I want you artists out there to become a dentist-- no extractions, no distractions-- just keep brushing!

[piano plays in bright rhythm & tone] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I want to tell you something about my shirt!

I went to this yard sale once, it was in the garage where I'd been teaching art classes, And I thought, the Indians, I love the Indians!

So I bought it, and on the back I guess it says Hoyte something.

I thought, I wonder who he was?

So I checked the record books to find this guy, and I couldn't find him.

So the next year, same place, they had another sale, and I'm wearing this shirt, and I'm going around, and this gal came up to me, she must be maybe 14, 15.

She says, "Oh is that your name?"

I said "No, I bought it at the art sale."

"That used to belong to my brother."

Gee.

And he is a 13-year-old!

I thought oh my gosh.

Anyway I'm wearing it for the first part of the show, so I hope you enjoy it.

Okay, we have a canvas that has been primed with 6 White, 1 Permanent Green Light, 1 Payne's Gray.

So that's on there, that's dry, that's acrylic, there's been a tracing put on, and now we're ready to paint.

I painted the original; I have not experimented how to paint this, paint it.

So I'm going to do something, and it's going to work, you're going to watch.

I have some Azo Orange that I'm picking up with the fan brush.

I'm going to come up here-- look what I'm doing.

Just splash it around; so I'm hitting the man a little bit.

Oh my gosh, this is anticipation.

Can you imagine that guy has swung the ball-- 91 miles an hour!

Geesh!

The manager that I played, Danny Litwhiler, played 11-1/2 years in the major leagues.

And he coached me at the Fargo-Moorhead then Twins, not the RedHawks, the Twins in 1952, And he later helped invent the speed gun to check how fast a ball is being pitched.

It's in the Hall of Fame, and it's got his name on it with somebody else.

So if I'd of had it then, I could've said how fast my pitch was, but you know the nice thing, I can say, I threw that ball 88 miles an hour.

How are you going to check?

You're not.

Okay, back to the diamond?

No, back to the palette.

You can see on the palette, I put a zigzag down there.

So this week I'm going to work in this area, then next week I'll work in this area.

We'll be able, because I will save the paint, we'll be able to use some of it for the second one.

So now let's take some White and Yellow.

This is Cadmium Yellow.

I didn't realize I was going to be brush-mixing That's equal parts.

2, 2 White... 1 Yellow.

We'll put this on; it'll make it just a little brighter.

Oh, I love that, and what I like about it, see, I can go across.

Later when I put the color in on the sleeve, we'll make room for it.

But right now it's not what you say, real careful painting.

It's careful in another way.

Oh, I love that impact already.

We may not do it the same way, we'll do it.

I just got word from my head director, who said, Buck, you just follow the rules.

I'll say, yes Barb.

Barb is beautiful and intelligent and very helpful.

Oh, okay, so here's another thing.

Once you do that, it's just so easy to brush both ways.

So you get a lot of energy when it goes both ways.

I wasn't sure what I was going to do as far as the background.

Would I put the darks in first or last?

I'm going to put them in now, last, so that when it meets something that's wet it will soften, and that's good planning.

We'll take the same brush, we'll take over here.

This is Van Dyke Brown.

Do you want that or Umber?

Oh, I'm leaning more towards the Umber, okay Umber.

Start right up in the corner.

Did I tell you that I previously put on a little Walnut Oil on this?

Now I'm dipping in, when I do that I do that too.

So I push pretty hard, but you see I stay away from the light, because I want to wipe the brush and not much paint come into that.

But at the same time I discovered something else that's going to work, and that being that I can mix some of the little splash colors into this area too, what you see the red and the greens and so on.

I really like having a primed canvas because you allow it to show through here and there and then decide how much you want to save.

We'll come down a little further with the Burnt Umber.

Oh, that ball is right out there.

I know one fellow that hits the ball a mile.

He's one of my best friends, Jon Harris the third.

Oh, [laughs] he can powder that ball.

So we'll watch him in action later today.

Oo, this looks good.

Okay, let's come over here.

