 Okay guys so here we are in part two of prepping for a special project where I am taking the painting studies out of the art journal I did them in originally and we're now going to do them on some small canvases I had laying around the art studio. I am starting by creating backgrounds for both canvases both compositions and then letting that dry completely before we go on to the next step. I don't want to repeat of what happened in the journal with me because I was impatient not waiting and creating mud so. We are going to let things dry before we go on. I did also discover from the initial painting study in the journal that I really wanted to try the face on a dark background rather than a light background, which to be perfectly honest and Frank is the opposite of how I normally work, but the idea of it when looking at the art journal page just was very intriguing so I thought what the heck let's try it. As you'll see through this process which will be at least a two part series the results were not at all what I expected and I will be back with my thoughts on that in the conclusion of the little canvases which is going to be in part two part three. Anyway, so we are prepping one canvas that is in all dark shades dark cool shades black paints gray violet blue and then the one for the sunflower is whites grays some rosy pink tones and some blues. I'm going to fast forward to the process I'm going to fast forward to the initial part where I'm using basically the same colors I used in the journal to map out initial shapes and designs and the initial level of composition. It's my no means finished this is a very rough first and second layer. So enjoy the process and I will see you at the end that this is only the second layer after the first layer after the background and I have more work to do on both canvases. You'll see in part three where exactly I go with this with both the face and the sunflowers and it isn't at all the results that I expected. My thoughts and conclusions on what I'm going to do on the large canvas are not at all what I anticipated when I started this whole process of doing all of these studies. But each time I paint the compositions both of them I am learning something new about what I like and don't like at work as a whole and I'm altering what I'm doing each time I'm doing it. There's something to be said for doing these little painting studies whether you're just doing them on paper or you're doing them on small canvases or scraps before you commit to the large work on a larger piece. So if you're out there and you're thinking about creating some artwork to hang on the wall especially do a few studies first and play around with different colors and compositions different light sources different mediums different tools. And do it a few times take some advice from me I never listened to my teachers when they told me to practice practice practice but this is part of it. You should practice and do some studies first before you commit yourself to the big piece. That's it for today. Don't forget to have some fun create some art enjoy yourself and above all go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.