Who is going to win when there's prayers being said on both sides of the court?

[piano plays in bright rhythm & tone] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ We have a pochade to show you; this will be our model.

This is what we're working towards.

So I will show you the steps to get there.

We'll take down the pochade, and you can see the first week's effort, which we must achieve, and then this is a canvas that we're using, and I have a Red Light and a little White on it, and I'm just showing you that I kind of push it around like that, and then because I don't want it to be, you know, I don't take a lot of time on that, and I don't want it too wet, so I'll push it around with a paper towel, which both evens it out and removes a little bit of the excess.

Okay, I think what I'll do is start on the bodies of the two players.

I really think that's a referee.

I made a little shirt, little stripes on it.

So he's a little short to be playing with that group.

Maybe that's me out there sketching them.

So here's what I have.

I have some Burnt Umber and some Red Light.

Let's see if I can tell you kind of a formula.

That's pretty close.

So it looks like at least 4 Burnt Umber and 1 Red Light.

Just flatten it out.

Boy, that guy's up high, isn't he?

I remember in high school we had a couple farm boys that played basketball and they were both 6-foot-4, and we thought they were giants.

They weren't great basketball players.

They kind of hit the ball over, and the other guy hit it back and back, because no one else was tall enough!

But boy, that was good times.

And when I'd come off that bench-- did I come off the bench?

I came off the bench in basketball!

I had energy, loved it!

"Don't shoot, Buck!"

No, I wasn't Buck then!

"Don't shoot Paulson!"

I was in a basketball game once, and it was out of town, and I don't know what happened.

It was a little bit feisty, and this one guy came up to me and pushed me in the chest.

This was my junior year, and my other teammate, you know, the referee blew the whistle, and there was a technical, and got to shoot the free throw.

I don't think I made it, but anyway, after that my friend on my team would call me "Toughy."

So for a year and a half, I was "Toughy!"

Toughy Paulson!

Should have a T there.

How do you spell Toughy?

Some of the fans start throwing things if the score isn't right.

Let's go over to the next guy, and we're over on him.

He's trying to stop the action, and he's not doing the greatest job.

I have a nice outline on that, and that's so helpful.

Now, you don't see much of his face, so I'll just come across it, and I still want to be able to say yeah, I can see it, I can see his features.

And the more I wipe, the more I will see them.

Okay, next arm.

Oh, it's so exciting to paint the subject; like this is the first time I've ever painted this.

Sometimes, let's see on the show, no they're pretty much all brand-new ones.

Once and a while if I find something that works real well in a workshop, I might do it on the show or vice versa.

It looks good on the show, I think oh, I'd like to teach that.

Okay one more leg.

Oh, you already did the other leg.

Well, let's give this guy just a little bit of a tan.

Okay, now I think what would be helpful if I put some color on the shirts and shorts.

So let's go to the Blue first, the visitors!

You want to be Phthalo Blue or Ultramarine Blue?

Let's go Phthalo Blue.

Just kind of brush-mixing.

That's about enough.

That's just a little more than half on the Blue.

Oops, you need to be darker.

I'm going to put a little Rose in with it.

Oh, I like that; I like what that does.

It's always impressive when a team comes out on the floor and they have their brand-new uniforms.

I have a couple basketball experiences I want to share with you.

The first one, I was coaching up in Canada.

I may have told this before, but I like it so much I'll tell it again.

I was coaching, it was a very close game.

Oh my gosh, back and forth, and all of the sudden "Mr.

Paulson!"

That's me.

"Mr.

Paulson!"

"What Dennis, what?"

"What do we have for science tomorrow?"

Gee, "What do we have for science tomorrow?!"

You know what he was saying?

What about me?

Notice me too.

That's really what he was saying, and that has always stuck with me-- that each one of them deserves a chance to play.

I like it where they have rules, not in real competition, but a lot of the club rules where everybody has to play at least a certain length of time, amount of time.

I like that.

Come down on his leg just a little bit.

All right, the other fellow, I think it would be easiest if put just a little bit of, let's see.

We'll put the orangey color on first, and then we'll work the dark into it.

I was thinking put the dark on first, but let's do it the other way.