Could I just do a little name-dropping?

I once played on the Fargo-Moorhead Twins when they were called the Twins instead of the RedHawks.

And in the league, in the league, was a shortstop at that time for Eau Claire, I guess they call them the Eau Claire Braves.

Let's see, I need to do something while I'm talking.

I'm going to take more Umber.

Whoops!

Get off next week.

Get over here where you belong.

So I'll come down here.

So anyway, the player was Hank Aaron.

He played on the Eau Claire Braves in 1952.

Part of the season with them, he was also in a Negro league.

But oh my gosh, there was another pitcher on our team called Howard Simmons.

He and I were sitting in the bullpen, both pitchers, and we said "Hit a homer, Henry!"

"Hit a homer, we'll give you a dollar!"

He hit a home run, so after the game we went over and saw him and gave him the dollar.

What a claim to fame!

I gave Henry Aaron a dollar!

Whoo!

He probably doesn't remember that, so don't ask him about it.

Okay, let's see, we are blending this just a little bit more, and as I suggested, we now want to add just a little colors in the periphery.

So what I'll use, this is Naphthol Red.

Fan brush.

I find by doing the red, that you have a kind of a unity between the red of the manager and the batter and the background.

So must be a home game for them.

We will come later and get strong lights in there.

For now this may take over a little bit, but it works.

Okay, we're doing a pretty good job here.

Huh?

I think what would be fun, let's put some color on the batter.

So this is Quinacridone Red.

And this will be the shadow color on the helmet and on the sleeve.

So it'll be the shadow color of the red areas.

And see, same thing, you come down here... oh, I like that.

I like that a lot.

You must like it a lot, you left the yellow there.

Let let's just wipe a little bit there so that when you put the red on it will be very strong.

Here's some more of the shadow color for the second arm.

And his glove for now, the batting glove, we'll just spread this out a little bit.

It's mixing into the light slightly, so it kind of accomplishes what I want, a little less dark than the first.

Whoo, he has a belt, and the belt also is red.

Good thing they didn't pull up his socks so I don't have to make red socks.

Oh I love the Red Sox, the Boston Red Sox.

Just thought I'd throw that out in case my brother is listening.

Okay, the manager... We'll eventually come with a brighter red on all of this.

Let's see, I think for his, oh, I'm going to make a line here because the edge of his shoulder doesn't go over that far.

So let's put a little Umber with the Red and see what we get.

So this is 1 to 1, yeah, that's going to work.

This is Burnt Umber and my Quinacridone-- did I say it right?

Quinacridone Red.

Yes.

It's beautiful colors, oh gee.

Don't you like those fancy names they give them?

I do.

Kind of scrub that on with the idea that we're going to go lighter in just a minute Let's see, you better dab the face.

I'm going to put just a little Burnt Umber on it.

I want to tell you what a difference it makes these days as compared to in my day.

I remember wanting to be a baseball pitcher.

Okay, how did I learn?

Seeing a still shot in the newspaper.

Getting up there ready to pitch.

It was a still picture, so how did I know what to do?

When I came up to try out for the Fargo-Moorhead Twins, Danny Litwhiler, 11-1/2 half years in the major leagues, played in the World Series, he said go down to the bullpen warm up.

So I warmed up, this was before the game, he came down and said okay, let's see your fastball I threw it, he says good fastball.

Through it again, he says okay, let's see your curve.

So I took the baseball, and I was out here, like that, and he came over and he says, bring that elbow in.

Oh my gosh, that ball curved so much, just, what was that-- 5, 6 seconds of instruction?

Turned from a hillbilly pitcher to a minor league star.

I just threw the star in.

But anyway, that was so great.

People today, they can see videos of instruction on how to do it real well, and it's sure an advantage if they take advantage of it.

That's why you get so many young kids go up quickly in college and on to the pros.

Oh, what do I want to do?

Oh, I want to take, I was putting red on there, we've got red on here.

Okay, let's just try some of the brighter red.

This is the Naphthol Red.

I'm going to first put it on the hat.

