosh I only have an hour what am I going to paint and so this this painting or this photograph rather is the shows the part of the historical merchants hall and it shows the building next door to it in the square and I was I was really taken with how neat it must be to live up above this beautiful building with these gorgeous window boxes and to be able to look down into the square and see the different markets so I decided to paint this picture but of course it was a little too a little too much going on so I had to crop it even more so this is what I am going to be painting for you this is the building and it says something right down here on the bottom and if I'm not mistaken I think this means that this building was built in the 1400s so it's very very interesting very interesting so without further ado we had better get started now that I've given you a little bit of of the history and shown you some photographs so that you know where we are why now we better start painting okay I'm going to start I think right back in here and get that kind of a grade look that I want and my picture doesn't do this justice when this building is such a pretty mint green it really just kind of takes your breath away so I'll be making it a little bit darker when I do it a little you know a little deeper the mint green I'm really glad you joined me today this is a real treat to be here be with you here we go we're going to make up some nice gray paints a little stiff yeah we'll just have to thin it down a wee bit here we go I got a new palette and it I got a I had my trusty old wooden palette and it just you know it just was so old and there were so many knife marks in it and everything I decided well I'll get a new palette and I'll get one of those fancy round ones that that fits the hand and you know they're supposed to be ergonomic and all this stuff and it'll fit my hand my arm better and well to tell you the truth it's not I'm not real happy with it because oh that doesn't look gray enough I'm not real happy with it because it's a flat wood surface and it doesn't it doesn't um the paint doesn't slide around on it and it's kind of a disappointment I need to lighten that here we go so I'm finding what I'm finding is that my paint dries a lot quicker all right that but hopefully now that kind of a violet gray is going to help that uh green show up even better now let's make some of the that beautiful green so we're going to use a little sap and a little cerulean blue and see what we get yeah see the paint just doesn't scrape off of this nice and I don't know I asked the lady where I bought it if if I should varnish it and she said no I wouldn't but I don't know I think my other one was varnished I don't like this at all don't like the scraping sound it makes live and learn huh trial and error that's what they say and I won't I promise I won't complain about it for the rest of the show I'll deal with it right let's see here we'll add a little bit of this that's considerably brighter maybe we need a little bit of red in there to gray that we don't want it to be too bright everything you know needs to be grayed a little bit you can't paint objects with like crayon colors comic book world let's see maybe this is a little better I think that is it just needs to be lightened just a little bit more okay now we have a nice pile of that and now let's see here we have the reflection of the flowers going back into the the window here these flowers here and also looks like there must be some trees across the street because there's a little bit of tree over there this window doesn't have any reflection in it and it's kind of gray so I'm going to I'm going to make that window I'm going to go in there and make those windows the I like to paint from the inside out so see by doing this I'm I I that helps me to put one thing on top of the other of which helps to make it look a little more three-dimensional I've never figured out a way to paint where I could paint everything all at once and have it look three-dimensional it just doesn't look three-dimensional to me unless I approach it in a three-dimensional manner and I want that little bit of dark there and there okay so there's one window and then here now we see a little shadow right here so we're going to come right here and put that little gray shadow right there that is the reflection of this window and you see how thick you see how thick that is from here to here that building probably the walls of that building could be as as thick as two or three feet it's amazing when you think about it you know how they had to build these structures to last all all of those years hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years we our church is just 50 years old and we're thinking about remodeling it you know adding on building onto it and I think about all these churches that I saw when I was over in Europe and Italy and everything and and I think to myself my gosh why don't the things here last like they did over there why is that I mean you know here we we didn't have the major wars that they had in Europe and all of the strife and everything we didn't we didn't have that as much and yet our buildings just built 50 years ago are not are already needing repair and work on them and what would the answer to that be is it is it the workmanship is it the amount of years that it took them you know three four five hundred years to build something is that what would make it make the difference between what we have here in America I don't know I can't figure that out I'm trying to make this so that we looks like we have a little bit of a of a reflection from something going on in there that's good and then this one over here is the same way it has the the stark right in here of which is the reflection of this window sill and then it has the green on it also I bought some new sap green and it's quite bright it's the same same brand that I normally buy but it almost looks I have to