This shoe might be the end of Air Jordan 4 hype. I'm talking about the Kraft Air Jordan 4. Okay, that is a pretty bold statement, but the reason why I say that is, these things are sitting on shelves everywhere. Oh yeah, and if you didn't know by now, my name is DJ, and this is the DNA show. So before we start reviewing this sneaker and going over all the details, you know we gotta talk about the history first. Back in 1989, Michael Jordan took the court in the Air Jordan 4s, and we saw four different colorways during that time. The Fire Red 4, the Black Cement 4, the White Cement 4, and the Military Blue. And ever since those four releases, the Air Jordan 4 has been on a lot of people's lists when it comes to their all-time favorite models. I recently made an Air Jordan 4 Explained video where we go over all the different cuts and iterations of the Air Jordan 4s. And earlier this year, we saw a new model of the Jordan 4 in the Kraft iteration in the gray colorway. And now months later, we have the Olive colorway, and honestly, I thought a lot of people would think this pair was better than the gray ones, and these would probably sell out maybe within like a few days, but they've been out for a while, and they're still sitting on shelves, and a lot of sizes too. But either way, I thought this sneaker was dope, and I wanted to add these to my collection, so I did. So let's go ahead and take it to the studio so you guys can see all the details. So looking at the box right here, we have seen this treatment recently on the Retro Air Jordan 4s over the past, let's say year, two years, and what they're doing is, instead of having the lift off lid, you have the hinge on the lid right here, you got the all-over cement print speckled throughout with the glossy finish, and then you have the matte olive color here to match the color and aesthetic of the shoe, and then you have the white text with the sail color jump man in the center of that. Now looking at the size tag right here, it says Air Jordan 4 Retro SE for special edition, and then craft, and the color way on these is medium olive pale vanilla size 13, just for me, and retail on these was 210 bucks. Now lifting open the lid of the box right here, you got the olive on the inside, and then you got the cement print paper, and peeling that back, you got the shoe. Oh, you got the shoe. So first impression of this sneaker, when I saw these online, I was already like on the fence about the gray craft force, and I actually had those in my collection, but I ended up trading them away, and I was like, yeah, it's another, you know, it's cool, but I like the cool gray force more. But then when I saw these, I was like, these are dope. And I think it's simply because of the color switchup. Again, there's some couple things that I may not like about the shoe, but overall, we don't get to see too many all green force like this, besides the undefeated force, which is not even a release and way too expensive. That's like a $40,000 shoe. Looking at the bottom of the shoe, you got your classic Air Jordan 4 outsole.  Your center pod is gonna be white right here. Then you have that cream colored jump man matching the jump man right here on the top of the box. Same thing with the pod in the middle of the foot. And then you kind of got that more of a like greenish gray type color right here on the front end, around the toe and around the heel. Now, wrapping to the side of the foot right here on the midsole, this is actually like a sail color, or maybe they, I guess they call it vanilla. It's definitely not a pure white. And then if you look at the air unit on the inside, that looks more like a pure white if you ask me. Now go into the upper. This is something that some people like and some people don't. But one thing that I can say is when it comes to the craft series, they always come correct when it comes to the materials. Recently over the past few years, we have seen a lot of sneakers releasing, a lot of sneakers releasing. But what I can say is, Jordan Brand has definitely been stepping it up. Because if you guys remember back in the 2015 to 2017 era, they were releasing a lot of terrible retros. They were bad quality, bad materials, bad shapes. You name it. So Jordan Brand's stepping it up. They're giving us that classic 89 cut for the Air Jordan 4. We're getting that back on all the models. They're coming correct with the materials and the different designs. So again, I cannot complain. But at the same time, I do understand why these are still sitting on shelves. So looking at the upper right here, you have a mixture of a few different materials. So looking at the Harry's waist, you have that wrapping around the front end around the toe area.  Now go on to the collar area. You have that same Harry's suede right here on the inside of the foot around the ankle.  And then for your nets, instead of having nets, you actually have more of like an embossed type of printed Harry's suede right here. Kind of like as a stamped print within the suede. And then that also goes on the tongue as well, right here on the front end of the shoe. So typically wherever you would see nets, they still created that concept, but didn't actually add the nets. Now just above this Harry's suede right here, you have more of an olive tone suede that's wrapping around the entire foot over the toe right here on the vamp. And then around the side in, around the heel. And then on the outside of the foot on around the collar area, around the side, around the ankle. That actually is gonna be your regular suede as well right here. And there's a little patch.  It would have just been so much better. But again, I can't complain because if you're wearing pants and it's covering it up, I get it. You may not see it, whatever. Some people love it. Some people hate it. It's just, I don't know. You know what I'm saying? That's kind of what was throwing it off for me on the gray pair too. But this olive pair, I actually think I'm gonna keep these. Now continuing on with the shoe, you have a cracked leather right here, all black leather on the arm of the shoe. And that's gonna be on both sides left and right. And then on the front end, you have a translucent, kind of semi-translucent.  Now, this is kind of a little bit different of a switch up from the gray craft four because on those, remember, it was kind of like the yellow tone and it didn't really, I guess it kind of like stood out a little bit, but these ones, they actually kind of blend in and align with the color blocking of the shoe a little bit more, if that makes sense. So I would say that kind of might be the only switch up for the most part, but everything is pretty much identical to the gray craft fours that recently came out earlier in the year. Now, these come standard with a pair of olive laces and there's no additional laces that come with the shoes as well. I think for 210 bucks, you could definitely get an extra pair of laces. Now, continuing on with the tongue right here, you have a hairy suede throughout the tongue. You got your classic Air Jordan 4 patch right here in all black with your sail jump man and the white flight text just below that. And then another iconic touch to the shoe, your upside down Air Jordan patch right here on the back end of the tongue, all black on the sock liner and then the same thing, sail with the jump man. And again, on these no Nike Air, you just got a jump man on the back tab. This is actually more of a semi-translucent as well, more of a kind of like that smoke black smoke kind of brownish undertone to it, matching with the ice stays at the front of the shoe. This is all going to be the same thing right here on the back. So I like how they kind of kept that in unison and brought all that together, even with the same color on the jump man instead of like doing the white, making it pop out. They brought the shoe together really nicely. I think it's a solid shoe, but again, $210 with all the sneakers that are coming out right now and it's a craft series and everybody's been on the fence about it. Me personally, I was like, yo, I need these in my collection. I made sure I got them, but I had a feeling they weren't going to sell out and it should have been a pretty easy cop and exactly what happened is what happened. So I ended up grabbing the shoe, now I got these in the collection and I don't think I'm letting these ones go. I think the gray ones, again, they're like cool grays and other stuff. I think other models are better than those. I got the cost fours. There's other models that I like over these, but I definitely like this green pair a lot. And again, I'm looking forward to the Olive Air Jordan 5s. That might be a dope little pick for putting those together as well. So let me know what you guys think about this shoe down below in the comment section when it comes to your purchase and experience. Did you buy the shoe? Did you not? How do you feel about the resale? What's going on with the shoe? What's up with the market right now? Everything is just crazy. But besides all that, you know me, I'm always interested to see, do people even think this shoe is fire or do they think this shoe is trash? So I posted a poll on my Instagram story. If you haven't already, make sure you follow me on IG so you can participate in the polls and see all the results here on the channel. Ask them a simple question. This is what they said. 61% of the people said fire and 39% of the people said trash. And that makes complete sense. I get it. Like I said, there's a lot of different reasons as to why somebody may not have wanted this shoe or doesn't like the design or whatever it may be. Either way, a lot of people love Air Jordan Force. People have been loving Air Jordan Force. I've been loving Air Jordan Force for many years, way before all this hype of Air Jordan Force came around with TikTok and all the other things. Let me know what y'all think. I hope you guys enjoyed this. It's a great pickup. I'm glad I had these.  And if you wanna see anything else and got any recommendations, hit the comment section down below and don't forget to hit that subscribe button. All right, I'm out. I would never let you down. If you enjoyed this video and you wanna learn more, I have a ton on the inside when it comes to my sneaker head Academy. 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So good morning everyone. How are you all doing? Good. I know as sleepless nights. That's how it should be. So happy to know. So happy to know that you know things are getting faster and tighter towards the end of the semester. I can only pray for you. Okay, so let's pray and then we'll get started. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time. We thank you Lord for your word that refreshes us, strengthens us, O God. Father, even today we pray that Lord that we will go deeper in our understanding and above all Lord that your power will be, Lord imparted into our Spirit's God that we may continue to serve you in the power of the Holy Spirit. Father God, we pray for your leading through our discussions of God and help us to clarify our doubts and be very, very focused, very clear on what you want us to do. We thank you once again. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. So we are talking about the anointing. Very interesting to look at how the power in the presence of the Holy Spirit guides us. We said in the last class that the Holy Spirit dwells inside us to lead us but the Holy Spirit power comes upon us or the anointing comes upon us to do the work of the ministry. And then we said a couple of other things such as the anointing close in line with the gift and the grace of God on our lives. So that's what we should pursue the most. Then we also said that the anointing accompanies the word of God because the word of God is more than just information. We know that there are historians, people who read the Bible to get some information but it doesn't change their lives. But when we read with faith knowing that the word of God is Spirit, it has spiritual power. Then what happens is by faith we are drawing the power of God into our lives and day by day our lives are changed. Others who are reading it without faith doesn't really work much for them but we are seeing the power of God. So we need to understand that the word of God carries the Spirit and the power of God. So anointing comes from there also and last class we mentioned that to flow in greater anointing, spending more time in the word helps a lot. So meditate on the word of God. Then we said consecration. Consecration simply means to empty ourselves of anything that is unrighteous, ungodly and be pure before the Lord. So the more we are surrendered to God, the greater the manifestation of God's power in and through our lives. So these were some aspects. We'll learn more about the anointing today. So when we talk about the anointing, one good thing is that the anointing can increase. It will increase in line with our faith, in line with, what can I say? Mainly our faith, our faith which will affect the anointing and it increases and it will flow in a greater measure. Some of the other things that will make the anointing increase would be the expectation of people. So when people that we are ministering to have a desire to see the power of God, we will find more manifestation. You remember Jesus also, he said wherever he found unbelief, he said I'm not able to do miracles, it's because of their unbelief. So how can the anointing increase? One is through our faith, through our surrendered lives. Second is through the expectation that people carry. So that's another way of seeing a better flow of the anointing. So we can encourage people to expect. How to get people to expect more from God? What are some good ways? And they see the supernatural through the testimonies, they'll seek more. When they themselves receive whatever healing miracle, then their expectation goes up. They're able to minister to another person through the word. So if you think about our Sunday services, especially we have this one Sunday that we call supernatural Sunday. So how do seemingly more miracles happen on a supernatural Sunday? I'm sure it's happening every Sunday, but people testify more. Maybe because there is that expectation of today's supernatural Sunday.  I'm expecting something from God. So that is one thing, but the word. So every Sunday we preach about miracles, every supernatural Sunday we preach about miracles, God's power. So once we preach, what happens to people's faith increases. And then the ministry time and all, then people receive more. So that's a good way of helping people expect more. First you preach the word. What do you want people to expect from God? If you want people to expect breakthroughs, preach about breakthroughs, then expectation goes up, faith goes up, people receive. So that's the best way. Even in some of the crusades you must have noticed. I mean, if you have attended any crusades, usually they'll preach about all this, like how Jesus healed, Jesus did this, Jesus did that. And then they'll say, do you believe? Come on, let's pray. Because they're putting their trust in the, if Jesus could do that for them, he can do it for us. So expectation really goes up. So these are all ways of building faith both sides. The minister and the people who are receiving from the minister. Maybe even worship. I think even worship, praise also raises up our expectation, our focus on God. So then people are able to receive. So these are all things that we can look into. Any other thoughts about how to increase the anointing? We've already discussed quite a few things, but anything else that will increase the anointing on our lives? Yeah, because online can hear you. When we are speaking about the testimonies also, this high witness will help them to just believe more. Okay, okay. That helps so much actually and practically. I mean, for the congregation Christians and all, maybe we can use the word of God and the non-believers and all unbelievers. So these testimonies, I mean, most of these generals also come to church by listening by the testimonies. Like if you go to church, this will happen. Mostly the testimonies. So testimonies and if they themselves witness that builds them up, that's true. But you know, somewhere, Anand, we can't underestimate the power of the word. See, sometimes the word is, it may not feel very interesting when you share a scripture with them. Like Jesus of Nazareth went about doing good, healing all those who were oppressed by the devil like Acts 10, 38. If you tell them, it's not interesting. They also may not really fully grasp it, but we cannot underestimate the impact of the word on their lives. So point I'm making is, for the sake of interest of the listener, don't avoid the word. Testimonies is nice. You'll get their interest. Quickly they'll catch it. But there is a place for us to preach, like share the word also. Don't avoid it. See, sometimes we just want everything to be so interesting. Okay, but it may lack power. I don't know if you're understanding what I'm trying to say. But the thing is what you said is true. But the thing is what I actually experience practically, you know, ministry and most of the time, if we preach and well these who are uneducated and all, they couldn't even concentrate. They don't even think also. Correct. If some testimony, if some eyewitness comment, they'll be more attractive and they'll be more empowered. Correct. In most of the village areas, this is what how it actually happened. Correct. We should avoid the word. But in most of the rural areas, the system how it works is like this testimony. Yeah, sure. I agree with you. So we can use a lot of testimonies, but wherever we use testimonies also, just to be a little more alert about teaching the word because yeah, because also another thing that I have personally noticed is in some places where they use more testimonies and more, you know, just this healing miracles and all people are only caught up in that. They don't have a good foundation of the word. They just say, you know, healing deliverance, healing deliverance. Okay, good. It is glorifying God, but discipleship is also something, you know, you have to take them through, make them strong and exactly, exactly. So it's a good balance. So the word also and testimonies also. Fine. That will also increase anything else. Increase the anointing. Okay, we'll go one by one. He started first. Yeah. Like we should so practically like if I'm preaching about anointing, yes, and I should so like how we can like Jesus said, if you are Son of God, then you will cast out demons, you will pray for sick people. And if I'm preaching just that is not like more effective. Yeah. If I am doing that, correct, then they will see then I can teach also. So you also can also can do. So practically it will be very good. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's very important. And we have to get to that place to demonstrate then only what we are saying has, you know, like people can believe it. Like just if we are just preaching like if you have faith, you can do this. You can do this if not showing. Yeah. That means they have, but they cannot use if we are not showing to how to use their practically ways. Yes. Yes. Yeah. True. So that's also there. So then we practice more and our faith increases people's faith also increases. Yeah. Great. So for me, I what I think to increase our knowing thing is the first our intimacy with God because what we do in our personal time would obviously reflect in the public. And the other thing is also about building our character. I mean that will help us to remain in that place. Excellent. Yeah. Very true. So intimacy with God and building our character are really key points. You were saying something Prince. Same thing. If it is like the question is what increases our anointing. I want to be abiding more in God's word. Yes. Having that personal walk. Yeah. And like being holy, like keeping ourselves pure for God so that he can work towards you. Yeah. So intimacy and holiness. We already said consecration surrender along those lines. So all these things really help us increase the anointing. Now when it comes to increasing the anointing, there are some other concepts that people talk about. We'll just examine them a little bit. So one is known as impartation. Have you heard? Yeah. Impartation. So. Yeah. Impartition. Correct. So then let's talk a little bit about impartation also to address some myths or wrong information regarding impartation. So this term impartation, we may not find it in the Bible exactly like, Oh, there is a word called impartation. Not like that. We can see it happening or impartation in another way to understand it is more like the transference of the anointing. The anointing is transferred. Okay. We observe that phenomenon, but you don't really see the word impartation. So I've heard that this word impartation is a new word, which they come somewhere they came up with this word to describe the transfer of the anointing recently some few decades ago. That's all. So what is this impartation? The transfer of the anointing, it's a real thing that takes place. And so what people do is to increase their anointing, they run behind impartation. Like if I can get an impartation from someone, then my