Free Expressionism - Painting like you just don't care, Autumn

1. Welcome to Free Expressionism!: Hi there, I'm Christopher Clark and welcome to my painting course, free expressionism. Painting like you just don't care. The autumn, autumn is my favorite season. I love all the color changes. I love that you can smell the changes in the air when you open the door and you step outside and you can smell that summer is ending and autumn is about to comment then winter like I love that change in the air, that crispiness of the air. Super fun and really fun theme to explore as a theme for this class, we're gonna be doing for paintings together for little studies that each one is less than 20 min. If you did a small one later, even smaller when you can do them real quick. So I'll run through the pieces that we're gonna do. The first one we're gonna do is this lovely autumn tree landscape with the sunset gray color palette. Really spontaneous, really cheap materials, cheap paper or cheap brushes, cheap paint, so that you can do a lot and not be worried about you're using up expensive. Or you bought that really nice expensive canvas that you're afraid to touch because you don't want to ruin it. Well, these materials that you're welcome to ruin, That's what this class is for. Number two painting we're doing is this winter, autumn Aspen scene and very cool palette, blue skies. But like I love those yellows and greens of the Austin Aspen's when they're starting to change. So this is number two. The third one we're doing is a little different. It's just going to be a simple autumn leaf on a darker background of other dried leaves and stuff. Fun experiment to see what we can do with not a landscape more of like a little life, I guess. Then the last one we're doing is this great autumn sunset. I can center it. There we go. Sort of path. Maybe it could be metaphoric for your journey in life or something. Or this could be your journey through your art or whatever. You walk into the scene. So that the point of these is to, you know, a lot of people feel very inhibited, inhibited with their painting and they're afraid to make a mistake. They're afraid to ruin the nice materials and they're afraid that other people are going to think. And is it going to sell? And all that stuff really just sucks all the creativity right out of you. So if you're looking to be more creative and be more spontaneous and have more, get the creative juices flowing and all that, whatever metaphor you want to use, you need to get rid of all those fears. And that's what this class is about, is not carrying about any of those things were using inexpensive materials and paints. We're spending just a few minutes on each piece and no one ever has to see these. That's a key thing. If you really want to do this in this way, is no one is going to see these. They're not for sale. You don't post them online. You don't need any judgment or approval or likes or comments or anything like that from people. That really is very freeing and lets you open up and really say what you want to say. It lets you make mistakes and lets you experiment and try things that you'd never would have tried before because you just don't care, you're just having fun. You're allowed to just play without anybody watching you. The whole like dance, like nobody's watching, well, that's what we're doing. We're painting like nobody's watching. Which is a very, very different mindset. If you haven't done it in awhile, it changes everything I do might loosen you up when you wanna do a serious piece. If you have that practice and you can let loose and be more free. Even when you're doing a serious piece that's gonna be for sale or view or whatever. So, yeah, just really cathartic and just the act of painting and splattering and using your hands and using random hunks of tools that you can find to do whatever it's fun, have fun. That's what this class is about. So enough talking with that, we'll get up at a setup to our easel and get started. So see you back here in a second. 2. 1, Golden tree: Okay, I've got a very simple setup here. Just got some regular old drawing paper. This is 14 by 17. I don't know why that's a standard size for a lot of cheap notepads, wouldn't paper pads, but it's, you know, it's weird number but it's standard. It's not very nice paper at all. It's a little thicker. It's not like typing paper, that's it. Maybe a little too thin, it might buckle under the water and paint but nothing fancy. You can even use all pieces of cardboard and whatever. It doesn't matter. I've got I do I use a glass palette because what I liked, It's cleans up really easy. I just got all the colors of acrylic. I'm not even gonna go through them all. You can see it's like white. There's yellows, oranges, browns, reds, blues, greens. That's it. Whatever you got works. This is not about nice materials. I got cheap chip brushes from the hardware store. These are some cheap like synthetic hair brushes, just different sizes, whatever you got. It doesn't matter for this scene. I'm feeling like, yeah, it's an autumn scene, but I'm kinda thinking like some cool colors to start with in the sky. So I'm literally just going to, I just got a couple of little tubs of water here. I'm just going to start filling in some where this is all about flanging and having FUN. I, there is this like sun in the middle. So I'm going to maybe make that lighter. I'm reaching for some of my other darker blues and I'm not really being that discriminant at all. I disliked this glow equality. And this paper's warping a little bit, but I'm not that worried. I might even go even darker on the edges. Maybe next time I'll tape that down with some masking tape or something. For now I can deal with it. Yeah, this is a red painting. It's very oranges and stuff, but I'm just kinda making this, this sort of glossiness. Hey, we'll keep going. We'll make it some dark. We'll put some greens in here. I love the glowy quality. Maybe we'll hit some up here, it's a little, little more purpley, so I'll grab some. You can use whatever colors you like. It doesn't matter. The acrylic dries so fast that you can just add layers and layers. And there's a quick little thing, I really not very discriminant. I'm just washing my brush and some water here, filling it off, like Bob Ross style. Beat the devil out of it. Then I like all these phon, oranges. I'm going to paint these beautiful, beautiful oranges. Will just grab some orange. Maybe dip a little water. I'm just going to start the haben. I love, I love autumn. It's my favorite season. Makes me happy. Oranges, my favorite color. You know, you're an artist when someone asks you what's your favorite color? And I say my favorite color is the Autumn color palette. That's when you know, you're a dork and you're an artist. So again, I'm kinda keeping, this is gonna be my son area. I'll come back and brightness up later. Maybe I want to start working my way around. I love. I'm not measuring anything. I'm, I'm on my more involved painting videos. I would have a brief little grid we do, we'll do a charcoal drawing first to study. This isn't really about studying, this is about having FUN and maybe just getting some, some angst out of your system. Can change hands. My hand gets tired to do this all day. And I need to conserve it to do the rest of the rest of the course. So I'm just going darker and darker as I go around the edge. This is what is this in the middle of it? I can't think of the names of colors. The words don't work, right? I don't want a little more orange there. And maybe you don't even wash the brush. As I work my way out. And I guess there is, I'm using this this reference as a guide. I'm not really following it that closely. I'm just having FUN. There is a little bit of a grassy thing here. I'll try to include that because it's pretty this gets real dark over here. This is just, just this big massive leaves, and this is just a cheap 1 " chip brush. You can find it at the hardware store for cheap. Maybe at the bottom there's all this like this is like dirt and leaves and stuff. I'm gonna I'm keeping the brush dry carefully. Don't like yank the