Roanoke Island, North Carolina part 2

Hello, beautiful people. We're on layer two or three of this very, very fun work. Currently, we've done a whole lot of the reds, and there's a little bit of the purples in there, some Naples yellow, teeny weeny bit of blue. But this work here has a lot more yellow, more than what we usually work with, but if we stare into that, it's going to be okay. Usually, usually yellow isn't my true calling. It's not the thing I dream about, but this picture makes it very worthwhile. So, Naples yellow in massive droves. Joan brilliant. So, like this peachy salmony color in the sky and these.

Deeper violets. But if you get under here more, so this been the first layer. Get under here more and actually look obviously the roof, but talk to me more about in these clouds. there is this kind of red aura underneath it. So if you really want that to have depth and body, we need to get the red in there first before we go into the darker blacks, before we go into the yellows, before we go into the creams, the salmons, the Naples yellows. And we've done that. Done a really good job of that. If anything, we got a bit excited with that because now we've.

Got a whole bunch of texture on the surface. Texture is like a double-edged sword. when you have a lot of it, it gets in the way of new coats, but it adds so much vibe to the piece. So, you kind of want to have low texture at the start and a lot at the end. But if you try and control that, you kind of make all the texture kind of manufactured and not that fresh and poppy and fun. So, you kind of want to work to one style, but if it doesn't work out, don't complain. And the other thing you can do is if the.

Texture does become too much, I can pour I'll show you. I'll show you this stuff, a layer of liquid glass in between two layers of paint. And what that liquid glass will do is it'll completely flatten off like epoxy does the texture on the surface. So that way I can work on a completely flat surface and go for another round. That's not the only way to do it. There's a bunch of different mediums. In fact, the cheapest I'll show you one. The cheapest one you can use to create a layer in between, not this stuff. It's a bit cheap, but PVA glue. Now, this.

Is just school glue, non-toxic stuff. This will just peel off like a sticker. But if you get PVA glue, that will also create the same sheen. The tradeoff is it's a little bit more blurry and can sometimes dry cloudy. So, that can be quite a cool effect and I have done it in the past, but if you want that perfect glassy sheen, which isn't always the perfect answer for what you're doing, epoxy epoxies have improved a lot over the years. They're not the same things that yellow immediately like they used to be, but they're also still not perfect. When they're not perfect, that means.

That over time, we're talking 20 years, the paint that's underneath the epoxy is going to slowly go more of a no, the paint's not going to change. The epoxy on top of that paint is going to slowly yellow teeny tiny bit over a few decades. And so what will happen is the paint further to the top of the surface will actually keep its vibrant color and the other ones will have this like amber sepia tint to it. Now, that's actually kind of fun because what's happened now is the works developing and changing over time. The colors further at the back in this painting's case.

The reds, the blues, the blacks will fall back in a sepia tone or the final highlights will pop off the top. So, the work actually develops and that's kind of fun. Right, Greg? Hello. Welcome here. And if you want to see the technique, you sir are in the right place. Hello to South Africa. Thank you very much, guys. Lovely to have you here. so this is layer one. And like I say, it's messy and it's rough. It needs to be. If you sit here in a corner of a work and etch away like this and slowly map it out, there's no energy. There's no.

Zest. There's no punch. what's that saying? The puppet show. There's no show without punch. And there's not The first coat needs to be like a well-lived life. wild, thrashing, crazy and colorful. And you can always start to zero in on ideas of what you want later in the piece. So you can get there is anytime is a good time to start building in your actual composition and details, but the only time you can go wild is at the start. So layer one has to be wild. I guess that's not entirely true, right guys? You can go wild later in life, 100%. But it's easier.

To do it at the start. I'm a big fan of this first layer, too. But [clears throat] we also have to give it a chance to see where it can go. so first color off the ranks. What's it going to be? I think we're going to chip into it with white into Naples yellow. If we're going with the black colors, the houses and the landscapes are just going to expand out in a blotchy kind of style, and I want to cut them back to then refine them. So, that's what we're going to do. X. yes, any social platform. It's Sg Art. That's a.

Mouthful and with not a lot of consonants. S E B G O W E R A R T. That's any platform. And you're away. X loves large video uploads. So evidently these replays are available on X cuz that's that's easy. and I have been enjoying I have been enjoying the one new feature on X. I got to admit to it got to admit credit where credit's due able to select topic rather than just scrolling your feed. So you can actually select art specifically. Now, I have felt like art's been a little bit what's the word? Art has felt a little bit covered.

With digital and AI art at the moment, which I love. Don't get me wrong, big fan of it. But the problem for me, the problem for me when you start narrowing down on AI art and digital art only, is there's more forms. Show me some guy carving some wood. Show me some guy working with paint. Show me some guy who works with textiles or gal, you know, show me the damn buckets. Show me people who are doing all sorts of forms of art. But again, it's it feels quite glass cany at the moment. Like if I ask you, where do I go if I.

Want to see just really fun physical art being made? Cuz that's that's quite a niche in itself, isn't it? Hey, buddy. That's quite a niche in itself. Or it's becoming a niche, isn't it? Okay, here we go. Voila. Bing, bing, bing. This is the brush we started with. So, you can see I ruined that little fella. You got a hard life. This one here, these are my two favorite kinds of brushes. I call them Uno and Doss. No. so two kinds of brushes. The flathead, a big fan of this one. The flathead brush has a flathead. You can see it there. Both these.

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