dull it down a little bit it is so bright I love sap green anyways one of my favorite colors okay maybe we'll put a little little pink in this one maybe that's what it needs oh kitty you and your big brush that gray one more time there we go now then the gray that is right here is quite a bit grayer the people in freeberg are very warm and friendly um in fact people say that the reason that they're smiling all the time is because they have the sunniest area in the country and of course freeberg is just south or just west excuse me just west of the black forest so they're very close to that and you know the black forest is famous for cuckoo clocks and black forest cake this coming up here here and we have a little more gray here so if you visit freeberg you mustn't miss going a little bit further and seeing the black forest beautiful beautiful beautiful place a little bit lighter now I can always lighten that up a little bit later if I want to um of which I probably will I'm making it awfully dark looking now I know and I can come back and take a little more white and put on top of that now we'll do the let me get a smaller brush this looks like a good one and we have some dark that is going right back here it's a shadow from where that shutter is sticking out there's a little bit right in here where this shutter is sticking out boy this is some of the thickest paint I think I put my palette got my palette ready too early and it started to dry on me all righty and we have this right here right behind this one I can't wait to get to this lamp I think that is going to be so neat okay let's get a square brush put this one over here I want to mix up a nice warm white because the the building is is going to be kind of cool so I want it to be a nice nice warm white something is really sad um but beautiful too in during world war two when Jewish people were rounded up and taken away from Freeburg they were sent to France and then in 1944 I think it was they were all sent to Auschwitz and were killed and as you walk along the streets in Freeburg you see little brass black brass plates and commemorating each and every individual Jewish person that was taken away they'll be there forever to remember them I think that's just so touching it doesn't hardly make up for anything but it's very it's a beginning see it's just like building huh and now I'm going to do the building I think I'm going to get that building on there before I do the shutters so we'll get a nice big brush oops excuse me a nice big brush here and go to work on this building colorful huh nice bright colors oh you should see over there I mean that that beautiful merchant hall the big red merchant hall oh my god is that gorgeous and that was built like in the 1500s you imagine having fun are you having fun I hope we're having fun okay now we have to wipe the paint off of the brush because we've got a little bit of a hard edge here we're going to come back over that and that and we're going to soften it because we don't want it to look quite so hard a little crooked on me there oh well what the heck and now we have all of this down here I think we better get a little go with a little bit of a darker down here behind the and we and of course for I I do not see them but that doesn't mean I can't put them in there because I have the brush in my hand so that means I'm the master of my painting um so at least I'd like to think I am going to put a little bit of a shadow down underneath here a little more a little more so when we put those on then we have a little bit of a shadow in here and then we'll go to the light again make this just a little bit darker right in here a little darker over here because that that curly Q black thing that is holding up this lamp post that's sticking out here this is actually coming off of the merchants building there then we'll go with a little bit lighter maybe make it just a tad warmer sometimes I do things on this palette and I think oh why did you do that kitty but then maybe it looks okay yeah hey it's okay we have a little bit of a lighter stripe that it has a little bit of gray and a little bit of green in that right here and that is a statue right there of it looks like somebody in a gold but I the way he is I'm I don't think I'm gonna pay a lot of attention to him because he's um there on the corner of the painting and kind of sticking out and I don't really think I want to um give him a lot of interest a lot of detail not down there all righty and this should come down too by taking these brush strokes making them go down I make it look like more of the side of a building um rather than the top of a table and we'll just hit well shoot wrong brush kitty wrong brush well we'll take our white trusty wipeout can't fit there isn't anything we can't fix with the wipeout tool and we'll do that boy whoever thought of the wipeout tool guy must be a millionaire he's coming along um before I forget about it though I do think I I want to put a little skinny brush oh my I've got dropsy today there we go um I want to put this this little bit of printing that's right in here and I'm not I'm not going to make it say exactly what it is what it says there I just want the you can barely see it and I just I want that that effect there that there is something printed there all right now we better get back to those windows um let's see okay we've got to do oh I forgot a window I sure did which brush did we use let me see here all right must be this one here yeah we have another window here that has a little bit of of green in it I didn't even see that we'll put a little pink in it too okay and then I want to try something I I think the windows need to show the window pane I'm not the window pane but the the window sill just a little bit more so I'm going to try to get that in there it's white coming right there and here white or even quite a bit wider right there I think my white has got an awful lot of green in it I don't know what