[Music] Hi, I'm Nicholas Hankins, and it's my pleasure to welcome you back to the painting studio for another little Bob Ross wet on wet technique painting.

Today we're getting out in the ocean.

So let me, let me tell you what's going on on the canvas up here.

This is a 12 by 24 pre-stretched double primed canvas and I've coated the bottom oh, a little more than a third with liquid clear and then the top portion with liquid white.

And that's all we've done to this canvas.

So we'll jump right in here with a little Indian yellow on a two inch brush, we'll paint a little Florida, Florida seascape today.

A little Indian yellow on the two inch brush.

Don't need a lot.

And we'll come up into the sky just using a little crisscross strokes and paint a nice little glow in here.

I, I kind of feel like this would be a sunrise scene, like the dawn's just breaking out over the open water.

There we go.

Let's come right back down here to the palette.

Using that same dirty brush, I'm going to pick up a little yellow ochre and bright red.

Tap that into the brush as well.

Make a nice orangey color.

And we'll add this to this area too, just a little, little flavoring of this.

Kind of warm it up.

Here we go.

And it'll naturally mix and blend with that Indian yellow and create a kind of a nice peachy coral color in the sky.

It'll be quite nice.

I'm just going to reach over here and wipe the brush out.

I don't have a tremendous amount of paint in there, so I'm not going to bother going through the whole wash procedure just yet.

We'll, we'll save that for later.

Let's take a little titanium white, some Prussian blue and alizarin crimson.

I'm going to mix all those together here.

Just make a little, little touch of a kind of a lavender gray color.

Like I said, I'm thinking in terms of a kind of a sunrise type scene.

That should be pretty good.

We'll try it out and see what we think.

If we don't like it, we'll adjust.

Because we can do that.

We can do that right on the fly.

We'll pick up just a touch of that lavender on the two inch brush and let's come back up here, kind of darken the, the corners and the upper portion of the sky here.

Maybe just a touch more blue in that.

Yeah, that's what I'm looking for right there.

I knew it was in there.

I knew it was in there.

If I'd dug around long enough, I'd find it.

Let that come just down to the, just down to the warm color in the sky.

Let it get close.

There we go, tell you what, while I got that on the brush, we are going to have water down here so I'm going to go ahead and just rub a little bit of this color off into what will eventually become the ocean.

Horizon's going to be somewhere in there, maybe, maybe we even, maybe we even back up here and take just a little touch of that Indian yellow, a little bright red.

I'm just going to kind of dirty up the water.

[chuckles] Put a little tint, a little tint of some of this warm color in there, like it's reflecting out onto the, onto the waves.

If you want that to be super, super bright, you could wash your brush.

We'll go ahead and wash one now.

You could wash your brush before you do that, but...

There we go.

[chuckles] That's still fun to do.

You could wash your brush before you do that, but I don't necessarily worry about, worry about that being too strong.

A little, little muted color would look nice in the water so it's no competition with this.

All right.

Now, let's take... What should we take?

Let's take a little, little number three fan brush, a little more of that lavender color.

We'll come back and just using the side of the brush, and little cradle strokes like this, I'm just going to drop some little, little stringy clouds up in here.

Kind of extending out from that, that darker upper sky.

Just kind of make it interesting.

A couple down here.

Maybe, maybe it comes over on this side and it gets just, maybe it's a little, little bit bigger.

I'm going to kind of scrub my brush around there a little bit, then stretch it out.

There we go.

I'm going to have, tell you want let's take some more of that color and I'm going to add a touch of yellow ochre to it.

I know that sounds a little strange, but it's going to darken it just a little bit, dull it just a little bit.

And we'll come back up here and put a few in the lightest area.

Little silhouetted clouds that came down here close to the sun to warm up.

They were cold.

At least that's the story we're going with.

That's what makes painting fun, making up the little stories to go with what you're doing.

That's, that's half the fun right there.

Just blend over these a little bit.

Soften my big cloud.

There we go.

Maybe.

Speaking of the sun, I'll grab another clean fan brush here.

A little small number three fan brush and pick up some titanium white and just a tiny little touch, be right back there with some cad yellow.

And I'm going to put a nice warm glow right here, like the sun's really breaking through there.

Lighten up that central part of the sky.

Just kind of let that float around and do whatever, do whatever it wants to really.

It's what a cloud would do.

Here we go.

