Bob Ross - Winter Night (Season 3 Episode 4)

Welcome back today. I'm very excited because I'm going to show you something you've never seen on television before. Today we're going to start with a white canvas and we're going to use some magic black on it. I'm going to let you see cover the canvas and this is magic black here we'll just cover the entire canvas and go all the way through and there we go and a little bit more we apply this exactly the same way we do it. the magical white and just covering the canvas I thought maybe today we would do a little cold

winter

scene, something with some snow and ice and maybe even a little cabin, let's see what happens here, okay, everything we were looking for here it's a thin even coat, exactly the same way we applied the magic white to it, it doesn't take just a second when you use a big brush, okay, we're almost done with it and we're ready to go, so now we have I started with a white canvas and turned it black, but it's still wet.

This is an oil based paint. It will remain moist for several days. Now we will wash the brush and once again we wash our brushes with odorless paint thinner, which is the most. The fun thing about it, okay, let's take a one inch brush and some titanium white and figure out that maybe there's a little bit of light here, so with the white paint we'll start doing little x's, there we go, let them work , start here. It will be your lightest area and you will work in a sort of increasing circle that way it will automatically get darker as you work outward.

Okay, about to sew. Now we can take the big brush and blend it very gently. It's like putting up a sky. the magic white just blends in and that gives us a light source in the background. Well, today I want to mix some alizarin crimson and phthalo green in about equal parts to make this a big stack, here we're going to use it. all day this makes a beautiful gray color just mix it really well here we go we're looking for a nice dark gray it should look black on your palette okay now let's take a one inch brush and let's load some paint on it let's load quite a bit A little bit of paint on the bristles and we can go back now and start putting in some little details that are very far away and I don't want a lot of details, but all I want are indications back here, just as I put some little trees way back. in the distance there we go just some little indications very very far away I don't want them too close there we are I want this to be very dark this is a

night

scene of course we already have a pretty nice little background here and maybe We'll take a one inch brush and I'm going to put a little bit of titanium white on it first, so load it really deep into the brush, really deep, then we'll go right into a little bit of the gray color right at the tips. of the bristles so we have white in the deep and gray on the ends of the bristles so here we go maybe there is a bigger tree back here and when you push really hard it will show a little bit of white just to make it stand out . a little bit better, just a big old tree that's lying back here, it's got a little bit of white tips where the snow is stuck on the little tips of the tree, maybe a little more snow right there, okay, now, maybe, maybe maybe right here on the corner. there's a big tree just hanging here, just drop some branches on it, you see the white coming out to make the little tips and now let's use the fan brush and we'll load up a lot of the gray color and maybe bring it back. here we can see some small tree trunks here and there maybe these trees have no branches or leaves it's cold and wintry and maybe here maybe maybe but there he is there's a much bigger one right there and if you wanted to make that stand out a little better, put a little bit of white on your brush and go down the side that will give it a little highlight, just enough to make it stand out.

Okay, now let's grab some titanium white. very little paint and start putting a little hill back here, let it blend into the magic black, start back here and start working on a little slope, a little hill, something we don't want this to be too bright, we want it to be It will be late at

night

, very dark there and just follow the lay of the land with your knife. Okay, now we can take a clean one inch brush and very gently lift it up to bring this together. I want it to disappear. Here calm, hazy, soft, here we go, okay, now with an eyeliner brush and a little thinner.

I'm going to put a little bit of solvent so I can dilute this until it's almost like water. Maybe we can start with this. tree back here we'll just put some branches hanging here just a few little things here and there maybe there's another one right there this is your world so wherever you think there's a branch that's where it is maybe there's a couple right here in some of these little trees it just makes the painting a little more interesting. Well, now we can start moving forward a little. Maybe this layer of snow is brought in at this angle just so there's a change here.

Very little paint. too little paint on your knife and you have to make almighty decisions, maybe there's a hill like that right there, too little pressure, okay, if we had had another big tree, maybe right here, maybe there's a nice big tree back here, so I'm using the fan brush with nothing but the gray. Now we're going to add a little bit of white so we can make that side stand out a little bit more, just a little bit. I want to keep the dark dark color here. and with our liner brush we can put some limbs on this right where you think there might be a little lamb growing a little bit of paint thinner, put them in your paint so it flows here, maybe there's a limb up there, right there. and sometimes let some of these branches wrap around the tree so that you have branches on this side of the tree and you don't want them all coming off the sides either, okay, now let's go a little crazy here, let's take maybe right inside. here's a nice little cabin, we'll grab some Van Dyke Brown and start building on our cabin, maybe right there, just make a decision, leave it, we do the back eve of the cabin, the first part furthest from you , So. now on this side I'm going to use white with a little bit of gray color just enough to dull it, we don't want it too bright and we'll start here and go down like so you can Design the basic shape of your cabin and then fill it in now on this side of the roof, we need some snow there, okay, and we can go in here and put some boards here, just pulling down here.

We went and had a great way to make a little cabin and all the buildings work basically the same, it's just a matter of angles and perspective. If we had shows that were a little longer, I'd love to show you some fantastic buildings there. Come on, maybe we want to turn this into a log cabin so we can grab some brown and some white. Maybe we'll put a little shade on it. Burnt shadow we want to keep it pretty dark, we don't want it. to get too bright yet and just touch it, give it a little tug just to make them look like little logs, there we go, just touch and pull, don't make it too bright, there we go, okay, now we can sort. in the opposite direction and we place some logs in this direction and all we do is touch them, give it a little pull down this time just a little, don't overdo it and just work in layers, let me give you the impression of small logs now, when you are at home and you have unlimited time, you can take your little eyeliner brush and really put some details in there, like I said before, if we run more than 30 minutes here, I get yelled at a lot and kicked.

