 Good morning. Are you drinking enough water? I'm trying to remember. Okay. Hello. I'm gonna take off my glasses for a second. Just doing a quick check-in. I hope you're still making art. Day 100 is on April 11th. So here, I'm just gonna go through where I'm at with some paintings and then what I'm using or doing to move them forward. It's constant problem-solving and there are good tools for the job. Okay. Here we go. Morning, everyone. Okay, so this piece, it's an old piece that I hadn't really finished. This was part of like an art contest. You had to do it really fast. So I've been gluing this paper down and I'm gonna use black inks to outline some of it and then I'll re-resonate. And the exciting thing is this glows in the dark. This cat glows in the dark. Okay. Now this piece, I'm just playing with the idea of, do you remember this art? This is Mondrian. And I don't know what it's called. Hey, season of the witch. Oh, it's blurry. Thanks for telling me. Let me wipe my camera off. There. Is that better? Anyways. So I just wanna add like crazy color outside of this. Just an idea I had. So this was fun. I mean, my kids have so many markers and I keep the lids and see. And then every once in a while, I make something out of it. So there's that. I don't know what it is. Just fun, right? That's a pizza tray from the dollar store. Okay. And caps. I'll probably put one more coat of resin on there. Okay. I don't know what this is. I'm gonna add black. Rebecca and I noticed we went to some art galleries recently. Got super inspired. And we noticed lots of the old art had these arches on the top. And we, so I just wanted to play with that idea. So that's just a base coat for something. This is just a base coat for something. I don't know. So this one I'm doing a collage. This is cut out from a picture I found a long time ago. Background. I'm gonna keep adding to that. So having collage going is fun. This is a friend's father retired or something. And this was the top of his cake. So this is actually fondant. This is food, icing. And I, and it dried and I coated it in, I coated it in resin. So there's last favorite. Not nice. Oh, a question. How do you know the exact? I need a regular shape. Okay. How do I know the exact amount of resin? Good question. Oh, geez. How do I know the exact amount of resin? So I've just been doing it for so long. It's a regular shape. Okay. Well, you gotta kind of find the squares. I don't know what USMC means, season of the witch. Sorry, I'm from Canada. I think US Marine Corps, maybe. So this piece, I would look at it and I would say, is it two feet or that looks like, I don't know, maybe, I'll say two feet. No, I'll say this is four square feet. That's a bit more than it is. So all that I do is I say, okay, so four square feet and then a 32 ounce kit. I know a 32 ounce kit covers eight square feet. I just know that. 32 ounce kit covers eight square feet. Okay, so then you go 48, I hate math so much. So that means I just cut 32 and a half. That means in total you need 16 ounces of resin for four square feet. And then you do half resin, half hardener. So you'll do eight ounces, eight ounces, resin and hardener to cover this and I'll probably have a bit extra. And then I'll use the extra on something else. Then I'll come over, these buckets are great. A U-line has the best buckets so far. To be honest, you gotta buy them in bulk. And where's ounces? See this? Oh, here we go, there's ounces. I hope this is helpful. Yeah, that guess exactly. The season of the witch is saying that they just, that just he or she, sorry, I don't know, just kind of guesses. So look at eight ounce, eight ounce. So I'll fill it at 16 ounce. There you go. Okay, next. So this one, I'm starting to do black. He brother, cool. I'm gonna do black lines all over it. I'm gonna turn black lines, turn this into water. I think it's gonna be water and clouds or something. And then I want to have something growing out of here. Not sure yet though. So this one here, I'm just doing black lines. And for, I don't know what the name of those buckets were. They are, just go to U-line and search mixing buckets. Is what we do. Okay, so for the black lines, I'm using this tip on a Kligrippia pen. I love this tip on a Kligrippia pen. And look, when you press it down, see how it splits like that? So the harder you press, the thicker you're lying. And just Indian ink, right? Now, the buckets I like the best are you get different sizes. The one that's a bit bigger, like this five quart one, if you're doing, this one's just great. And then you, when you're done with it, after you're done with your resin, you just leave it upside down on the plastic. And then you can just peel out the resin. So you can reuse these a bunch of times. Eventually they get too dirty. Okay, so where are we? We're talking about Indian ink, yeah. So, to make nice thick black lines, I'm really enjoying using Indian ink and this calligraphy tip. I mean, you can buy the big things of ink. I can't even see what brand this is. But it's great, because it's highly saturated black. Okay, so and the reason that I like black lines is because I'm copying, this is Alphonse Muca. He's my favorite artist, and everything has thick black lines, but somehow it doesn't look cartoony. So that's what I'm trying to get. I don't know if you can see it. See, there's lines, big lines. So I'm copying him and I'm doing, this is winter. So right now with winter, I'll just show you. Let me type in my password on the computer because the next step for that one is I'm on the computer. I'll just put this on this, isn't that cool? Okay, I'll come back, this is just loading. Okay, here's a great tool for the studio. I just put this printer and this computer in the studio and it's so helpful for printing off references, right? So what I'm doing for this one is, so this is a collage. This is from a magazine ad I cut out. Just acrylic paint on the back and I'll make this gold leaf, I'm gonna paint over it. But I like this, I'm gonna blow it up big and put it on this one. So I'll use the computer, these freaking computers. I'll use the computer to put that in the projector and I'll project it on here, okay? Oh, I'm getting tired. This piece is called Out of the Darkness. And so these are all COVID masks and I painted them that dark brown and then there's this little thing, I'm gonna, this is gold enamel and I'm gonna put a little light in there just for fun. But that's just that idea out of the darkness. All right, anything else? This is, we did a live video with Joanne and we did a bit of testing some pouring medium stuff but with this turtle, what I realized, look at my son came home with this, the difference between turtles and tortoises and look how we drew that arm, perfect. You nailed it, flipper. So this type of turtle has flippers. So I mean, I haven't really liked these arms at all. So that's kind of the idea that they'll be shorter and flippers and then I'm starting to add some geometry into it. So I'm adding some like circles here and I'm gonna paint all this edge like every single color. It's gonna be great. And figure out how to make this look like it's glowing kind of and the heads too small, lots to do. I'll show you, Rebecca's doing massive oil paintings and Rebecca switched from hardboards to canvas and this is oil paint. So she's gonna come in and she's just gonna blend this beautifully. It's still wet. This oil paint stays wet for a very long time, very long time. Okay, great work. Thanks everyone. Let me know if you have any questions and I'm gonna end with a quote that I have on my studio wall. Okay, one second. One second. Okay. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There's no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. I know the world is bruised and bleeding and though it is important not to ignore the pain, it's also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that leads to knowledge, even wisdom like art. I just, I like that, like get to work, okay? This is what we gotta do. And then I like this one too. It's right on our door. If you knew exactly what you're going to do, what is the point of doing it? And that's what art can do to us, right? See? I'll read this one to him. This is such a good thing too. This is really great. Okay, bye everyone. Get back to work. Ah, cool man. Great, bye.