paper up, but whatever, do like 20 of these, each of these videos is gonna be 20 min or less. For one, that's the nice size for an upload for like a painting course. That's the size that works well, 20 min or less. Even in my more involved painting courses, I break them up into little chunks like that so it's easier to digest. But also If you're doing this as a FUN little experiment or a little study, or maybe you are studying for a painting that you're going to do later. Just do a little, little quick 15, 20-minute things. It's, it's quite freeing actually. Here's some grasses. And no one ever asked to see these. I think that's what helps make them effective, is that nobody ever has to see these. This is for you just for your own study purposes. I like this a little bit of beam of sunlight coming through here. I'm going to add that. I'm not really washing the brush off. That's okay. Maybe I well now I want to get into that to be careful I do these too fast. And suddenly I'm done with the painting and it's only been like five-minutes or these quick little ones might Oh, it's only been like 8 min. I should slow down. Let's let's do this sort of sun area. You can smush and roll and you know, hey, watch this. I got a palette knife here just so don't get my hands completely filthy, but I'm gonna get a bunch of water on this brush. And I'm going to like flicks some color on there. I'm gonna place where I can make a mess. That's helpful. Look at that, That's Fun. Like this is the sort of expression equality of this, of this course. Like really have a good time. And maybe you wear some clothes, you don't mind getting paint all over. This is a white shirt. I probably shouldn't warn this. But it's alright. This is just like enjoyment. I was reading an article this morning that like doing Art and creative things is actually good for your mental health. Um, it's not just about, I don't know, hippy woo-woo create a, you know, like it's legitimate. It's not like some made-up. Like ooh, arts and crafts. Yay. It's happy. It's fine. I'm like No, I'd actually, it's good for your health. These are really, really, really, really good to do. This kind of activity. I want even more bright right here. We're really going to go for it. Whatever you got left in the brush and house, I can do that. Maybe it will poke a little. There are some has some little bits come in through here. Little parts that are poking through the trees, like the sky or something. Maybe I'll put a couple there. And we don't care about this. This is just for Fun. We'll put some more grasses zinging through here. And I used a decent amount of paint on the palette. You don't need a ton, but enough to to have some don't be miserly with your paint, then you just run out real quick. What does that look like? I looked check over and see what it looks like sometimes when I'm missing is some leaves on the ground. Let's add some of those in. I haven't changed brushes at all. I'm just using the same old crummy brush. I try not to get any paint on my on my monitor over here. It's alright. There's leaves here. I've got a palette knife. Without chewing up the paper. I can smash it around. You know. You don't want to put some juicy pieces around here. Just grab some with a palette knife. You can use cheap paint for this too. It doesn't have to be nice quality paint. Go to your Art Supply store and get those cheap like two-dollar tubes of paint that has got a paper towel over here. Them can briefly clean off some things. I'm letting it drip and whatever, and it's PFK-1. This is really, I don't care how this comes out, so I'm just playing with it. You are allowed whether you're doing this for Fun or for Art. If it's just like your job or you're trying to do this as a career, you are allowed to play and have FUN. That is actually really important. As a creative person, you don't just like, let me paint, what's going to sell? What am I painting today? What's going to sell today? Yeah. You have to do that. You panes bills. Sure. You do have to consider that. Now. Then if you're painting stuff that your clients want or a commission or something. Sure. Great. But you are allowed to just play sometimes that's okay too. That's really important. If you're an amateur, like just doing it for FUN, then the reason you're doing it is to play. So yes, play, have a good time. Don't take yourself too seriously. Maybe this is like, Hey, there's a big pile of color like I was just disregarding the trunk and the branches and stuff. Lets you know, I was just loving these colors and where the center with a light is coming through and stuff. And there's some dark shadows and some funds stuff here. Let's maybe try to add some tree. I got some I like the flat brushes because I can make little like thin lines are big, fat thick ones. Let's let's grab some just some color here. I'm going to, I like when it goes through the light. And then picture is my reference, but I don't have to stick to it. I can invent my own tree. This is my tree. And it's going to appear before me and say hello, get a little water. I'm not using any medium. You can, you can use whatever you want. I kinda liked the fact that it's sort of this bent over shape. This is running, grabbed some of my dark purples and you can use black if you want. I don't have black on this palette, but you can use it if you want. So you look, you can get big chunky like shapes with this, with this flat brush and see like I've got like all these cool shapes happening and I'm just pushing down with whatever color I happened to have. I can push a little lighter and I've got some little tiny branches. They're like all these twisted branches coming out. It's great. And then as all kinds of stuff, if I wanted to really get some thin, I might choose a thinner brush. I'm just kinda playing with it. Now. Here's where you can really spend some FUN time adding all the little tiny branches that you wanted. Maybe they come off like that. I want to make my tree a little thicker. This is my tree is gonna be, I'm departing so far from the reference because it's not your rule book or it's not just a guide. You're not trying to duplicate this photo. Whatever photo you took in the park today when you were walking like, well, I want to paint that or if you're outside in nature or Painting plain air, maybe we'll put one eye, goes off like that. That's fine. Let's grab a smaller brush. What does this do? This is a, this was a brush like this, like around one that I actually cut with a pair of scissors to make super tiny. So let's do something with that. I just stuck some water on it. And I can do some really FUN little branching things with that. I'm just playing. Letting the branches is going to dance around. Like Bob Ross. Let him play the dance and the trees are about the freeze thing in nature. You let them play and dance and have a good time and just have FUN. He's covered in paint. Sits over here by my, by my table. I need just like watches me paint. And he gives him the encouraging thoughts. You can spend all day on this, on the trees and the little branches coming out everywhere. Maybe there's some, some sticks and twigs for all the creators to run and hide and play. Maybe this could be a little darker in here. You could spend all the time you want refining this and playing with it. The Acrylic is still pretty wet right now, so it actually is blending pretty nicely. It's Fun. He looks wanted really. I'm looking at the I just glanced over like, Oh, that looks nice. I haven't looked at it in awhile. Maybe I want a little more orange over here. I'm or bread maybe. And I can see all that blue is still poking through, almost looks like some sky that's still sits still there. That's cool. Little more. Oranges here. Yeah. So it's only been it's been about 15 min. You can if you're just playing and having FUN, you can get really far. And this could be a study. You could try a different version where you paint the background red instead. Or green. Triad could try color the sun even in your picture. Paint the whole thing purple. Pay attention where your light is and make that a lighter version of purple or whatever. And