[music] Hi, welcome back to the painting studio.

I'm Nicholas Hankins and today I've got a kind of a crazy surprise in store for you so come up to the canvas, let me tell you what we're going to do.

We're going to go down ocean side.

I've got an 18 by 24 inch pre-stretched, double-primed canvas on the easel.

I've covered the top portion up here, maybe the top third or so with a, a thin, even coat of the liquid white.

And the bottom two thirds or so is covered with a thin, very thin, even coat of liquid clear.

I did put a little piece of masking tape on there while the canvas was dry.

That'll help us later.

But as you can see, we only have three colors on the palette so let's get started.

Let's see what we can do with just, just a few colors.

I'm going to use my old two inch brush here and pick up a little touch of the bright red to get started.

We'll come on up here and I'm just going to use the brush kind of on edge like this and we'll sweep in a little, little warm glow in our sky.

I was sitting around the studio one day just kind of thinking up things to paint and I realized I probably have more bright red and phthalo green leftover than any of my other colors.

I always seem to have just gobs of that.

So I said, why don't we try to paint a painting where we use only those two colors and a little white.

So maybe if you're sitting at home and you don't have much paint left, but you want to paint, well maybe you can, you can paint this one.

How about, how about that?

Even with just a few colors left over.

And I think everybody's got a tube of bright red and phthalo green laying around somewhere.

Alright.

My tape was trying to run away there.

[chuckles} Now let's take that same brush, I'm going to pick up a little phthalo green.

I'm going to make a mixture of these two.

I'm going to mix my phthalo green and bright red together.

Just kind of brush mix it till it turns sort of a gray, sort of a gray color like that.

There we go.

And you can sort of drag that gray to the cool side or the warm side depending on whether you add more, more green or, or more red to it.

Now let's start up here.

Still using the brush just sort of on edge, I'm going to add a little shadowy darkness to the, to the sky.

Still, still kind of making crisscross strokes, but just a little more with the edge of the brush.

I can kind of control exactly where this, this design is going.

There we go.

A little bit over here and as I'm working down, of course I'm just going to allow that color to get a little, a little lighter and a little lighter as it mirrors the horizon.

Good enough.

Let's wash a brush.

Come on down here.

I'll wash our brush out, some good old odorless, thinner.

Shake out the excess.

Give it a little rap and we're right back in business.

Alright.

Now, before I come in and start doing a whole lot of blending, I think I want to grab a little fan brush.

I'm going to take a little titanium white - just a touch of bright red with it - so I've got a much lighter, much lighter color here.

And maybe, maybe up in the sky there's just a few little, few little light streaks or light little clouds.

Or maybe this is, this is highlights that are just sort of dancing across some of these little thin clouds in the sky.

Could be, could be anything you want to, as long as you've got a story to make it yours, that's what matters.

There we go.

Just a little, little extra movement, a little extra interest up there in our sky.

Alright.

Now, we'll take our clean dry two inch brush and just kind of bring all this together.

Just brush it back and forth gently.

Take away some of those unwanted brush strokes.

Kind of like that.

Alright.

Now, tape now you can come off of there.

Your job's finally done.

We'll get rid of that and that, like I say, that'll just kind of help us keep, cheat and keep our horizon line a little straighter up there.

Now let's grab, I'm going to take my palette knife here.

I'm going to go ahead and mix up a little batch of my, my two color combo here.

I'm going to take my phthalo green and bright red and just mix a little batch of it so I don't have to keep reaching back and forth between the two so much.

This will be a little, a little more toward the green side but this will kind of be my shadow for the ocean water.

Should look almost black on your palette there.

And we'll reach for a little one inch brush.

It's a little easier to drive.

I want to make sure I can keep this reasonably straight there.

I'm just going to load both sides of that brush.

Okay.

And we'll come up here.

Now, I don't have any, any lubrication up here of any kind.

It's just dry canvas so I'm going to kind work along here with my brush on edge.

Using the edge of the brush.

I don't mean my brush is on edge, it's not nervous or anything.

There We go.

But I've very much got the handle down so I can see where the tips of the bristles form a little edge.

And then we can kind of scrub some of that color right up to our horizon like that.

Now.

Now we can have a reasonably straight level horizon line.

Just, just with a little, little help from our tape.

Okay.

