Artist, puppy and a new messy studio

Good day, guys. Welcome back in. Thank you very much for tolerating my absence. I don't want to talk about too much while I've been away, but I do want to get back into some painting. And in privacy, a few more layers blend on these pieces. Let me bring you up to date. First one quickly becoming a personal favorite of mine. This is Porto. So Porto, massive landscape. If I bring you back here, you can see sky changing color going from those blue colors into the more suny tones and all the red roofs coming through there. There's the image we're working off. So, lots of houses.

Lots of fun. And one of my favorite features about this one is, you can see it there, the amount of texture we're playing with, which is no joke. No joke. This one here, which was ready to send, but I pulled back because it just needed a bit more love. Same story. Tons of texture. Bring you back over here and see what's happened. And third, this one here has been started three times over and over and over and over again. Let me bring you in close to this one. This one's a bit lighter on the texture front, but massive and has the most pigments in it.

It exceeds the other two by about doubled. So, we come back a little bit and you'll start to see the dinner scene. Yes. Hello, Steve. Hello, Santiago. Who else do we have here? Hello, Asondo. Welcome in, everyone. I've got a new friend for you to meet, guys. Hey, Loki. Snacks. You want to come say hi, buddy? Let me bring you on down so you can say hi. This is our newest family member. This is Loki. Here you go, buddy. He's just shy of four months old. He's a golden retriever. And more than anything, he loves scratches. And I hope he likes painting. We don't know.

That just yet, but we'll find out. Now, let's kick off with a bit of paint on this one. Bring you over here. There we go. I think it needs to come up a little bit though because these are There we go. Just a few feet. Nothing major. Bring you in here, guys. Here we are. Good day, Jay. Welcome on in Jay. This will be a surprise for you. I I messaged a few people, but look, I've been away for a while. I don't want to talk about why, but I do want to get back to some painting. and Jay, newest teammate. This is Loki.

Of course, Cooper, who's now coming up on two, calls him Oi, which I kind of think I'd like to stick cuz Oi is kind of fun. You want a snack, buddy? You don't have to get up. These are healthy snacks. There's not a lot of salt in these. They're chicken liver, so not too many, but obviously better for them than a lot of those little snacks you'll find around the place. So, voila. Now, I've taken a few people for a bit of a tour through the studio. We're not going to get too into it right now. No, we'll get into it a little bit, but.

it's a work in progress. So, let's just show you. Right. So, we're working on the back wall here. Now, one of the most important things about this studio is it's a shed. So, a shed means we've got three walls and barn doors. Now, while that creates a massive space to work in, it does create the issue of air flow. So, how do you deal with that? Well, that's what these are. So, these two holes here link through your extractors. And if we can't close them, if I put you right up there, you might be able to hear it pulling through air. So, air.

Flow coming from these three fans, which are a little bit dinky, but they do work. They push the air this way and then they are sucking it out as fast as they can go. Now between those effects we're moving about 200 200 it's supposed to be 300. I'm going to say between 2 and 300. Say about 250 cubic m per minute. So every 2 and 1/2 minutes hypothetically this room will get a fresh sweep of air. And if there's wind going, it'll blow more air through. That's part of the safety in this room. Now, we're not working with lethal stuff. We're working with regular .

Non-toxic acrylics. And a lot of people can paint with these fine. For me, if I catch a whiff of any chemical or paint or glue or I just get brain fog and can't think straight. So, I've got no choice. I need brilliant air flow or I cannot paint. so we're working with very, very mild ingredients on this table, gouache paints, acrylic paints, but the airflow means I can't smell it, and that'll stop the autoimmune reaction that throws me off the horse. sorry guys. I hope I didn't miss anyone's comments there. Anyway, to all of you, thank you for coming back in again and.

Waiting so patiently on me. I've got some flat filtered coffee, so that hasn't changed. I'll walk you through a few of the fun things here, though. So, artworks in the middle. These are the three current commissions. One, two, three. There's a fourth one coming up. I'm only going to spoil the name. I'm not going to tell you anything else about it. It's called Crucible of Worlds. That one's coming up. It's going to be amazing. And it's for a collector who already has a piece, but I won't spoil which piece it is. But that one's coming up after these three leave the studio. This This is.

The most expensive dog bed you'll ever see in your entire life. This is a $25,000 at retail piece of glass from Italy. Now, I got my hands on it from Facebook Marketplace because whatever happened, they smashed the bases. It was an insurance job and then they were selling at the table off. No one wants it without the base except for Seb. So now I have a giant piece of Italian amber glass which is 3 and 1/2 m and 1 and 1/2 m 3 and 1/2 m long, 1 and 1/2 m wide. And I'm thinking that's going to be this running through the middle. Problem is.

It's 200 k 200 kgs. So I need three more people at the studio to help me move that thing to the middle of the floor. Now, I've painted the floor twice and we're going to paint it three times because I went too light gray. Didn't like it. I went gray. Kind of like it, but we're going to go black. Black's also going to keep me on my toes. So, all these little bits of dust, I'll see them and actually have to keep on cleaning the studio. Messy workspace, messy mind. Big big man on that. obviously you can see as far as I've got with.

The painting. I've been messing around. Hey, Phoenix. I hope you watched the videos before you popped on in. this is really special to see you all again. Thank you for everyone for popping in. That's Oh, that's a that's an old painting from 2020. I love that one. let me take you for a little bit of a walk cuz we're on the Starlink at the moment. so we can go a bit further abroad. So, this is the new studio. It's still a work in progress. The plan here in it, I wasn't going to show anyone this until it was finished cuz I was I.

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