I'm off set so we'll try to keep it very simple just to give you some ideas. All we want to do is give you ideas and teach you how to do this fantastic method and set you free in the world. Now I want this side. be a little darker here maybe now, if the old guy who lived here is like the rest of us, he probably ran out of space real quick and had to build a little shed in his cabin, so maybe we should do that too. grab some more brown and let's go in here and build you a shed, we'll just put a little roof right here, going out like this, maybe this is where you keep your firewood, no doubt, it's cold, now we need a little bit of snow on the ceiling, so we take some titanium white and c

ross

it there, that should look like this, now we're here in the foreground, a little more brown.

I need to put up some walls in your little one. shed maybe over here just there well well maybe these are boards here maybe they're not logs maybe they're slabs so we'll just put an indication of some boards here and there okay now let's go over here and give you a couple. of windows maybe you need some windows why we're looking at the back of your cabin so first we're going to take out this paint that we have here and let's go straight to some cad yellow and we're just going to put a little bit of light in your window just give it a little bit of light maybe have the old cord on tonight if there's no power here in the woods we'll take a little bit of the magic black on the liner brush and then we'll just line the windows just a little bit, this is a very thin paint, it's a liquid, so what flows there.

Okay, now we need a little more snow there. We can start right here and start bringing the snow down and the angles are very, very important when We're making the snow start here, there we go, just let it go over there. Okay, isn't that so fun? This magical black is so exciting. There are so many things that can be done with it, maybe in our next series we will do it. Dedicate several programs to using magic black and I'll show you how it works now. If you want to soften this snow a little bit, it's very bright right now.

You can take the big brush and be very careful, follow the angles and scrub gently. and you can mix it right in to whatever degree of brightness or darkness you want, always follow the angles, okay though, maybe we need a little bit, maybe there's a little chimney right here, we'll just put it in, just use a little bit of gray. color on the small edge of the knife there we are, maybe you can see the slightest amount of red in your chimney and we won't have a fire going right now, okay, make the snow a little thicker on the roof and I think I'm ready to start playing with some other things.

Now I'm going to take a fan brush and start loading it with titanium white. A lot of pain in the bristles and very deep, very, very deep in the bristles and then I'll go over it. here in the gray color and load the tips so we have the dark gray right at the tips and the white further down, just double load your brush and maybe let's put in a couple of nice evergreens that are right here and we just start touching the canvas and we use just the corner of the brush and as we push harder the white appears just to put a little white highlight on that tree, look at that sign of a gun, now load up a little bit more of the gray color here, let's give it a little buddy, maybe there's another little tree that lives here, there we are, now we have a couple of nice evergreens right there and we can take a clean brush and lift it up here just to make It looks a little foggy back here, okay, I think maybe we'll put a really big tree right here, so I've got a little bit of white on the bristles and I'll load it with the gray color and remember this gray. it's made of phthalo green and alizarin crimson, maybe there's a big tree just hanging down here, with nice big branches just hanging down, it comes right in front of the cabin, here it takes a little bit of white and we can highlight this a little bit .

I'm just picking up some snow and heading back. I don't want these shapes to be too different. It's supposed to be late at night. Just directions now with the brush, a little bit of paint thinner and a little bit of the yellow just a little bit of the yellow maybe you want to put a little bit of light reflecting off the snow here so we can put it in with a little bit of the coating that's just barely there. touch, let a little bit of the yellow shine through the snow and we're not too worried right now, so we'll take the big brush and very gently blend it in well.

You know, the story is about yellow snow, so be careful. There we go, I'm going to wash our little eyeliner. brush or maybe maybe there's a maybe there's a big tree right here let's start with some Van Dyke Brown let me clean up a place to work here grab Bandage Brown and maybe today we can see up close what the knife looks like. like when it's loaded there's a little roll of paint right on the edge of the knife there you see that roll of paint with that we work well now let's take and put a big tree right over here all we're going to do is touch the canvas, just touch it, the paint roll just peels off and makes your tree for you, okay we'll let this one go on top, okay, we've finished one side, now let's do the other side of the tree, there we are. and just continue there and you can make as many trees as you want in your painting.

That's the good thing about painting. You create your own world and control it. You can make anything you want happen in your world. I'm giving some roots. There has to be something down here about it.that he can stand up and maybe he has a good arm right here, a little limb that just sticks out of the canvas. There you might be able to see the beginning of another one here somewhere and just put it in. them where you think they should be okay now let's go into a little bit of gray and white and put a little bit of light in here just to make this tree stand out a little bit better just keep going up the tree let it go a little bit of light shining on it I want keep this paint very dark to give the impression of night and this tree is very thick when it's dry you can feel the bark it will have dimension maybe there's a little highlight right there a little touch here and there we go, I knew you could do it and down here, at the bottom, maybe there's a little bit of snow that's piled up on their little feet, there we are and you can take the big brush and very gently blend it in like this. it just flows up the tree, maybe maybe here and there, this time I'll take a little bit of the magic white, a little bit of the gray color, we don't want it to get too bright, maybe there will be one or two little bushes.

That's right here, just a couple of little bushes growing that are still hanging down and kind of break up the little snowy areas and make it look a little more interesting. I don't want to get carried away with these just a few, okay? I think we have a painting that's almost finished and ready to sign, so I'm going to use some fine oil and go back to my permanent red. I always like to sign in permanent red and we'll just go down here. and put a quick little signature now, you know, if during the course of the series I don't answer all of your questions, feel free to write to us and I'll try to answer any questions you have if there are things that If you want to see that we're not painting, let us know that We will try to paint them for you or we will surely find someone who can do it.

On behalf of everyone here at the station, we would like to wish us all. and each one of you happy painting, God bless you, see you next time, goodbye.