Okay, so I have some Cadmium Orange.

I'll bring this down and see what we want to place with that.

I'll hold this up.

It's pretty good, it's pretty close.

Just a touch of Red in it, and maybe just a little touch of Umber.

Fine.

Dipping in using a flat brush and it has, well, I put a little Walnut Oil with it.

This won't show up much until the background is in, because the background is a little bit of competition.

So that won't bother me knowing that that's the reason.

Down on this shorts.

Okay, I'll put a little bit of the dark color.

Now, this is the same color that I used for the arms and the body color.

I say that, and the minute I do I think no, let's not do that.

Let's use straight Umber.

Now if I go like that, it's crooked Umber!

So we're going to use crooked Umber.

Put under the arm a little bit there.

So you can see the difference.

You'll notice it much more like I said when we come with some of the background in there.

This all shows the kind of the wrinkles from the movement.

Umber still on the shorts.

Have it at the belt, have it over on this side.

This needs to have more.

Boy, I'm dipping in a lot, running fast, but it's the same thing, so I hope you aren't confused.

What about him?

You do have just a little bit of dark on there, and I'm going to take, let's take some Ultramarine Blue and go a little darker in here and right down in front.

There has to be a little bit there whether you want it or not.

Okay, we might just put a little touch on the fellow there, the referee.

So I have some Umber and White and Ultramarine Blue.

We need to make this so it doesn't look too much like he's same color as one of the teams.

They say uh-oh!

That's not fair!

You're refereeing for that.

Okay, we'll give him a little hair on the head, a little Umber, and then we'll go to the background.

Gee, I think that referee aged right before us, because that's a little gray.

Here's a little more Umber.

That's better.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get hair that easily?

Whoo!

All right, now for the background.

I look up and I see a lot of Green, Umber and Green and gold.

It's going to be really a kind of a mottled look.

So let's get this, this is Viridian Green and White.

What are you?

Oh, you're purple.

I don't think I want you.

I want you and I want the Van Dyke Brown, and this.

Now let's see.

That Van Dyke Brown makes it just a little softer green.

I'll hold it a distance away so you can't say oh, it's not any good.

More of the gray.

More White.

Why don't we just call this the painting and put a little figure in there?

Okay.

Oh, that's closer, close enough.

Okay, large fan brush, and I have medium on this.

Even though we have Walnut Oil on here, it needs to spread a little bit.

So we'll push this down, and what's especially nice about this, when you meet the next color, it's not just an exact meeting place, not an exact boundary.

So it can be very mottled, and as I do this, I'm going right against the body as you can see, and you watch a little bit and make sure that you're doing the anatomy correct.

Correctly.

Is that the word?

Correctly?

I'll have a little bit of this same color, and I'll put it on the inside right in here.

This, I want to make sure that that wrist is showing well, and then he has a little bit of the forearm that's strong down to the bicep.

Are there any chiropractors out there watching?

You can name the joints if you wish.

There is a small amount of the basket showing under that arm.

So we'll make sure we have that.

Now, next week when you come back, we'll be working on that one and we will finish it by looking at the little pochade.

So this one is just a temporary stepping-stone.

Let's use a little more of the Van Dyke Brown.

And the blotchy look like this is so useful because what I'm saying is, the background, the priming is part of it.

Okay, we'll go a little bit more White in that as we come near the player.

So I use just the brush, bringing over the White, and it already had some of the green on it, so this will be good against that.

And you can see as I put this and the other colors on that then the color we put on first, the Orange, shows up a lot more, because the orange against the pink wasn't much of a change.

And between the giants.

Boy, there are some tremendous athletes in this world.

Oh, and it isn't only basketball.

It's football, baseball, tennis, and I'm sorry if I'm not naming all the sports you're interested in, but there's some great athletes out there-- men and women.

Okay, on the right side, over here, let's take a little bit of, let's see, we have Raw Sienna, and I'm just brush-mixing.

I have Raw Sienna and White, more Raw Sienna.

It's pretty close to a middle value.

Let's just hold that up.

I think that'll work fine.

And as I said earlier on this, when they meet, there's not a real care of an exact boundary or anything.

