 And welcome to Gallery Works. My name is Kitty Linclish. And this is our second session and our last show. We blocked in a teddy bear and he's getting ready for Christmas. This is Papa Bear. The setup is right over here. And now that I have the canvas covered, my job is to do finish work, bring him to life, give him some personality and a few more pretty things around him and just bring him to life. I'm just working with regular oil paints. And as you can see, I've got all kinds of brushes and everything going here. Everything is a mess. So bear with me and we'll see if we can create something out of this chaos. Thank you for joining us today. All right, I think what I want to do first is get in here and I'm gonna just take a paper towel and I'm just gonna wipe this down. I don't care for this bright green right here. That should be a little more muted and softer. And the same way down here. Sometimes you'll find when you wipe stuff out, wipe a painting out, you'll find that you can create with the paper towel, of which works really, really quite nicely. If you want a little bit of a special effect in the background, not quite so fussy, a little more painterly. There we go. All right. Now then I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna take a little bit of white and I'm gonna mix with this green. I want this to be just a little bit lighter there. That's pretty. I love that color. That's nice. And I'm just gonna scumble that around, lightening up a little bit. He's looking a little dark like there, that's better. And then like down in here too, I don't particularly care for all this dark. I'm gonna lighten him up some there. I'm not gonna worry too much about this outline right here because, and I'm gonna soften this into this and maybe put just a little bit more of this light up in here too. Let it come down in here. You know, our subject matter has a lot of detail in it. If I put all the detail in the painting that I see, we really won't have enough time, number one, because it's only a half hour program. And number two, it won't be nearly as interesting as if I pick out something and really bring it to life. And that's what I wanna start doing now. I'm going to do that with the greenery. I'm gonna start there first. Okay, come in with the yellow and the sap green and try to, let me see, I think that's the wrong brush. Take this one here, it's a little thinner and try to just kind of like make some greenery here so that we get the feeling that there's greenery there. We don't have to describe every single one that we see, we just wanna know, we wanna have the impression that it's there. We don't have to be photo perfect. If we wanted a photo, we'd get a camera and take one. So being a painter is not only knowing what to paint but what to leave out. That's very important, very, very important. Okay, so now we have some greenery there. Okay, right over here, it's kinda got a little messy on me. I'm gonna come in with a little bit of dark and darken this area up right in here. Just kinda scumble it out and make it a little muddy. Mud's okay too sometimes. There, now I have something there that I can put some greenery on and it'll show. Okay, now I do have a pine cone right in there and I want that pine cone to show, I love pine cones. In fact in California where I'm from, we would go up to Big Bear and we would pick up pine cones in the Angeles National Forest. We'd pick up pine cones, bring them home and we would put glue on the tips of them and then sprinkle them with glitter and we would have the most beautiful pine cones. I remember that, we did that for a long time ago, but it was a nice memory. Nice, nice memory. Okay, so now we've got a pine cone there. Let's have another one. Everything's nice and choose, not everything, but sometimes things are nicer and choose. Let's see if we can make an upside down pine cone. As I was going through my Christmas ornaments and looking for the things to bring today to use in the painting and I found this crazy pine cone that had, was wearing a Christmas hat and it had a little face on it. It was really quite cute and I almost brought it but then I thought no, that's just too gimmicky there. But it was cute, it was cute. Okay, so now we're gonna darken this up a little bit in here and we're gonna put a dark shadow underneath the pine cone and we have some beautiful blue, like a blue spruce in there that's really very, very pretty. So let's get some of that going. This is coming over here. Our poinsettia, let's get that poinsettia set in there. Poinsettia is my favorite flower. Not only because it's red, but because it is the Christmas flower. There was a story about a young Mexican boy on Christmas Eve. This is supposedly how the poinsettia became the Christmas flower. This young boy in Mexico was Christmas Eve and he was going to the church and he didn't have a gift for the Christ child and he dropped down in the snow and he prayed. And there in the fresh new fallen snow popped up this beautiful red flower. And so the boy picked it up and took it into the church and that was his gift for the Christ child. And so the poinsettia became the official gift for the Christmas flower. Of course, it's a legend. I don't know how true it is, but it's a