 Hello guys! Welcome to a new series of videos and collaborations between the Arte Trio, which is myself, Mike Deacon and Bea Grob. Each month we are creating a mood board and then one of us and sharing it with the others and then all three of us will create some sort of journal page or artwork or something inspired by the mood board. I saw this month's mood board and immediately went to a particular place in my head and then I also, and here's the mood board in question, I'll share it with you here and I'll zoom in to it right about here. Mine has, does mine have a misprint on it? Nope, this is the right one, had some misprints. Anyway, I was already attracted to the colors in the mood board and especially the lemons. For some reason they just stuck in my brain but along with the golden-orangey sort of warm, fallish kind of colors of the mood board. Then I went to a concert recently, a kiss concert, a rock and roll band for those that don't know who kiss is. Their opening act was not another band but was the performance artist David Garibaldi. Now if you don't know who he is, I will try to find some YouTube channel or video or something on him and link it down below or at the very least link his website. He is a very talented performance artist and does these beautiful paintings of mostly faces from what I know and suggesting color and light with your warm and cool colors and very abstract free, very messy marks. I don't know that I'm going to get as messy as he does because I am inside and it would go everywhere and I would love someday to be able to do it. But anyway, we are going to be inspired by David and the mood board to create a painting here. I'm going to fast forward through my process. I am going to make notes on the other side and I'm going to glue the mood board over here. That's part of the process that I do with this journal but if you want to know more about that, that's in a different class that I taught with Bea that's over on Vimeo and I will link the Vimeo thing down below somewhere. Alright, so let's get started. I'm going to glue down my mood board and then we are going to get going and I will be back at the end. God was that a lot of fun. I forgot how much fun just suggestive abstracted mark making can be and creating a composition without an intention for realism. I completely lost track of how much fun that would be now. Do I wish I could be messier with my marks and paint with both hands like David Garibaldi does? Yes, but I do love the way this turned out despite that. It was a really fun experiment. I got a lot of inspiration from the mood board for color, shape, texture. Here's the mood board in question and marks and yeah it was a lot of fun. I hope that you experiment with the mood board that you join the RT Trio Facebook group so you can get a copy of it and that you create something interesting and I sure would love if you do join the Facebook group and you create something with the mood board that you share it over there and let us all see. I would love to comment and absorb your art and see the wonderfulness that I know you're going to create. Tag me in the post if you'd like me or one of the other teachers to comment speaking of which their videos are down below so give them some love go watch their videos and like share and subscribe and all of that jazz. If you want any other links for my other Facebook groups, ways to support the free content here on YouTube, links for my Etsy store, all of that is listed in the video description. A lot of it is in the link tree list of links which is down there so check it out and I hope to see it in the next video and I hope to see what you're creating over in the Facebook group. Don't forget to go out and stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative. Go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys!