 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 Linclish and we're going to be journeying home today. But first of all I want to tell you about the painting that I did on our last episode. After I worked on it here in the studio I I took it back with me to my home studio and I made a few changes. I wanted to do I wanted the painting to be more about the truck and and to feature the truck more. So I I I brought the truck more to life and I changed the road a little bit to make that a little more convincing and I added some nice bright lights and some darks to it. I had some yellow sunflowers here before. I didn't like the way that looked. I thought it was kind of just didn't go with it and so I just added just some kind of a weed or whatever to make it look a little more natural. As I told you last time the farmer was so nice he came out and he started up the truck and he moved it around and got it in just the right position for me so that I could paint it and so there it is. There's the portrait of of the old international and the name of it is starter up. So but now every every journey that anyone takes there's always that special time when you are coming home and and you arrive home. So our journey today is going to be about arriving home and it's winter time and you go up stairs I do anyway to the second level of my home where where my living room is and I look out the window and this is what I see this beautiful scene the sun has gone down and the streetlight has come on early and there's this gorgeous glow about everything and you probably can't see it on camera but there's reflections of reds and golds here on the snow and I thought you know beings it's time for the holidays and everyone always goes home for the holidays. I thought that this would be a good painting to to do for you so I have what I've done this morning before I came to the studio I laid in my pretty much my background of my sky and the glow where the light is going to be and this is that dark road that's back there and this is some snow and this is where the dark snow starts to come forward. Now we've got to put the trees in big heavy trees and there's a tree over here and some of this we're going to leave out I'm probably going to leave this out and I'm going to bring this flower shape and put that there instead because that's our old rocker and I don't know it's not too it doesn't look like it would do much for me so I'm just going to bring this flower with the snow on it in and I'll put that in that area so we might move things around a little bit to make them more artistically pleasing to the viewer. So once again this is Kitty Linclish and you're watching painting journeys and we're gonna start to work right now. Get the right brush, got my palette all laid out in fact I I started painting this morning for the background so I already have some piles of paint mixed up and it's nice and juicy. I'm working with a little more of a limited palette today than I that I normally would work with but I think what the first thing I want to do is start with my wipeout tool and start drawing drawing some of the of the things that I see in here is I very subtly I know you probably can't see it but I very subtly put some trees in and I'm gonna just come out a little bit more here and kind of draw those in to give me a little bit of a way to go here and this this blank space here that's all covered with the dark green trees and then there's a branch that's coming out this way and and it's got things hanging on it and it's going to be have the the branch with the snow on it and everything and this is all going to be dark green here then we have a littler one right about here and it's a different type of evergreen tree now I'm just terrible for the names of things because my husband if he was here he could tell you the name of each one of these different kinds of of trees but I can't okay and then there's another little one right here close okay and then right back here we have this little peak and there is going to be a show the church back there so I'm just I'm just kind of trying to to draw this in now right here right about here is where this streetlight is there's another little tree right about here that's just a little baby tree and so it's going to be right about there and then the streetlight is right here and it's coming like so I'm drawing this with my wipeout tool because I'm trying to take out the painting that I put underneath this so that I can put that on there now this is coming down all the way because it's on this side it's on my property this back here this dark strip back in here is the road that's behind all the trees and everything the light is on my side in fact one day or one night someone came around the corner and took out the light so when they city came back out and they put it back up they never made it straight it's kind of a crooked light now and I'm going to put this down here and that's going to be that flower that big it's a big metal flower looks like a daisy and that's going to be that looks like a palm tree right now that's kind of funny okay and I'm just trying to get how I want to go with this okay I have the light now for the sake of the painting as I was saying I have to compose this and I have to it isn't so important to me that I make the painting look exactly like my front yard what's really important to me is that I make it look like good art pleasing art to look at so I may delete some things I may move some things around a little bit this is what you do as a painter and you and you feel free to do that because it's very important now right here I have this little crooked tree going up and I love that because everything else is so straight I love that movement and so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to put that coming up right back here I think and it's going to be coming up there and and it's much taller than the light so I have to take that off and there's going to be snow on all of these branches and I'm not I'm going to tell you right now we're not going to get this done today but we're going to give it a good try and you'll get to see how it's all laid in then the next show that you watch after this one I'll show you what it looks like all completed won't that be fun all right and we've got a few more trees in here we can put in there's actually quite a bit of stuff there okay and this is all branches around in here all right so I think the first