You're just pushing that up and scrubbing it off.

It's just like cleaning off the brush on a canvas that you don't need to do anything else to.

I'm coming down there just a little just to kind of soften those together.

Over in here, I'll push this so the white doesn't come down quite as low.

When I say white, I mean the light.

Okay, we'll go on the other side.

Well, let's see, yeah, we'll take some of this same greenish tone and we'll put it right in there.

That's a little strong.

Wipe a little bit, put against the shirt, and then just blend over a little bit, like that.

Okay, what I think I'll do now, I'll put some color against him, but I need to quickly run up to the basket to make sure we have that on, because this green that we've used is just going to be the same thing over there.

So I have some of my same Yellow Ochre and White with just a touch of green in it, and I'll get this so this is separate from the man.

Okay, now for going up on the basket, I need to have greenish, but not too green, so I have a little Blue, a little of my light... and it's just right.

Of course, you'd say that.

Absolutely it's just right!

Come over this side, and I'll come right down through that bank board.

That needs to be pretty definite on the edges, because the backboard.

Oh my goodness, I remember when they used to have it, and they'd have the glass backboards, and the players would shatter the basket as they dunk the ball, and they'd have to stop and replace it.

I don't know what they have now.

They have something so they don't break like they used to, but boy, it was both exciting and a little disconcerting, because it would hold up the game for a while.

All right, I'm going to take a small brush, flat brush, and this is almost white.

I'll take White and mix just a little in there, and then we'll put this right on the edge.

So you can see the edge of the basket.

That continues down here.

I don't see it through there, but I see it around this little square that you aim for when you're going to bank in a shot.

Oh, my goodness, we gotta, well, we put the light on the lower part, Then we have to be a little careful, because we have to have a basketball there.

So remember, they talk about Deflategate.

Well, this is going to be a "ballgate" if they can't find the ball.

I'm using some of the flesh color, and I'm taking a little bit of the golden tone that was in the background.

Some of the golden tone with some of the flesh color and that will give me my basketball.

I need to go a little darker over on this side... and I'll use this just to cut in the thumb just a little bit.

He got just a little wide, right there.

Okay, there are a couple stripes on the ball so let's take some Umber with a round brush.

Gotta be sure I'm not painting a baseball!

Okay, now let's see what happens.

Well, we have a little ring, and I'm going to use some Alizarin.

When I said ring, it's a rim.

And that has the smallest sway.

So it represents the roundness.

You see a little bit through there, same thing.

Now we'll put like we did around the backboard.

We'll put some lights, and I'm using White, the same color we used up around there, and we're using this just on the edge of the net.

Both sides.

And oh, this is good.

You see a little bit down there.

It's funny I don't have any light edge on that, but let's do just a little bit, taking some of the same background color, and you can see if you just kind of mush it in a little bit there, because these backboards are such that you can see through a little bit.

Maybe even just slightly there.

So we have enough time so we'll go ahead with, I have a larger brush, and Walnut Oil and background color.

Let's go even darker in that background color particularly down here.

This has been a grand thing!

There weren't even any time-outs in this game!

We just went right on through it.

But you be sure and come back next week, because we're going to put the final touches on that model, which I don't have final touches except on the little pochade, and that's a great little model to work with.

Comes down here.

I'll use a smaller brush coming against him just to be a little more careful.

Oh, I like that!

I wanted to do something there, and that kind of jumped out ahead of me.

I want to have it a little lighter there, and then it blends into the background.

The nice thing about doing this project is, you know, you can do just about anything you want on the background.

You could even maybe put a few spectators sitting up there watching the game.

Blend this over.

Oh that poor guy, he's going to get-- what do they call it?

I don't know, something dunked on I guess is the word.

Posterized!

That's what it is.

Okay, so we'll do that.

Come down between there just a little bit.

You'll find on this you have to kind of watch and say okay, there's too much pink showing through, and I'll do one spot.

If I come up just closer there, so the pink against the ball.

Otherwise it was looking kind of like a square ball.

So we'll see you next time.

This is the first half.

It takes two halves to complete the game!

We're going to complete the game!

You come back!

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