anointing will increase. Okay. So what is the reality about the impartation? So we have to understand that impartation is biblical. We know in the case of Elijah, Elisha, that's like the classic case where he says, give me double of double portion. But you see that, what did Elijah say? Keep looking at me. If you do that, then you will get it. Why did he do that? See one of the main reasons is because as human beings, we cannot give and take anointing. Okay. It's like even in John chapter three, Jesus says, a man cannot receive unless it is given to him from heaven. Meaning anointing comes from God. We don't give and take. Like if I'm a leader and I'm so pleased with someone who's serving on my team. I can't say, okay, take my anointing. It won't work because it's not, first of all, it's not my anointing. It's God who's giving the anointing to me to use it and function in it. Therefore, anointing comes from God and even impartation will happen by God to others. So that is something we have to settle in our minds. Second thing about impartation, impartation will happen only aligned to our gifts. For example, you can take the, you know, the story of Saul. Saul, there is one incident in first Samuel chapter 10 where there is a company of prophets who are walking with their instruments and all and Saul kind of meets them. So temporarily we read that Saul prophesied. But after that you never read about it. You never read about Saul prophesying. Only once it says Saul prophesied. So the understanding that we get is you see Saul was called to be a king. So what is his calling? What should be his gifts? More leadership, right? Administration, those kind of gifts are his. But in those days you also had an anointing for the prophets.  So his gifting is in the area of prophesying. So temporarily Saul kind of just touched the anointing of prophecy. But it never, you cannot see that Saul became a great prophet. You don't read that at all because even if he received an impartation it won't work to the degree that it worked for Samuel. Samuel's calling is in the area of prophecy. So the point, we may receive an impartation from somebody but that impartation will act along my gifts and my calling. Understood? So I may go to a wonderful worship leader. And I may say, please lay your hands on my head. Anoint me with oil. I want to sing like you. And the person prays over me. But if I can't carry a tune, I cannot even expect that just because that person put oil and prayed from tomorrow I'll start singing. Not happening. I may try to sing but it may still be as bad as it was the previous day. Okay? Because maybe my anointing is more in the area of teaching the word. So thank God for that prayer but it won't make me a worship leader. You understood? So when we look at impartation, that's what people think. They feel like if I go to a prophet, I'll become like that prophet like Ditto. I'll become like that prophet. Or I'll go to this person like maybe Dalin check or someone. She'll pray for me. I'll become like her like one worship leader, a singer. But it doesn't work like that because we've already discussed that. Align to our gifts and callings faster. Yeah. Yeah. See receiving an impartation to an extent is true. That's why parents take their children to a great minister of God and say, oh, my son will become like that preacher. But what they don't understand is, okay, they may receive that blessing and impartation also but it will not work just like that preacher. It'll work with the gifts that that child has. Understood. So, yeah. So if, see, if we don't have any so-called mentor figure, leader figure over our lives, whatever reason why it is like that, you can still be a very anointed person. There's no problem. But like in, yeah, that's correct. But you see, it is available. You know what I mean? Like when you, when you follow certain preachers or certain ministers of God, there is provision. God does that. He takes from their anointing and imparts it to us. So why, what I'm saying is there is a balance, Anand. Okay. I can say that I don't want it. I can be by myself. I can grow in the anointing of God. I don't need anybody else's anointing. But in the kingdom, it is there. So if you end up, let's say, working with someone for a very long time, if you're faithful, see, God does that. He takes from their lives and puts it on your life. So all I'm saying is don't say no. Yeah. Yeah, we can't do that. We can't. Yeah. God can do that. No, we can have faith. See, when we desire an anointing, even when you desire, God is able to see when we desire something like even spiritual gifts, right? We say desire spiritual gifts. So though I'm not able to give you scripture and verse to say desire anointing, Elisha desired it. God didn't say no. He said, okay, I'll take it from Elijah's life. I'll put it on your life. So there is something about, I mean, don't go running after ministers. But God does that. He takes it from another person's life and he puts it on your life. He can do and he does it. So, you know, through association, it happens. That's actually my next point. So association is again Elisha, Elijah's case because they were associated. It came from Elijah to Elisha today. Yeah, I'll just quickly finish. So today association can mean either we are working together, ministering together, or even let's say when you are following somebody's preaching, or even if you're reading somebody's books. Okay. All this is kind of association. Somewhere you can sense that impartation on your life. Yeah. Everyone will sense that. Okay. No, I'm saying, see, we receive faith from somebody's teaching that part. I agree. But I am talking about transference of anointing. Okay. So it becomes kind of, I don't know how to say, not evident, but it's there. See, that, yeah, yeah, yeah. Correct. Yes. Understood. No, no, I'm getting what you're saying. But what you're saying is the association naturally will bring some similarities. That's what you're saying. Right. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about anointing. Yeah. Naturally happening that, that is understood over and above. You sense certain things over a period of time. Like if you're faithful, God tends to do that. He tends to take it off of that ministry or that person and puts it. Okay. And that's something that we can witness to. Yeah. Nina.  Exactly. It is like that anointing can God can use where you are good in or where God want us to wants you to be. Yes. Yes. Anointing will be there, but the working of the anointing will be different in each person according to their gifting. Their gifting. Yes. Definitely. Gifting and like how much you really desire. Right. So like Elisha, it's amazing. If you read about the miracles, you count the miracles. It's exactly double. The miracles of Elijah, like you make a list and then you make a list. It's exactly double because he asked for double the anointing. God has a way of saying that, hey, I did it. So it's actually double miracles for Elisha. So that his anointing will reduce. Yeah. Good question. Yeah. See, it's anointing is coming from God, right? So I think you don't have to worry like even if you feel like something went out, something will come again and fill that empty space, I suppose. But yeah, you don't get depleted of the anointing. It only increases the more you use it. Yeah, that's true. Actually, that's true. Yeah. What is that case? The power went out. Okay. Power went out. No, we won't call it impartation because impartation is more aligned to ministry. It's anointing that I receive. I use it for ministry. What happened in the case of that lady Mark five is healing anointing. It came to heal her. Okay. So this one, we'll again read about it in power and in presence and glory where sometimes the presence and power of God is very tangible. Like you can feel it. Even in our spiritual senses and sometimes through our natural senses also. So that's what happened for that lady that power was very tangible for her and even for Jesus, he felt that the power left him. So that's not really impartation. That's healing anointing. Okay. Right. So regarding impartation, another truth is that impartation can happen in a measure. So when we look at an example in the life of Moses, there was a time when Moses, he wanted to lead, but leading alone was difficult. So God showed him like 70 others. He needs to select, pray for them. And then they will also receive the anointing of God to lead. But in that case, what you see is a measure of the anointing which was upon Moses was put on the 70 people. So it's not exactly like, you know, whatever Moses has, everything went on the 70 people. It's not like that because if you look at the ministry of Moses, he was a leader. He was a prophet. Okay. So maybe yeah, these, these two mainly the anointing. But when the 70 people received, they only received the impartation of leadership and that to a measure of it. Then you don't find their names being written or them leading so powerfully. None of that to some extent they were able to lead well. So here is another point. So when we say impartation, impartation, maybe the, you know, some major minister has prayed over us and we have received it. Now we may receive a measure of the anointing on their lives in line with our gifting. So it's not like full, whatever they have has come off to us. Yeah. When, when we are talking about, I just want to play it. Yes. Just about the receiving the Holy Spirit. I mean baptism. The baptism in Holy Spirit. So what is this? And is it maybe a little bit similar? Like opposed to the spread for, for they, they prayed and they see the Holy Spirit. Yeah. See receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit is the normal growth curve of any believer. But impartation is more about sort of increasing your anointing for ministry. Got it. So like everyone should be baptized in the Holy Spirit. Now will everyone receive an impartation? Is everyone desiring an impartation? Maybe not. Yeah, we have to desire. Yeah, we need to. Desiring the gifts of the spirit and no, it's not the same thing. It's not the same thing. See, as far as impartation is concerned, why are we talking about it? Keys to supernatural ministry. Okay. So for the sake of ministry, I have to increase in my anointing. Got it. So all this comes after I have been baptized in the Holy Spirit. I'm hopefully moving in the gifts of the spirit, everything. Now I'm doing ministry. I want to do strong supernatural ministry. Then we are talking about impartation. Yeah. So it doesn't come early in our journey. Maybe somewhere when we are doing ministries, when we think about growing in our anointing and all that. It's clear. Okay. Fine. So these are all the realities about impartation and which is why we must not go running after transference of anointing.  