 Hi everyone, my name is TJ and welcome to the ACMI Artist Painting Challenge. Each artist will take a blue bin of paint colors of their choice to paint this radiant sunset. Artists use your creativity. Mixing of paint colors is encouraged. An exact likeness is not expected, so after 15 minutes our special panel of judges will announce the winning artist. For our contestants we have JB, ACMI's news director. He's also a professional artist. Karen, an ACMI member who is writing and producing a short film. And Sol, an ACMI intern who loves editing. And now to introduce our judges, Katie and Joanne. You will have 15 minutes from the time of the bell. Grab your paint colors and aprons and begin. On your mark, get set, paint. Can it be all white? It's just my interpretation. Well, we have three things we're judging for. Creativity. Wow, this is great. Look at that. That's like a Rothko. Vibrancy and originality. Yes. Sky's the limit. You can be as creative as you want. Was that a ruler? He's getting his horizon lined in. They got rulers over there. Is that allowed? It must be rulers there. I see a ruler. Karen, you have a ruler. That's Sol's technique. You see that, right, Karen? J.B., oh, what? Karen, she has a ruler. Oh, yeah. A triangle there. Yes. Do you see your ruler, Karen? Yes. Right behind your camera. On the right hand side. There you go. J.B., you have your ruler? Nothing wrong with that. Maybe he doesn't want his ruler. He might be going abstract. No ruler allowed. Oh, he doesn't mean it. It's freehand. All right. This is professional. He's also, J.B., decided to not get his apron. Interesting choice. Interesting choice. No apron for J.B. Deep in concentration. It's going to be covered in paint after this. That's fine. Just challenge. That's the point. I think so. Oh, there's the first color. Look at that technique. Jeff Varn with that swish and swish of the paintbrush. I don't know. I don't know about that. So can they interfere with each other? Is that allowed? Hey, did you have a challenge? A bit. Yeah. Have you heard that describing the rules? Exactly. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Did we not count a whole gallery? Yeah, right downstairs at the Cutter Gallery right now. Very fine quotes at the Dallam Museum and Cutter Gallery. Oh. Will your finished products be on display in the Cutter Gallery? I don't know. I don't think so. I'll let you know. I'll see how this turns out. We'll send them the video and then they'll be convinced. Yes. Am I in my snuffier camera shots? I don't think she's in here. I'm feeling a little left out. I would like to paint as well. Wait, we can draw. Can we do a painting but we won't judge it? Of course we'll win. That's probably one. Are there any more canvases? Oh, look at you with the drip effect. What are you, Paula? What? Well, certainly for speed, I'd say JB's doing pretty good. But, you know, the story of the tortoise and the hare. Keep that in mind. Karen is carefully selecting her colors. Slow and steady. You know what they say. Isn't there a saying that he wins the race? That's it. I never understood why the fox is always antagonized. Or the antagonizer. Nobody likes foxes. They don't pay their taxes. Oh my goodness. Foxes are tax exempt. Wow, the time is going. It's taken by. I do like what I see from Soul right now. I can't explain it. But Karen's like color matching is pretty on point though, I must say. For the original. Compared to the original. Contestants, I think you have ten minutes left. The third of the way through. But really, I'm not impressed by any of these. This is all. This is all we got. I'm waiting to see something impressive. I'm not impressed. I could do better. Come on. You could do better than this. What are they doing? I don't know. Whatever they do. Simon Cowell. I have to wait for the reveal at the end. That's what falls the studio. Karen, how are you doing? Tough to say. It at least resembles something. Where's Cheryl? Who's Cheryl? The producer. The brainchild. She's getting some behind the scenes videos, I believe. Oh, I see, okay. I think she's very impressed. Yeah, she's nodding her head. Which is more than I can say. Get those colors going. Look at the camera. We can see something. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of an algae looking. Water there, JB. I'm sorry? It's kind of algae looking. It's his impression of a child's river, I guess. Or the mystic. That overflow. I'm inspired. I'm calling this first grader does sunset. I'm inspired. I think I'm going to take up some painting. There you go. You and me both. Do we know what kind of paint this is, guys? acrylic. It was oil, we'd be here for three months. I think souls blend in colors really well. From what I can see. We're down six minutes. Over halfway. Six minutes. Have you done any painting at all in your life? Yes. Joanne, yeah. Does the bedroom count? The bedroom counts? Sure. I painted the bedroom, I painted the kitchen. And toenails once in a while. Oh, sure. I did these. They're coming off, but it counts as painting. Yes, it counts. I painted my bathroom once a couple years ago. What color? A gray. A nice light. Gray, I believe. But I've since moved, so now I want to have to paint again. The only thing I don't like about the subject is I can't paint a happy little bush. Why can't you? That's your interpretation. I can't add anything. Oh, well, I see green, so who says the green isn't bushes? What does he say? Happy little accidents. Happy little accidents. That's what life is. I like that. It's a toss. You got three minutes. Three minutes. Three minutes, 50 seconds. Da Vinci had 20, at least. You guys have all pretty much filled your canvases. Oh, you do gray? Oh, that's what you're saying. Yeah, back and forth. In cap issues? I couldn't get the paper out. It's been rigged, Karen. It's been rigged against you. It's really good. You went Pollock. Very cool. Oh, one minute. Yeah, less than a minute. 