you know, you'd be surprised at all the fund little extra colors that poke through the unexpected unexpected little notes that come out that you, you didn't plan on. Maybe there's some grass down here by the tree. I love these. I love you letting the brush do the work. I'm like, I'm letting the bristles smush and do organic things that that maybe I would never have thought of. You know, I'm taking advantage of the texture of the paint, of the surface. This case it's just paper, but, um, it's building up with textures and the texture, the brush and all those are like part of your little painting team. It's not just you, it's you and the paint and the surface and the brushes, and it's all these things. So you have FUN. Let's see here. What else can I do? I don't know, this is looking pretty FUN. I'm almost out of some of my colors. I want some of these leaves to overlap the branches a little bit. I mean, this one's this one is just about done. Could call it finished at any point. But I'm enjoying it. It's a good cathartic experience. Hey, you can double fist it, right? I got up paint brush with a different color in each hand. Rendering anything complicated. You don't have to be intimidated by it. Some people see me do that. Wow, you're ambidextrous. I'm like, Well, you are to you just don't practice. Everyone's ambidextrous. You just never give your other hand to chance. So put the Brushing other hand in and it might paint something. My right hand paints differently than my left hand. So it does It does things that I wasn't planning on. So I just let it anyway. Yeah, there's a Superfund, really wild expressionist autumn tree scene. I was stand up and look in a mirror or look at it with your phone to see at different and you'll notice things like, Oh, there's no red on the ground. I want it to distribute some of these colors, reds, all these juicy colors. And there's nothing on the ground. Not to say like, oh, their leaves would be falling there and they'd be read. Yeah, that's true. But I liked the colors to be distributed all over the whole painting no matter what the subject is. So that helps. Yeah, there we go. Superfund. Little Autumn scene. Just a few minutes. You look in the mirror and you can see some shapes you didn't like. This little tree shape was odd and they fix that. There we go, that's better. So that kinda stuff. So here this one's done. So don't show it to anybody. That'll make you more liberated to do whatever you want. You don't have to worry about anybody seeing this. So cool, this one's done, tear it off and do another one. So I'm clean this up a little bit and we'll come back in a few minutes with our next piece. 3. 2, Aspen trees: And we've cleaned up a bit, and we're back with our next piece. This is a fun Aspen seen. Aspen's in the autumn or beautiful, and I live in Colorado currently, and that's wonderful. That comment last time about how I said I'm going to do the whole thing green underneath. I'm going to take myself up on that. I'm going to do. The whole thing is going to be green. I'm going to start with maybe more yellow green on this side because I think the light is coming from the left. And I'm going to move over. And I'm a graduate just going to make it more just green on this side. And I'm just it's just water and a little bit of paint. I'm not I don't have any medium out. You can use whatever you'd like. And there's some stuff that's still showing that's great. Like paper. I like on the bottom, how it's like this really dark strip. This is your chance to see the painting as well as this large shapes. The bottom is this. You can, I teach this in my more intensive classes. You can squint at the piece, just gently. Relax your eyes and close them. And you'll see this sort of dark strip on the bottom. Maybe it's even purple over here. I don't know. It's kinda fun. Maybe they get some more blue. I like to have colors fade across the painting. I think it's, it's pretty high. It gets them dip the brush in a little bit of water and hey, fleeing a little bit. Whatever you got left on it. Kinda fun. You can smack to paint on there wherever you want. And look at these swirly things. Don't cover that up. That's pretty, I didn't do it on purpose, but hey, maybe I want more of them. That's pretty little swirly, is that that was an accidental happy little accident, right, Bob? Happy little accidents. He agrees. Now, I'm going to maybe pick a slightly smaller brush. There's some darker greens and stuff. Maybe I'll just smoosh in some of these loosely going off of this picture. I guess I probably could have painted some sky in first, But I don't know. These these dark, interesting juicy green was just going to hit me. I know it's autumn, But there are there is a lot of green, especially Aspen's. They are green in the summer and they turn yellow in the fall, probably just fall off. There are a lot of greens and yellows that mix together, which is really fun. There's some kind of pine or IRA, I don't know for some over here. Not thinking terribly hard about it. I was going to bring this out to you. This is a piece of plastic. I've clearly used it before, but this was a rapper or something. I can use it to help me. I'm going to scoop up whatever paints here and helped me sort of dab some, some color on here just to get some texture. You can use it to drag it through the paint. Look what that does. That's fun, right? I'm just having fun. Making big circles. I can go down, I can go this way. Yeah, that's cool. Maybe I'll want to pull out some more of this purple. And I'll do that down here. I'm going to, I can put it on with the brush. I can paint it on this plastic thing. I don't know. I'm just kinda wing it. I think our masking tape is going to come off here. I tried to run it in a little bit. I'm not sure if it worked. We'll see. Just really pretty dabbing it on there. Yeah, that's fine. We'll put some more up here. This is less about like I'm just seeing big piles of color and shapes and stuff. It's less about this is a tree. It's like this is, this is purple, blue, this is green. Yay. It's more about that kind of stuff. I can dip it in the water. I don't know what that happens. Then it will really start to pull off some of the some of the paint a little bit. I don't want to tear the paper up. It's kind of cheap paper. I think that's alright. And you know, you get a little messy, whatever big deal. That's all part of the fun of painting. I wear an apron. I shouldn't have worn this shirt, but, uh, well, let's do want to put in some of that sky. Maybe we'll use this brush. I don't know. I don't know why I painted this guy. Perhaps I'll die. It's kinda, this light is kind of greenish over here. Usually. I always say in my landscape classes, you paint the sky first and you move forward. Well, clearly we're abandoning that rule today because making our own rules, right? And I can do several layers of this. I think. Some white plus some green makes a wonderful bright, hot sky blue color. And as I move over, I can maybe use the blue instead system. Yeah, these are quick studies that should only take you 15, 20 min. You can do them smaller to it. Really dislike. Work it for a few minutes and throw it away and work it for a few minutes, tear it off. I didn't mean to throw it away, like moving out of the way. Do another one. Do 20 of them, do 50 of them. You'll get your method down and you'll get your confidence up that, you know, you'll you'll get past that fear of, I don't know where to start. What you've started and you finished and you've started and you finished and you're like, Yeah, I remember this, This was fun. And your confidence will go up and you'll be able to look at a painting and say, Yeah, I can paint this and it will turn out, okay. My painting will turn out okay. Just like my life. And it will make you happy. Because that's what life is, is just taking the chance and you see what happens. Don't worry too much. And when you try and try too hard, it gets stiff and you stop trying so hard and just have fun. That's when you really, something really creative happens. Alright, That's a fun. Maybe I'll add some, I will finish this off. I