Isn't that a pretty sky?

Get a lot of skies like that down here in Florida, especially early in the morning.

That's the time to go walk on the beach, check things out.

All right, let's get down in the water here.

We'll go back to that little fan brush that has the lavender on it.

Let's find ... now don't laugh if this gets real crooked.

I'm going to try to make as straight as I can.

That's going to be about where our horizon line lives, something like that.

And then I'm going to decide where these waves live.

I'm going to first, decide where my big wave is, and it's going to be about right there, that's the top of it.

That's the crest of the wave.

That's the top of the wave and swoop, something like that.

And it'll crash over and swoop around, something like that.

And in between here, I've got room for another little swell.

Back there, a little wavelet, as my friend Doug calls those, little wavelets.

[chuckles] Let's see, we need to make another, another variety of dark color.

I'm going to hang on to that lavender because this might need it.

We just might need it for something, so I'm not going to throw it away just yet.

We'll take a little more white, I'll take some Prussian blue and a little touch of Van Dyke Brown.

It actually makes kind of a, kind of a cool ocean, ocean ish green color.

Nice, nice, rich blue green.

It's real pretty for seascapes.

And you just kind of adjust it if it's too, if it looks too blue for your taste, you can add more brown.

If it's too brown, add a little more blue.

And obviously if it gets too dark on you, you just have to add a little more white to it.

But this is going to be for the deep shadows in our, in our wave.

And that little fan brush I had in my hand is working quite well, so I'm just going to go back to that and pick up a little more that color.

There we go.

All right.

Let's come back and find some, some real dark shadows back here.

Just intensify that and I'm going to fill it in a little bit.

Maybe we'll, maybe we'll sprinkle just a touch of this into the, into the background water area.

Something like that.

We're going to restate our big, our big wave.

[Nic makes "shoo, shoo, shoo" sounds] Again where it crashes over.

And I need, I need to establish a little dark back here because when we come through and have a cascade and the light hits it and it's nice and bright looking, I got to have some dark back there so the light will show.

So I'm going to go ahead and just sort of sweep some of that dark color in there like that.

Maybe take a little, maybe take a little one inch brush here, smooth that down.

That'll remove some excess paint and kind of, kind of settle it down, knock it down.

This is going to look a little scary at first, but it's okay.

You just hang with me.

It's going to be all right.

And I'm going to take some of this dark color, maybe even with just a little, a little more Van Dyke Brown swirled in here.

I'm going to paint a nice, dark, deep shadow right where the base line or the ground level of the wave happens.

I'm just, I'm just darkening that entire color a bit more.

I'm even going to add a little crimson to it for this portion right under there.

That's going to, that's going to help us establish our, our ground area.

And it's going to make our foam look pretty, too.

In the end, it's going to make the foam look real nice because it'll have something nice and dark to show up against.

Now, let's take and start to get a feeling of the shape of this wave.

That's a big, that's a wall of water just standing up.

So I'm going to start to just pull some of that color up.

Stands up more and more the closer you get to the, to the eye right there, to the finished part.

And the further out here you go the, the less vertical the water is.

And down here, I'm just making little, little cradle strokes like this.

That's way exaggerated, but little cradle strokes, just to give a feeling of the water kind of bobbing around down there.

I'm going to pull some of this color further out and extend it.

Now, I don't want to kill all that orange in there.

We'll leave a little bit of that showing, that's showing in the low part of the trough of the wave.

There we go.

Now, let's go back to that one inch brush.

Going to soften this again.

And once again, if we have some of that light color showing through there, that's nice, too.

Little bit.

A little bit.

Soften the background area just a bit.

All right.

Now I'm going to go back to my knife.

We're going to mix up a little more color.

Got to have some more, some more bright yellow.

That's just titanium white, a little touch of the cadmium yellow.

Maybe, a little more white, that's kind of strong.

Yeah, I like that better.

I like that better.

Going to show you a nice new brush today too.

New, new to us anyway.

And let's take a little bit of that bright color on a filbert brush first.

And then I'm going to, I'm going to blend this in just a moment with our mop brush.

And boy, it's great for little seascapes and doing a little detail, blending.

And I'm going to just stretch that color on out.

See how that glows?

Now, to blend that, I'm going to take my little soft mop brush and I'm just going to... watch this.

I'm just going to pat it, start in the lightest area and just pat, pat, pat, pat,pat.