30 seconds. Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Paintbrush is down. Good job, everyone. Gosh, these judges were abusive. Oh, that tore my paintbrush. Man. I'm telling. Is there any way, can you guys like, lift him? Because there's like a glare. I don't want them to drip or get. Okay, so maybe she's moved to here. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I don't know if I know. They're looking serious. What about this one? Yeah, okay. I think. I think we got it. I don't know. So I think we've just decided you guys can put your paintings back down. And so, thank you. At this point, do we give out? I think first, do we want to hear a little a story about tell us about your painting. Let's start with JB. Tell us about your painting. What inspired you? What happened throughout the course of these 15 minutes? Yes, the sun inspired me. What I wanted to do was I wanted to, since we only had a time constraint. Time constraint. Yes. I don't want to repeat myself. You're a judge. You're trying to get on your good side. It's going to be tough. Keep talking. No, since we had a time constraint, I figured I'd eliminate the rate and I didn't have a chance to blend the sky in here. I wanted to kind of do like a pink sky at night sunset. And instead of the race, I figured I'll do the clouds. Throw in some birds, you know, class AVs. And then kind of do a a Van Gogh blend like sun with a very Homer-like rough sea. So I figured what I would do is I would, instead of the lines and everything else of the stratification, if you will. Yes. And I will. I'll tell you what I do as a rough sea. Very creative. Very creative choices. Very creative. We've heard you. My general inspiration actually came from a little experience I had driving back from Framingham. It was pouring out rain. It was near dusk twilight even. And because of where the sun was and how just the general positions and stuff, almost dark, and yet you could see this striking rainbow that was just in the sky. And it was genuinely fascinating to me that just stark contrast. So I wanted to emulate that through the blues and the purples and such. I also noticed since they gave us gloves, I wanted to try to make a fun effect with them. With the water and stuff. It was a 50-50 on the texture but I think it gave a lot of depth to the water. It doesn't look much like water but it certainly gave a lot of color and texture to that and I'm actually quite happy with it. The rays sort of came in as a nice little contrast to that blend and that was mostly what I was going for and what I was hoping to see. I also like the intense hot light you have in the center there as you slowly diminish the light and go from yellow to orange. Very nice touch. From light to like a salmon color. Very impressive. For mine the first thing that inspired me was the sky. I wanted to create a galaxy feel where it's just the sky and somehow interpret the sun in there but something got lost a long way. I ended up making sort of a green sun but that didn't look right so then I just made it kind of a fiery red sun. The bottom is supposed to represent the sun somehow to get the top as well. Yes. Thank you for sharing Karen. Thank you very much for sharing. And thank you artists. You took us through a whirlwind of 15 minutes. Highs and lows, up and downs. I was anticipating the outcomes seeing how you all started up and how it ended. The colors that you chose and the techniques that you used, I found it very interesting. It's very creative. Your story is very inspiring. Yes. We're lining up our awards now and we have conferred with each other. It wasn't easy because as we were watching it unfold we thought we had it figured out well this is this and this is this then it wouldn't finish it's like no, this one is more this and that one is more that and that one is more the other. So the long and the short of it is for creativity creativity creativity. Last you'd come up to receive your award for this is what I was trying to focus on for creativity creativity creativity creativity take a shot at the time for creativity the sun's going down now we have Jeffrey Barn yes creativity you may approach the desk thank you thank you judges thank you I want to thank my mother I want to thank my dad I get to do the next one yes and for for a virus we present this award for a virus to Karen so vibrant so vibrant and last but not least for originality so and now the overall award for best story did you know there was a best story award? best story award and the explanation or presentation of their painting goes to so you talk about the drive to I believe framing him and the thank you all this has been an amazing experience and you have been watching the ACMI artist painting challenge thank you for joining us today artists judges and crew I'm TJ and we will see you next time take care see you next time bye