like this brush. I'm going to keep it going. Let's add some of these sort of orange. There's a little bit of orangey ness behind this yellow. And there's some on top of here. Now I'm really just grabbing piles. Watercolor paint. This a big blob. Maybe I'll, this is covered in purple is turn it over. I'm gonna double fist it again. I'm gonna put the paint on with this thing, with this brush. And I'm going to sort of move it around a little more with this one. I might I might be a piece of an old piece of paint flaked off. Hey, it might, it might stay on my painting and add something that I didn't think to add a couple more right up here. There's chunks of paint that are coming off of this old thing. And they're going to remain on my painting. And hey, they might, they might add something good that I wouldn't be done on purpose. This is a very complicated scene. You could spend years painting all these leaves. But maybe even for now, you just want to figure out where all the shapes and colors go. So maybe you do this first, you know, you can spend years painting the leaves later, or maybe you like this version better. I don't know. Yeah, That's great. I'm going to come back and hit the sky. That's a little more lighter value. So it really stands out. It's kinda a little too dark. It looks pretty. It looks pretty because it came out of me. I'm not I'm not trying to impress anybody. I'm not trying to make it look like the picture. I'm trying to just whatever my mind grabs onto, I do it and it's kinda look great because that's where your mind is coming out on this page. That's really the exercise. Is, you're not painting. You're not painting an autumn Aspen landscape, you're painting yourself. So let that happen. And it totally Well. I've heard someone say, when you stand back and look at a painting, you can see the subject. And when you get real close, you can see the artist. I've always liked that because that's, that's kinda what I feel like is happening here. The subject is an autumn aspirin, wintery scene. But this is all me coming out. This has nothing to do with autumn or Aspen or anything. I mean, I, I love this kind of subject matter, so that's helping you paint what you love. Then it will, it will look better than anything else you can think of the paint. Because that's when you paint your best and your painting for you. Rarely nice hot ones, right? Bright hop and I'm just dipping into the yellow here. I'm just sort of motion and around and making it look interesting. A little more of this darker one here. A couple of little oranges. And why not? Again, I'm just, I'm seeing blobs of color and I might go, there's a, there's a blob. That looks fun. There's a, there's some color over there. Why not run with it? Maybe it's time to put in some branches or trunks, whatever, you know. Should I use this guy again? Why not? You know, grayish something or other? I don't know, a little bit of white and have you just pick all my colors up being a purple. That's okay. Maybe they need to be a little wider because I can't really see them. They are I liked how they're kinda like leaning in from the side. This one goes all the way to the top off the page. You only need to see it. And we can add some other stuff coming out of it. I love these flat brushes because you can do thick and thin. These are sort of shade ones that are like in shadow. I can add can add some lighter paint and we can make some ones that are coming out of the light being shined on from the sun. I think I just want a lot of them. Maybe, maybe some of them or you don't see all the way through. Alright, let's add. I just dip the same brush. Maybe I'll, maybe I'll do even a couple the edges of some of these. This is probably the most defined sort of detail work of this whole piece so far. Although you can really see how much I'm defining it and painstakingly, I'm just having at it. It's kinda fun. I'm keeping this sort of like they're angled in, like It's dislike there so tall that they reach inward like this. This is the vanishing point would be up here if you're going to get technical about it, which were not in, not in this class. We're just having fun. I want maybe some darker ones again. Maybe this is kinda rough here. And then what if we did some splashes? Let's get rid of that. What if we did just get some some water? I've got a little spray brush spray bottle here, if you can. Once in awhile, spray down your paints. I love this technique because it just adds so much chaos and unpredictability. I can smush them that this is a, this is a regular old palette knife. I'm using this to keep my fingers necessarily getting completely covered in paint. I can smush like this. I smushed down. You know. There's so much you can do with this. There's a whole lot of rocks on the ground. I don't know if I can mix. Let's do palette knife work. People love palette knife paintings, right? Not that I care because this is my own painting. But, you know, you want some rocky, organic textures. I just grabbed this gray, whatever this was and I can spray my palette. Let's pick up all this crap. Make a little salad bar, and just go for it. Couples that are brighter. Couple that goes this way. There's a, there's some rocky action taught rocky action in the Rockies. Maybe I'll do a couple more trees with the palette knife. You know, maybe there's some little tiny guys that are poking through in the very back. Maybe I'll throw a little more. Sometimes I try to see if I can use all the paint I've got on my palette. I'm just pushing paint. And sometimes you can just stop looking at the reference. Like, Oh, I'm done with that. That was an idea. And now I'm just going to continue with my own thing. So that's looking pretty fun. There are little tiny. If you want to get some more details. Some of these branches have those little black. This is a smaller brush. Maybe those little black shapes like that, we're branches that had broken off. Maybe this is a closer branch. Like the way the skin of the bark of the tree kinda blisters and lake leaves, little tiny scars. Not a tree, just botanist, whatever you might want to call it, arborist, I don't know. But yeah, that's kind of a typical characteristic of Aspen. So maybe I'll throw a couple of those on there. The close one is the one that we'll see the most. And I'm using the side of the brush, I'm just sort of smashing them on there. If you hold the brush like this, you can only get so many angles off the brush. But if you hold it, like here's how you write or do it the underhand grip. So if you hold it like on top and you can do all kinds of extra fun things. Your wrist and your arm flow so much better. You can smush the side of the brush down onto it. And all I needed was a couple of those. And look how that's implying all this detail about these Aspen's, this close one is the one that's our biggest clue. You do one, close one and then you start to see those same ones further away. And you can tell it's the same tree. So you don't need as many details. Anyway, this one is almost done. Again, I could spend a whole bunch of time on this and they'll grab some dark. And I'll do some of the shadows a little more on some of these rocks. Just for fun, just to eat up another seconds. Before my 20 min is up, you can put a timer on yourself. When you do these. 20 min is up, boom, I'm done. That'll keep you honest and keep you moving and not getting stagnant. Like my timer, I'm trying to keep the videos 20 min, okay. That makes you edit and think and just do and react and not agonize over so many things that can, that can just stop you in your tracks. You just go, go, go, get it all out, practice and express. And it's cathartic. And it's actually, you're getting a lot of your inhibitions out of the way and it's so useful for this kind of exercise. So yeah, 20 min, so just let it all pour out and you can stop and look at it and enjoy your work. It's really fun. You can see your mind and yourself and all this peaceful, chaotic sort of thing. It's a great juxtaposition of everything going on in your life, all in one place. You get it out and you can look at it and you can process it. So we'll call this one is done. We'll clean up again and we'll move on to the next one. 4. 