Just use it to serve the Lord and keep going higher in our walk with the Lord and service of people. So these are important things to understand. What else? Yeah. What could hinder the anointing? Any thoughts? So far we said, what can increase the anointing? What can hinder the anointing? Yes. Correct. Character, intimacy with God. If you are not intimate with God, that life is not there. You know, connected to the true wine. Only then the life flows, right? When we are disconnected, the branch becomes dry. It's just worth throwing it away. So in the same way, when I walk with the Lord is not close and strong. Somewhere we can sense that anointing is not strong enough. That's a reason. How about unbelief? Obviously, if faith can increase the anointing, unbelief can decrease the anointing. So these things will hinder us. But anything else that comes to your mind, things that will stop the anointing. Temptations. So mostly becoming weaker in our faith and all. Again, that kind of puts us in a place where we are not able to use the anointing. And the point that Prince also said, the more we use the anointing, the stronger it gets. So when we read about anointing, there are many things that there are a lot of books. There's a lot of information about how to get the anointing, how to move in the anointing. So you'll also see that there is something about being sensitive to the anointing. And the more you use it. For example, let's say we are leading worship or we are doing a ministry time. What happens? Your senses, right? You've got to be very sensitive. We also talk about John 7 where Jesus said, out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. So the waves of the anointing, it's rising, it's coming down. Your spirit needs to sense it. Okay, what is God saying now? What's happening now? Now there's joy in the presence of God. Now there's peace. Now God is saying there's now God. So it's literally like surfing. You know you get your surfboard and the waves of the spirit. We just get better and better at it. The more we get into that space of ministering, you kind of know when to switch. I remember a couple of times this happened in the North Church and I think it happened in other locations also. One Sunday the worship team came and they were worshiping. They were worshiping and worshiping and it was almost time for me to come and preach. But I couldn't. I was like if I go to that pulpit, I'm making a mistake. I shouldn't take away this time. You know I was not, I was really like I shouldn't do this and I was just sitting at my chair and then the worship team was worshiping. They are also feeling strongly that they have to worship. Then I kind of quietly went and I just checked with them and I told the congregation we sense right now that God is doing something so we will not go into the sermon. Very rare such things happen. But we were sensing the anointing of the spirit in that worship which should not stop that day. And some crazy things, testimonies came out of it where you know after the full time it was full worship only. We didn't stop at all. It just went on and everyone was into it. Then people shared testimonies like they saw angels, they had these visions and there was one person like a man, quite tall man. He was standing at the end of the room.  You don't find like men crying in public like that. He's crying. Somebody else is crying. Oh my goodness. This can only be God. How is it that people are being so touched? Nobody is saying anything, nobody is doing anything. But you see like for the team, all of us we need a sense. When I say sense, literally like a sensor you've got a sense what is the Holy Spirit doing? Do we need more of this or less of this? Is there a healing anointing? Do we start calling out healing now? So that kind of moving in the anointing. So as I told you, right? You'll find books where preachers will write all these things. They'll say you'll be sensitive to the voice of the spirit, what the spirit is doing in that moment. And the more you do that, the better we get at it. Okay. To pick it up faster. So these are all things that really, really help. If there is an anointing for something, you've got to flow. So we call it flowing with the anointing. So that also is something to become strong in. So it's like a super, super interesting topic. Is there any key step to just step out of this from the reading, from books to reality? Is there any like a point or something? Yeah. So see Anand, theory we have. Okay. But I feel where we all struggle is the practice.  Or healings. We hesitate. We hesitate a lot. So when we hesitate, no, this flow that I'm talking to you about, every time we are stopping the flow, there's no faith to get the flow going. And the more we stop the flow, we don't become firm. Like it becomes harder and harder. So that is why we have all the theory, how come we are not familiar with it? Because we do not have some courage to practice it. And the way God works, no, is he starts from the smallest, like the don't despise the day of small beginnings.  The more we step out, what I'm talking about sensitivity to the anointing will develop. That's the way to practice. Now if we are not going to take the small prompting, forget about growing in the anointing, all that comes later. It's all about those small prompts where we have to start. Yeah.  Yeah, forget about your reputation. What people will say, oh, he's making a mistake. See how he's, forget it. Leave your reputation at home and come.  Be ready to look foolish. It's okay. Yeah, that's how you start. So we were saying, what are the things that hinder lack of faith, not stepping out, no desire or unwillingness. These things will stop or quench the Holy Spirit. Won't quench the Holy Spirit when he wants to flow. And of course the works of the flesh. So when we carry the wrong motivation, I think rinse that character, character is so important. So receiving the anointing is one thing, but keeping the anointing and flowing in the anointing for a long period of time. It really depends on our character. Okay, how strong we are as a person in God, and that will enable us to keep moving ahead in the anointing. Okay, yeah, that's true. Yeah, yes. Forgot the question. We are talking about wrong motivation. Wrong motives? They hinder the anointing to flow right now. So sometimes some people do out of some things, like some pastors, they do some things out of their wrong motivation, like for themselves. So even those things will stop the move of God for taking about healing. A person has a healing. He was anointed in healing. And he went to pray for someone who came expecting for a healing. And as he's praying, his motive was like, if I heal this, they will acknowledge me. I will be praised. If he has that motivation, and with that motivation he is praying, will it stop the healing miracle? Yeah. See, right motivation and character is of course key to not just anointing everything in our Christian life. And I think we mentioned that scripture. Let me quickly go to it. Yeah. Second Timothy to 20 to 22 where it says, if a man, therefore I'm reading KJV, purge himself from these. He shall be a vessel unto honor sanctified and meet for the master's use and prepared unto every good work. So what God is saying is, from a pure vessel, the ministry will happen. Like you're ready for the master's use. Ready for every good work. So that means, if we are not pure, then actually we are not ready. What God wants us to do, we won't be able to do it properly. Same thing for the anointing. It will hinder the anointing. Okay. But here is another thing to notice. The gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. Romans 11 29. So it simply means, when God gives us a gift to know, for a long time that gift will function. Even if we are in the wrong. Okay. So we may not see the gift stop. 11 29. Romans 11 29. So we may see for a long time that a person is actually flowing in the anointing, even though their motivations are wrong. Yeah. That can also happen. It will. Yeah. If they don't repent, then they won't be able to use it. No. Irrevocable means that, once he is given, he is given. Like even we talk about, okay controversial subject. No, Israel. It actually, Romans 11 29 is, it is in line with Israel.  The promise to Abraham, like Genesis 12 3. He says he'll never take it back. That promise remains. Okay. You got it. So in that context, they write Romans 11 29. Yeah. That God will fulfill his promise, even though Israel doesn't believe gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. Okay. No, it's the word of God. Like what he has promised, you can't go back on it. No. So his promise, he's very zealous to keep it. All right. Sure. So shall we wrap up today then? Yeah. So apparently if I take class, during another person's class, some attendance issues might happen. The people who cannot attend at that time, like online students, they will lose their attendance. Got it. So for that sake, pre-recording is the option that's given to me. Yeah. I can do that. I can do that. See, we'll figure out a way. I'm just hoping that during our classes, we can still deal with more questions. Should be fine. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. Yeah. We'll figure. Okay. All right. Let's. Yeah. Yeah. Not really. That's why I haven't specified over there. But I would suggest like a minimum of maybe 250, 300 words. It's not much. Yeah. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. That's a minimum. They are not, I'm not telling you a maximum. You can write a book also. Just that I don't know if I'll read it. Yeah. Yeah. It can be more than that. Words can be more than that. There's no problem. It's fine. So try to, maybe 300 is a reasonable shot. Not so short also. Don't worry about me, Prince. I'll manage. Yeah. Okay. And Jack in has a comment here. Sorry, Jack in. I missed it. She says living a life without compromise, dealing to Christ in obedience, even when times are difficult and during uncertainty, never doubt God's word, but hold on. So that would keep our anointing. Wonderful. So shall we close with a word of prayer? Who would like to lead us? Okay. Let's pray. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you Lord. Thank you for this class. And thank you for explaining so many things to us, O Lord. Lord, help us to practice all these things in our lives, O Lord. Lord, thank you for nancing. Thank you for the class. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. And thank you all the best for your assignment.


Hey Ian, how are you? I'm just getting started. It's been quite a morning. Hey Kathy. Alrighty. So first things first, we are going to get started with the iPad first. And as usual, I'm watching my broadcast on my iPad while my desktop is doing the actual broadcasting. I have an HD webcam on a long cable so I can move it over to my art table anyway. So I'm going to click on the display and click on the three dots, click on quality, click on the highest resolution it'll let me. That'll give me the best picture I can get so that I can keep an eye on what everything looks like. And we'll set this off to the side so I can look at the chat. Then we're going to cover our hands with some art guard. I woke up this morning to ants in my kitchen. Like seriously, I think all of Santa Clara County is built on a giant ant hill. Drives me crazy. So that's how my day started. Hey Tommy girl, how are you? So needless to say I'm on my third cup of coffee because I just feel like after battling ants in my kitchen this morning and cleaning my kitchen and then having to do laundry and everything that goes along with that. Yeah, I needed to have another cup of coffee. All right. So we are going to use the Daniel Smith watercolors today and I'm going to activate them with some water that has ox gall liquid in it which is from Windsor. The one I have is from Windsor Newton. I have to get the inspiration photos like all wet. We're going to move them. We're going to put the brushes over here. All right. So instead of spraying it, I really liked how the paints reactivated by putting some in with a dropper. Also, if you are more careful about how you put your paints in your metal watercolor box and you don't have to worry so much about the box maybe rusting. Now, I will say it's not the box that rusts. It's this tray that holds the watercolors in because it's not enameled on the back side which is kind of dumb. No, yeah, although we do have flying termites in Santa Clara County and my parents' old house when they lived here, we had that in actually our garage which was disgusting. I went out there one day to get something out of the freezer and every single surface was covered in termites. It was gross because they were migrating. But yeah, it still wasn't a great thing to wake up to first thing this morning. I should have done this before I went live but my morning has been unexpectedly busy and I know I say that a lot but today I really mean it. This whole ant thing termite. Now, you got me saying termites. Yeah, this is a great way to activate the paints and also ensure that you're not wasting your water everywhere and that you're not taking any extra chances on the box rusting.  This is the most used box I have so I do lift up the tray every now and then clean underneath it. If there is any rust under there, I clean it off. I do have a piece of plastic wrap between the tray that holds the paints and the bottom of the box. The inside of the box is enameled so I worry less about that rusting through than I do the tray. But now that I know about Jackson's art and I know a cheap place to get these boxes should I have one that just really gets really past it and really rusty. I can just buy a new one. Yeah, less damage to the brushes too. I agree with that. I'm good.  We're using Daniel Smith. I edited the title of the broadcast to reflect that. Daniel Smith is my preferred paint. I really like their color range. I like the way the paints granulate. I like the fact that they're really easy for me to get because they're local to my area. So we're going to do a cherry tree. I don't know how this is going to turn out, but we'll find out. I need a pencil. That'll work. Hey, Lisa. Both Lisa's Lisa. Oh, and Lisa. Did I see? Yeah. I'm Lisa S. Hey, all right. So we have all of these pictures that we need to thank Mr. Ian for sending to me all of these fun inspiration photos of cherry trees and some of Japanese gardens with I think that's a Japanese maple, but that's really great inspiration. So we're going to use one or more of these pictures to create our painting today. And I think our main composition is going to be from this one, but we're going to change the maple tree to a cherry tree. Sorry. All right. So I'm going to set my pictures up propped up against the cabinets. I have these really great photos of cherry blossoms that he also sent me. I'm going to put one of them in front and set it up off camera. There we go. So I have some good inspiration. I like cooking, but it's really hard for me to stay focused.  It's just, you know, squirrel. I'm okay. All right. So I got happy mail recently, which I loved and I appreciate all of your guys happy mail. This particular happy mail have this really interesting brush in it by Rosemary and Company and it's a triangular brush with a fabulous tip. And I haven't, I mean, you can see it's still got all the sizing in it. So we're going to try it this morning. We're going to get all of the brushes wet and our paints are getting nice and juicy. Now this is just an empty medicine dropper bottle. You can get these from American Science and Surplus and I usually have quite a few of them around and it is a great thing to put your watercolor water in with the Oxgall liquid in it. And then you can just use the dropper to put the water in the pans. If you have little kids around, save one of their empty medicine bottles and wash it out and use that. My daughter's 22 and I don't have kids around anymore. Just do yourself a favor though and what I'll do as soon as I'm off camera is label it because I forget what's in here. I'm sort of, can you be a half vegetarian? Because I do eat quite a few vegetarian meals, at least when I'm home.  So I'm going to first, I like this picture here which I don't know, I'm going to move everything down just a little bit. Let's see if you can see it on camera. I'm okay Gail, how are you? Baddling ants in my kitchen this morning. I'm on coffee cup number three. The secret project is done and out of my hands and there'll be an announcement about it this weekend. So there we go. So you can see most of the picture up here. So we're going to just like do a quick pencil sketch of I like the little bridge in this photo and the movement of the tree. Yeah, there was a, we had a little tremor this morning. I don't think it was very strong but I was, you know, finally had the ants all cleaned up and I was sitting drinking my coffee and the house felt like a truck ran into it. So, yeah, but, you know, it was it was fine.  It's not nothing you could do about it. Oh, that's a good, I'm reading back on the comments so that's a good tip. Sometimes you can buy these empty bottles at the pharmacy or the drug store. So you might want to ask and semi-vegetarian semi-vegan. Okay, so I'm semi-vegetarian. I would never be vegan. I like cheese too much to be really honest. I could not do that. I could like probably give up eggs but I can't give up cheese unless it's going to kill. Well, we won't go there. I can't give up cheese. I don't eat it as much as of it as I used to. I do have high cholesterol but and they do. They seem, I looked to them, the Rosemary and Company people up and they have seemed to have a really good range of brushes and in your bedroom. See, at least they were in my kitchen. I'd rather have them in the kitchen than in the bedroom. Holy cow. Hi Sharon. Hi Eve. It's not frozen for me so I don't know if anybody else is having trouble. I'm getting the page wet. These dropper bottles are really handy. I also have one that has alcohol in it that you've probably seen me use on camera. They are really handy in the art room. So I'm using my really big Princeton Neptune brush. Really big giant round. I don't think that's what it's called. It's a quill brush. It's a number eight quill. Yeah, we sometimes get them in the bathroom which is another strange place to have ants. I'm going to use Oh, my thing is upside down. Alright, let's turn it that way. So I'm going to use the Sleeping Beauty Turquoise which is a light blue color. My comments we're going to start talking about food. Y'all are going to make me hungry. Well, I love opera rose. It's a good color. Okay, and then I'm going to switch to a smaller brush. So let's see. I want to go with one of my greens. I'm going to keep it light for the moment. We're going to go with green gold and I'm going to just try to grab just a little bit. Yeah, maybe you need to send me that Pinterest recipe. I know when we were putting the new refrigerator in because like I said before we live in Santa Clara County and this is old farm community in fact where my house used to be an apple orchard years and years ago and I think that means we just have tons of tons and tons of ants and creatures and so anyway I had a habit especially when I had day care of getting a bunch of you know the little ant traps and putting them way back underneath you know the stove and underneath the fridge where of course where the kids couldn't get them but they would be under there and you know the ants would hopefully take the bait and not come back anyway when we move when we move the paint I mean the refrigerator and stove to clean underneath them when the new one was coming we found so many of the little ant traps I was like oh man we haven't done this since I got heard at work this is not good okay let's see the light is strong on the paper oh it is okay well let's see let's turn it a little bit or maybe let's see and I can also zoom in a bit hang on yes I Gail I I didn't get gifted these I bought these and I bought them like two or three tubes at a time until I built up my palette and this was before I discovered Jackson's art and I bought the empty box from Shminka but now I know about Jackson's art and they sell these metal watercolor boxes which I love and I won't stop using despite the fact that they sometimes have a resting issue I would just buy a new box but yeah no I bought this was not one that was given to me if that's what you're asking thanks Gail I hope that helps a little bit on the light it is very light painting I haven't put a lot of color on here yet and I can actually zoom in a little bit more I don't know let's play with the lights for a minute hang on a second let me turn off let's see is that better I turned off one of the lights you guys tell me if that's better give it a second because I turned off all the lights first and then it was really dark yes better okay good so we just have some light green and some light blue on here and then I want to I want to dry this my old dog who passed away he used to like to eat bumble bees and honey bees he was a weird dog the spiders yeah these are 15 mil tubes but you definitely can get their sets of paint in 5 mil tubes I didn't know that when I first started buying my Daniel Smith paints so so yeah so and I do recommend most of the time going to the website because they have the best selection of their own products but if you have a local art supply store that carries Daniel Smith go there especially when they're having a sale alrighty so we've got some different kind of brushes here I've got Princeton Neptune I've got an Escada brush I've got the Rosemary brush we're going to try this one I'm really intrigued by this brush okay so now we're going to go in with Opera Pink I think which is a really nice bright pink but it's not light fast so you're going to get a shadow over here of my arm because I turned off a light so but that's not on the painting so I think that'll be alright okay so I'm going to go in with Opera Pink now remember that I am not a realist painter by any stretch I don't sit and draw you know generally unless I'm doing a close up or paint you know each individual you know petal on the cherry trees and things like that I'm so all over