A father gives more than instruction when coaching his child.

[piano plays in bright rhythm & tone] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Boy, do we have a great project for you.

It's a three-parter.

I will show you first the finished painting.

We'll do that, three weeks.

So here's stage I, it's primed on 6 white, 1 Permanent Green Light, 1 Payne's Gray.

And this is the stage that we'll end up with today.

And this is so great, this is my son and his son saying "You can do it!"

It gives great confidence from the father-- the son is willing to try.

Now, I want to point out one thing-- I'm wearing the Fargo-Moorhead Twins-- they call them Redbirds now.

Fargo Moorhead Twins when I played, shirt.

And you think, gosh, Buck, you must not have played very much.

That's lasted all these years?

It looks just like it was new!

Well, my son, who is very clever and works at a printing place took my image from the old Fargo-Moorhead team picture and he brought it out, then he also had the cap.

What a great gift that was.

And I wear it in honor of both him and my being able to have played baseball with the Fargo Moorhead Twins.

All right, we'll start, and we'll take-- this is a fan brush, and we are coming up with Walnut Oil on this.

It just makes the paint move on so much easier if we have a little bit of a sheen on there.

And I'm going to wipe this so it spreads it around evenly and removes any of the excess.

You don't really have any excess except in certain places it's a little more.

That's why the blending around like that is good.

Okay, we're going to start right in the sky.

I have, I think I'll take that fan brush too.

This is the sky color, this is, let's see, 4 White and 1 Yellow Ocher.

[soft scraping] Oh, I love this-- I love the sound, I love the feeling of that going on.

It's so pure when you come on a new canvas.

And what I like is priming the canvas because I make use of that.

If I point over in the copy that we are copying from you can see a little bit of the green showing and then coming through I really like that aspect of color over color.

[soft scraping] I'll go carefully, not with this brush, but with a small brush around the head and hat of my son.

I think what would help, if I go just a little bit into there, a little bit into here, so that when we put the color on those places, it'll have something to soften into.

Okay now, let's take another brush.

This is a flat brush.

Who are you?

You are a leaf brush.

Um, I love these brushes; they respond They responded when Bill Alexander used them, they respond when I use them.

Oh he was so great.

"Put the power in!"

He would talk to the painting, he'd talk to the brushes.

And he was a great man.

[coughs] Pardon me-- choked up over remembering my friend Bill.

I'll come down the shirt a little way.

This will be particularly helpful to have the image of the boy, the father, standing out a little bit from the back cliff.

Now, this is from an actual photograph of my son coaching his son.

It wasn't at the Grand Canyon.

[chuckles] You see that kind of waterfall over there.

It was at a regular baseball game, and he was going to bat.

My son, I think, was the manager, and he said, "You can do it!

You can do it!"

Oo, that looks good.

Now, let's take a smaller brush, this will be a round brush, and I want to come near the face.

This son, well, thanks to his mother is a pretty good-looking guy.

I don't know if you can see that there or not, but he's a handsome man.

He'd be more handsome if I don't cut in to his nose too much.

So I'll take and wipe that just a little bit.

Wipe your nose, Dave!

I have the brush in the back of the cloth, and that worked nicely for me.

Okay, let's go with the color in the clouds.

And what I have on that is 2 Burnt Umber, 1 Burnt Sienna, and it added that, 2 of those into the Yellow Ocher and White.

So here we go.

Take and dip into the Walnut Oil.

Were you dirty?

No, you haven't been used yet.

Let's get the one that was dirty.

It's a little larger brush.

Here's my mixture.

And it did help to have put on the sky golden color to have a little bit just drip into the cloud area.

So when we come with the clouds, it'll soften a little bit easier, more easily, as we come to the edge of the clouds.

You know, I just realized this, what's so much fun when you look at skies, you look at this one and you think that's almost like a profile-- a nose and a mouth and an eye.

I'm watching you, son!

Teach them right.

Okay grandma.

Just looking at the sky is so great and imagining different shapes and all that is really special.

Okay, now I'm going to come down, and I'm not totally concerned about doing a profile of that face in the sky, because next week we'll be working on that one, and this will kind of already have been sitting on the side.

So when we talk about the profile of the face, it'll be there next week.

You might say well, but how do we do it?

Just follow the tracing that you've received on the front of the DVDs.

That's almost like it, isn't it?

There's the nose, here's the buck chin.

I didn't intend to do this, but there's the little eye.

Oof, somebody will say what are you doing?

That's my floor director saying what are you doing?

And I'm pushing around just the gold a little bit more there.

I want the same color from the sky, or the cloud rather.

I'll go over to the left, and when I put it into the left, you can see there's a lot less of it.

Great!

Just right.

Now the big cliff, we're putting this on.

Oh, and see, I've left a little bit of the dark, or the drawing line on the edge, and I kind of like that, so I'm going to go just a little darker.

This is the Burnt Umber and Burnt Sienna without the White, but it blends in, softens in, down here this softens behind him.

All right, now I have, oh, let's see.

I think what might be nice, let's go ahead and go to the people instead of the greens and that just in case if we run out of time we'll know what to do there.

Let me give you a little idea on that.

This is 1 Viridian Green, 1 Cad Yellow, 1 White.

And if I put this on and don't worry about filling it all in, you'll get the idea of how to do the shirt and everything.

What we don't accomplish this time, we'll accomplish the next time.

I love that relationship to the father and the son.

♪ The father and the son.

They're together.

