An old, old wooden ship

Good day team. We're here. We're here and I've got a lovely fresh canvas to be painting, which is very exciting. You only get to start a fresh canvas once every art piece. So, we're not doing that many of them. Only one per piece, actually. I think there was a author Of course there was there was some author not a painter but a a writer who was saying that the most exciting sentence of any book is the first one and then every sentence after that gets kind of it's a response to it or controlled by it and you know painting's not dissimilar. Not that the.

First stroke's the most exciting, but like the first layer, the first series of kind of wild strokes where you kind of get to imagine what it's going to be. And after that, you're always being wild, but somewhat having to either address or like mentally ignore what's there. It's okay. You can ignore it, but [clears throat] yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. We bought a water bottle this time. So, that's very exciting. And I've got some more clear painting medium. Pinting. That's what my daughter calls it. Pinting, daddy. Let's go painting. The problem with these things, and I love them to bits, but the problem with them.

Is the cap that actually seals in the liquid never stays on the actual thing. It gets caught in the lid. So, what happens now? I've got to go around and find some kind of pointy object to poke it free. So, then I can actually work with it. How about that? I think I have my pointy object now. Let me see. Poke. And it's free. Voila. The little battle we have every time we open up a new bottle of clear painting medium. All right, lid goes on. Now, layer one, we want to make sure that we don't lay on the paint too thick. Too thick leaves.

Behind texture. And while we love texture, we don't want it too early because early texture will stop later detail. I've got my lovely cushy stool here, which is going to be very exciting. And you can't see it, but there's been a very exciting upgrade in the studio. Arguably the most exciting upgrade for a wee while it's just behind you, and it's a heater. So, one thing that's been putting me off at Karen is coming out here into the studio at this time of year cuz in New Zealand it's winter. Coming out here to the studio and just getting hit with that cold cold air.

so I'm excited now if I could find a All right. I think we're going to go bare hands, guys. My gloves are pretty moist. Unless No, they're all moist. They've been out in the rain. If you can hear the rain, that's been coming down and causing all sorts of mischief. So, I've brought everything inside and it's going to be okay. We're working with very small small amounts of paint, but technically, no matter what, you want to be using paint outside. But we've got about the equivalent of three or four P's worth of paint. Good day, Jay and Jess. Hello. Yeah, I am very.

Warm. It's good because by golly, I live on the edge of a gorge. if you've seen the Netflix movie The Gorge, it's nothing like that. but on the edge of a gorge, we've got a little bit of a microclimate. And in that microclimate, it can get very very cold. Like when I say very cold, I mean one or two degrees. So about freezing temperature, just starting to get a frost and things like that. Not that bad to be fair. for the rest of the world as far as you're all concerned with the temperature you might deal with over in the States in.

Canada. I'm just going to I was just going to start hitting it with the brush, but actually we're going to mark out a few little details first. Nothing major, just because they're changing and because they're changing just mark out some details first. always kind of feel like we nail the composition just a little bit better. Not that we ever care about that too much, but we nail it just a little bit better when we just have a little bit of a scribble to start with. That scribble at the start, the scribbly wibbly chibi just helps me form a relationship with the piece before.

We crack him with paint. Hello Brian, welcome on in. And hello JS905509. Great to see you too. yes yes yes. I did see that come through. And no no. So it did work. The the request has come through. I'm sorry. I'm a little bit behind. Classic Creative been behind on emails. and I'm going to I'm going to catch up. There's a few people waiting on the funniest one, the the most ridiculous one when you know I'm inefficient at what I do is when we've got people out there waiting to be given their first deposit for a commission.

And they're going this this I'm I'm getting the feeling that this guy can't be bought. I'm getting the feeling that this guy's not interested with money. And I think I think you have to be to a degree like Dolly Parton told Miley Cyrus, beautiful music can be beautiful business, but you also have to be very careful not to let that control the business. And especially in the early years of you doing something, you can find that the financial need for something to actually be above water and successful can manipulate I think it manipulates you and therefore the art. But yeah, and that's why usually it's.

Really really healthy for creatives to actually do something like painting if you're just starting out at it part-time or design or sculpture because then you're you know with just a bit of hours you've got your rent if you if you're renting your rent and your food covered say hopefully. and if you can cover that then your I say hobby but your craft becomes something that makes you know the quality of your food go up and suddenly you can't you don't want your art to be bought if that makes sense. You don't want to be sale as such. And what do I mean by.

That? When I say bought, I mean kind of like sell out really because the problem is if you become a a gun for hire or your art can just be like I don't mean to make it harder for a buyer. should be easy to buy art and you know JS you know this it's I make it easy to buy the art but the key thing the key thing with it is is making sure those who buy art off you know that you're being true to you if you're not being true to you then what is no one wants to buy it then that.

Is a great question Taye from West Virginia Tiana from West Virginia. In fact, every time I upload a video to YouTube, the replays and things, it asks me, "Is this content for kids?" And I say, "No, no, it's not for kids. Cooper likes watching it, but it's not for kids." yeah. But I find the best thing about this content is that I get to make and the content makes itself. Who's that there? Hugh Mugs Chad's been an EU champion. Yeah, it's raining outside. I've got no choice. It's raining outside. but this also means that when I want to pack up, I literally just.

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