 Oh my gosh, I'm going to be too... I'm going to be too busy, Nyesha. Are you ready? I don't know if you're ready yet. Wifi phone Facebook at Y24 channel onto the hashtag is what in the morning. My name is Valentine or at Color Me That. I'm going to be too busy. BAM! Okay. Yeah, look what to stick preview. So, it's Monday and we have my Crush Monday coming up. We're talking about the festive season and perhaps maybe anybody who feels that it's not really something to be festive about. Please do get on that conversation. Again, Wifi phone Facebook at Y24 channel onto the hashtag is what in the morning. I can smell Christmas from where I'm sitting guys and it smells good. Okay. Yes. Karibusana, welcome to our first segment. We have an artist in the house. Hi. Hi. Thank you. I'm Fabbish. Fabbish? Yeah. Why are you sounding so husky and then suddenly all romantic? No, I'm good. I'm okay. Yeah. I will spell your name first so that they understand. Okay. My name is Fabbish. F-A-B-I-S-E-H. Why do you have so many consonants? Okay. I think maybe when my dad was getting me he loved football so much. So, he named me after the 1995 coach that was Reina Fabbish. Okay. Yeah. Are you going to Wanyamas? I'm a up and down talent here. Actually, one funny thing. I don't love football. Really? I'm not even a fan. That's such a cool. I don't know what that is. That's I already. That's what it is because you're named after a coach but you have no... Okay. But let's get into something that you love to do. I see a lot of things here. I see a picture here of auntie. She looks nice, very nice, smiling. Do you remember the names of all the people you draw by the way? I do. Yeah. What's her name? That's Celestine. She's doing this movie called... How do you call it? It's on Maisha Magik. That girl Celina. If you watch Celina. I clearly do not partake in television but it's right here next to me on my right. It looks very nice. So, how long does she have to sit still? How many pictures do I have to prepare? Okay, fine. Sometimes I do things based on what I say. Like the Celina movie. It's so nice and I love it. So, from there the character who enticed me was in the movie with Celina. So, that's why I did that portrait. I see. It's like paying homage. Alright, we have another lovely lady over here. What's her name? Okay, that's Cindy. See? Cindy. Hi, Cindy. You look nice. Yeah, so when I was doing that portrait, Cindy sort of means a lot to me. She sort of changed some things in my life and she's made me learn a lot of things too. So, that's why I did that portrait. Oh my gosh. I'm telling you, I'm quite liking your inspiration. It's making me happy. And there's another one here I would like to know what inspired you. As if, nameless. Baby, you inspire me. Name a queen's father. Okay. There's this thing we call going to the extreme, pushing yourself as an artist. That's Snoop Dogg. Maybe when somebody says that portrait, he just says whatever Snoop Dogg is doing. But for me, when I see it, I see something different. What do you see? I see shades. Okay. It's shades. And one crazy thing about the picture that I loved most was, I wanted to say, could they really draw smoke using a bio-open? So yeah, that's the main reason why I did that portrait. This is a bio-open. That's big. That's big. That's big. I just had to make sure. Crystal. So you, while you hold a big, you can do this. Yeah. And I like the stubble. Like you're so in touch with detail. Wow. Thank you. Okay. All right. There we go. Snoop Dogg Dogg doing his thing. Guys, Snoop. Just add us on White Faithful channel on Twitter. Thanks. Yeah. You look nice. Moving on swiftly. I see two children over there. And I can tell the identity by their hair. Tell us about that one. Okay. This one friend I met once right here through White Faithful. Oh my gosh. Ecuador. This guy is somebody who really promotes fellow artists. He's so inspiring. He's got so much of very nice advices. And I just did that as a souvenir for Echo. And I think I should be delivering that portrait when I get out of this place. Ah, yeah. So it's hot. Like you meant to talk about what's going on. Not really. Now it's quaver. It's been out for. It's been out for. No, I've been frank, but he knows about it. So I should be dropping it to him. Oh wow. Can I sign my name on it so that he knows it passed through White Faithful? It's okay. He will. Look at his face. All right. I see Avril right next to you. Ah, what inspired you there? Okay. For Avril, maybe she gives me flashbacks about somebody. And that's one. And another thing. Another thing in the main reason why I did Avril was because of the movie Two Different Worlds, World's Top 40. Yeah, there's this movie she did. And it was about the ghetto life and the suburb life. And it's totally one of the best things that I love about Kenyan movies. The first time I saw Avril acting was in sugar. I have never been impressed like that. I did not know Avril could act. That girl can act. Exactly. So Two Different Worlds showed me something different. About Avril, her