 Oh jeez this is fuzz Okay I'm trying to make him the studio cat. I Don't know if he likes it. So I got him some tuna. There's your tuna fuzz. Okay, let's go day one I'm just gonna start If I don't know where to start sometimes. I'll just You do like the stuff that's I'm painting edges black Just painting edges black Just get you started and then it moves stuff forward, right? See Okay, we'll have to work on the studio cat thing fuzz Teddy here. Come here. Ted Ted Ted Sorry man pet management here. Teddy. Can you grab that please? That fuzz wants to go upstairs. I Don't know Okay, well that Rebecca solved that every morning a Beef for breakfast and ginger tea. Hmm. I wish I could play music Well, it was live because usually right now actually I was listening to dub reggae DUB dub is this working guys the angle and the audio and stuff I'm just gonna stop talking You couldn't open this All right one thing that we always do is we don't put the lids back on our paint and then you got to fight Marino It's always handy the big tubs of black and big tubs of white. I have a faster way to do edges actually I'll straight the faster way calligraphy ink some save your old containers When your kids grow up, I'm not gonna eat on camera There's lots of water for drinking. I like this one So all the projects that I'm working on are things that I started last year when I did the hundred days of art I wasn't making any art. I was making zero art Then I did a hundred days of art now. I have so many projects on the go and I'm excited to make art. Okay, so Hit the towel Indian ink Look at that. Hey, I should just always do it this way And well painting is getting worked on they actually get dirty again and not great See Rebecca just said she wanted yellow in our house somewhere So I just put a bunch of yellow down then I put it there and I just love it Yellow a bit orange and some gold so I'm gonna I'm just doing this to the edge and Then I'll do some touch-ups and then I'm gonna resin it I'm gonna resin it and it's gonna look amazing and look at that Okay, and then this one I want to do edges too See I done that just I did edges a while ago, but then they get covered again as you work on it. So just a quick wipe Just makes everything tidy I hope this is helpful to someone seeing my process and just what I'm doing because I Hope you realize that you just kind of make it up as you go. You just got to start make it up as you go And that's kind of the joy of getting lost in making art Just freaking do it. I've always loved Indian ink and I also love I just save feathers So if you use feathers and Indian ink you just cut it on an angle Just gives you a nice messy line if you want a messy line Okay, so that's done So this piece is Winter of a four-part series. I'm doing I've been one of these chicks. Oops. I just got black all over there I'm doing one of these chicks For each season. It's gonna be great. Okay Great now. I'm warmed up so this one I've been working on this piece for 20 years and I'm so close. I just don't know what to put in this circle. So this is one thing that I do I'm gonna need a brush paint brush Okay, so pallets old old placemats. These are kids toys Pieces of plexiglass At home Depot you can sometimes get free off free pieces of plexiglass put these out. I love having water bottles all around Because then you can you just get some neat things happening good next so I want to I want to put this on here. That's what I want to do Crayons work on here. Oh, yeah crayons work great I need a cat in here 76 divided by 2. Oh my gosh, well 35 times to 70 Okay There's center So this turtle is very mathematical very mathematical So I'll divide it into thirds a border here the same third third Border so there's our center line, right? So I painted a canvas black then I resented it then I sanded it and I'm gonna paint on top and Then I'm gonna resin it. I'll do so I'm just gonna eyeball weight. Okay, so there's four quarters. So Let's do the quarters like that doesn't have to be perfect there now What's the ratio from this should be halfway? Okay, so I'm gonna do the halfway here halfway here It means the turtles head will come to here and the turtles tail I'm here Okay, okay So there's a halfway point. So this is where I'm gonna put my center diamond basically So here's just a few more position things So it seems like a lot of people are gonna do this hundred days of art. I had a friend Paul over for New Year's last night and he said he's gonna do it and I didn't expect that and that's freaking awesome Okay So here's the cool thing about this turtle is watch this line you got this it makes that diamond It comes it makes the legs it makes the diamond and it goes back up. Oh, I'm sorry. Can you see that? I don't know if you can or not Leg comes around makes the middle diamond leg