And as I come down in here, before I get too far, I'm going to jump back and grab my little fan brush that has a touch of that white in it.

Add some of my dark color here.

And we're going to make a little sketch.

We're going to go ahead and decide where our big wave lives before we sketch all this stuff in.

And I want mine to live, mm, about right there.

And it's going to stretch across there.

And I'm going to go ahead and decide that the cascade sort of [Nic makes "pshew" sound] spills over right about there.

And then we'll have a little, we'll have a little shoreline or a little, little beach down there somewhere.

We can even go ahead and sort of, sort of get some idea of where the little swells in the background live.

That'll help us lay in some of our dark.

There will be another back in here about where we are right now.

Now, let's jump back to our, jump back to our good old one inch brush and I'm going to continue on adding some of this nice dark color back here.

Grab a little more.

Right now I'm basically just, just filling in, but I do sort of want to have a little feeling of how does that water flow and, and move my brush that way.

Rather than just scrub it in any old which way.

Let's see.

On our, on our big wave, we'll have lots of dark right down here near the base or the base line of that wave.

So I'm going to go ahead and kind of supercharge that area with some of this dark.

Maybe even a little bit more bright red in there.

Just just to darken it a touch more.

And then we'll stretch that out.

I can even begin to stretch this upward and get a feeling of how our big wave is going to be formed.

See that?

Just, just with some brush strokes, we can start to feel, start to get a feeling for how this water's structured.

And that's, that's pretty cool.

I love painting seascapes.

They're so pretty and they're a freeform thing.

They're fun to paint.

You don't have to be constrained by a lot of, a lot of rules and et cetera.

You just need to know a few basic things.

You need to know kind of, kind of what that water is structured like, how it flows and then you can, then you can really get wild and crazy with them.

Tell what, while I've got that brush in my hand let's go ahead and do this.

Let's grab a little more bright red on that same brush.

And this is going to make more of a dark warm, dark brown almost.

And we'll come down here and we'll add in a little, little beach sand.

We're going to need some beach sand eventually so let's come in here and just spread this around.

And then where the sand and the water meet, I don't necessarily want to know exactly where one ends and the next one starts.

They're just going to overlap.

So we'll kind of blend those two together right now.

Something about like so.

Alright.

Now, I'll tell you what, let me grab a, grab a little two inch brush here.

I'll show you a trick.

If you want to just make sure your horizon line... I'm, I wanted to say stay straight, of course, but I, I also want it to be a little bit hazy so I'm going to put about half of my two inch brush up in the sky and the other half down in the water.

Give it a nice firm push and just brush across like this.

That's such a nice, such a nice way to sort of remove the sharpness.

You can keep the nice tidy straight edge, but it just gets a little hazy out there, just, just the way the ocean really looks.

Always like to sort of take the edge off there a little bit.

Alright, now back with a little, little fan brush.

I'm going to load it full of titanium white.

Got that little touch of bright red in there just to warm it up.

Now, let's go back here and we'll decide exactly.... we're going to pin down where our little swells live.

Have a little something right back there.

I'm just kind of wiping the brush off in between, in between loadings so my white doesn't turn green too fast.

Come down to the next one.

[Nic makes "shoo" sound] This is going to wind up being the, the low part of the water or the trough between our waves when all is said and done here.

We'll even have a little bit of that behind this big wave.

There we go.

While I'm working with fan brushes, I've got that green flavored fan brush going.

I'm going to go back to my dark, my dark greeny green and I'm going to get a little shadow painted in behind our, our cascade so the highlight will show up later.

Just giving it a little, a little pull over.

It's a good way to get a feel for the shape of this thing before you go in and commit to the highlight color.

Take a little one inch brush and we'll even soften that just a bit.

There we go.

All right, now back to my, back to my light colored fan brush.

Let's come back up here and just sneak a little bit of this behind there.

Not too much.

And then I'm going to again just kind of mark the position of, of where my little beach area, where my little shoreline's going to be with the water racing up over the wet sand there.

Now with this brush wiped out, don't have any excess paint in there now, I'm going to come back and begin grabbing that light color and just rocking it back this way with a little, little cradle type stroke like that.

Wipe it off a little bit.

We'll come back and we'll get the next one.

Again, just little, little cradle type strokes.

Little, almost like little sideways figures of eight.

But this dark right here is very important.

I don't want to lose that.

