A touch chillier than we'd like..

Storm rage on the cold never bothered me anyway. Good day guys. Welcome back in dos peros per uno per dos and aua aua everywhere in this picture. So, it's cold, very cold out here today. And we had wearing a nice hot top to try and navigate that. Bit cold actually. So, it was a great top. I got it from an op shop and then it went through a wash and got a little bit tight, but we still love the colors. So, it was good. It's still good. And now it's Yeah. So great. Now for dos pettos, we're going to be working more in.

The light colors this time. It's at risk of just getting too dark everywhere. So we're going to add on in arctic blues, titanium whites, and pastels and corals. Is the pan is the pan. is the plean. Let me whack that across there. And who do we have in here? Good day, team. How are we doing? All right, titanium white, our key color. And then I'm going to grab some Pacific Blue and mix that in with it, too. So, I can get all the tones between titanium white and sorry, I lie. Cerulean blue hue. The hue means it's usually a synthetic version of it. And.

It's like a I want to say a cheap knockoff, but synthetic. So, it's kind of found its way to this tone with other bootleg pigments or not typically the real authentic thing. And that's okay. It's actually fine. Synthetic paints are better cuz they're more pure and perfect. Though you can wander down a path where you're thinking, "No, I want the most pure, perfect pigments possible. No, sorry. Most authentic pigments possible. I'm going to make them myself." And I went down that path. But then ultimately the microns the microns are the tiny sizes of the pigment particles and the whole science behind it. It's just.

Better to have these things commercially made, synthetically made. So they're like labmade diamonds, perfect color. Make the artwork crazy in crazy spaces, but don't use inferior pigments. Go synthetic on that front. The same same health quality, synthetic versus non. It's those heavy metals in them. Cadmium, cobalt, those things make pigments more safe or dangerous. Not whether it's synthetic or from a mine. Don't quote me on that in all cases, but in most cases. Thanks for being here, guys. Now, we've got a little bit of sun before it dips down behind my glorious unpainted, half painted art shed. Kind of like it as a half.

Job. It's kind of fun. and I need the rhythm. Goodbye. Lost in the music. Your heart will be mine. There we go. Spin you around here a little bit so you're out of this done. I'm going to bring you up a little bit. This little tripod here. It's not the biggest one in the whole world, but it does the trick. It's very lightweight and easy to move around, which I appreciate it for. So, I'll put you guys there. There you go. Fantastic. All right, you're in the right place. I've got my paints. Very happy about that. And this is the clear painting medium. So.

This is a a there's a word for this. It's not a thinner. It's a medium. It dilutes the acrylic paint. So, usually the acrylic paints get quite thick. And if I show you this straight away on the plate, these acrylic paints staying and the medium's flowing. So, you make your medium more flowy and everything's easy to work with. Plus, it stops texture from jumping off the surface. Too much texture, you can't get any detail. And I do love a bit of details. Were you talking about doing commission pet art a while back? I prefer to say companion. But yeah, I've done some .

Maybe maybe six paintings of dogs. See you, Bolo. Welcome on in. Hello to Argentina. Hello to Argentina before. I'll say it again. I love your beef. bye. And Hey, just Browning. Was that in the sun? Good for you. what was I going to say? I was going to say, I don't want to do an infinite amount of pen portraits. I think they're a good thing. Do an infinite amount of pen portraits. I think they're a good thing to amongst it. Pets, animals, companions, they're fun, you know, because you get to capture something that's not human, but there's an identity in it. And.

Usually in terms of portraits and completely off the cuff, but you usually find portraits of animals have a slightly happier feel to them because the animals unapologetically interested and happy. Whereas a lot of human portraits have this kind of stoic feeling to them. And so you have to combine a bit of juice into a human portrait, a bit of juice into a human portrait. Whereas with portrait, it just starts in there, which I kind of like. That's not always the case. sometimes you'll do human portraits where usually it's a couple, you know, because you're celebrating love or a moment in it and in that.

Moment it just pow you know, maybe maybe it's a candid shot from a wedding. Usually a candid one is just but like in that moment they have the same infectious joy and gratitude infectious joy and gratitude for life an animal does in any given photo which it's the condition of a human that it's the human condition that we're actually we're so we're so much smarter with so much opportunity and yet we don't get to be unapologetically completely abundantly happy every single day like a dog. What a tragedy. What an ironic tragedy. I thought so. How do I get more info on your commission work?

Okay, thanks. Two things. Two things. One thing. What you want to do, jump on the link in the bio and get through to the website. It's just sgarart.com. Same as the same link everywhere. It's And then there's an archive. And I'm still tweaking it so it's a little bit clunky. I'm sorry. What you can do in that archive is you can click through all the work there. About 90% of it is commissioned work. So, there's a couple of wild cards in there that I'm just like, I really want to make this. And so, if I'm landing a whole bunch of portraits and pets, I'll.

Slip in my own personal landscape. And if we're doing a whole bunch of landscapes, I can't help it. I'll just slip in a face. And so, that keeps you nicely rounded and rounded and grounded. so have a look through there. Make sure you vibe with the finished product. Make sure you vibe with the finished product. If you don't vibe with the finished product, then like h there's other people who will satisfy you more. But if you're like, "Yep, I like this. I have a subject or a photo that means something to me and I want to see what he can do with it or.

At least just conceptualize what it would look like. You know, maybe there's costs involved. Maybe you live in Madagascar. Maybe you live in Japan. It doesn't matter. All these places are a-ok. Okay. We can ship anywhere. But, you know, you've got shipping and things. You know, you've got shipping and things like that. And then the size. S size is important. If you're going big, obviously big is a bit more expensive than small. So, whatever you're going for with size, you can select that all via the web page there. It's a really, really cool little widget. Los Angeles. Really cool little widget. Los Angeles is.

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