As I put this on, I have no qualms about my fingernail touching out on the canvas so I can have steadiness.

You can always use a mahlstick, this long round thing that you lean, and you get your steadiness that way.

A little air hole, we'll leave that.

I'm touching these just slightly.

It's not a super blend, but it blends quite efficiently that way.

Same color, same color up here on the glove, on the forearm, down to the bicep.

Boy he is ready, he's ready to swing that bat.

More on the other arm, there's not much there.

On this one it's just down at the bottom a little bit, it peeks through.

I show the glove there.

I don't think you can see that there.

So I'll just wipe a little bit away.

Okay, a little bit on the belt.

And the managers hat... cap.

You kind of go to the line, but then you want to be sure that you're going to desize the line.

And desize, that means going out just a little bit past it.

He looks good enough to get out there and bat them himself.

Huh Danny?

Danny did play for us, he played left field.

The year before he had been in the majors, but he had some injury.

The great thing was, when I became an artist, I made contact with Danny again.

And gee, it was really neat.

I would go down to Florida, and I was teaching, and he lived down there, so he came up and saw me.

We went out to lunch, once I did a demonstration, and he came and talked to the people a little bit.

It was so neat, and we talked to each other on the phone for ever after on that.

His son sent me a picture of Danny on the phone He had just said or he'd heard me say it or he said it, "I love you," and the next day he was gone.

But what a privilege to be able to tell him good-bye and kind of a thank-you for everything you did.

I'm pushing this up with the finger just to make sure I get that high enough.

Okay, so the big catcher over here, we better put something on him.

Do we have some Payne's Gray, you are Payne's Gray, do I want you?

♪ I want you, I want you.

♪ [soft scraping] You can hear the scrubbing because I'm doing it almost dry brush.

Get some on the glove.

You realize that each thing we're doing, it's kind of just blocking it in, then we'll be having some of the rays kind of come through and do their business.

A little bit on the back of this guy.

I put just a little medium in it to go just a little faster.

Okay, now I'm going to take some Blue and White.

This is Phthalo Blue Red Shade.

My gosh, the names make it valuable!

And down below I'll just use some of that straight.

Mm.

I'm going to, while I have that on my brush, I'm going to go out to the pitcher and put a little of that color on him because that's the same team-- the catcher is catching for him.

Right?

You betcha.

Nothing there.

So that will be enough on him.

So let's now take just a little, let's see, what should we do?

Just take Blue and White, maybe a touch of Permanent Green Light.

I want to put just a little on the background behind him.

Oh, beautiful, a little more White.

Cut in there slightly.

It's more or less just to isolate him from the climbing.

Take the paper towel, and we'll just pull this down a little bit.

Pulling down is a blend.

So while we have it, let's put a little bit of paint on that fellow.

Let's see, this is White, and then taking some of the Blue and a little bit of the Payne's Gray.

So I have 1 Blue, 1 Payne's Gray, and about 4 White.

This is the first color I'm putting on the ballplayer out there.

You surely can't use the red because you'd be pitching against your own team!

Let's touch just a little bit in there, so his hat doesn't come too far down.

That's better.

And the beak just a little bit too.

I can put just a small touch of Umber.

What are you, Orange?

Orange and Umber?

And we'll put some of this down here for his arm.

Now see, he's throwing the ball, he is throwing the ball, so I'm adding a little White to that, and you can see just the end of his hand, right there.

You're looking good!

What else do we do?

We've got just a spot of time left.

Let's take and put a little White on with the Blue on the catcher, his shoulder.

And notice you use brushstroke so it's not real smooth.

There is action there.

A little bit to the waist under the arm.

Then of course, this has just a little bit of the edge of the sleeve there.

So what else do I want to do before we leave?

I could take a quick Blue and White and just put the shadows-- oop, let's go a little more Blue so it looks like it's equal Blue and White.

This is great!

We've had time to go a long ways with this.

I love it.

But you have to come back next week to see the end of the game.

No rain delay-- time delay.

Okay, that does it for now!

We'll see you next week.

Keep swinging.

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