nice thing to think about. Very nice thing to think about. We have a little darker leaf under here. We'd probably have some nice bright, light leaves in the center that would kind of show up. He has some berries and his berries are very dark in here and the berries have just a little bit of yellow on them, there we go. Now then there needs to be just a little bit more of that red coming over here to kind of suggest that a petal coming that way, but it's a poinsettia, actually the petals of the flower are actually the leaves. So there we go. All right, now then over here we wanna get some of the greenery. We have to work kind of fast because we need to make sure that we save plenty of time for our little guy, our little teddy bear. So I'm probably working with a little more abandoned than I would if I was working in my studio, I would probably be working a little more carefully at this point, but I want you to get you the audience, the viewer to get a good idea of what this would look like when it's completed. And so I have to really push, push it. Okay, now let's see here. I think we need one more petal right in here. There we go. And then I do see that we have some white, pearlish like looking things. See if I can get those in there. That looks kind of stark. I better tone that down just a tad. There, that's better. On his little scarf, he has a red ribbon and a gold bell and the scarf needs to be just a little darker around the edges here. And then there's like a little knot back here at the back of the scarf flies off the back. And we need some red berries on the other side here. I'm intentionally dancing around the teddy bear because I'm planning what all am I going to do to him to finish him up here. And now it's time to get busy with him. Okay, before we run out of time completely. All right, the making the green and the red to make a nice light kind of a blonde color. And I'm going to come out here, okay. He has all these brushes and none of them I want to use. I should have brought more. He has a darker value right in here in his little ear coming around there. He has a little dark right in here. This right in here is a little darker and this ear right here is dark and it's also dark on the edge, on the outer edge right back in here. This is quite dark. I'm taking Alizarin Crimson and Sap Green and making a more of a mahogany color there. That's good. This is a little darker in here. Okay, now we'll take the hair. It's very light in here. So where he's light, he's very light. I'm pushing, pushing up to make the hair, pushing in the direction that the hair would grow, okay. I had originally put a pink nose on him and after looking at him, I don't like that pink nose. So I'm going to give him a little darker nose, I think. Got some light coming out over here. Now this is all, the lights in the darks are what is giving him his expression. And we need some of this dark, dark over in here to kind of set that ear off right there. This is a little darker coming down in here and I'm just going to put this little nose on like that and it's got a little bit of dark under here, a little bit of dark under there. It's kind of put on there, there. I think that looks better. Okay, now his eyes, okay. This in here where he's darker, fix that eye first. I think I'll go ahead and just put that eye in a little bit better now then. Got the fur coming around here and fur coming out here, nose. And then this is coming down like this, here. That's a little darker in there. Okay, now we have a darker color right in here and a very dark color right here and this is all dark down in here. And then his little paw is coming around kind of dark on the outside here and then it is real light right here and it's coming out like so, okay. And then one thing I see that I haven't gotten correctly is that the right in here it's dark and that's what sets the little face out because it's dark against light and light against dark. So his little face is coming out around here, there. And this has got some light right in here too and that nose should have just a little bit of dark right in here. I'm running out of time fast. Okay, let's see here. Let's put some light on this, some light on that, some light on the foot and some light over here. I'm working very fast now, not being too careful so it is not exactly the way I would work on it if I was working in my studio but it's really important to me that you kind of get a feeling of what this little guy looks like. This is his little arm coming down. There's his little paw and this right in here is darker so that is, that's going back there. Okay, and we do have a piece of greenery that is coming up and over this foot here and the fur right here is quite light as it's coming down on the arm. And I think we need just a little bit of light right here to kind of show that his little tummy is in there. Okay, let me see here. Maybe just a little smattering of some green stuff up in here, kind of maybe a nice dark, dark shadow right in here and coming up in there. Okay, and now I'll sign it and there he is, my little fella. I hope you enjoyed the show. I really enjoyed painting the Christmas bear for you. Join us next time. It'll be another good show. Thank you so much. Bye-bye for now.