happened there but when I get it to my home studio I'll be making the corrections on it so I'm not going to worry about it now I'm just going to keep forging forging ahead looking for the best here let's see maybe this will help you know I want to try that a little bit over here it's kind of hard to know well no I better put the white in first you know I I just can imagine living here and looking down at that market I almost want to paint someone peeking out the window or or watching out the window like they're looking down and can you imagine and the history well they have lovely museums over there I'll tell you wonderful places to visit it is gotten dirty you know I know it wasn't there but as I'm looking at this let me put this back up here as I'm looking at this as I'm looking at this I'm thinking it almost needs some flowers or something coming down the top here um might not be a bad thing a thing to think about here okay put some darks in there just to show the edge of that window a little bit I know that we don't really see that but this is something that I found out over the years that will really help a window look like a window as if you put just a little dark that helps to give it a little depth and then on this side and see let me get that green brush and sometimes if you just kind of like you know do a little softening and um um just a little tiny bit to kind of there we go yeah and that and that gives it a little more um depth that's what that's what I'm that's the word I'm looking for is depth and we're going to do that same thing over here on this window we better put the weight on first though let's see here I got a little confused I need the white to be here there we go and so the white is coming down here oh my goodness no I'm not talking to you enough and we've got less than 15 minutes left so I want to try to get some of the flowers in and get some lamp in and so we've got to move it along here so I think what I'm going to do for now is I'm just going to block in these white shutters and without too much ado so that I can get what I feel is important to show you on there we'll do some finishing up with those at our home studio every night close these shutters and that's something to have shutters to actually close that actually close on your home instead of like what we have here a lifestyle is so different so much easier make sure they hustle and bustle like like all big cities any city does everybody has a purpose everybody's got some place to go and they're in a hurry a lot of the times but they also know how to relax and slow down and enjoy the market and enjoy the good food that is there being sold they go to market every day and buy their food and what they're going to eat that day and things like that I mean that's you know it's a little more I think it's a little more cosmopolitan a little more relaxed way of living a person's life and I'm seeing right now that these are not not far enough over already I just got the high sign 10 minutes to go we better hustle hustle hustle it's the name of the game now kiddo okay so this is our lamp and I'd like that lamp to look like it was burning out you know like maybe this is the the lamp didn't shut off at the very completely yet and so there's a little bit of umphanim I want to do this this red up here because that's going to add a lot to him that red that is of that building I'm not going to bother with the gold trim right now do we don't have time for that that but that red because against the screen the red is going to really suck it home okay now I just completely covered it with shadow and now I'm going to come back with some lighter red so we'll give it the highlights there we go and and we need the some green on here where the plant is and we're kicking it now kids because we have run out of time and I really enjoyed I hope that that you have enjoyed your visit to freeburg and to the monster plaza and to the beautiful church the catholic center archdiocese for that area of the country and all the other nice information that I gave you maybe you'll feel like you did really and truly take a journey today oh this guy here we've got to do something with him we can't just leave him like that we're just going to kind of block him in in gray and we'll deal with him later we're just kind of scoochling him out here how do you like that word scoochle okay now we only have five minutes left all right quick quick quick quick quick where's that brush okay this we have this coming like this we have this one here and one here we have this coming down here and a circle and then we have this coming across here this is coming down like so this is right here oh and I wanted to tell you you know if you are interested in purchasing any of the programs any of the painting journey programs tapings be sure and email me with and just put painting journeys or television show in the in the subject line and then I will be glad to get in touch with you and find out just what show it was that you were interested in seeing and be glad because you know if there's any of these that you want to watch again and or own or give to a friend or something like that why I would be more than happy to make sure that you get your own personalized autographed copy okay kids they are screaming at me they say two minutes I don't care I'm putting flowers on these bushes if it kills me there we go we have flowers we have a building we have our light we have our merchant square and some windows so there we go I think we're done I think we need just a little brighter red on the flowers in a couple places and of course I'm going to be doing a lot of this over I just wanted to quickly try to wrap it up so that you would have a nice fond memory memory of your journey to Freeburg so once again this is Kitty Lynn Klisch and I'm really really appreciate glad honored that you join me today be sure and catch our next show painting journeys we'll see you next time so long for now