 It's day 47 of the 100 day art challenge. My name is Dave and I'm trying to paint every day for 100 days to see if like it's been claimed that art is helps with mental health. I've been just so anxious and just my default is worrying these days. I just worry worry about anything so I'm really hoping that art will help with that and I'm taking it very seriously. I'm making art with the intention to stop worrying so much. Okay and to be happy. So day 47 let me just give you a tour of where things are at. I spent the last little while cleaning a lot and then I was able to just start painting again so I'll just start from this side. Okay oops. So this one I just am working on shape and this the reference doesn't have hair and I'm adding hair. I messed up the face so much so I just sanded the whole face off to start from scratch so I gotta work on this. The hands I'm blocking in and then starting to add highlights and stuff. So that one's coming along nicely. Just gotta fix that face. Hi everyone thanks for watching. Then this one I've been working on the wings and I'll do a lot more work and then but I did just silver and black see silver and black and so they're starting to take form as well and just working on some shading and adding and we're making this thing and to make that really pretty. There was my reference for the wing so that one's coming along. Maybe in the next week or two I'll be resigning those two and calling them done. So this one is number this one's actually number three of the five part or the four part series I'm doing. I'll just show you the reference again. So Alphonse Muca he works in fours so this is called the seasons. It's one of his famous ones so they're spring, summer, autumn, winter. Here's another one of his references he works in fours. So I'm just working on summer because it's summer. I'm just gonna finish summer in the summer, finish fall in the fall, etc. So I'm just researching how he does his hair. See he has he kind of outlines everything so I'm gonna I'm trying to go for that type of look right. So I just was experimenting with the hair with with that you know starting to sketch that in. I kind of sketched the face she's becoming a person I don't know what she looks like yet and then just getting hands going, shaping feet and I actually put that foot behind this thing so she's like stepping through that shape. I'll get rid of that foot on the bottom. Let me really do that today. So this one is the actual size of the Mona Lisa. I painted this maybe seriously maybe 20 years ago I painted this then I resined it. The resin cracked and broke off see so I just ripped it off and then I painted color coming up from underneath and during during the pandemic I used a real mask cut it up and put a mask on the Mona Lisa so this one's almost done too. I'll resin that one soon and it'll be great. This is on canvas I just built it a two by twos and some scrap wood. All right so these two paintings I just call them throwaway paintings. They're when you when you don't feel like painting you don't know what to paint but you're trying to paint every single day you just take put your brush in the paint and put it on something and just do that so that's what these pieces are for when I don't have an idea I just keep adding colors to these right and I've done a couple like that was that's a throwaway one too. Yeah is that everything working on this new box for art resin instead of plastic a nice box oh and here's the book that I'm following Healing with the Arts so it's a 12 week thing to just help you make art so I'm trying to do this 12 week book I'm on chapter five or week five I'm trying to do this in 100 days as kind of a guide I think that's everything for today day 47 just checking in so far I don't know if art has helped with mental health well no it hasn't thanks Holly okay everyone have a wonderful day the weekend's coming up enjoy that and I'll check in again soon thanks for all the nice comments and encouragement it really motivates me thank you