 Hello my friends, this is Susan Jenkins here in Monet Cafe, and I'm talking softly because I've been trying to sneak away and paint all day. Have you ever had that happen when you just really want to paint but just life gets in the way and there's too much going on? So I have the door closed in my studio here, and I just quickly picked something off of paint my photo. Like I've shared before, save up some of the photos so that when you get that artistic urge you're just ready to go. So I'm like, all right, I like this photo. That's a really cool photo. And what I did is I just picked a palette. I tried to pick a few things that were more of the neutral palette and use a lot of those and just sparingly use some of the colors that make things pop. And what I'm going to be doing is using kind of my one of my standard surfaces that I use a lot, which is the it's just matte board. You could use gator board, matte board, any kind of board that's you know good for for art. And I did my prepared surface with my fluid acrylics. You can look at the other video to see how I did it, but it does have the sanded surface so that it's good for pastels. And what I'm also going to be doing this time is I'm going to be doing kind of a value painting. I've done this before with my color fix primer. This also has a like a tooth to it and some grit, which is good for pastel painting. This is the terracotta color. Again, this is a technique that I've borrowed from Rita Kirkman. She does it so well, but I don't need much of it. So I actually just kind of have the little top of it that's got some on it. And I'm going to be using a little sponge brush and a regular brush to apply it as a value study. But I'm not going to talk a lot in this one. I just kind of want to paint and enjoy. I may also experiment and try. I have one of the acrylic inks here. I think it is probably Bethany Fields. I learned this from and I haven't even done it very much, but I may do the dark darks of those tree trunks over there with some of this afterwards. I don't know. I've never combined all of this before. So who knows? We'll give it a shot. So anyway, I hope to just relax and paint and have fun. And as always, I hope somebody learns something because I certainly always do. All right, guys. Enjoy. I know I'm going to. Here we go.