3, Autumn leaf still life: Okay, this is an interesting scene. This is sort of some old, crispy dead Autumn Leaves with one juicy beautiful orange one in the middle. I'm gonna, I'm gonna kinda start with that concept of this big, beautiful orange leaf in the middle. Not doing it, not doing a leaf shape. I'm just like that's where it is in general. Right there. And then the rest of this, I think I'm just going to do dark. Like slather in some purples and greens. I'm not being too particular. Maybe there's red over here, blue. I've kinda like how the colors are moving around the whole Painting. There's some like maybe some reds over here. Fine. We'll hit some more darks. I like having the corners be dark, like this vignette. That brings this glow into the piece. I just grab all the dark colors and add a little more in the corners. Then I like to just flying whatever I got left on the brush and just let it happen. Maybe I want a little darker. I think I definitely want this. We've got this great sense of light already. Dark, dark, dark. And then boom, there's my leaf. Let's see. Now we're actually doing a shape of something. This is probably the most specific sort of drawing that we've ever done. Like, I need this to look like an object. That's okay. I'll do that. I'll do the leaf later. I'll leave that till the end. I'm just going to play with the sort of dirt, crispy, leakiness. I'm letting that Where's my plastic? I really liked this stuff. I can maybe put it on here and pull it off. It's still wet. This is from the last Painting. It's still wet while we'll use it. There's wet paint on there. I can do this and peel it off and you get this great crispy texture. Plus this is wet. The Acrylic paint hasn't completely dried yet, so it's going to affect what if I sprayed it with a little bit of water and then did this? Just having FUN. Or I could motions smear. I want, I like layers of texture. The plastic is a great tool for just abstraction. And you can use whatever you want. Maybe. Now I want some color of some kind. Obviously, I haven't really mixed anything yet. I kinda want a grayish, a little bit of white, and then a little bit, a little bit of everything else. I want. I'm using a nice big fat palette knife right now. This is actually a Bob Ross palette knife. If you want to know. Because I'm big fan and the tools are actually really good. And I'm going to sort of like there's these, maybe it's a little more brown. I'm getting a little more. This is probably the most specific like that I've done for any of these pieces yet. I'm just adding some FUN. I'm swooping with a flat part. I'm can scrape with the razor sharp heart. I can smush it flat and then I can go back through it. It's wet for several minutes. You can do all kinds of stuff with it. I want this sort of chaotic leakiness going on. What if I do some just brown? I was hoping that the crispy dried. The dead leaves. We more brown, purple and then that would leave my bright orange living leaf to be really, really exciting. Maybe I'll do a little more white and just mixed. You can smush it, grab it, smush it, grab it, smush it. And that's an easy way to mix paint. Will do a couple of those. See, I'm even holding the palette knife with my overhand. Like I'm not holding it. I actually, I've never this kinda palette knife, this is one of those flat ones like, I don't know what shape you call it. But it's really great for holding flat and pushing flat on the surface, you can get all kinds of PFK-1 shapes and stuff. And this paint is, it's still wet, but it's drawing a little bit. This stuff dries really fast. And so I'm already getting layers and layers of Transparent things happening but I'm cut COVID covering over and covering over. And I might scrape a little bit about off. And you can, if it's still wet, you'll see the layer underneath the leaf is still here somewhere. I haven't really worried about the end. I'm just kinda enjoying this this texture process. I love this stuff. I could do this all day. I love adding texture. And I'm putting this on decently thick. Maybe I'll take my horse, my plastic. Maybe I'll do this once or twice. Watch it on there. And you can, I save rappers from stuff, reuse, reduce, recycle. While this is a recycled piece of plastic from some old wrapper or something, I can follow it up. Remember this trick? This is a FUN one. You can dab it. You scrape it all the little, the little pointy things, grab some paint and move them around. And you've got so much going on. Alright, maybe I actually want to do my leaf now just because I'm at 6 min so I can always play around with it. More. Leaf has got all these red colors. It's like one shape there. This is, again, this is probably the first time I've actually tried to make a shape in any of these classes. Like I'm actually drawing some things, so, but it can be simple. There's like three parts. There's this part, There's this part, and there's this part sort of like, you know, these three things. That's okay. There we go. I'm just grabbing some orange and then I can fill it out later. We don't care, we're just playing around. And then I'll add a little bit of a drop shadow behind it. I was kinda what I was thinking this leaf is casting a shadow. That's what's helping us see it better. I want it to stand out a little more so I can add some, some brighter colors, like lighter value colors. I'm not going to throw too much technique at you in these classes is really just about having FUN. But value contrast is definitely something, a light value versus a dark value. You'll see the light one against the dark one and vice versa. I'm just using my flat. Whatever this brush is made of synthetic, whatever. Maybe I want some juicy Red's right here. That's fine. Because I like things that are Fun. Again, I haven't practiced this painting. This is my first time doing this. I'm doing this with you guys. I'm exploring this with you. As my first time. I'm talking my way through it so you can hear my thought process about how I might tackle something. This is probably the most I've concentrated at of any one of these paintings because it might go, this has to look like a leaf. But again, it doesn't have to. I could just, I just love this color. I mean, this is looking pretty cool right now. Don't really look like a leaf, but it's pretty. I'm enjoying. So you can smush and twist. Abandon what you think you know about a paintbrush because you can do so much more with it, then you are aware of literally look at it like I've never seen this instrument before. Does this the end to paint with, Ooh, look what that does. What does this do if I smush it like this? Like, you know, look at it like with foreign eyes and see what you can do with it that you've never thought of before. There's some cool textures actually, I liked it. I'm gonna draw some veins. I'm gonna draw those in the leaf. The paint is still decently wet. I'm sort of carving into it. That's pretty and it's way more organic looking than me, taking a different color brush and actually doing it. And I might do that too. But it is another variation of that. I'm kinda liking how one side of the leaf has some brighter colors in it. It's like yellows and then it's like a dark red. Like I can see, I'm always thinking about light and where did the light come from? This even avian has some, some white in it. Some white in there. Just a little. I'm going further than I wanted. I can come back later with a darker color. Oh, here's the stem. Here's the stem. Look at that. So I love these brushes. I can do so much, so many different sizes, shapes with them. Let's do some of those, maybe some of those veins. I can do big thick things and little delicate, dainty things with these nice razor sharp, flat or bright or whatever you want to use. I like long flats So yeah, I'm whatever, whatever strikes you. This is, again, a quick study, so don't overthink it. I'm going to just grab a brush is clean. I'm gonna do some super darks now, greens and purples and whatever. And maybe I'll come in and add some of this. There's some. Now