And work it out and let it get darker and darker and darker.

We'll wipe that brush off and then very gently, just two hairs and some air I'm going to use that to just soften across it a little bit.

And you can make some of the softest little delicate blended areas with that brush.

It's just amazing.

It's amazing.

It's so soft and it's so small that we can work it into those little tiny areas.

Now, if that suits you, you can leave it alone.

If you feel like you need it a little brighter, I've got a whole brush, a little paint on the other side that I haven't used.

I can flip it over and sort of supercharge that light.

Yeah, see I want that to carry out just a little farther right there like that.

And then once more, we'll go back to my little mop brush and I'm just going to pat, pat, Pat, pat.

Softly using in the side of the brush.

Got it held very flat against the canvas.

Isn't that's super?

That's a dandy little, little blender.

There we go.

You could make a soft as you want.

All right, picking up a, picking up another dirty brush here.

This is my little number three fan brush.

I was using that earlier for my bright spot in the sky.

Let's take just a little touch of that yellow, that bright yellow eye color, warm up my white a touch.

Got that brush loaded nice and full.

And let's come back up here.

And now we're going to start to play with this, this cascade spilling over.

So we're going to touch it, sweep it over, touch it, overlap your last stroke, sweep it over.

I'm not keep a little, I'll keep a little paper towel handy here so I can wipe the brush in between strokes because I want this to be nice and bright.

It's going to come over and outward.

Arches over.

When you're painting an ocean wave there's a lot of speed behind that water and it's going to be shot forward so it can't just come over and drop like a waterfall.

It's, it's kind of similar, but it's got to have a little more, a little more motion to it like that.

Just wiping off that dark color in between.

[Nic makes "pshew" sound] This where the, this is where making a little noises will really help you out.

Seascape's, not a seascape without little noises.

[Nic makes "pshew" sound] There we go.

And again, that little mop brush is going to come to the rescue.

Watch this.

I'm going to come from here and just sort of sweep it backward.

I'm going to follow that angle and soften it a little bit.

And it kind of makes our, our wave almost... it blurs it.

It puts a little extra shadow in there and it kind of makes it feel like it's in motion.

Just whoo, like we took a stop motion photo.

That's kind of neat.

All right.

Now back to my little, back to my little filbert.

I'm not washing many brushes today.

I'm kind of, kind of being lazy about that.

But I guess that's okay.

I'm glad I saved that lavender, too.

I'm going to go back into this just with that dirty, dirty filbert brush.

I did wipe it out a little bit.

And I'm adding a touch of Prussian blue and now we're going to find our foam.

Like we're going to have some foam that bubbles up here.

And your probably thinking, well if it's foam why are you painting it purple?

We've got to have a little shadow in here first.

We've got to paint the shadow of the foam first.

I'm just making a little circles here.

You've got to paint the shadow of the foam first, and then we're going to come back and highlight it, make it nice and bright.

We'll make sun kissed foam.

Bright little highlights on there.

But this is going to help us figure out not only the shape of the foam, but it's going to give us something for our bright, pretty highlights to jump out, really show up against.

There we go.

It's going to splash up.

Kind of fighting the wind coming in here so it's, whoosh, spraying up real pretty.

Now, I'll wash that brush out.

Dry it off good.

And we'll come right back with some titanium white.

I'm really going to load it.

full, nice and full.

If it gets a little yellow in there, that's fine too.

It'll just warm it up, but nice and full.

And just before I sweep through here and apply some highlight, I'm going to take the little, little extra step of just knocking that down with my mop brush so it'll be a little easier to paint over.

I'm going to push that out of focus a little bit back there.

A little easier to paint over, and it'll take some of that excess paint off of there.

Now let's come back.

We're going to add some real pretty highlight to the top of that foam.

[Nic makes "pshew" sound] Just make it splash, make little circles and [Nic makes "pshew" sound].

There we go.

And when it starts getting too dark on you, just wipe your brush out and go back and reload.

Get a little more, I'm going to come from up here now.

Make it kind of splashy up here.

I think, we're going to save some dark in there.

Don't cover up all your dark.

We did go to all the trouble to put it in there, so don't cover it up.

You need that.

So it makes painting look spectacular.

There we go.

Put a little bit on this side as well.

There we go.

Let's see, let's take one inch brush maybe.

I'm going to, want to do a little, little softening right here, just with the top corner of the one inch brush.