the place this morning you guys so I want to put a light like a suggestion of some of these cherry blossoms in before we put any of the like branches or anything in which we might do with pen and I gotta say I'm liking the little interesting marks I'm getting with this triangular brush I'm just tapping it on yeah so I would try your local art supply for sure and if there's colors that you want from the Daniel Smith line or any line really that they don't have a lot of these places will order it for you um so ask ask them because they will probably order it for you now remember this is I want to do like it's like a little like a pond or a river so you know whatever's above the water is going to be reflected in the water right oh that's a good idea Ian you would think that they would enamel the whole inside of the box and the bottom of the tray because that's like every single one I own I think including the Prima this is a Prima one I think all of them the issue is not the inside of the box because they're all enameled it's the bottom of the tray that holds the paint in they're all there stainless steel so what I would tell you guys is if you get one of these before you put any paint in it take the box and take this piece out and spray the bottom of it with some enamel which I'm going to have to go back and do with some of my boxes now this brush you get such a fine point on it I am liking this brush Daniel Smith should be on my Amazon yes and this is a rosemary and company triangular brush series 40 and it was sent to me in happy mail recently and I am loving it absolutely loving it I don't remember right now because I've had kind of a bad morning and I've taken a lot of asthma medicine the last two days because of the fires in California so I don't know remember who sent it to me but without looking it up but I love it so so far we've used green gold opera pink and Sleeping Beauty turquoise for those of you who are keeping track okay so now I'm going to I'm going to start to suggest the tree branches and I'm going to use color I'm not going to use I have this color called tiger's eye that would be a good light tone I know you're looking at that going light tone but yeah you have to trust me so I'm going to just start at the base and then I'm going to push down hard I'm kind of twisting my brush as I'm going up and following my pencil line I'm also lifting the brush up okay we'll do that again I'm going to start at the base of my pencil line I'm going to push down and as I'm following the pencil line I am twisting the brush and I'm also lifting it up there we go I'm going to go to the base and I'm going to get it wet down here yeah I'm going to have to go back and look at the bottom of my boxes and I'm going to have to clean them all and I think Ian's got a really great idea and it's a pain when you have as many as I do but I think it's totally worth it to pull the pull the tray out clean your box off and then spray the whole thing with some enamel that's going to be hard for me because I can't really spray paint makes me weese I used to love to use spray paint my art but it makes me weese so I'm going to have to see if I can get my husband to do one or two boxes at a time or something the green gold is a beautiful color and it's one of the first ones I bought because it reminded me of the golden's green gold acrylic green gold and I love that color I don't know who doesn't love that color so I really wanted it for that now I'm going to just with the very tip of this brush barely touch the paper so I'm going to switch to I do have a little tiny brush here which is another esco to brush this is a number one round and we're going to stay with the same color for the moment I'm going to put a few more branches in you don't need to draw every branch and the fact that I've had extra coffee today is probably good for drawing branches because my hands are shaky and I but you want to twist the brush and you know you want to barely touch it to the canvas no digging I used to tell this to all my painting students at Michael's no digging any holes to China so it's not the little plastic pans it gets rusty it's the actual tray that holds the pans in the box the empty plastic pans are not expensive this box holds 48 I actually have squeezed 52 in here if you want to match you know if you want a big selection like this but I think I think I think 25 is good to start the triangle brushes are not super expensive I have some Raphael brushes that are a lot more expensive but I got to tell you I like it already alright I'm supposed to be painting aren't I we're discussing brushes holy cow I'm going to go back to that triangular brush for a minute put some shadows in under our bridge there's some shadows under here yes I am talking is anybody else having problems with the sound I guess if you can answer that question the answer is no yeah yeah yeah there's red cross again they want my blood hey Teresa can you guys hear them in the background I don't know if you guys can hear that the red cross is calling the house phone which is unplugged except for the one phone and there's an answer machine on it yeah anyway there's a reason for that because only people that call are like red cross they want my blood because I'm be positive which means they always need my blood type okay that's not a bad start I kind of I'm kind of liking this painting we're going to go back to a smaller brush this is one of my favorite watercolor brushes I think it might surprise you this is a generic store brand Utrecht brush this is a round number 6 the number on it is 6150R and I bought this when I was in Las Vegas with the girls for our little art retreat and I love this brush hi Miko how are you hi Teresa hi Matthew hi everybody so we've been using Tiger's Eye which is one of the Daniel Smith colors for the branches I'm going to go in now with some sepia which is a lot darker brown and I'm going to put a little bit of it on there and then I'm going to get some of it wet so it kind of goes where it may and suggest some shadows for us you can also do more branches with the darker color and your lines don't have to be you know equal even they should be crooked they should be broken because theoretically you would have branches of cherry blossoms you would have blossoms on top of some of the branches right so well that's good I wish you know I've never had a boss like that that would have been really nice to have a boss like that he gets bonus points of me practice this painting I haven't planned it out you or guys are seeing it as I'm painting it I have not planned any of this out just FYI oh Ian that's a good idea my husband might have some of that since he does he makes models and miniatures we might already have some of that that's a good idea and I think I'll probably just go through and do the boxes that are already having an issue first like the Daniel Smith box the ones that I use the most and then I'll go through and look at the others when I have a chance okay it should be about the cherry blossoms right so let's go in and put a little bit more detail on our blossoms we're gonna go in and use rhodonite which is a little bit more of a dull a duller pink it's not as bright and like fluorescent but it's still pink one of the colors I hate mixing is pink and I'm just tapping the brush onto the page if you look at some of the pictures of cherry blossoms that you can find on the internet go to paint my photo first of all they have some really great pictures and if you type in cherry tree you're gonna get like literally thousands of hits you know what Eve I don't even know I'd have to actually get the tubes out because I didn't mark that you can actually find a copy of the color key for this palette on my website on the watercolor Wednesday page and any of you who are watching the broadcast if you want you can go look at that maybe you can figure out how many primatex are on palette I don't have any idea without looking at the tubes my favorite are Daniel Smith they're easy to get they're made in the USA they have a huge range of colors some of which you can't get from other manufacturers I love them bonus their store and factory is up in Seattle Washington near my parents but trying to get my parents to find it and drive me there is I gotta film that for you guys next time that was hilarious that was so funny my dad kept making the wrong turn my mom was getting annoyed with him I think she I think he was doing it on purpose because I think he thought it was funny so I'm going back in with some of these darker pink dots and I'm just getting them wet because I want to be suggestive about this I want to suggest you know a park with cherry blossom trees blooming and some of these dots are going to blend and some are not because I've let it dry for a little bit and that's fine I'm fine with that I'm going to let it let it happen the way it will my parents my parents were they're funny they're a funny couple let's see I should be looking at the picture for you know suggestions and where to put stuff somebody want to explain that it's a particular range of colors that they have don't worry about it if you're going to start collecting any paints Daniel Smith or otherwise just get the colors that you love if you're concerned about your work being archival then look at the light fastness Daniel Smith has some colors that are made from unique sources and unique colors that nobody else has and that's one of the things I like about them actual ground stones exactly so I do have Tiger's Eye Minnesota Pipestone I think might be another one let's see I'm going to just go down the thing here I don't think rhodonite is one but it might be potters pink might be fuchsite is bloodstone is moonglow might be kyanite is I think lunar blue might be solidite is sleepy beauty turquoise I think is that's all I can think of right now you'd have to look again I'd have to go look at my tubes because I don't remember and I'm not having a great morning you know when you wake up and before you even have coffee you have to deal with ants yeah it's just not going to be a good day it's just not alright so I'm going to come in with some sap green which is still a yellowy green but it's darker than the green we first started with I am using the Japanese maple picture as inspiration although I am changing the maple tree into a cherry tree just FYI in case anybody wonders what I'm doing because you missed the first part of the broadcast Ian sent me some pictures and we are using them as inspiration moon glow isn't okay potters pink okay I think the solidite is I think the kyanite is the fuchsite I think might be I also have hematite violet bloodstone honestly I just pick them because they have the colors that I want to be really honest about it there are a few of the prematech colors though that I really like yeah those I have all those that's too big a brush yeah so Ian sent me some gorgeous pictures he's been really great for inspiration photos and putting he's been putting some inspiration photos in the facebook group too so you know if you guys need we have a photo album in the facebook group that is shareable pictures so if you guys need inspiration photos and you're getting sick of looking all over the internet go to the facebook group and go look there it is isn't it let's see so I'm going to take a little bit of the tiger's eye and the sepia that's in here and I'm going to add a little bit of Chinese white to it and we're going to try to bring out the bridge by painting around the bridge so painting in between the little spindles and adding a shadow you know the whole youtube thing happened by accident I was taking a class from Pauline Agnew and this was just before I got hurt at work with American Greetings and I she had a