Okay, let's go ahead with the little boy.

This is 1 Yellow Ocher and 1 Orange.

You can see why this is going to be a three-parter.

Because it takes some work to fill those in.

His number is what?

3.

Oh, you don't see it there.

Do you?

Well, we see it here, and you'll see it on the final one.

I like that relationship of the orangey color over the green.

It just, anyplace where it shows through, it feels so natural.

Okay now, down on his pants, what are they?

Trousers.

Burnt Umber equal with White.

We'll go over on this guy.

Boy, you really appreciate color.

Don't you?

I've had students in my class that have been colorblind, and gosh, they are so good on values.

But I love color.

So don't let anything stop you.

Then we'll take pure Burnt Umber and sort of put on just a little bit where the belt is.

And a little bit just on the outline.

And a little bit in the middle on the back leg, like that.

Okay, now let's go up to his hat, cap.

And I have black and purple.

Oo, that's a dark color.

What color is my cap?

Oh, that was black, wasn't it.

While I have that on my brush, let's run right across over to the father.

His... what was I going to say?

Geesh.

Did I already forget?

Just a little bit of his hair coming down too back behind him.

Just a little, little bit there.

Now, when we go there, we'll have the beak of the cap.

So his name is Justin.

Justin and Dave.

Okay, so we go ahead with...

I'm going to put on some flesh color.

Actually, yeah, let's put some flesh color on.

And the flesh color I have is what?

Okay, this is 2 Burnt Sienna.

No, oh my goodness!

That's what you are.

You're practically the same as the mountains.

Save a little spot up there, save that eye, put on the hair, excuse me, take off the h, put on the ear.

And just a little down here under the beak.

And I want to have a small line of that which will show the continuation of that hair edge.

See, that separates a little bit from the hair on his head from the dark of the brim, dark of the hair.

Okay, I'm going to put some of that on his arm.

Take a little larger brush.

Oh, this is so much fun.

It's fun to play ball; it's fun to paint ballplayers.

I had a series, I painted about 21 pictures of ballplayers in action.

Most of them were the Cincinnati Red players.

I have a portrait of Pete Rose in the Pete Rose Hall of Fame, back in Cincinnati.

Did you know that?

You know it now.

It's a good one.

Just a little bit of an outline on that hat.

I have some just Burnt Umber and just a slight bit, it's almost like flesh color there.

Okay, I want to do a couple things, be sure we get them in.

I'll put some of this on the arm of the boy... of Justin.

And the other arm.

All right, what do we do now?

Let's put a little glove on This is 5 White, 1 Van Dyke Brown.

There's one finger.

Here's the second one.

The third one, the fourth one, and you don't see the thumb.

So that has a little band on it.

Band, b-a-n-d, not bend.

Band.

Do we have any other place for that to go?

Yes.

The ball.

It would be nice if that came out round.

Wouldn't it?

Then you have just a little bit of the same thing, kind of a waterfall there.

So he's hitting in the Grand Canyon!

Back up!

[imitates an explosion] Okay, let's go ahead with just a little bit of the...

I'm taking the shirt color plus some White, and we'll put on the back.

Make it good, Buck!

Don't want a broken bat.

Sometimes what you can do if you take and you put it on, then when you put an outline, it'll make it just a little sharper.

This fellow has a bat as well.

And I'm sort of saving the little dark from the drawing as being part of my outline at this stage.

This continues up.

And a little bit here.

Okay, now what I am going to do is put a little bit of color on the boy, on David.

Let's see, we've got the shirt... let's first do his trousers.

This is black and purple, same thing that we put on the hat.

I'm using a little Walnut Oil just to spread it around a little faster.

You always wonder when you do these shows, one of them is a three-part one.

They are just a little more complicated, and you hope you can do it in the three, and this certainly is going to happen.

When we put this on, you're going to see that some of this is not covered.

But we'll just explain a little bit what we are doing and then how you would blend into it.

I want to make sure that you have a good start on the figures.

This is just a little space between the legs down in this area-- from the knees down.

We'll put some more of this on the shirt.

It helps to have the good drawing ready there for you just follow, just filling in.

Okay, we are coming, we have about 3 minutes left.

Now I want to get some highlight on there.

So this is taking White.

Let's see if I can mix that-- I already have it, but I want to be sure that you get it.

1 White, 1 of the mixture, and 1 of the Blue.

Great!

Did you get that?

1 of the mixture, 1 of he white, and 1 Blue.

Ultramarine Blue.

This will give us the first highlight, the kind of the light part of the shirt.

I really like the way this kind of sneaks in here, and here.

Oh, gosh.

Then the other thing is, on the same color we'll have just a little bit that's right at the belt, comes down a little on the pants... and a little bit over there.

No, I'm just going to say, okay we'll put the dark in there, but I won't do it all.

I want you to see this other mixture on the side.

This is Viridian Green, Burnt Umber, and 1 White.

Equal Burnt Umber and Viridian Green.

So you'd say that mixture and about 1 White.

This will come down all the way, all the way over there.

And we are running out of time, but we are not running out of enthusiasm for this picture.

So next time when we come, we'll be taking this one and going from there.

I think I've given you what you need on this one even though we don't quite finish it.

Why not?

Because we wanted to make sure we had those in.

And I like that.

So I think we are just about ready to say see you next time.

Are we ready to say that?

See you next time!

Bring your own equipment.

We may go extra innings, but we're going to win.

See you soon.

Bye-bye.

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