I'm going to actually carve in a little, more specifically the edges of this leaf. Now I'm painting, and the other direction, I'm painting the negative space around the leaf. And hey, maybe there has actually some darker stuff here too that I could add in. Because some of those colors have dried. I'll do one right there. See you a couple of nice little crisp chisels. And suddenly you have the shape of this leaf will just appear. It's been hiding, waiting for you and it says, Hello, I'm a leaf. Where have you been all my leaf. Now that wasn't funny at all. Sorry. Let's do some more dark around this edges. This is looking fine. Maybe we want That's pretty dry. Let's add a little bit more. I want maybe some sticks and twigs and things. Lets do the palette knife for that. Grab some and get it wet. Right up to the leaf. Maybe one of them goes over just a little bit because there's sit sitting on the forest floor. And if I wanted to, I could spend hours painting this just like the reference. And it would look very pretty. But that's not really what I'm going for. I could also let this whole thing dry and then glaze over it with some more browns and like water and stuff. If I wanted to. Lets see, it's looking good. I'm just playing at this point. Yeah. You have to let yourself you have to grant yourself the right to play. Little kids do it. That's, you know, they're good at it. It's so natural, they don't have any inhibitions. And it's very healthy. And we lose that. They don't lose the ability to play. We just think it's dumb. We get older and think we're too old, for instance, immature and we think it's childish. But actually it's very important for your mental health. As a happy human being, even as an adult. It is not childish at all. That's very important. You play in different ways when you're an adult. Sure, but it is actually still very, very important. Maybe I'll do I got a smaller bristle brush. I want to do some more. I liked the splatter ease. I'm going to mix some bright oranges here with some water splatter, some a little bit here and there. Maybe I'll do some red. This is Autumn. All my favorite colors. Oranges, yellows, reds would like accents of purple. Cinema. My dork. When someone's like, what's your favorite color? My favorite color is the Autumn color palette like that. So you know, I'm a dork and I'm an artist. That's exactly what an artist would say. Gets. Redistribute some of these colors. Maybe there's a little orange, they're a little bit there. Me, this continues like this. So I can the orange belongs around the whole painting, not just in this one section it fits. You can tell this is orange. Orange leaves world because there's a little bit of him all over her, them. However you like. Maybe this leaf has a little bit of this stem. Why are they getting any paint on there? I don't know. Do this once in awhile. Keep your painting side. This is just a spray bottle with water in it. Keep them alive on the palette and you can scrape up what's down there. This is a regular like the trowel shaped pallet knife. This is my favorite, you can tell it's wrapped in like duck tape and I've abused this thing to death. There's you all come up here and I can just play around with it. Maybe there's some more yellow And they do this one and then you tear it off and do another one. Remember, this will train you to just relax and let go and have FUN, and just admit to yourself and acknowledge it to painting will turn out okay. Just like your life, I encourage you to not necessarily show these to anybody. Do 100 of them and keep them in a little stash. Don't show them to people. It will take away all your inhibitions when you don't have to make an Instagram post out of this. When you just paint what you're feeling and you don't care. We're painting like we just don't care because we don't, because you care too much when you're really trying to learn how to paint and voyage just like kills all your creativity, right? So when you don't care as much, you just like, Oh, this is PFK-1 and then you do this a couple of hundred times and like, Oh, I get it now. And then when you do care, this will be such a more natural process. Your start to finish painting will just happen. It'll flow so much better. You'll be confident about your color choices. You can dislike. Yeah, I know what? I could see that in my mind. And you just grab some paint and go for it. And it looks like magic. You've just done it a couple hundred times. Because that's, that's when you like just barely started to grab it. You start to grasp that the thing after a few hundred that has to flow out of you. So that's what these paintings are far. Just let it all flow out all over your hands and everything. This is this one is looking done. I stop and look over at my monitor, Mike. I want some more oranges and I could let this dry and then glaze over. I just want some whispers of other oranges around. Like this orange light is bouncing around the whole Painting. Acrylic paint dries so fast, I can glaze over it and it won't disturb my all these fund brushstrokes and textures that I have. It won't, it won't smush them in, smear them because it's dry already. It's it's dried since we started 19 min ago. So that is one way that Acrylic is very cool. It dries. It can be a bane, how fast it dries if you're trying to do some really subtle rendering. But for exercises like this and building up layers of texture, It's very, very cool. So I think this one's done. Yeah, beautiful Autumn leaf. For a lovely autumn day. That's your thing. I love autumn crisp weather, oranges, purples, all that stuff. So that was FUN, chaos, and beauty on the same place. So well Cool. Well that was phon. Let's clean up and we'll do one more. So see you back here in a second. 5. 4, Sunset path: Alright, we said a couple of paintings ago. You could just do a whole surface read to start with. And then I'm gonna, I'm gonna try that. I'm going to maybe do an orangey red right in the center here. And then work my way because I do like to think about that there's still some purple and just rush my light. So we'll keep going with the red and a little bit of water. You know, it's just a splash, it inflamed and everywhere. I definitely recommend doing somewhere you can make a mess. This is red, but it's red. If I cast a light on it. It's darker in the corners. I'm just grabbing this is alizarin crimson. Or you can use whatever pink or purple or whatever you want. So here's my, and then for good measure, maybe dip a little water in it. You get some fun, unexpected things happening. Smush, smoosh, smush, them. Get water all over your computer. That's great. Alright, well let's, there's some super juicy dark purples in here. Let's go with that. I'm just going to slather it on there. Maybe it's got sort of a maybe this ground is like this. It's like very flat. And then over here is although the tree three ***** happening, I'm just going to make this all one dark shape. Will carve something out of it later. I'm smudging and turning and moving the brush around. Maybe this darkness is a little less dark here. I'm really just thinking about like to sort of clumps of dark hair, dark. And we've got this light sky. So right now it's this purple. I'm seeing purples and reds and all kinds of stuff happening there. That's fine. I'm just pile and n. And then maybe for the **** of it will just throw in a little bit of green. Because green doesn't want to be left out. So there we go, There's a good start. And it can be unexpected greenness happening here. That's pretty, um, I'm gonna go the opposite way and I'm going to add a different brush. And I'm going to start doing some of these lighter goals. And there's a sky here that's going to reach into there. It's the brightest there. I can, I can add that in. I'll keep gradually making it lighter. Then. This is always just fun to do now. And then it adds some unexpected little color adventures everywhere. We'll just keep doing that. I'm going to be, I can actually add some white. Now. This guy is pretty white. I might have to do this a few times because this paint is still pretty wet. I want it to be really like