 Welcome to Monet Café Artistic Visitors. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and today I'm going to be bringing you a painting that stresses the benefits of quick studies. Often we can loosen up, get more painterly with very quick studies. This one was done in 15 minutes or so and I highly recommend doing these. And if you would like to do some quick studies I recommend painting small, five by seven, six by four, three by five and get a lot of little of those sizes together early on. Go ahead, pick out your reference photos and try to do one a day or a few a day and again, limit yourself in time. I will be providing some commentary at the beginning of this video, but the majority of it is going to be sped up and with some nice music to listen to. I am providing, continuing to provide free videos here on this YouTube channel, but this particular one was done in real time specifically for my patrons. And if you'd like to become a patron on my Patreon page, you can see the link above for five dollars a month. You'll get a little something extra, plus it's a bit more of an intimate group where I can answer your questions more directly. Alright, let's get started. Now I recommend when you do studies to work small, this is a five by seven piece of paper that I have created myself. I also recommend working inexpensively and I do have a video on how to create your own pastel surfaces in eight different ways. This particular piece of pastel paper, I made myself using Art Spectrum Color Fix Primer. It comes in various colors. I coded mine in this particular example with a foam roller to get a very smooth surface. Now you may be familiar that Color Fix is also a pastel paper. So you can buy the papers or you can create them yourself if you like the way I've done here. And you can put it on various surfaces. It can be mat board, gator board. I may have even used the smooth side of a piece of watercolor paper for this particular example. So I hope you enjoy this speed painting demonstration. And I also hope you will try some of these yourselves. I really, really recommend this. And again, this is the speed version. If you would like the real-time version, it is available on my Patreon page at patreon.com slash susanjinkens. Enjoy! I hope you guys enjoyed this video. It was definitely a bright and sunny subject matter. I decided to take the final painting along with many of these little speed paintings. I'm going to try to do a lot more. And I found this neat little window sort of frame at Walmart that has six little openings. All of them are five by seven. And you could choose to do all of your paintings vertical or horizontally if you want to do this. And I just thought it would make for a neat presentation. So I hope you guys enjoyed. Happy painting, and I'll see you soon. Bye!