health, how she carried out herself. She's humble and at the same time, asked to be somebody she's not. So another good thing when I did this portrait, she really gave me quite a shout out. And thanks to Avril, whatever she is, because I think that month was one of my good months with being at. And it's her baby's first Christmas of really having a good year also you. Alright, so one other picture that caught my eye before we get to your tools of trade is this one. So we have what looks like a, is this a wine glass? Here it is. Yes? The stem is looking like a wine glass stem. And then there is a shark in there. Why is there a shark? What are you trying to tell me here? Okay, I hope KBL won't sue me for this. But the main reason why I did that wine glass and a shark in it was because I was trying to maybe reach out to fellow Kenyans who do too much of drugs and they drink a lot of alcohol. Trust me, any time we are taking in alcohol into our body, it purely eats us from the inside because this is the point where you find somebody suffering from live as a horses. And with that portrait, I think for anybody who sees that portrait and understands it the way I do. Oh, actually. Won't really be an addict of alcohol. Can I burst your bubble a little bit? The first time I saw it I just thought, wow, it looks so cool. I can see the fins on the shark. It has teeth. Oh my gosh. But what does it mean? That's the first reaction I had. Yeah, so art has so many different things. When you see any piece of art, it must always have a clue. It makes me admire Da Vinci's work a lot because any time you follow about Da Vinci's creations, something always pushed him to do it. Yeah. Me, they started the code, Siegfried Da Vinci code, and I gave up on anything and all things Da Vinci. Like I'm tired. But here we are. Okay. So we have a little more goodies of pictures, but we want to focus on what he uses. What am I looking at? Me now have two pencils that I can use. I don't have any pencils. Okay. Walk me through this. What's going on here? Yeah, I got, I think, almost three or four brands of pencils. One, I have Stedda. Two, I have Faber Castel. Point. I want you to point at what you see. This is a Lumograph pencil. Okay. And it's from the Stedda Company, but it's majorly designed for artists. Yeah. Okay. This is a 7B pencil. There we go. Okay. So how many, so many card decks. How many pencils do you use in a day? Really, one pencil could do up to 20 portraits. Okay. You're lying to me because according to, let's just even look for another picture. Okay. The picture of a Coca-Cola can. Okay. So you want to tell me all this shading that you did. All that shading. This pencil could do that piece of art. That small one. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You can see all the shadings and all the nice looking things and the depth. This is very nice. And then this is the pencil that he said he can use. Yeah. Trust me. You see, graphite is easy to manipulate. Wow. Because the moment I just do a few shades on the paper, I'll always use a tissue paper to smudge it so that I spread it to the other place as you get. Oh. So it doesn't, it's not that much work. It's just. It's not too much work, but technically it is. Because if you're not keen enough, you'd mess up the whole thing. Hey. You really can't do that because that's the reason why I think I carried this portrait. That we have another portrait. He's putting things on the table. Remember Nakaoyu aunty? I'm ready. This one looks nice. Oh. I like her. Her. It's Junipo's. Gotcha. Wait. What's her name? Okay. She's called Agnes. Agnes. I don't know whether she's a model or something, but I did this portrait because. Just for practicality sake. Okay, fine. Let's call her Val. We can call her Val. Yeah, so that's a pencil portrait of an A3. And the reason why I carried it and framed it, because it was already framed, but I unframed it, was because I wanted you to prove if you can really rub that, even with your finger. Rub? Yeah. Aha. You have come to the right place. Do you have a rubber? Obviously when I do something like that, you didn't take a rubber to rub it off because you'd love it too much. Listen. Okay. So let's just take your finger and maybe try rub it, like smudge it off with your finger. Can I try her face? Yeah, it's okay. It's okay. It's no problem. Way. Okay. Guys, let me look for a nail that looks good on TV. There we go. And then we try and smudge it. It's not smudgy, okay? See? Wow. Exactly. So why? What kind of pencil is this? A portrait like that could last in forever. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. It's because of the quality. Okay. It's the quality of the pencil. Oh. Yeah. Okay. Exactly. Wow. All right. So those are the pencils, man. I see. Is that white out? What? Yeah, this is white out. Why do you mean white out? White out, I can use it to put very minute white details. Oh. Yeah. Maybe like the eyeball when there is sharp light on it, you could just use white out for the detailing. Yeah. Okay. And what's this thing that looks like? These two pencils. We call them mechanical pencils. These ones I actually use them for detailing. In a college school, Fisium too. Not really. Okay. Just enough. Affordable. Yeah. So this one I usually use it for detailing. Maybe the pimples on the faces and stuff. Yeah. And a little bit of the hair strands that hang out. Oh. Like in the back of the neck area. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I feel so enlightened. Yeah. Okay. What's the box over there? Okay. And yes. What's that? Okay. Yeah. In a Cacabrif case. This is just a rubber. Oh. We call it this is a rubber. Okay. It's not that modeling clay for school children. It's a rubber. Trust me. Guys, wait. Okay. Look. Atini rubber. See. See. See life. See life. Atisus and your rubber. Yeah. It's a rubber. How? Okay. In a tringer man say. It's not. Can you please have me this portrait? That's not true. Let me show you why it's a rubber. Oh ho. We're going to rub something. Yeah. It's okay. Ah. It's falling apart. Literally. Okay. This is so cool. You should try. Look at this. The technically rub. And a bleach. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. It's a detailed rubber. Okay. I'm convinced now it's a rubber. So it is. Okay. Fine. It just gets dirty with time. But you could use it for more than two years. Oh. Before you change it to another one. You can't really do that. You can't really do that. Okay. Yeah. What is the best thing about making your art? Okay. The best thing about making my art. Okay. Many people believe it's all about the money. No. It's not. But there's money. Yeah. There's money in art. I could welcome anybody who is really out there trying to look for a job. But it's not there if you're a talent that is trust me. You should really start investing in art. Is it something you can grow into? Like maybe. Okay. Okay. Like a corner. You know. Four limbs. Yeah. Then now I want to delve into it properly. Is it something I can learn? You know. Yeah. You can learn art. But there is always a difference between somebody who just learns out without the passion. And the person who learns art with the passion. Yeah. There are those people who go to school to take fine arts. And you'll still find somebody like that maybe still looks for fabished arts on social media for mentorship. Trust me. This happens to me a lot. You're a humble one. People give us your handouts on social media too. Okay. On social media, I'm at Fabish Arts. That's on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Okay. Yeah. I also have a page called Fabish Arts. Yeah. All right. So you make deliveries. You take orders and things like that. Exactly. So you have like a timeframe. If I wanted my portrait, say tomorrow. Okay. No. If I wanted to tell you I want a portrait today. How many days would it take you to deliver? Okay. Let's say if you give an order for a portrait today, you'll give me five days. Okay. If less, four days because I also have the jobs in line. So you just can't come in and skip. And if you have to do that, then you'd pay more. Oh my God. So if you'd be wishing to pay more, then fix in the line faster. Auntie looks nice on the TV. What portrait is that? Is it this one? It's just because that one. Yes. That looks so good. Okay. I like the details in the eyes. Oh really? Yeah. Okay. How much eyelashes? That's an effort portrait, but it took me quite a while to do. How long? This portrait took me roughly around 40 hours because I was trying to learn something new with a different style of shading and also a different kind of pencil that I had just imported then. So I wanted to see what I could really do with something different. Okay. So I was just on my Instagram page, then I met that piece of picture. So when I met it and then I said, this would be good for some detailing that I did. Nah. Fabish, the way you're drawing these things, you can draw better eyebrows than a lot of people I know. Have you ever thought of doing makeup? Okay. I've been thinking and venturing into different types of media art. I've been thinking of being a makeup artist for movies and maybe do something like sculpturing. But yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Sculpturing? Yeah. You should just even just do makeup. Look at her eye. Like that wing is giving me life. She's about to fly out of this thing. Oh really? Yeah. Like he's contoured her face perfectly. This is not a makeup artist, guys. Tell me what to find on Facebook, add what to find for channel on Twitter. Hashtag is white in the morning. All right, Fabish. Yeah. Now, what would you like to tell the people at home? I want you to encourage somebody. Okay. I think I should just address the parents majorly. I won't really talk to the talented artists today because if you have talent, no matter what you face, you will always look up to doing everything so that you can make it in life as an artist. So to every parent who is having a kid, maybe still three years old and still growing. Like my daughter loves pencils a lot. And I would really encourage everybody out