 Hi everyone. It's day 100. I made it and I have lots to talk about. I'm very nervous but I'm excited to do this. So what I did is I I did a test. I've been so anxious and I know a lot of people have. And I wanted to see if making our art helped with mental health. So I made art every day for a hundred days and this is my final project for day 100. So here's what I'm going to do. So I have this all set up. Why make art? So underneath each of these is a piece of art that I made and then something that I that a little thought about why you might want to make art. Now if I get I'm scared I'm gonna get emotional. I'm scared I'm gonna tear up or I'm not gonna be able to speak. And so I have a plan. If that happens I'm going to cut away to these baby chicks just to look at while I gather my composure. I have my friend Summer in here as well if we need to take a break. Thank you Summer. And then I thought Ted was in here but I guess he left. I wish Ted was here. Rebecca can you please bring Ted here? Okay let's just go. So a hundred days of making art and I felt I used this book Healing with the Arts. It's a 12-week program and I'm on the last part of it. So just get you making art. And the last part is your final presentation. So this was really helpful for me. Another book that's really helpful is this one The Artist's Way. It's the same thing. It's a 12-week program that gets you making art. This one and this one. So I highly recommend those books. Okay I'm just gonna start. Here we go. So the first one. Why make art? Let's see what we got here. So why make art? So this is a piece. How about I talk about the idea that I talk about the piece? It's okay if you do. Oh thanks. S-M-P-T-E color bars. Can you see my hands shaking? Okay. So why make art? So making art consistently makes you be around more art. Around art more often. And art is nice to be around. I mean that's kind of obvious. But it is. If you make art you're around art more and it feels nice to be around art. So you know that's something positive. We're looking for nice feelings right. So this is Biggie Smalls. One of my favorite wrappers of all time. He's just so freaking cool. I'm slowly introducing my children to him. But he's so dirty. Anyways it was just fun to play with color. And this one just was a... this was almost like an... I don't know. This one isn't original. Just fun. Right? Okay number two. So far so good. So this piece. Alright this is another one I was just starting out. Again it just was fun. I was just getting going. Lots of color. Okay here's another reason to make art. It feels really good when you wake up in the morning and look at a piece of art that you just finished the day before. Yeah. Again we're just looking for good feelings. So I woke up in the morning and I saw a piece of art that was done the night before and it felt so good. It felt so good. So that's something right. This piece is just kind of make it up as you go type thing. There's some tape on there. I'll get later. Just acrylics on wood panel. That one's just acrylic and glitter and gold on wood panel. Okay moving on. Next. This one says why make art? Ah this one. Here we are. So why make art? The world needs more art right now. I don't know. I think that's kind of true. So you can clearly see what this was about. This is actually a world map underneath. I mean this was just what's going on. The whole frickin world wore masks for a couple years. Okay. So these are just wood panel masks and art resin. This is acrylic, some ink, resin, and a real mask. Okay next. Why make art? Okay. So making art gives your brain something else to think about. So what's next on the thing I'm making? I would I woke up in the morning and instead of the brain you know going to worrying or problems the brain goes to I'm working on that piece. What do I do next? So to me that's good. So this piece was from a project in this book Healing with the Arts and the idea was to draw or make a make a piece of art that shows art and healing like colliding or something like that. So that was my idea. One of them was supposed to represent art. One of them is supposed to just represent healing and then this. So that's actually paper. I printed that out and I put it on paper over top of ink and acrylic and then resin. Okay. This is going okay. Thanks Joanne. I know I like that piece too. Okay next. Why make art? So this is two pieces that kind of go together because they got circles of different colors. So this is just more of an idea. Your imagination can be your worst nightmare or your greatest superpower. What you are thinking about impacts how you feel. So yes I noticed very clearly if you are in the studio if you're making art your imagination is thinking about things you can create. If you're not making art if you're stuck in your head you know making up things to worry about. So yeah making art gets you out of that headspace. Oops and so this piece I started it like 20 years ago maybe. See this was me working at a desk and then working but something was starting to kind of bubble and then it just explodes out and like that and I never knew what to put in this circle but then I found the gold and so I like the idea that if you do what you love you will be greatly rewarded. That's a quote from Brandon Boyd of Incubus was my favorite band back in the day. Okay and then I found Biggie Smalls. So yes and this is just playing with color. It's just fun to start putting color on a canvas. It's a good way to start. You don't have to have an idea. Just pick nice colors that you're like oh that's a nice color. Okay next why make art. Okay so we are what we repeatedly do. Who are you? So this was this is two pieces together. Again this one was I didn't have a plan just play with colors put color on stuff. It's just a good place to start and then this one is if you go at least the eye doctors I've gone to is when you look in this machine to test your vision you focus on this image and you want to see the house so but then I also like the idea of focus. You know do less things but do them really well. Too many things so we are what we repeatedly do. I'm now an artist because I make art right. Let's check in here. I'm gonna take some breaths. Summer she loves these chicks. So my daughter look at these. We got them from the dollar store. They adorable. We just cut bigger doors in it. They have a house. The problem is they're gonna grow up into chickens and then I gotta figure out what to do with the chickens. I had to irritate all my chickens because of Fox discovered our yard and was picking them off. The Hawks were picking them off so okay good problems. Let's continue. I'm gonna take a quick water break. I wish you could play music during your two lives a lot during the YouTube lives. What I'm working in here I just have music playing lately a lot of the Wu Tang clan. It's just so hard. I watched the Wu Tang docu series on Disney Plus and it made you realize how desperate they were to make it work and it makes the music just really cool. Wu Tang. Okay let's go. So this one is just something. No I'll do that one second last. Alright this. Why make art? Don't be scared. Okay so this is because once you start making art you can keep going. It's