Coming up just shy of that.

Wipe it out again, we'll come back do a little of the same here.

There we go.

This is a nice time to take our little, uh, take our little one inch brush here and I'm just, just going to soften those strokes.

All right.

Now, let's take a little filbert brush.

I'm going to fill this full of titanium white.

Again, just a little touch of bright red.

Make it a nice warm off white.

Not really a pink so much.

Just a nice warm off white.

Okay, let's come up here now, right in the eye of our wave.

That's the part that we want to be the brightest and to look transparent.

So I'm going to take that brush, park it down on there and just kind of scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub in little circles or, or polish or however you want to think about it.

And I'm just going to work my way around and around and around and work that light out a little farther and a little farther and a little farther till it kind of, till it kind of runs out of gas out there.

And, we'll grab our, our little two inch brush.

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I want to make sure it's nice and clean and dry.

And we're going to start off right at the top of this with just the corner of the brush like this.

Give it a little circular stroke.

[Nic makes "tchoo, tchoo, tchoo" sounds] And this is where it really feels like polishing.

You're just sort of buffing out the roughness of that paint and letting it smooth out and soften into that dark.

Bring it right on over.

Again, just wiping out that excess and some of that, some of that dark that I pick up.

Now, let's do the same thing again that we did earlier.

I want to sort of shape this.

I want to grab that paint, pull it down and sweep it out like that.

See, pull it down, sweep it out.

It's got a, got a curve in there.

It's like a, it's like a little tube because that's basically what an ocean wave is.

It's just a little, a little tube of water.

There we go.

Now let's grab a, let's grab a big fan brush.

We're ready for the big time now.

We're going to load that one full of titanium white.

Again, just a little, just a little taste of bright red with it to keep it warm.

Lots of paint though on both sides.

There we go.

All right, let's take that up here.

And I'm going to work along the top of my cascade.

Give it a little push and then sweep over.

That's why we needed the dark back there behind it.

Give it a little push [Nic makes "pshooo" sound] and let it sweep over.

[Nic makes "pshooo" sound] Be, be criminal not to make some little noises when you paint an ocean wave.

[Nic makes "tchooo" sound] Just a little push and then you release the pressure as you [Nic makes "shoop" sound] come on down like that.

All right.

Got my little one inch brush handy.

Oh, I'll tell you what would be, this would be the time right here to take our little, our little mop brush, our little soft mop brush.

And I'm just going to come from the bottom here.

Maybe I can keep my hand out of the way.

And I'm just going to soften that water up this way.

There we go.

Hope you can see what I'm doing there.

But just, just taking that and very gently brushing back up.

It sort of puts everything into motion, makes it feel nice and soft and brings a little of that shadow back up.

That's a neat effect, neat effect, and a neat little brush.

It gets into some of those hard to reach spots.

Alright, now let's take a little white, a little bit of our shadowy, shadowy color.

A little more red.

I'm, I'm trying to make kind of a neutral gray that's kind of right in the middle of the light and dark range.

It might be, might be trending a little toward the green side, but not too much.

And I'm going to grab the old filbert brush and just fill it full of that color on both sides.

There we go.

And we need a ... if we're going to have some foam on this wave, we need a little, we need a little shadow under the foam first so I'm going to take that filbert and just making some tiny little circles here.

Create our foam shadow and splash.

That's the, that sort of establishes the shape and how the water's churning and carrying on.

It just kind of splashes up a little over here and we'll, we'll make something out of that later.

Carry some of this gray on across.

Maybe it, maybe it gets a little frothy again right there.

Maybe the, the wind hits it sort of splashes up the top a little bit.

Something like that.

Clean my brush out once, once again.

This is such a super time to take that little mop brush and just sort of, just sort of soften that before we put any highlight on it.

It takes away some of that excess paint, takes away some of the harshness and hard edges.

I just love that little mop brush.

That thing's been a lifesaver.

All right.

Now, with our cleaned out little filbert brush, we're going to come fill this one full of titanium white, a little touch of that bright red and put a little highlight on our, on our old foam.

So I'm going to start with the brush angled to the side just a little.

And all I want to do here is give it a, give it a little push and work it around in little circular patterns but put, put a little push into the upstroke.

That pops off all of your bright paint up on top and you can sort of mix the, mix the two together there where you, where you run from, where you turn from light to dark.

