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All right. We now have the lawn completely to ourselves at the expense of my t-shirt. So, I've got two painted windows and one painted shirt. Luckily, like I said, this is tempera paint. So, the shirt is savable. You rinse it off afterwards and it'll be fine. So, anyway, our little artist is inside having a bath, which is only satisfactory because it's full of bubbles. So, anyway, that was the journey that we went on. Thanks for joining. How crazy. Come on, come on now, baby. Come on now, baby. Twist and shout. Twist and shout. Hi, saludos from Chile. Chile, eh? Well, in New Zealandia, I think.

That's correct. Nosotros bebemos leche eh vino eh cerveza eh agua. No no hablo español. I don't know what a I don't know what a tour is. Mhm. Poquito. I'm running out of words. Hey, Jay, we're back on. hablas bien el español? Jajaja. Yeah. My words are limited. My words are limited, but I know how to say los pingüinos duermen. al sur lagartos. Which is a very very special saying. It's a proverb here in New Zealand which means the penguins sleep among cats. That is That is God level tier philosophy right there. First language is Portuguese. So, Portuguese and Spanish. I've had this defined.

To me by a Chilean lady that if you speak Spanish or Portuguese, you cannot speak the other one. But, if you're drunk, you can speak both. Which tell me tell me if that's true. This is New Zealand. So, we are in Taranaki, New Zealand. It's in about 2 and 1/2 hours south of Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand. Auckland's the major airport where if you visit it, you'd most likely fly into. And That's the world we're living in. And we are painting the gorge. So, the plan here, I'm actually moving you guys over a little bit if you don't mind.

Can I move you? Here we go. Come with me here. There you go. Put you right there. Now, the last layer we did, we worked a lot with the muted greens. So, we had a bunch of color. The sky is still yellow. Muted greens and grays came in and kind of covered the whole surface, added texture, and but it hasn't actually has taken away a little bit of that zingy life to it. So, now we're going to go a bit more nuts and add in our yellows, blues, and reds and just keep that bouncy fun color in the work. We might even get frisky enough.

To throw around some vibrant oranges, but I don't want to lie if that isn't the case just yet. a lot of this texture at the gorge is kind of a blotchy bouncy texture for all the shrubbery and small trees. So, it'll be a lot of little dab dab brush strokes, especially around here, which is a mountain reflected. Similar similar to the mountain of Sugarloaf in Pennsylvania, which also, whether it was large trees or smaller trees, because of the distance factor, it all made that dotty kind of finishing on the image. How do we feel about that, team? Jesus creepers. That's how you know.

That Shelby and Zeb have a mortgage. Well, renting was fun, guys. I do love the freedom that comes from it. Having a mortgage means we are able to paint the house the color you choose, being able to put screw holes in the walls for frames and things, cuz a lot of the artwork is quite heavy that I make, has been a pretty fun game changer. We haven't been able to display haven't been able to display as big of works as we can now in the house, because I can put proper foundations into the wall. So, big change there, which feels really, really good. And.

We are completely raw today. And by completely raw, I mean we do not have mics, fancy cameras, nothing. We are just running on an iPhone today. So, feels good, feels simple. The reason for the simplicity is it's possible that it could rain and so I need less stuff out here so I can make a break for it. And thank you very much to the people in here who've leaped on in and shared the live. I appreciate that. You didn't have to, but if it makes you feel a little bit happier to be here then sharing that with your friends is a lovely lovely.

Gesture. Send the rain to New York City. Is it It's hot there right now, right? You're going into summer. Naphthol pink, that's our next stage. This one's quite a fluoro fluoro one. Fluoro fluoride? neon. I'll show you up close. See that? That there. Okay. Where can you buy my art? So first off I would love for you to buy my art. I would love to have a piece of my art in your home. That'd be really special to me. At the moment, if you need something today there's prints available on the website, but if you want to get a commission where you've got an.

Image or an idea and you want me to make it, then the link for that's on the website. Now, the only thing I will say is we've got a queue of about three or four pieces at the moment. I think this one, definitely two more and maybe one or two after that. So, there's a little bit of a waiting list, but do want to do it. So. Anyway, and even if we only leap on in and discuss it so you get a bit of understanding of how you feel about it to then go to another artist or whatever else then I love that, too.

So, there's no harm in it. It's in the link in the bio. Leap on the It's a type form. And it's about 2 minutes to fill out and then I'll reach out to you personally. But most of the time it's pretty straightforward. There's very little barriers in the world today. I can ship to literally anywhere in the world. your local VAT taxes where you are shipping to all that kind of stuff. It's all included, so you don't get hit with any hidden costs. So, basically, like in Canada for example, there's sometimes a 17% tax that they hit you with locally. So, you do.

A first deposit before it ships. And then when it arrives, we figure out what the local taxes are in their entirety, and then I discount all of that off the final deposit. So, it never goes above what your original quote quote was. We've had a funny period with the tariffs and things in America, but it hasn't been that bad because one of the key things we've done is I said, "Look, if the tariffs change, which they have been, they kind of seesaw around a little bit, I said just whatever it becomes to, that's my problem." So, I'd love to get.

It through on whatever the tariff is now, but if it goes up, that's don't worry. The cost is the cost. It's like I always liken it to buying like an iPhone. Like, it's not discounted, but when you buy it, there's, you know, it doesn't change in the mail. There's no wild cards. You get an iPhone. I like that. I really like that. This is New Zealand. This is a place called Tauranga. There's two ways to pronounce it. Well, there's one way to pronounce it, but there's You can say Tauranga. Tauranga. I don't know how you say it that way, but you say To-ronga. So.

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