thing I'm going to do is the light because the light is the furthest thing away you know when you've been away from home for a while and you come you come home and you just have such a feeling of joy to be in your space in your safe place it's not easy traveling sometimes it can be quite scary it's going to put this in a little darker right there and put the put the lamp post in coming down oops I can see right now we're going to have to make some changes there so we'll just come in with the outside and bring the bring the outside in and clean that up a little bit it's kind of hard to to paint from the side like this but we'll get it we've done it before we can do it again yep I don't like that so I'm just going to take my paper towel and wipe it out right there there gone all gone just like that we'll put this light back in here I think today I'm going to have to paint very loose in order to get this on here and then if we have time then we'll refine okay word that dark okay here it is I talk to myself a lot when I'm painting all right this has got a little have to keep changing the brush for the color right now we will mix up some of the dark color for the trees using a little bit of the sap green and the cad red light to make a nice warm well I guess it really isn't warm when I look at it again it's really rather of a cool cool brown almost a grade brown so we'll put some ultramarine blue in there and cool that off this is going to be for the trunks of the trees they're going to have snow over them so what's going to happen is that we're going to have to just paint possibly part of the tree and leave the other part unpainted so that we can put the snow on it that's this tree right here okay so we have this little baby tree that's coming up right in here and then there's another one that's quite a bit rounder and it's a little higher and it's a little more flayed at the at the edges there okay and then here's our tall tallest one it's also a larger tree in the in the winter time the deer come and visit me one time I went to my kitchen window and there were five deer standing outside my kitchen window eating this bush that I have and there's such beautiful creatures and they visit all the time they come and they walk this is a road right back here they walk down this road and then they come up over the hill because I sit on the hillside they come up over the hill and they walk right around this lamp and this tree and come around to the back of my house and eat my bushes and then they move on and then sometimes they'll vary jauntily just walk right across the lawn the lawn which is covered with snow walk right across the snow and right between the trees and go right on down the hill and disappear and I live in in a in a subdivision then there's houses all around me and yet we are pretty close to the river with the woods and so it's just amazing that these deer are they're almost like pets when they do this and it's really it's really quite amazing and I remember one one day I was looking out the kitchen window it just sounds like that's all I do is look out out the kitchen window but I do spend a lot of time in the kitchen I love to cook and so out in back was this gorgeous fox sitting between my house and the neighbor's house he was just beautiful and there was some sunshine there and he was laying on this patio block just laying there and like he was probably waiting very patiently for a rabbit to come out but he was absolutely beautiful so red gorgeous and then another day my husband and I were sitting and having lunch and we looked at our cross street and here was a turkey walking right down middle of the cross street we live right on the corner was crazy you know I mean all this wildlife right there in the in the area I mean it was just was crazy I guess the poor things they don't have any any place to to go now we've taken their their space made it our own so now we have to commingle share hmm there we go I like that I like that color it's nice and juicy you notice I'm not gonna be real fussy about you know making the the perfect tree that's not what this is about it isn't about it being perfect it's about it being convincing if it's convincing it works if it's not then you have to keep working on it this has got lots of dark back here you know I can see when I get back to my studio my home studio I'm gonna be putting quite a bit of time into this to finish this for you I want this to be done for you so that you can see it for the holidays and hopefully it'll make you want to go home for the holidays too if you're live away there we go this one's just a little bit smaller so I'm getting a little carried away here oh well my tree grew it's a year later that can happen when we first moved into this home all these huge trees that you see you couldn't see them for the the grass the wild grasses in front of the place you couldn't you couldn't see the trees they were only two or three feet high and in the 15 years that we've lived there we have these great big giant trees that are totally blocked us off from the street it's marvelous it's marvelous to be able to stay in one place I was I've always been a traveler myself been all over the United States lived all over my younger days I really traveled a lot before I settled down got married raised children yep but there we go you see how that's all full and everything so we'll but we'll be able to get that fullness when we come back in here and we put the white on it but we can't put the white over the over the the green we can't do that we have to wait until the green is dry in order to do this so this is what I would consider to be more of a layered painting rather than than a la prima a which means wet into wet all right now we've got a little bit going this way a little bit going that way a little bit that way a little this is coming out here now you right away you see how it's starting to come to life even though the trees don't have the snow on them they're starting to come to life because they're that dark is balancing all of the light in there that I laid in as my under painting so that I would have my background in there and then when I lay the snow on here I will pull out branches and put the snow shape on there and that is what will distinguish each tree from the other one you'll see that on the next show what I how I've handled that and I will explain it to you then okay and we have another tree right in here see if I