there to help their children what they do so that they can also understand much more in whatever talent they have. We have music, we have football, we have pencil artists, we have painters and more sort of other different talents. And for any parent who is trying to force a child into the school system, maybe it's never going to help because personally I did IT but here I am today doing art my whole time. It's not like I really have to struggle so hard for me to get a job but I've implied myself. At least maybe in the near future I'm also going to create employment to other people. And I could also give a shout out to more of my friends whom I know. Majorly Al-Fast Address Nellim Chauraje. Oh my gosh, shout out Nellie. He came to I-254 and he was amazing. Hi Nellie. So I really encourage him to keep on helping other upcoming artists because if he's helped me make it here, then he can also help somebody out there make it here. And so can you. That's my challenge for you today. The next time I see an artist on TV, I want them to give a very, very big shout out to FABISH for being such a good mentor. I've also met people. I think you've interviewed one of my students here at Keopon Chauraje. He's very good with colored pencils right now. And I'm so happy. Anytime I see an artist I met who got the limelight, it's a good feeling. I like that. It's important for everyone to understand that baby you can shine, I can shine. It doesn't matter if we're doing the same thing, exactly. It doesn't really matter. The cake is big out here, ok? Don't need to compete all the time. I've seen DJ Pinyay somewhere. Now it's John Falmi. Ah! At Tume Chuoma. He's John Falmi? Yeah, it's John Falmi. But he used to make coffee on Wednesday, he looks a little bit different. Yeah, you know. Why John Falmi? This job for me at, it was crazy, there's this friend of mine, we used to do art with him like the whole time and we always had this one slogan and we came up with something we called it Art Customs This is a place where we could do a collaboration in art There are some few pieces we did for one, Kidero I'm confused, we didn't do a collaboration with William Kimber Exactly So now he's collaborating with Art Maybe somebody does the head, somebody does the clothing It doesn't look funny No, it doesn't, trust me it doesn't We did a portrait for Kidero, that was late last year He paid well and we also did a portrait for Willis Raburo and his wife and a number of clients So Art there, Karoli is a very good artist, he does miracles, I respect him a lot So to Karoli Art's man, Big Up's Joe, he's also made it a lot in art because this year I think I've been off the limelight like Kidogo because I was away on vacation Welcome back I've been seeing a lot of stuff going on This guy delivered portraits to people like Taras when he came to Kenya Chronicles and all those artists who've been coming in Borok Chora Romain Virgo, he was around Okay, I wasn't in Kenya by then I went to see my favorite sweetest person of all times Yes, that's a way That's my Shoshu So I went to see Shosh, so I wasn't around That's why I didn't do that, but I'm glad Karoli did it Alright, so he promised me previously before we started the interview that he's going to give me a portrait Yeah, I want my makeup on fleek like this, thanks Okay Nakpe Pichama And, okay, this is the last question before he got promised I was very interested, how do I phrase this This is a place I visited before It's called Molflani And then at the... It's not really a basement, but one of the... Okay, Nakwambia Tundia Nekumbuke That's okay So this guy would have people sit in front of him Okay And do their art So he displayed just like we've displayed here Over there Yes, there was... I took a picture there and he did it for me, it was fantastic But I've also seen it being done live Yeah Is that something that you offer? Okay I do that, but in most cases, you know The problem with doing live sketches is Like you're seated right now And I'm sure you just can't keep your head that way For the next 30 minutes You'll have to move eventually And when you do that, possibly I will miss a proportion Not really When there's a blink, but the moment you move Obviously there's a change in something Okay Facial expressions and all that So something changes So it's tricky day? Yeah, it's tricky day, but we do it Once in a while, we do it I like how he will not refuse a challenge I really, really like that All right, please take your nice rubber before I finish It's okay Playing with it And go home with it Oh my gosh, thank you so very much for coming for our dish You're welcome Oh man, all this art is just amazing Amazing, amazing, amazing Thank you to all the beautiful people who got their pictures Into portraits Yeah, and I think you should still Stay tuned to Why in the Morning from 7 to 10 In the 8 am with the hottest breakfast show around And we have a surprise for you At 254 on Facebook At 254 channel on Twitter Hashtag is Why in the Morning Please do stay with me And joy as we spice up your week