You can also blend some of your wave pieces and parts with a little bristle brush like this, too.

It works well, but if you got a tight spot to get in like right in there.

Matter of fact, that's so small, I might even, I might even reach for a,a clean filbert just because that's so tiny.

I need to get in there and just stir that together a little bit.

Now we're cooking.

Now we're cooking.

Reach and grab a little liner brush here and take some of that titanium white.

I'm even going to dip into a little liquid white, just sort of mix all that together into a little concoction.

It's titanium white, liquid white, a little thinner.

We'll just sort of extend our, our foam splashes out here along the top of the wall.

Back up here with my little, my little fan brush that has that light color on it.

I want to put a little, a little brighter touch back here near the horizon.

Just sneak it in right behind.

A little swell in the background.

There it goes.

The sun's really going to catch right back there.

Make it pretty.

You can even put a little touch of that in here.

I probably should have done that before I did that, but that's okay.

I showed you what not to do.

[chuckles] Now, I've got to be careful and not, not booger up my, my wave there.

There we go.

Just a little taste.

That's all it needs.

And then I'll soften it with little, little cradle strokes.

You might even want to wipe that excess paint out of your brush before you soften it.

And you can make those little cradle strokes and just, just dance a little light in there.

Come back with a little more white.

And I'm going to, if I did happen to touch any of the top pieces of my cascade there, I'll just kind of refreshen it a little bit.

Get it back.

You can also do this if, if on the initial, your initial sweep through there, you didn't get it quite as bright as you wanted.

I want to sort of extend it on up in here too, so it feels like it's continuing on up and continuing that curve.

It's a little, your little wave's a little higher on that side and it's a little higher right there as well.

Okay.

Let's take some of that nice light color and we'll jump down here in the water.

And if the light's filtering through that thin part of the water, you can bet that it's going to reflect and leave nice little patterns on this choppy water down below.

Let's even warm that up with some of that nice yellow mixture out here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like that.

And ever so often as I, as I touch the, the dark green there, I'm just wiping the brush off to keep it from becoming too contaminated.

And I'm varying my mixture a little between the, the white and the, the light yellow to really start to see the shape of that wave wall taking form.

Take my little mop brush again and just soften this a bit.

[Nic makes "shoo, shoo, shoo" sounds] Can graze right over that paint and really not get in much trouble when you're using a brush that soft.

That's nice.

Go back to my little liner brush here and let's go back with some paint thinner into that lavender color.

I'm going to darken it a touch with some more Prussian blue and alizarin crimson.

And let's come in here and just, I love to take this line and darken it a little bit.

Ooh, makes that, it really makes that eye just glow when you deepen that shadow a little bit.

And then within the wave wall, sometimes you have little foamy patterns that, well, here they're kind of backlit, they're silhouetted because that light's pouring through the back, see, and then they just kind of wander all around.

I sort of think of them as little, almost little upside down, backward js.

That's, that's my thought when I'm trying to paint foam patterns, it's sort of believable.

They get too jig jaggedy and they sort of look like lightning bolts.

But as long as you, as long as you give them some wiggle and you just sort of let your brush wander up and down.

You have to think, you have to think like a wave.

You have to think like that wave wall has that shaped.

There we go.

Just all sorts of little things.

And this is where when you have unlimited time at home and you, you can really get in there and just go crazy, you could put so much detail in with that step.

It looks nice.

Lots of little fun things to do there.

Something I love to do.

I just love to do it.

It looks good.

On seascapes.

I'm going to dip my little fan brush.

You have to be careful though.

I'm going to dip my little fan brush in some paint thinner, Soften up this paint just a bit.

Come right up here, sometimes if you want to show a little spray, you can flick.

You can flick some of that paint against your, against your ocean wave, and it leaves a little spray.

And that's really fun to do.

Just taking it and sort of flick, flick, flicking some splash up there.

That's always kind of cool.

Let's see, we've got just a second here.

Let's take some, some of that light color, a little bit of the lavender.

We'll go back up here in our sky and just, just put a little, little bird or two floating around.

Flying around in the morning sunshine, looking for a snack.

Couple of little foamy patterns back here, too, I think.

All right.

Well, I'd say we're going to call that painting finished.

I hope you enjoyed this little seascape.

If you paint it tag us, let us know.

Let's see what you've done.

Happy painting.

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