try to put the white on now on these trees it will it will look the green will just we'll have light green snow we don't want that back here there is a church is a smaller brush and the tree will come back up over that and these these branches that are over here are going to have a lot of reds and golds on them right in here because of that light maybe that's a little too bright let's take that back a little bit a little more yellow it's very warm most of this is what is considered cool painting temperature wise but this light on here is very warm and we're going to have that in a lot of places where this light is is glowing on this and I want to go ahead and and get that in there on the side of that tree and down in here and we've got branches behind here what I do with that little perfect brush this must be it it's going to put that little cross up there just so I I know that it's there I might have to come in and and make it a little use a smaller brush but I don't want to do this really isn't the point to do the detail but I just want to make sure that I have that that up there so that we can see that that cross is there I'm gonna work on that later okay all right now we've got more trees to put in this one here that is coming these two trees and it's coming like this and get a smaller brush I brought the whole arsenal with me today and you never want to paint the trees so they look like wet noodles you want to keep them the movement short and jointed that's what makes for an exciting looking tree limb or branch there's another one coming right down here okay now then these have that same reddish orange glow right in this area here right and then I have I know you probably can't see it but I have this really neat little sculpture that's right here and I'm gonna put that right right here like that out right here and it's kind of tall it's a circular disc with kind of a curvy thing that stands down and then it has some things that go around it and it has some spikes it not spikes but you know it's a lawn sculpture but it's all covered with snow so it's kind of cool so I'm gonna get that in there I think that that would be kind of cool to have that and so we'll put that in and that's going to be covered with snow but right in the center of it it's very bright orange because it's kind of an amber glass and that will help to pick up the the color of the of the street lamp but I'm gonna knock it down a little bit because that was a little too bright okay and I might make that smaller right now I'm just trying I'm feeling my way across the canvas actually it is a journey I'm trying to show where everything is going to be and and that give you something to look at too there's lots and lots of branches over here so coming off of all of this we're going to have tons of branches and those branches are going to have snow on them and okay this flower that's right in here now that's like that is a copper sculpture that my husband purchased for me for our anniversary one year and it's really beautiful and it's supposed to be a big flower almost looks like a big Gerber daisy I'm just gonna put this on it here and then so much of it is covered with snow and that's kind of what it looks like and then when I put the snow on top of it that'll be fine there's a little round bump right there that daisy all right so now we need to fill some of these branches back in here we have all these branches going every which way in here that are showing the the the light the light is showing on them and it's dark in our post that we get I have a miniature parrot and whenever I leave on one of my journeys my parrot has to stay stay at home and my husband takes care of her and when I get home and she's naturally very very happy very excited she's truly a little gift she has such a personality today as I was getting ready to come and do the show why she was calling to me give me a kiss give me a kiss usually I'll stop whatever I'm doing and run over to her cage and give her a kiss because if she can say it I ought to be able to do it huh wouldn't you think now she's lots of fun one year on a journey that that will take together on painting journeys I I took her with me to Sedona Arizona just the two of us in the car and she wrote on my shoulder almost all the way there it was fun she was a good girl I want that to show up just a little bit lighter I want to give you something so that you can kind of see where we're going here with this okay now let's see here well we've got a lot of business in here that will do the best that we can with and these are all these are all right here okay I see something this should be the blue snow because that's on the other side and that's the snow coming forward and we do have lots of color in that snow also excuse me there's some oranges right in here underneath this little tree where the light is kind of of get this just the right temperature here okay that's that's the snow behind there and it's very red right right over in here underneath this tree there's a glow of red showing and then coming down on top of the snow here we have the red glowing I spend a lot of time looking out this window window in the winter time around the holiday time we don't do much for decorations but God's natural beauty is decoration enough just look at that street lamp with all of the glow and everything it's just really beautiful I think I need to get more of the of the darker branches in there darker smaller branches up in here and that's all coming off of here there's another little tree coming up right here we're going to have a lot of branches coming out all this is going to be all covered I don't want to do too much because I have to simplify otherwise it won't look authentic to you when you look at it let's see here do see okay I see what I see what I've missed here I just saw the background I should have gotten that in there first way back in the distance is some trees that are coming back here so we're just going to go in and pop that in there that's what the trouble is because that isn't sky all the way down how could I have missed that see you can even have your own television show and not know what you're doing sometimes but it's always good when you find out and catch up with yourself there we go we've got bushes and trees that are going all the way back in there and that is the background I should have put all that on first for you but now you're actually getting to see how an artist