"Are you telling me you're not a painter, then?" he asks with a smile. It's astonishing, how good she is at distracting him. He reaches down and rights the easel, but turns his back on it and ignores it for the time being, instead moving back across the studio toward Dutch.

He tends toward using charcoal himself, but there's plenty of paint in the studio, since Ed uses it more often than not. Taking a paint brush out of one of the cups and offers it to Dutch.

"Let's see just how bad," he says. "Maybe I can teach you a thing or two."