 Okay, um, I'm thinking just like turn it on and I'm just going to go like off the cuff. Well, I have already been recording, so. Oh, okay. All right, well here we are. Uh, it's Rebecca from Art Reson and I have a confession. I set a goal in January. I feel embarrassed actually doing this right now, but, um, I made a goal to set it that up. I want to paint 52 paintings in 2022 and, um, so far I'm not doing very well. It's May 6th and so far I've done zero. I want to make time for this, so I'm gonna do it. I love to paint is something that really means a lot to me and that's why I made the goal. So I guess I just sort of had a reckoning with myself last week and I was like, am I doing this or not? I gotta get going. I'm gonna bring you guys along for the ride. You're gonna see me make 52 paintings. You know, in December I just, I want to look back and just see that I've, I've been really productive in a way that makes my heart really happy. Let's see what happens. But in the meantime, can I take you on a little tour of my house and you can see some of the work I've done, you know, in the past? Let's do it. Okay. The Little Apple from 2008. The famous cottage cheese and pickle. But we got some flowers in here. You could tell I did this before I had children because I had time to paint the same castle. You know how hard that is. There's lots of stuff downstairs. Do you want to come over here? Sure. Okay. Uh, look at this art. Uh, I won't call that an original concept, but I did paint that. It's a diptych. Nice choice of words. Oh, I like this one. Little portrait of, I don't know, I just made it up. Where are you? Oh, hi. Somebody commissioned this and they needed it like the next day. So I was like, okay, that's a good challenge. And I did it in three hours or less. So like, you know, this goal can happen. If I just make myself do it, I think I can do it. This painting was super fast to make. Like just picture this in like an urban loft somewhere, right? Like here's one that I really want to finish. This is my son with a chicken. How adorable. But I only really did the base coat. You think this is done? That's a lot done. That's a base coat done. Like it needs a whole second coat, dude. That would take me the year. That's the whole point. Like I need to keep doing it because it's easier the more you do it. So there's a cactus. Like I got a whole box full of canvases that are yay big, you know. If we're talking this size, yeah, I'm gonna get that goal tonight. Anyways, you get the point. I got a lot of work. I don't always finish it all. Anyways, it's a bit overwhelming, but it's fun. We probably should establish rules around this whole goal thing, right? Yes. Okay. So the first rule is it doesn't matter what size they are. It could be a really small painting. As long as they're not all that small. Variety is good in this case. Secondly, style. I tend to do a lot of the same stuff a lot of the time, but I'm thinking that if I'm doing 52 paintings, I better do a variety. This is my chance to just play around and do different things. Okay, so style. That's my second rule. Three. If I get inspired to do like a diptych or a triptych or something, I'm calling that two or three and not one. What's the definition of a diptych or a triptych? Well, a diptych is like two paintings that really function as one piece. Yeah. So wouldn't that be one? What if I do like some amazing piece of art to get all inspired and it's like five in a row? What? Like that's going to take me forever and it's going to be one painting? Yeah. No, it's going to be five, Jeff. You got time. I don't have time. Okay, anyway, what else? If the kids want to help, because sometimes they do, they get inspired. When they see me painting, they want to like grab a paintbrush and go. Or like if we just want to work on a painting together for their room or something like that, I think that that counts. Okay. That's nice, right? As long as you have an abandoned painting. And then lastly, I have a lot of abandoned paintings because COVID was very up and down. I would be into a painting, then we got locked down and now my kids home from school and now like I can't paint. If I were to get inspired to finish one of those, that should actually count as one, even though I'm not like technically starting to come scratch right now. Okay, how far along are they? Um, various different levels of completion. If all you're doing is adding like a hat on some dude. A hat. Yeah, I did the whole painting. I just didn't paint his hat. Most of the pieces are like, you know, like I would say like 50% done. So. Okay, reserved to be judged then. Okay, you be the judge. Yeah, okay. All right, cool? Okay, I'm actually really excited to do this.