struggles with the with the painting sometimes sometimes it's better to see problems when they're worked out on the canvas than just to see a perfect rendering just fall together because now in watching me with my struggles if you're a painter it tells you well you can do it too it may be better than me you know so okay so now we've got a little bit of a dark background now we'll take a light and we'll put some lighter snow back here trying to be real careful now not to make it too gray in my photograph my background is actually clear up here but photographs have a tendency to make things go much further away than they actually are so I don't want to take it that far back I want to make it like I know how it is and it's much much closer so this is this is the snow back there as it goes and then we have those trees and it's kind of oh how can I say kind of and then I'm going to have to come back in and put those trees the tree limbs and everything back in there but there that that is going to be better let's see here we'll just kind of scribble this in a little bit so we have a little bit of the background in there now we'll go over a couple of things to reinforce them our trees branches we've got a smaller brush again where is it now those are all going to have little red highlights on them and there's just a lot of stuff up here and I'm trying to be selective the focal area of my painting is right in this area here where all the light is I'm over here put a little pink against the side of this and up a little bit some of these branches are coming back in too and because they're they're coming down and okay and so then we'll take some of this and we'll make try to make some more of these little branches that are growing in front of this guy here and there's one big branch that's coming right up right up and across him that's this one here over and then it's gone you wouldn't make this a little darker back there to show up just a little bit more yeah there we go put a little bit more color in here make a few more of those when we put the snow on these that's going to make a big difference in how everything looks and let me see if I can put some snow on let me take the knife just just for the sake of being able to show you what that would look like I'm going to see if I can put some snow lay some snow on top of that wet green paint this is going to be really a challenge without the the white turning green I'm just going to load up my knife and I'm just going to take and see if I can put just a little bit maybe let's see this tree is here and it's got a little bit of snow okay maybe I can do that maybe I shouldn't have doubted myself maybe I should have just gone for it gone for the gusto we'll see nice thick paint can't plus with it too much or it's gonna it's going to get too dirty oops I have a big one coming right here this is when it's fun is when I'm I'm trying something new and it's and it's working I get all excited my heart beats faster yeah I like that I like the way that's looking let's go over here and do it a little bit on this one trying to keep it you know that snow blue enough without too much of a of a without too much of a warmth to it because over here the warm part of our picture is here in our focal area and over in here where it's cooler it should be bluer maybe that got just a little bit too light and take off some of that I love to paint with a knife you go so much faster this is coming down here very very full of snow too white scrape it off darker blue it's more in the edge blue white there we go okay so now let's see if we dare put any of that snow on these branches over here just so you can see what that would look like and it's fun I love it a little bit in here so that one is coming right out at us I'll probably come back and knock some of this down okay now let's see here with our knife you want a warmer snow because now we're over here where the light is so we're going to try to put the snow on we'll just see if it works if it works good if it doesn't then we'll have to I'll have to show you what it looks like next show I hope you've been watching all of the shows each one is finished on the next one so in order to see a completed painting you have to tune into that oh that works okay yeah that's going to take a lot of work though a lot of work I don't know where the time goes I know we're running out of time oh that's disappointing I could be here with you for a lot longer than this trust me okay this tree's got some snow on it over here it's too thick I want to make it more more like it's a little more not so thick on there and um our post here and that's the wrong color I'll just come in with some of that now and I know it looks kind of loose a little maybe on the messy side but we'll fix all that next time I'll have it all taken care of for you and you tune into the next show you'll see it okay let's take some of this warm that up and put coming down here so that light looks like it's spilling down here and we'll put a little bit of snow on the on the top of my my sculpture my flower sculpture we'll put a little snow there and a little bit on this and a little on this there we go okay I know it looks pretty I know it looks pretty rough I know that but still you can see you can see where we're going just a few more little white spots up here to show a little bit of of snow on here and you can see where it's going though I think we've got a pretty good start it's a lot left to do on it but I think it looks pretty good I do see one more stroke I want to take and that's right in here see that right there that is that is beautiful and I want to make that I mean I want to make it capture that on my canvas there and then we do have the tree though this growing up right there so I've got to put that tree trunk in there there we go okay well I think we're probably out of time for today I hope you've enjoyed my my journey home coming in the house my bird saying give me a kiss and going over to my living room window and looking out and there's all the warmth and the light and my front yard and all the things that I love the nature of the animals that have visited me birds this is this is what I'm truly all about this is home this is the journey home I'm glad you joined me today once again my name is Kitty Lynn Klisch and you've been on a journey with me on a journey home I hope your journey to your home for the holidays thank you for being with me bye bye for now