part of her class which is so funny looking back on it because the lesson in the class was thank you Ian so the lesson in the class was to do a jelly print a mono print and I had no idea what a mono print was I didn't know what a jelly plate was I said what how can you print with jelly like seriously that's what I said to myself I had no idea what they were talking about and after googling and I thought well I don't have that and I can't really afford that so how how can I do this lesson because I really want to try this so I just used a sheet of acrylic and came up with kind of my own way of doing things that she was kind of intrigued by and said can you show me how you do how you did that and I thought um okay so I couldn't figure out how to get video up anywhere except youtube I didn't have a great camera in fact I think I either filmed it with my old iPhone 4 or with um my ipad I don't remember and it is still up on my channel um it's the first video that I ever put up and um yeah so that's how it started and I got that one video up and then I just kept putting then I got her to American Greetings and I had nothing else to do so I kept putting videos up so it's all Pauline's fault the whole channel is Pauline's fault the whole thing I do like core watercolors and I have them in my mixed palette um they are super vibrant they came out after I started collecting paints but of course you know I have them and I love them yeah that's probably what he means Teresa so yeah the whole the whole idea of me doing youtube and all is Pauline's fault and watercoloring on um on here you know when they started allowing us to do live broadcasts well the obvious one for me was to do a watercolor because I watercolor all the time so I just thought that was kind of an easy no-brainer so like any other time I watercolor I'm going to I've started out light and I'm going to slowly make my colors darker and continue to add interesting marks that suggest the shapes that I want in my painting until I start doing something that I really like exactly so everybody give Pauline a thanks and if you want to learn more about fine art painting techniques and mixed media painting I really can't recommend a paid for class enough than anything by Pauline Magnu she's a wonderful teacher and she's got the patience of a state and I did not know anything about figure drawing or faces or anything until I found her so I would definitely recommend her the triangle brushes as I'm using it on this painting more and more it's my favorite I really like it I can see me ordering another one they I think they had him in two sizes but yeah I'm really liking this brush a lot not only do you have a nice flat it really flattens out well to do a wash but it comes to this beautiful point that's just it's a wonderful brush already looking at our painting on the camera I have one that's it's flat and it's called a sword brush and it has a similar shape this one actually is some kind of cross between a round and a flat it's actually the tip is the feral is shaped into a triangle you get the advantages of using a round brush with also having this sharp point at the end it's a very handy brush you can get do a lot with this just one size of brush I know you asked Ian but you know I'll answer your question so I'm gonna I have this other color that's more purpley that's called rose of ultramarine and I'm just tapping this with the tip of this brush just the tip it has a really great point to it this brush I love it and don't forget when you're doing watercolor part of your painting is process is probably at some point going to be lifting you're known to as mixed media artists is blotting and if you're using good paints and you get colors where you don't like it you probably can get that area wet and then come in with your rag or your towel and you can probably like I just did lift some of that up you also can use marks you don't like as an opportunity to put something on top of it so nothing is ever a mistake that doesn't mean you have to live with where the paint landed but that you know maybe you need to change things up and put something else on top of that I like working with watercolor because they're transparent I can see that original mark that maybe I wasn't too crazy about but I can make it less obvious if I put something on top of it like I just did no this one is not expensive it was six cents or something Ian went to the website and priced it out earlier this is by rosemary and company and this is a triangular series 40 brush they make a lot of different specialty brushes at this company um yeah I was pretty impressed I can see me actually ordering more brushes I've got to finish the secret project first and then get that done and then I can see me ordering some more brushes from them so remember this is like a nature painting so you don't want anything perfect and even nature is not perfect and even nature is wild and crazy and all over the place it does really it does look like chalk pastels it's this is a fun painting and it's probably not going to be too dark because of the nature of the painting but I you know I'm liking it a lot and we'll get I can only stay on until about 11 but we will get as far as we get with it and we'll see what happens I'm going to go back to the opera pink and we're not really going to water it down at all now and I'm tapping again I'm still using that triangular brush and I'm tapping it on the paper yeah the green gold is my favorite green from Daniel Smith it's my it's my favorite green green gold and sap green where the first two greens I bought there are warm greens yellowy greens um but I use them the most it is this it's coming out nicely I you know like I said this is an experiment working in a journal like this is fun when you want to experiment with different compositions different kind of paints you know you can really you can try it in your journal and if it doesn't turn out you know you don't have to be like me and show the entire planet but it's a great you know there's a great sense of freedom to working in something that you can feel just really free to just try before you make something that you're going to be sell to customers or you know put online somewhere and this is opera pink now I I'm pretty sure this has like little to no lightfastness just FYI for those who are concerned about this this is a gorgeous color it is not what you would call lightfast in the slightest sense of the word yeah I have one that is sixty five dollars and I honestly have trouble using it because it was so expensive like I don't want to ruin it at some point I guess I'll get over that because you should use what you have but I don't know what the hell I was thinking buying that brush and pardon my foul language for those of you who are offended by that sort of thing those that know me in real life and not on social media knows that know that I tend to have a foul mouth sometimes so now you want to be careful about mixing your pink with the wet green too much you're going to get a muddy brown color and that may not be what you want you may not be willing to live with that so you want to be careful with that hi Patricia yeah I you know ask any of the girls I went to Las Vegas with they'll tell ya ask Cindy Utter or Michelle or Ann I'll ask my husband he and I have been together for over thirty years so I don't think there's anything I could do that would surprise him too much so you really want to start out a painting like this by doing your blue wash in the background and getting your background sky color to be something that you can live with because as you can see if you wanted to go back now and touch up that sky it'd be it'd be really almost impossible to do we do need to work on the bridge a little bit before we call it a day so I'm going to switch to a little small round brush and I'm going to use what color am I going to use um I think I'm going to use the raw umber violet and I'm going to just put it right here it's like a purpley brown color and I'm switched to my smallest brush which is the escada number one and let's work a little bit on bringing out our bridge some more I'm going to put my rag right here and I'm actually going to zoom in so you can see what I am doing I'm going to zoom in as much as I can anyway I'm going to grab my reading glasses because suddenly my eyes don't want to focus the joys are getting old okay so again just like before I'm painting kind of around the bridge which you know painting around an object in watercolor and leaving like leaving things white is not something I'm always really great at but thank god I'm a mixed media artist so I can just go back in there with white paint if I need to yeah we're already starving artists because you know art in general doesn't really you know if you want to make a living out of it it's really difficult as you all probably know so that means that we can't really afford to spend that kind of money on a paint brush you literally have to be Bob Ross yeah there are no rules I mean I could go back in here with white paint and just you know be crazy this brown paint but there is something to be said for the challenge of you know trying to paint around the subject and bring it out if you're a Gene Haynes fan like I am she would not be as controlled about this as I'm being I really like the way the cherry trees look so I'm trying not to touch them at all but the bridge needs help so we're that's probably the one part of the painting that's not exactly right and the fact that this brown is like a violet brown kind of lends itself to you know the cherry trees reflecting their you know light or their shadow their pink color onto the bridge yeah I live you know I live in San Jose California so you would think because I'm like in the heart of Silicon Valley that you know we have great internet but that's not true because you know I live in the heart of Silicon Valley so I would have great internet I don't always sometimes it's fine sometimes it's not the bandwidth isn't what it should be so the tree of course is the focal point but the bridge in this piece is important too so you really want to spend some time on both with the tree you can be more expressive the bridge is a piece of architecture so it needs to be a little bit more controlled but I'm trying not to be too controlled that is something that I'm constantly fighting with I do love being more expressive because it doesn't make me as crazy I do have control issues and being trying to do realistic art makes those control issues just go completely haywire so that's one of the reasons I don't usually do it and you know again I have control issues and I'm kind of a perfectionist so yeah I think I suck at realistic art thank you Lisa oh sorry Heather I know there was problems with all the live feeds what was it last week and over the weekend a lot of group owners had trouble pinning things that was a problem too I don't know they said they fixed it okay let's see I think that's pretty good so my display froze and yes this would be a great composition to try a resist technique on so definitely I would do if you're going to do that do your preliminary sketch and then where you want your bridge to stay white use a white crayon use masking fluid if you have a resist pen like the Ranger one or a VersaMark pen or something like that I'm going to do that on here I'm going to take my white white uniball stigno gel pen and I'm going to add some of this and you probably aren't going to be able to see it too much on camera I need to put my red because I'm so do take your white gel pen and do you know little groups of white dots kind of throughout your cherry tree it will add to the highlights of your blossom the suggestion of blossoms you do want to do this on a page