 Good morning. It's day three of the 100-day challenge. Thanks for everyone who's doing this with me. It motivates me to keep going knowing that you guys are doing it, so thank you. I hope that I can motivate you. Today, I don't feel like making art. It's only day three and that happens, I guess, but I'm just gonna do stuff and I just want to just a reminder that as you paint every day for a hundred days while none of us know what it's gonna do to us, there's just a bunch of theories and then from experience and the goal is, I guess the goal is if you're feeling anxious or depressed can making art every day help with that. So and last time I did this, it helped tremendously. I was shocked and this time I don't know what will happen, but this is what Rebecca painted yesterday. Look it. This is what Rebecca painted yesterday and it makes me so sad, but it makes me so happy. So because I just want, Rebecca's my wife, I just want her to be so happy and she usually is, but she is an artist and she needs to paint every day and I'm so happy that she is going to. Okay. I got nothing else to say. I'm just gonna walk around and show you my process, what I'm thinking of doing today and maybe that can help you know what you're gonna do today. I'm reading all the comments in school to see what people are doing. I hope I can see the art soon. We'll figure that out. Okay. So one thing I'm doing is I'm looking at this book a lot. The power of limits. Proportional harmonies in nature, art and architecture. So it's the idea of, you know, things in nature and then the math of its growth and then plotting it and making beautiful shapes. You know, the human body proportions. Of course this, that's my wedding ring, see? Rebecca made that for me. So there's one shape I really love. I'm gonna be adding it to things. Where's this shape? Kind of like that. This one is just such a beautiful shape. Oh snowflakes, I need that. Okay, see what just happened? See what just happened? I need snowflake references. It's perfect. I realized all snowflakes have six sizes. So I plotted it out yesterday on here. See? There's gonna be a snowflake there. Six sides. This is a win called winter. This was a big win yesterday. So see the big circle there and then there's a little circle. I made this circle of her butt. Be perfect with here and here. So I'm working, again, I'm trying to work with proportions and geometry. So that one's cool. Now this one, I'm trying to work in this new shape that I found. Where is it? I can't find it right now, but Kind of like that. And it's very similar to that, this shape that's happening. Now I made this painting after I found, see I found, do you see this? I found this in a magazine, right? And I was like, oh that's beautiful. And so that's what I have so far. Okay. Okay, to get that magazine image on to the wooden canvas, I only use wooden canvases. Wood. I used this thing. Isn't it great? We had a friend suggest this. I don't know if this is the best one, but it works okay. So you can, you can take an image from your iPad. That's what I've done and then project it, right? So using a projector is great to get proportions right. Okay, what else? So this one, I, I don't know, I'm messing it up. I started cutting back the feet and reshaping and I'm trying to fix the shoulders. So I'm kind of just covering up the things I don't like so I can sketch again and figure it out. I also have these, these books are helpful and you collect them over the years making art. You know, I probably got these books 20 years ago or something and they're just coming out again. They've been dusty 20 years, but look at you know, what are the building blocks of drawing a good foot? Right? Look at these shapes. So these kind of books are super helpful. All right. Okay. So that's one thing I'm doing is learning how to draw feet because I've never, I've never really tried really hard to draw feet. I just find them difficult. So I'll share some feet drawing tips. So this is another piece. So this is a piece I probably did 20 years ago and it's not finished yet, but now I know what to do. I'm gonna match it up with this piece. So I'm gonna take these really bright colors and add the bright colors into here and then I'm gonna make the white gold and I'm gonna put something up in there and then I have a really tall hallway. I'm gonna put going down the stairs. I'm gonna put this like that one on top of the other because it kind of tells a story. This is when I first met my wife and she walked towards me. Kind of, but then I have an idea for up here. Rebecca did this one. She actually made it a rooster and I like it. I didn't see it as a rooster. I liked it this way. So anyway, she said I can play with this one now, so I'm gonna do some more to it, but I just like the looseness of those, right? I don't know what that is. Alright. Yeah, I don't know what else to say. We're gonna see what happens when we make art every day for 100 days and keep doing it even when you don't feel like doing it. When you don't feel like doing it paint your edges black or put a back base coat on the canvas or whatever you're doing. I'm just painting a lot, but whatever you do, whatever you do, even like setting up and organizing your space should count as time because you've got to spend a lot of time organizing and cleaning. So that should count as time, I think. I don't know. 15 minutes of actually being creative is the goal. Alright, and just so you know, before I did the 100 days of art, I wasn't making any art. I wasn't making any art. Life, I was too busy. I was too busy and scared. And I painted every day for 100 days and now I wake up early, excited to make art. Sometimes not every day, but I wake up and I'm thinking like, oh, I'm gonna do that today. And that's amazing to have back in your life. So that's the reason. That's one of the reasons I'm I'm suggesting you do this. Okay. One other thing, I want to show you one of my favorite tools. And I just got this at an art store. It wasn't expensive. Like big like drafting tools. Like this is so handy if you need to make a straight edge or just big lines. Like it's great. And then these, I love these too. Just circle makers of all different sizes. Super handy. Okay, onwards. Happy 2024. I feel really optimistic about 2024 for everyone. I really, really do. Well, whatever happens, we can enjoy the ride. Bye, everyone. I hope you're making something.