And as you mix them together, it, it kind of automatically gives you a little middle value or a, or a, a medium tone.

Because if you want anything to look 3D it's got to have, it's got to have three values.

It's got to have a light, middle and a dark.

A light, a middle tone and a shadow.

It just kind of happens automatically when your highlight and your shadow mix together.

That's the kind of painting I like where I don't have to think about it.

That's when you tend to have the most fun or I tend to have the most fun.

Bring our shadow up from this side.

Like I said, maybe it, maybe it kind of trends down a little smaller and then, and then there's that splash and it gets sort of churned up and the wind's hitting it and [Nic makes "pshooo" sound] all that crazy stuff happens there.

Now, I'm going to, I'm going to drop that little filbert and pick up a clean one and I'm just going to come right back in between.

And we're going to do what we were talking about.

I'm going to kind of brush those, those two little values together so it kind of, automatically, this becomes one thing, one object, one one big bunch of foam with highlights and shadows and middle values.

And soften some of that down with our, our little mop brush.

Again, we can kind of soften these edges back here.

Tap them a little bit so it feels like there's some spray.

Just all kinds of little fun things you can do in a seascape.

Absolutely love them and I hope you're going to enjoy this one.

Here's another thing I can do with my filbert.

While I've got that shadowy color in there, I can begin to pick out some little foamy patterns that live in the, the wall of the wave.

Just kind of get a feel for the way that thing's turning and ... [Nic makes "tchoo" sound] These help you see the angles that live in your wave.

I'm not really adding much paint at all, I'm just kind of taking what's there and rearranging it, or I might grab a little light from up here and transfer it to the dark and vice versa.

Just helps you get a good feeling for all of that stuff happening.

Speaking of which, I want to take a little, little paint thinner on my liner brush, some of my white, a little touch of my red, again.

Warm it up, brighten it up, make it nice and thin like ink and we'll come back here and just, just drop a little extra, a little extra brightness right at the, right at the contrast point, right where that goes from shadow - the upstanding portion of the little swell back there and it, and then it hits that low point where the, where the trough lives.

Put a little extra light sparkle back there.

There we go.

Can even make a few little foamy pattern things back there just by using the kind of side to side motion on the, on the little liner brush.

There we go.

We'll come back and put some of those little ones in up front later.

Now.

Back there at the horizon, I want to take this a little bit of titanium white.

Give it a little touch, touch, touch, put a little sparkle, a little light sparkle on my horizon just by touching.

Touch, touch, touch, touch, and let it disappear and dissipate like that.

Mop brush to the rescue again.

I'm just going to let this thing soften very gently with two hairs and some air.

Very quietly across that little horizon.

And with my big fan brush full of titanium white from earlier, I'm going to come down here onto the beach, right under that, that lightest patch right there and we're going to drop some reflected, reflection light onto our wet sand, which kind of acts just like, just like water, just like still water.

Sort of treat it the same way.

Take our little two inch brush and just pull some of that down.

[Nic makes "tchoo" sound] Brush Across, makes it look shiny.

That's fun, that's fun.

We'll take a little, take a little titanium white now on a small knife and I'm just going to kind of squish a little, squish a little water up there coming up onto our beach.

That's the little ribbon that kind of ties your ocean water to your, to your sand.

Maybe there's a couple of those.

[Nic makes "sshhoo" sound] Something like that.

Go back and find our little, our little fan brush again, and I'm just going to pull some of this straight back.

Again, get a little feeling of all the foam that's laying on the surface of the water out here.

A little bit running back from this.

Sometimes they sort of meet in the middle, like that.

Puts a little, little shiny water surface on your, on your old beach.

Let's see, maybe go back to our liner brush again.

Let's play for just a second down here on our big wave.

We'll have a little, few little finer, little finer foam patterns and et cetera that just kind of caught up in the, caught up in the wave wall there.

Little sparkles of light and et cetera.

Whatever you want them to be.

It can be foam, it can be light.

It could be, who knows, it could be a little fish kind of swimming around out there.

It's hard telling.

A little dark on our liner.

I'm just going to kind of reinforce that little shadow right over our, right over our eye there.

And with just a minute or two left here, let's come up in the sky.

We'll drop a few little birds up here, live far away.

Hope you've enjoyed this painting and I look forward to seeing you again.

Happy painting.

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