just like if you start going to the gym or exercising. Once you start and like get in the habit then I'm gonna keep making art. I'm gonna keep making art. So that's a good thing about making art. It not only has like moments in life where you feel good but you also get to keep doing it and then it can become who you are. Okay this is so this is just to show you that I have lots of pieces that are unfinished but I'm working on them. I'm excited to. I've been working on this one since the start. The idea came from Alphonse Muca. He's my favorite artist and he did this called The Seasons. I mean of spring, summer, autumn, fall and so I made the canvas is the same size as his and just doing that idea but we'll see what happens. So I'm putting summer away in the fall I'm only gonna work on fall in the winter I'm only gonna work on winter etc etc so I'm gonna hide the hide this one soon so I don't look at it until next summer. But then in the end they'll all work together because I have the generic the background you know all matching. So in a couple years these ones are gonna be so good. Okay this one gained probably 20 years old in the making and it's getting really close to being done. I just need to know what goes in that top circle above that creature's head. Then just that one starting working from this reference. Okay next moving on. This is great. I thought it'd be blubbering and crying the whole time. Okay so this one is just says Rebecca made this for me I think this message. When I started this she made these letters already good for me so I put them on the sign and I'm gonna put it up somewhere obvious. It's tacky, fricking tacky, but it's a message. And thanks Rebecca for getting me to do this. That's who Rebecca is right there. Okay I have one last thing to do. I'm going to pour resin on a very special piece. It's tacky as heck but it's a message right? So I mixed up some resin here. While I stir I'm gonna show you these things that Rebecca made which I think are good. I really like the message. Where there's passion there's quality. No creative effort is ever wasted. I like that idea. Creativity rewards us all. People who make things make things better. Jump in let go trust yourself. Alright just gonna keep stirring. This is my references board so I collect stuff here. Before this stream I put M&Ms lose yourself on obviously to pump myself up. Okay this is a so I wrote this book all these new socks so I've made this piece of art to plan out different to sock designs for this. I'm gonna stir it for just a couple more minutes. So overall some days I think I already good for mental health. Some days I don't think it makes any difference at all. Which I think is just what life is. Some days are the best. Some days are the worst. But just keep moving. Keep moving. Having those baby chicks is a really nice thing in life too. It's helpful to just surround yourself in like nice things. I'm so thankful for having kids because they get you playing right? Okay almost done this. Okay three more seconds of stirring. Some of us watching the chicks. I'm stirring a bit more. Well this is really helpful too. Just having this around because then you're like oh what other colors are there in the world? Sometimes you just don't know. This one these are all the actual notes why make art. So those are the notes that ended up turning into all this to make the final project. Alright 30 more seconds. I have one more artist tip. Something that I really like. So my favorite tools are I save like all different size circles. Just to find circles you save them. You only need to trace the circles. And then tools like this are awesome. Big and hold them draw lines. Those are some good tools. Anyways my hope for doing this 100 days is that I did it for me to help myself. But then I'm like if I can just get someone else there to start painting that'd be really cool. So please let me know if you started painting because of this. Because that's what I was trying to do. Make a case that it feels good and that's actually what you should be doing. Because it's what you did when you were a kid. And it's all that you really want to do and it's what makes you really happy. But you're not doing it. You might be happy to start doing it. Okay I've stirred enough. I always just over stir because I'm nervous. All right can I have a drum roll please? Semmer. So this is the main thing that happened from 100 days. Remember who you are. Some music playing. Hey babe. Hi Rebecca. I'm almost done. Oh there's Ted. Thank you for coming Ted. Where's the spreader? What do you think Bex? I did it. I freaking did it Bex. I did it. I know. It is important to note that I wasn't making art before doing this. All right. I know. Do you mind holding the camera? Thank you. You're the one who... Sure. So why did you suggest to me to do a 100? You said David made me to do a 100 day art challenge. You said that to me. Why are you saying that? Because you were so unhappy and art makes you feel good but you don't prioritize it because you think that it's... I don't know. Not work or... Stop it. Come on man. Come on man. Here. Here. Don't hold them with your resin gloves. Don't try this at home people. I just think that yeah it's something that makes you feel productive makes you feel happy. You kind of get lost in it. You get out of your head for a little bit maybe. And I thought that you needed that. Thank you. I should make art for 100 days. I think you should do a 100 day challenge. Maybe you'd like to finish up something. I think that you should do it 15 minutes in a week. Bex? Yeah. Sure. Camera ball. I'm going to save you a bit of rain. All day. I don't think you're going to drop my balls. Yes. I would love to use this art studio that we built for making art. I also think that sometimes the art process helps you to have insights that you wouldn't have had otherwise. Right? It's like when you travel sometimes just being out of the norm gives you a different perspective. And I feel like art kind of brings you out of your norm. Like you're... Yeah. Like it brings you out of your... Whatever your daily whatever is it's... Dave you're freaking me out holding that dog like that. Really? Yeah. I made this one for you, Bex. What does it say? It's just that you don't have power for that you all are. Not to fail. Let everybody fail. I made my fortune where I will nothing to start with. Buy myself my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure I will start in the beginning to build up a norm. I just want you to know I was drawing here. Thanks for the waterfall, Vince. She's so exhausting. Okay, I'm going to torch this man over there. Okay. Teddy, come on. Teddy, come on. Pass me the dog. Or the dog? No, I don't. That's where we draw the line. Summer, can I have one of those, please? Summer, leave it. I guess you already showed this chick house to everybody? Of course. Speaking of work of art. Amazing. Okay. Good torch and then let's sign off. Okay. Okay. Who it is? And who it is? Summer. Good girl. Leave it, Summer. Thank you, everybody, for all the long and thank you for all the nice comments from people. And thank you for watching. And I hope that you make something. Bye. Good job, babe.