 Hey everyone, it's day 21 of the 100 day art challenge. Thank you to everyone who's doing it along with me. It motivates me to keep going and doing these check-ins is helpful for me to explain what I'm doing and set things up. It keeps me making art too, so great. So just a reminder, the point of doing this is to feel good. We want to just make art every single day so that we feel good, okay? Relieve anxiety, relieve depression. That's the goal of making art, for me anyways. And I did it before and it worked, it worked. So I'm doing it again and inviting other people to do it and lots of people seem to be doing it. So it's very cool. So today I'm just gonna show you what I'm up to. I'll talk while I'm going around. So one thing that you don't see when you see art made online is how much cleaning and prep work and getting samples and sourcing materials and setting up and just cleaning. That seems to be like most of the work. So I've been doing that for like three days and that's been my creative time. I cleaned for my creative time. And set up, for example, I have some hair references, the style of hair I wanna do by Elphan's Mutia. So I can start building that into these ladies' hairs. And then I was sketching, I took a photo of it and I printed it and sketching on top. So I have lots of great ideas there, references. Like I like the way this hand is drawn. I'll play around with that. So I'm just putting stuff out, that'll be helpful. And then just some geometry, right? Adding in some geometry in places. What else? This one. Hi, Zoe. How are you? Zoe spends a lot of time in here too. So this one, I'm gonna put these colors, these colors, use that palette and put it up this one and then go from there. So I printed off that as a reference, right? That's a helpful step. Helpful, get references, let it sit for a bit. Clean up. Now this one, we started at Rebecca and I maybe like 20 years ago. And I've always wanted to put pigeons on it because her dad loved pigeons. So I'm making this one for Rebecca. It's gonna be great. My name's David and I wanna do something with David and Goliath because that's what I was named after. Hi, Zoe. Zoe's been doing collage, right? Oh yeah, so good. So collage is fun. This, this is a great book that Zoe got for Christmas. So getting something like this is helpful. It's just all sorts of things you can cut out and use for collage. There's lots of things like that. So then some collage I'm doing is like this, like that's from a magazine cut up and then I'll paint over top of it and just keep working on it. Hey, Zoe, I'm just doing a live video and showing the art. Look at this one, so I found this old frame and this was an old background and then I got this photo. And so I'm starting to build the collage. I'm thinking she'll have like, she's gonna be taking off, there'll be like smoke here or something billowing smoke. Not great. I got this from Instagram, a ballet company's Instagram. So I completely stole it from them. It's so beautiful. What else? Okay, this one is coming up. So I researched this, I love this shape and there's a lot of math to it. So I'm trying to incorporate that in here. So I kind of did the math and taped it up. See these orange lines too? So now I gotta start adding the ink and the color. It's gonna be so good. And then this big one, I did this person but I don't like it. So I covered that up and I'm just, I like something like this. I don't know. I did pink and orange because Zoe, I saw something in yours that had pink and orange and I was like, wow, pink and orange look really nice together and I never thought that before. Okay, then this one I'm gonna start building up. And I like this reference or see the size of the profile of the face? I'll start building that up in there and even like how the fabric hangs loose, you know? I'll use that reference to give the fabric some shape, figure out the hair. Then these ones, this used to be one painting but now it's gonna be all these paintings together in a tall stairwell. So I'm gonna, this one's a lot brighter. So I'm gonna start adding in those colors into this one and then do something here. So I painted that edge black so it kind of, it all feels the same size. Is that everything? This is just kind of like a throwaway canvas. Just add color randomly when you don't know what to do. References, I don't know. These are gonna be four flowers. That's a message to myself. There's another message to myself. Oh, and then, yeah, the hair, right? No funds, mucca, hair, mucca. Okay, I hope you're making art. And I think it's fair to say that if you're cleaning up your art space and setting up for your next round of painting, then that counts as art time, I think so. Yes, well look at this, this is a Bob Ross hair. Bye everyone, I hope you're making art.