Live painting session, 4 August 2025

Perfect. Okay, we're all teed up and good to go. Baby is fantastic. She is currently 16 months and for the first day since she was about Jeepers. First day, the first time in forever, she's skipped her day nap. So, she is exhausted. We've tried to put her down for it. Took the toys out of her cot and everything. Wouldn't tolerate it. Skipped a day nap. And now she's exhausted. done the equivalent of us pulling an allnighter and we're going to give her a little bit of Miss Rachel, little bit of dinner, early bedtime. It's going to be all good, right? First paint brush off the ranks is my hundreds and thousands pink rainbow unicorn brush.

Now, the reason why it looks like that is because these are actually makeup tools. The bristles are finer and it works better for the kind of paint we're using here and put some colors. But I've left my plates in the other rooms. So, I'm going to have to come back. I see a comment there about Christmas poop. I'll come back for it. 100 people on right now. All right, got my plates. I've got my plates and towels. Let's bring it all back in here. So, plates and towels. We're going to be using a surface tension breaker. pigment particles from anywhere between 40 microns to 80 microns, bigger than the regular pigment particles you'll find in most paints.

Those thicker particles will mean that the paint's more of a matte texture. It'll sit on the surface and it won't reflect. We can change it at the end by adding sheen on and all sorts. But for the start, for the start, it'll have more of a matte effect, which for you guys is great because it makes the colors actually pop more. if you find you see art sometimes, whether it's on a live stream or a picture and it has, you might be able to see little pockets up here where it has kind of a sheen or like a reflective kind of glassy look, that's gloss.

That's the finish that will reflect light back. So although you get it more shiny, more jewel like, you miss out on color. And so you need to choose between reflective or color. And if you want to go in between satin. So you've got matte, which means just full color, no gloss, no reflection, no shine. You got gloss, which is you, you know, gloss, heavy gloss and things, which is obviously just glossy, full reflection, less color. And then you got in between, which is satin. I allegedly you should always go for Saturn if you're making the artwork is you know accurate as it can be so to say.

But I personally don't like Saturn. I'm like all or nothing in one direction or the other. That's what I think. Okay. If you like the pants, thank you very much. You can get your own pair for $10 off TeeU. I don't think they're $10 anymore after the tariffs came into effect, but slipped backwards there a little bit. Just check on that. That there we go. Beautiful. We stable. Think we're stable. Glorious. Got a second picture here somewhere. Here we go. Hope we just stick that right there in the middle. So, we're working off a Polaroid at the moment. It's a nice little spot to be.

It keeps slipping and moving. I'm just going to make sure that actually we're not about to lose it over the back of the seat. That would be devating. It seems stable here. Let's just bring it right the way up. There we go. I see what's happening here. Let's make that as long as we can. Bring that down. That's better. Try and sneak through the gap. Get my booty through there. Thank you very much. There we go. So, that's on now. That's on tight and we're nice and safe. And you guys are in the perfect position. Looks like did someone Janice, this is a dinner party.

You threaded that needle. so the couple here we're making the painting for are on this side of the dinner party. And then their family, their loved ones are around the table with them. The table is here. It's an orange table. an in perspective shot of everything else. To spot that you know my style dinner party in the world of options you get dinner party. You've done well. Right. Where are we going to next? So I do hope Birdie tunes in as well and is like what are you doing inside? We talked about this. Explain that the paint is safe. That's the key. Explain the paint is safe.

There we go. Let's get that through there. You know, I haven't got a whole lot of love for green. purple, yellow, and orange. Secondary colors don't spin my wheels. I vastly prefer primary colors. Primary colors except for yellow whenever I'm using yellow. I'm kind of like what's that song by Hinder? lips of an angel where you know yellow's in the room. I'm thinking about blue or red. Doesn't know you're talking to me. What a burger. Here we go. Let's start fight so bad. You he released that song when he was still with his ex? Naughty. Naughty. Hey Jay, welcome on in. Jay, I was just saying to everyone that the paint we're using is 100%.

Sorry, that's not true. It's 99% chemical free, but that last 1% doesn't actually off gas into the room. So, as long as the paint doesn't go on my skin or in my mouth, then actually we're 100% chemical free within the air of the studio. So, we're okay working inside. That's kind of important. So, if you're watching this and thinking, "Oh, I'm going to do an oil painting inside." No, no, no, no, no, no. There's a reason why Monae, Da Vinci, everyone, all the plenty of painters of the past used to work outside. One, because it's the definition of it, but also because your health is on the line.

So, can't just start whacking around painting doors and think your brain's going to survive breathing all those fumes and solvents and toxins. You know, I used to think I could handle that, too. I used to think I was absolutely invincible when it came to that kind of stuff. And I actually put myself in a massive amount of risk to the point where you don't like any of it. None of it. None of it. Does it do you at what level do you hate it on? Is it the colors itself? Is it the composition? Or is it just that Sorry guys, just adjusting this light here.

There we go. Turning it down a little bit. It's too intense. Too intense. That's about where we want it to be. Is that? Yeah. There we go. because if it's emotionally upsetting you, like I hate it. I hate everything about this piece. That's good. Now you got the opportunity to go out there into the world and develop your taste more. find something you do like because even if you have a negative experience with art, you've actually built on your taste. Disliking what I do will help you understand what you do like. So, in a sense, you're welcome. In a sense, you owe me. one good thing about working inside as opposed to outside is when you have the light up and it cast down, it stops your shadow from getting in the way, it actually keeps it entirely out of the frame, which is a bit of a winner.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a bit of a winner. Sometimes, depending on where the sun is, you can actually lose huge amounts of it. There we go. Let's put that there. One divot. All right, let's get this. Keep coming. I don't know why I started singing hinder cuz now it's stuck in my head. proper doesn't know you're talking to me. There we go. If you heard that, that was my delightful daughter just making some noises, being a happy little munchkin. Is it a car? It's not a car, but I like your guess. Janice gets it in one. And Janice, I'm wondering if we bring in more definition to it.

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