 Hey good morning. Good morning. What day is it? I think it's day seven of this 100 day of art challenge and it's keeping me accountable and I'm coming into the studio every day. Whether I want to or not but once you start it feels great. So I'm just going to show you how I'm starting my painting sessions and I'm saying this just because I want to check in and then maybe you guys can give me tips on how you start a painting session. I hope you can hear me okay. Let me know if you can't. I'm still learning about this and when you see how I start my painting session maybe that'll help you know how you can start your painting session. So here's how I start. I set out the pieces I'm going to work on. Here's one of them. So this one I started five years ago. Oops. I don't want to finish it. So what I'm doing is I'm adding darks and lights to the dress. That's what I'm doing today and then I might do some pencil sketching. Start doing some pencil sketching. So I have out darks and lights for the dress and then I'm going to add some silver to the shoes. Start doing detail on the shoes and then I think there's going to be part of a world map on this side. Is the plan. So I got the paint out to paint. That's how I do this. Hey everyone good morning. Hope you're having a good Sunday. This one I don't know what I'm... I ordered skin tone paint and none of them seem really... So this is what came in the skin tone paint. So yeah I guess that covers it. They also came with these two like they're... I don't know about those ones for skin tones. What do you think? Oh no that's not from the skin tone. Anyways so I'm just filling this up with skin tones and I'll add some human or something. Now this one it's the Four Seasons with females on them. Copying Alphonse Muka. Hey good morning D. Hi Kathy. Thanks for chatting with me. So I turned them upside down because I'm going to finish painting this first coat of the brown. Again just getting the geometry ready. So I turned them upside down so I can finish that. I also started painting the edges black. See. And so this one's going to be winter. So I'm going to make that blue spring. So it's going to be green. I did that one yellow for summer and then fall I'm doing red. So I got out the paints. I got out the blue. I like I got out some yellow. I got out some reds. Again this is just how I start. It's the setting up process. So this one next is I want to outline this in yellow and then also use the yellow to kind of cut in the proper shape right. And then maybe I'll do some maybe I'll do some sketching with pencil. So I have all the pencil stuff out. So this biggy one I sanded it and some I put the coat of resin on but then the whole thing was kind of lifting up off of the surface which was weird. So I cut little X's in it and I kind of injected glue into it so I'm gluing that down. So that's that that's all for now but then I have to paint the edges black and I have I'm going to add some gold leaf to the crown and the chain. Okay now this one is a really really old one. I just want to keep working on it. So for most of these I'm going to go over with a black Indian ink in a quill pen in the final stage and then resin it. So I'm just going to add I used to say Tesla here but I'm going to make it a blue sky and then I got a yeah that's what I'm going to do today make that a blue sky. So I got out all the blues right and then I have the sketching kit the sketching box here so pencils because I'll go around and I'll sketch today too. So very ambitious day but the day got set aside we had something to do this afternoon and it got cancelled. It got pushed till next week. It's my older brother Nathan. He's he's coming home hopefully he got a brain injury two months ago or so and he's been in the hospital but he's getting so much better so because that got pushed I get to paint today and it's going to be a wonderful day and I'm so happy and we built this studio space like our dream and I haven't been in it I just haven't been in it so this is the first time I'm using the studio space that we made for ourselves anyways day seven of the hundred days of art and when you paint it just feels really good okay I hope you guys make something today too or yeah I hope you make something today too thanks Kathy yeah yeah thanks Kathy he was in the Toronto some big Toronto hospital that has like an ICU for brain injuries but he got moved to a hospital close to his house and he's doing rehab and he's having a baby in a couple weeks which makes it a bit just wild his first his first son is being born within the next weeks or anytime now so we're happy that he's he's back to have his first son holy smokes okay I'll talk to you later everyone thanks for watching and if you have any ideas or opinions or stuff it's nice thank you