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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Tim's Vermeer: Tim Paints His Father-In-Law [Watch (HLS stream): Tim's Vermeer: Tim Paints His Father-In-Law](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DFglUHeE.m3u8) (2:02)  _Published 2014-01-29. Tim's Vermeer: Tim Paints His Father-In-Law_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:09 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [He Flew 4,000 Miles to Surprise His Father-in-Law For His Birthday. His Father-in-Law Shot Him Dead](/video/0cHlfeBA/) ### He Flew 4,000 Miles to Surprise His Father-in-Law For His Birthday. 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I'm just gonna apply paint and either darken or lighten the paint until it's the same exact color. At that point, when it's exactly the same color, the edge of the mirror will disappear. All right. And I'm an idiot at this. I have done this process exactly twice in my life before. What I'm doing is I'm moving my head up and down so that I can see first the original and then my canvass. I'm looking at both things at the same time. Right on the forehead, you can see that they're matched because you can't really see the edges in there. That's your clue that you've matched the paint exactly. It's not subjective. It's objective. I'm a human, piece of human photographic film at that point. >> What you're doing here is you're essentially blending? >> Yup. I am either darkening or lightening the paint that's already on the surface. >> You aren't tracing any lines because there are no lines. >> Yeah, that's a characteristic of the Vermeer that makes them unusual as if there weren't lines and there weren't any lines drawn underneath the paint either. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Tim's Vermeer: Tim Paints His Father-In-Law","description":"Tim's Vermeer: Tim Paints His Father-In-Law","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DFglUHeE/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-01-29T21:40:21.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DFglUHeE.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/DFglUHeE/","duration":"PT2M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/DFglUHeE/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```