leg makes the diamond see that shape Like will shape though. I love this kind of stuff geometry In art And I got this this book power of limits Proportions harmonies in nature art and architecture So it's all about beautiful shapes that are mathematical. So they just feel right You know There's some really beautiful shapes Like even like look at that shape You know like it just is a beautiful shape. Hey like what if you just put that on a painting? That's what I'm gonna do. So finds the proportions mathematically in a wing for example, and then It follows this basic rule Anyway, so that's what I'm trying to do here, right? There's a line line that comes down like this It's a circle here Makes this side of the triangle. Okay, and then the lines go to where halfway mark So that's the main idea for this painting as far as I've got so we were in Mexico three weeks ago and That's where I did the sketch because there were tons of turtles there like it's counted 23. I think was the highest so Yes, so that's where I got the idea for this and now I'm transferring it here and now I don't know what I'm gonna do I don't know what the next step is. I'll probably just start adding color to start adding color and see what happens Okay, and in Mexico I got bit by the brown recluse spider So it's almost better That's the bite. Okay next So this one I'm just kind of stuck on because I hate the feet so To fix it you have to ruin it Because I don't know why I hate the feet So I'm doing to fix it. You got to ruin it So I'm doing this kind of shape or something Okay, so extra paint like I put too much paint on there. It's really good for Putting bases on other paintings. Hey, so here perfect and over time we can sharpen up these Edges and you have more layers and different colors and Sometimes the painting will take 20 years. Sometimes the painting will take 20 minutes. I'm starting to get tired New year's party last night This uh, okay, so now I can start Shaping this foot properly, you know, I'm being more careful because I know I'm videotaping Like I wouldn't have done that The hands are kind of messed up too, and I got to fix this shoulder right here to fix it. You got to break it All right next So this piece I did this piece a long time ago, but I never really finished it and I built this black frame for it So this was when me and Rebecca were first dating. I took a picture of her walking towards me And I think it's gonna go with this piece this big one here So I want to make the match somehow so I was gonna I'm just gonna make them have some things in common So they fit nicely together Okay, what do you think pretty square? So here's the plan paper towel Indian ink Water I drink out of this skull thing Because it makes me feel strong and unafraid I'm afraid okay, so Just to let you know I started painting every day As a challenge because I was desperate. I was desperately anxious. I Was suffering All day all night suffering so Making art every day really impacted me positively very positively I feel really good most days So this is just coat one and I'll be able to look at it, you know and see if it was a good idea or not Remember you're not making art Well, you can make art for other people, but I Try really hard to not think about Who might see it? Well, I don't know if that's true So if you do this every day, you'll start to have things started you start to have projects Then it gets easier because you're not starting from nothing You you know what you're gonna do tomorrow and then you start to look forward to it So you're just every day or just like push it, you know nudging something forward a little bit nudging something forward a little bit and Then you start having thoughts about that in your mind Like what am I gonna do that piece Also, it doesn't have to be painting you can just even baking I was reading a book about someone that they started baking every day And it had a similar positive impact on their life I think if you just baked every day, how good would you feel? You can find healthy baking recipes I mean even if you like have baking a healthy baking challenge, you know, maybe you'll have You'll have a really good diet and that'll even make you feel really better And you get to bake because you love it. Just making art just Gives you your life back Okay, I'm slowing down. I don't want to do anything else Can I stop can I stop? Okay, everyone. I hope that was helpful for someone to know like how to just do it how to start and If you have any questions, let me know and if you want me to film like other stuff like organizing organizing stuff or like finishing stuff or Setting up stuff if that's helpful to see Let me know and I can just turn this camera on anytime Thank you everyone who's doing this with me Thank you. It's gonna be really really good. Happy New Year