 Hello artistic friends and visitors and welcome to Monet Cafe. I wanted to make a quick little video many of you guys know I'm out here in Live Oak, Florida to be with my mother during her radiation treatments And I just at first wanted to share some of the beautiful photos of where I am live Oak, Florida is absolutely beautiful where my parents live anyway, and I've got my little Jackson with me So we are loving being with my family right now at this time So here's a little quick video of my setup This is really short, but I thought some of you might like to see my setup where I am and I will be painting soon Hello my art family. Oh, I miss you guys so much But I am so happy to be here in my mom's basement to help her through her radiation treatments And as you can probably tell here, I'm not really roughing it in her basement I don't get the idea of a Dengie dark basement her basement is actually bigger than my house She and my dad have a beautiful home and so I've got it all set up here But I just thought I'd show you guys I've got something with a cable on the floor to kind of keep me from tripping over something But oh, my mom actually has one of my paintings up on the wall here This is actually a reproduction from one of my paintings, but um anyway, it's just a lovely place And I am so happy to be here. Oh, that's some of my boys on the pictures on the wall and Oh, and there's my son Jared Anyway, so I thought I'd show you guys My setup here what I did is I just have two tables that my mom and dad set up for me and The pastels that I brought are first. I have a table easel here just a little table easel I think I got it at like Michaels or something and I have various supplies behind there And I have my Hyalmin box with a very good supply of pastels here I do have a video on how I actually organized this box and put all the colors in place and I have a Another little travel set that I used to put my neutrals in these are all neutrals These are all very dirty right now because they got bounced and moved around those are a lot of Terry Ludwig's and These are new pastels that are harder Then I also brought along my new set of Jiro pastels They're a little bit hard not as hard as new pastels and not as soft as Terry Ludwig's These are kind of a nice in-between pastel so I brought those along with me And I actually also brought along my camera and my light to be able to do some filming if I get the chance My mom is definitely the priority, but you know, I might get a little chance to paint I brought some books and some of the crystal Seal bags if I do any paintings to keep them in I use a different company now I think it's just called clear bags calm I bought papers a few things for underpainting some watercolors clear gesso So anyway, I thought this video might you know give you an idea of how to work on the go and some things that you can bring Of course all this stuff over here is for uploading videos if I need to on my Mac and then my bookkeeping stuff That's my boring other business that I do with my other side of my brain But anyway, so I just thought I'd say hey to you guys let you know that I'm I'm hanging in there. My mom's doing great. She's had a few radiation treatments already and I appreciate your prayers and I also want to say that I'm praying for some of you guys I know some of you guys are going through some things right now with your own family With illnesses and some of you have already lost some loved ones So my heart is very tender for you and and I miss you all but I'm still here and as always happy painting