to cover up all these other colors. I might have to let it dry for a few and then come back to it a few I mean, like a few minutes. Like, I'm not going to walk away and take a break or anything. You could do that if you had more time. But this is for this exercise. I'm not that worried about it. And then you can just take it and do some swirly is like that. Like hey, there's kinda like that, like directional quality to it. Let's do it again. I'm gradually, I think I'm just hitting it with white now because there's so much color on the brush on the paper that it's mixing still. This is acrylic and it does dry quickly, but not that quickly. You got you got some time. You've got a few minutes. There's this distant yellow glow back there somewhere. You can use a paper towel if you want. You can dab and smush with a paper towel. Different different tools and techniques. You know, your tools don't only have to be brushes and palette knives, that can be anything you've got around the house. Go to the 99-cent store and hunt around. I think that'd be fun to like smush onto a paper or a pallet or a canvas or whatever and see what it does. Be surprised at what interesting or the thrift store. What interesting objects like a plastic spatula or whatever, you know, you never know. You'd be surprised at what random things can make some beautiful marks. I'm going to take this whole thing and maybe start doing some more of these. Like there's some leaves that come out I like this combo. I want to do that like I was doing with the plastic before. Only I'm using a paper towel now. It's a little softer. Maybe. This kinda continues over here. I'm gonna just going where I see shapes. Whenever I'm doing this kind of thing that the tree trunks get an added in the last. I'm not really seeing trees. Don't think about it as trees. I'm just seeing shapes and colors and oranges and yellows and bright fun things. This isn't about painting trees. You're painting, color, your painting. Fun. Whatever, like woo, I love that, orange. Let's grab some of that. This isn't about painting of a forest with a path and all that stuff. It's like it is, and it's not at the same time at this stage. It, let's say if I was gonna do a very intricate painting of this, that'd be fun. It could be a really beautiful piece. This could be my warm-up. This might give me some ideas that I could do. For the more intricate version. That could be a combination of type, intricate details and loose, crazy abstract splashed color. You know, speaking of splashes, can't leave out those guys. Just dip it in the water, gets some watery paint. And then it ends up some stuff on the palette knife. I'll just throw that on there too. Okay. There's some, some down here. Maybe this is more like a shadow is, we'll do some dark here. I mean, this can be some of the greens hanging out in the shadows here. Just shove it in the water, grabs some going sideways, getting pain all my arms, you know, I can grab it, some of it. I like the green and the corners. It's kinda fun and it adds a little bit of cool quality and all this warmth as all this crazy, just super hot mega oranges and yellows and the green is a break from that. Yeah, look at those like super strong horizontal things I'm looking over at now at my monitor like, Wow, that's cool. I didn't even intend that, but it looks great. There are some paint leftover on the knife. I'm going to use it. No paint left behind. Okay. Maybe I'm going to come back and do a little more sky now. Because that really should be super nice and light. I do want maybe a clean paper towel to dab this time because my other ones covered like greens and purples. I don't want to introduce that. I like where this is going. Maybe I'll switch hands and I'll make the lines go this way this time. Screener grab some yellow. Sorry, white. Yeah, if the color is escaped my brain when I'm in full flow mode here. I was loved going to the hardware store or whatever and go into their paint section and going through their paints. And I love the colors that they named them, the names of the colors they give them. It's a fun, It's a fun game. Go there with a friend and have them turn their back and not look and you pick a random color chip and read them the name of the color and see if they can guess what color it is. If I gave you a color called carousel flu or colors that is is it a green, isn't a purples that are bred? You know, if I gave you a color called Summer wind or colors that I like, the names are very clever. That would be a fun job. Strangely, I think I'm going to add some super cool gold. This color called nickel azo, yellow was like one of my secret weapons. It's the greatest gold color. Transparent. It could be more yellow, it could be more green. It's got a mind of its own, but man, it's gorgeous. I use it in the oil and acrylic. There's a little poking through there. That's fun. Yeah, I'm just going to list my sky color. I don't want to actually yeah, I want to keep that kind of whites. I don't want to use. I might have to come back and hit it again. I'll click that clean Let's add some trees. Let's do it palette knife style. Let's add some further away trees. I'm just going to mix up some colors and grab a bunch. Maybe this isn't the right tool for this. It's not quite doing what I want. That's okay. We'll do it. We'll go back to our trusty flat brush. Working good. Working, well, majors out there. You can see these brushes are great. I can push hard and then I can drag it and it gets softer. And maybe it doesn't maybe it breaks up. You don't see the whole trunk because there's leaves and stuff that block it out. Well, that's a giant pile right there. Didn't mean to put that much paint on it, but it's great. Maybe the trunks overlap, they cross over some of the leaves and sometimes they're broken and you don't see behind there. There's this one. Instead of coming in. Again, I can, I can abandon the reference and I can make my own, my own trees that are telling my own story. They of vanished down here. Let's scoop up some of this dark fill in. I'll grab some orange. Yeah, this paper towel can be as much of a brush. Anything else? Move some things around a little bit to a little more orange over here, do a little yellow. A little bit of the ochres. Maybe I got a little something coming through here. Maybe some of these are crossing over this part. But I can put as many as I want it to come out and come over. Maybe there's some leaves on them. I kinda lost some of those. I'm using my paper towel like a weird little paint brush right now and it's working pretty good, right? What do you think? Not bad, huh? Um, all that red is still poking through a lot of these areas and it's really working. I didn't have to paint a lot of the red leaves because they're already there. Hey, there's a path. I guess. I'm gonna go here. And then I think I want, I want this path to be darker in the foreground. And I can use this same tool to paint some of these, these cool, what do you call them? Sticks. And maybe they get lighter and smaller as they get further away. That's linear and aerial perspective. So now it looks like they're going off into the distance. Really need some shadows. Sort of break it up a little bit. Just sort of floating there. There we go. Anyway, there's a couple of big ones. They're attached to the ground like that. I like the paper towel idea or something else because then it just doesn't look like a paintbrush stroke. It looks like you can't quite tell how the pain got there. You know, it's like this organic quality. The pain is like scattered and this really cool way. Like how did they how did you do that? What tool was that? I don't necessarily always just do a brushstroke. I want it to be a mystery. How did the paint get like that? What tool is that? You can use? Anything like where's my palette knives and water. Can do that with a palette knife to just smash it on there. How did the paint get there? It's not just a brushstroke. What is that? A mystery? I can grab some of this wet paint and pull it. I mean, I can take some of these now and I can dig through some of this wet paint. I don't want to cut through the paper and tear the paper. If I was canvas or wood panel, I could go at it and it would be fine. But this paper is a little, you know, little more delicate than what I'm doing with that. And maybe now for us super thick bed, I can grab some just purple and some greens and come in here for a big thick tree. Let's say this. There is a nice super sick tree here that I haven't done yet. Compliant instance tree Just add palette knife. It has a couple of branches that come off there. Wo, watch out. Oh, that's lovely. Maybe want a few more of these dark leaves and the foreground. Some of this green. Maybe I'm just grabbing whatever colors are here. Like I'm keeping it dark because this is like my dark area. I'm working loose and quick and I'm really enjoying this and it's coming out really pretty. I love it. Um, for a quick study, this is great. So if I was going to do a more detailed version of this, I think I would have a little more of an arsenal about how what I like and what I don't like. I might try this again with a different base layer first to see what happens. Maybe I might do it green or purple or whatever. I don't usually, I never start with just a white surface. I I I cover it with something first and then go from there. Adds a lot of interests. This one is just about wrapped up. I think. So many fun things happening, an accident and on purpose, I can keep poke around at it, but yeah. It's just like the speed at which you're going to just let it flow out and it's just like it gets rid of your day and it gets rid of all your all your concerns and inhibitions and it really lets you let go. That's why this is such a great exercise. Fill in some of this up here, I would say I'm done. But, you know, you can spend as long as you want or time it and then be done with it. When it's done, you're done. So that's fine. You can leave it at that. So yeah, get it all out, leave it all on the paper. Don't think too hard and just paint, just let it happen and grab a color. It looks fun. Do it. I'm giving you some ideas and some techniques, and I am deploying some technical things just because I've been doing this for such a long time, but you do it a couple of hundred times by a couple of sketchbooks and blow through them. You'd be surprised at how much deferring your different your painting will be after doing this like literally 100 times and see what happens. It's very free, your flow will happen and it will just be so much more natural. After awhile, you'll grab a color, it'll be intuitive and you'll lose your fear of it. And it's really cathartic and you get all this stuff out and you can sit there just like stare at it. And, you know, all these fun little, little accidents and little moments. And just like, Well, I want to be inside this painting. And maybe existentially, maybe you are already inside the painting because the painting is you and all that stuff. Anyway, we'll recap here in a second. So cool, thanks for painting and we'll see you back here in a minute. 6. Summary: Okay, that was a really FUN little session. Fun little painting studies. I hope you had a good time. It was very spontaneous and not very calculated at all. We'll run through the pieces that we did. This was first we started with this great Autumn scene. Just a weird tree sort of bent over. I liked the light coming through. And of course, Autumn is my favorite seasons. I love the colors. People asked me all the time, what's your favorite color? You know that random question that everyone asks. And of course I'm an artist, so I say my favorite color is the Autumn color palette. Oranges, reds, Brown's little purple. Because I'm an artist and that's what artists say. My favorite color palette is definitely the autumn palette. I love all these colors. There were some light zinging through there when the green. So this could be a study for a more complicated painting for the future if I wanted to spend some time on it. Or it was just a really FUN, spontaneous way to enjoy an autumn scene. Which I hope this what you can use it for, just to fling some paint and get some some stuff off your chest and have a good time without the pressure of making a beautiful finished piece. Of course it will be beautiful because it's a reflection of you on the canvas without any inhibitions. So that's what's funny about this exercise. The next one we did was this Autumn Aspen scenes. If you'd like more of the yellow quality of Autumn, this one's for you. More yellows and greens because it's kinda the Aspen sort of idea, which I think is really FUN. So again, just not a whole lot of thought behind this one. Just the less you think the better just you see a color, you like it, you grab it and you run with it. And you can use any tools you want. Crummy old brushes, not very expensive oil paint. Just because you wanna do like you wanted to. Hundreds of these if you can't do a couple every day, you'd be surprised at how, how well your method will improve even when you decide to do a nicer longer painting. This one was FUN. A little more of a cool palette on that one. And then here, just to mix things up instead of a Landscape, we just did a simple little Autumn leaf, just chilling by itself on a little bit of other old, crispy Autumn Leaves. I liked the color contrast and this one, I love orange, like Hey, oranges phon, throw some orange on there. All those grays and stuff in all the leaves and the background, I made them purples and greens and reds and any color you like. This is really your chance to experiment and have FUN. What's funny about this as you don't have to show these to anybody. Of course I'm doing that here because I'm instructing, but you don't just show them to anyone, don't post them online. They're not for sale. It really is freeing when no one will see this except for you. It's like you're a little journal. It's like your artistic diary. And it's very liberating. And then finish it off this great sunset Autumn scene. This was a whole lot of all my favorite colors, the oranges and reds and stuff. And I love the contrast and the atmosphere, equality in this one Superfund. I could spend all day making all those little trees. Or I could just scratch in some, some random whatever with whatever are different tool I've never tried before. This is your chance to experiment and use tools you'd never used before, or Techniques you'd never used. Because, hey, this took me less than 20 min. I could do a smaller one. This is a bigger one just for demonstration. You can see it, but you could do one half this size, maybe a little piece of paper like this. It could only take you like five-minutes. You do a bunch of those. Then you can really play and you'd be surprised what kind of stuff you can discover by just not really carrying the whole point. This class is called the free Expressionism Painting like you just don't care because that changes your whole mindset when you care less and you're just letting your sort of, your subconscious and your soul paint for you. Turned your brain off for awhile is kinda what as an artist you need to do sometimes because we inhibit that part too often or the world does or whatever. So anyway, really FUN experiment. I encourage you to like, use your own photos or anything you find, whatever inspires you. Lets keep it simple. These are all very, very simple pieces. You can take a picture of your park. You can go sit in the park, do it. In real life. It's can be funny the way. I hope this has a Fine exercise and I hope you can learn more about your Art and more about yourself, more about your materials and just have a good time with it. And it just helps process so many things and leave it out all on the paper. Because whatever happens on the surface of the painting, the painting will turn out just fine, just like your life. Alright. Keep saying that it happened in the middle about painting one day and that's totally true. Revelation moments. Anyway. Thank you so much for joining me for my course. Free Expressionism Painting like you just don't care. The Autumn addition, Autumn, my favorite season. Christopher Clark and happy painting. And I'll see you next time.