that's completely dry mine isn't completely the gel pen doesn't necessarily like to write on wet watercolor paint and you don't have to cover the whole thing I mean you can do it as many as you want but trees are fun because trees are not um they're not perfect they're very organic and free flowing and crooked and anybody can do a tree it is helpful to have an inspiration photo so that you have some kind of an idea for inspiration for not only shape but shadow and light so I do recommend that and the little dots just add a little something thank you so much Yasna um yes so ok so first question so Ian sent me cherry tree pictures um uh since last week and I printed a bunch of them out and he's going to put some of them into the shareable inspiration photos file over in my facebook group the link for that's in the description so give him a little bit to get the photos in there and then go over there and check it out and he sent me and this is the main one we used for inspiration but this is a maple tree so he also sent me some cherry tree pictures so I just he sent me this one and this one and this one and I love the shapes of these trees I liked the one with the bridge in it because it had the bridge in it so I used that one and then he sent me some inspiration photos of cherry blossoms so I used mainly these two and I see you later Eve and they will be over in the facebook group or some of them and then so resistance method so the resistance method is a method for doing watercolor wherein you would do your preliminary sketch first any parts of the page that you know you want to save as white paper you would put something over that so that the paint doesn't get it get on there so you can use a white crayon literally I use a white crayola crayon you can use a if you have a embossing pen or a VersaMark pen see this one is a VersaMark pen this one is a Ranger embossing pen a clear one and this one is actually by recollections it actually is a resist pen they're all basically the same thing and these what you put these on there where you want it to stay white and then you let it dry and then you paint over it and wherever this is going to stay white just like wherever the crayon is going to stay white now the other way to do it is to use masking fluid it looks and smells kind of like rubber cement and you have to put it on there and let it dry and then paint over it and then when you're done you have to rub it off and whatever is underneath the masking fluid is going to stay white it's really a challenge to do that in watercolor I'm not always great at it I like to just paint and be free with it I have trouble leaving the white paper so using a resist is really handy you also of course we're mixed media artists it means we can break the rules and you can go in afterwards and add a white gel pen add some white acrylic paint add a white paint pen so don't feel like if you haven't been able to leave the white paper that you've messed up your painting exactly you could do this same one in four different color ways to reflect the four seasons and how pretty would they be not only in your journal but like hanging up on a wall or something together I haven't seen that movie but I like the way this painting turned out it's not bad for planning it literally I woke up this morning and the first thing I had to deal with was ants in my kitchen so oh yeah see clear birthday candles work I just have a white crayon crayon when I closed my daycare business I literally took the kids box of crayons pulled all the white ones out that they never used anyway and I still have those crayons so everybody thank Ian for the inspiration photos he did a great job finding them I love our cherry tree and we're getting a little bit closer to filling up the book I only have a few pages left so you guys make sure to send me some suggestions via email or the Facebook group or private message for what you would like to see next week and help me fill out my book we've got one one two three four five I think five pictures left before the book is full oh yeah that works probably also if you have an old what we would call a grease pencil I used them in the optical business a lot to mark the lenses before I would make your eyeglasses which is an oil based like pencil that would work probably a white oil pastel would work because the oil is going to resist the watercolor paint so anything like that to preserve the white paper on your painting yep clear crayon anything like that I have to go out and buy something special look around to see what you might already have or what's cheap and easy for you to get and use that I do have to think that I don't remember this month if I filmed my favorite thing for the month or not but I think that if I haven't and I have to look at that later today it's on my to-do list I'm going to be saying this rosemary and company triangle brush is going to be my favorite thing sure I can do that I can do something that's sort of Halloween themed even since it's going to be October or at least fall themed maybe an ink watercolor and ink pumpkin or something send me some photos we shouldn't just leave it up to eat every week you guys should send me send me some photos of some things that you'd like to see me paint next week and I will pick one and we will work on it alright that's it for today you guys I've got a meeting in a few minutes so I've got to clean up I will see you soon I will be back on Monday for Monday with DecoArt and this weekend keep an eye on my channel and all of my social media because there will be announcements for the brand new design team announcements for the secret project and a few other things we've lost so many talented people recently this year and yeah they will all be greatly missed alright that's it everybody don't forget the best most important thing yeah do something nice for yourself because you deserve it okay alright I'll talk to you all later bye guys


Good morning. My name is Kent L. Gasenia. I am on the board of the Eau Claire Community Council and this is City Top. The event tomorrow evening is the Eau Claire Community Council's 22nd Annual Award and Appreciation Dinner which will start at 6 p.m. at 37, 3907 Ensure Drive at between Monticello and North Main. This is a way to honor heroes in our community. Mistress of Ceremony will be Judy Gasen from WIS-TV. Our guest speaker will be Roscoe Wilson. Honorees this year will be Pastor Eddie Gas, which I'm proud to say is my father, along with Henry C. Hopkins, Bill Mantley, Sabrina Odom, and Roberta Seaborne Smith of Burt's Grill. We will also honor outstanding students and other community leaders tomorrow. Tickets are $35 at the door. You will enjoy a beautiful meal along with all the festivities as far as this event is concerned. Again, this is put on by the Eau Claire Community Council. For since 1989, we've been involved in the community and we recognize the community leaders. I will say to anybody in the City of Columbia, anybody who is watching this video, come out and see what Eau Claire has to offer to the City of Columbia. You can go to our website which is www.eauclarecommunity.org or call 201-5282 and that's area code 803.


Hey guys, how are you today? So we are filming this in March of 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. I bring that up for a particular reason. So in the midst of this scary crazy time in the world, I struggle sometimes staying positive and not completely freaking out as I know many many of you are doing. If you're watching this in the future and you weren't around at that time, then just trust me on that and you can research it in history, look up other YouTube videos. It's a crazy time and most of us are having troubles not panicking for good reason. One of the things I did recently, I saw on Craft Warehouse's Instagram. Craft Warehouse is a local craft store chain near me in Oregon. They have, I think, two stores or maybe three stores. I'm not sure. Anyway, they had painted rocks similar to these on their Instagram. In fact, this wish one is inspired by one that I saw on their Instagram, which I thought was so cute. I had a drawer of rocks, some of which these big ones are from my old house in California, that I always intended on painting and I thought, you know, now's as good time as any. I need some rocks with positive affirmation words on them. I need a simple creative pursuit that allows me to just let it go and bring some positive energy and positive words into my life and my being in my house right now. So I took my rocks and some just plain craft paint, nothing special, and I painted half the rock with a color. Now, some of the colors like the green and the yellow took four or five coats to cover well and the green probably could have used one or two more coats, but that's fine. I should have painted them white first and then put the color on top at, you know, hindsight's always 2020, right? Once that was done, I took a gold paint pen and I drew a gold line separating the rock color from the paint color or in the case of this one outlining the little heart. I happened to pull this rock out and it happened to be heart-shaped on its own. In some cases, I took the gold paint pen and did the line and did some doodling above on the rock color. Then I took some white paint in a very teeny tiny paintbrush and I wrote some words on there. Now, you will notice and the reason I'm bringing this up this month is I had the idea when I was doing this to see if I could stencil with my stencils from my Etsy shop on the rocks. The answer is yes, you can. So you just very carefully, and I think it's, yeah, right here. So I just very carefully did this with one hand and then a little teeny tiny bit of paint and a small stenciling brush and just did this. Took my time with a little bit of paint. Sometimes I went over it twice and then I got the cute design on there, then I would accent it with more paint and then write with a tiny liner brush, write my word, or you could do the word and the accents with a white paint pen if you wanted. I did that with a number of them.  I think there's 13 or 14 of them in the series now. I've taken some of mine and I've cut them apart. I will link the one. This particular one is in the description below. Some of them were too big for the rocks, like the arrow. So what I did is I stenciled it on one side, then I let it dry, then I turned it over. I stenciled the rest of the arrow on the back side, and then I wrote Wander. So I want you to use the supplies that you have this month and I want you to think about new and different and unique ways you can do them. I am having a lot of fun rethinking my own supplies that I've created and have for sale in my Etsy shop and rethinking how can I use them in a new way and how can I bring that to you all to inspire you to do the same? I'm having a lot of fun with that. We're stuck in. We can't do much. So what else are you going to do, right? So anyway, stenciling on rocks. Give it a shot. There is a coupon code right now for the time of the shut-in to promote the store and get you all some new supplies that you can use. I know none of us can go shopping right now. I'm right there with you, but you can still order things from my Etsy shop and I do have at the moment plenty of inventory. So I'll leave you the coupon code and the Etsy shop link in the description below. So check it out. I do have a design team and I can't wait to see what they do this month. I do link their channels in the design team blog over on my website. I will link you that also. They come out with new and exciting things every month. And I also try to showcase one or two of them in some ads a couple times a month. So look for that. Follow me on social media. I post daily art. I post some of their artwork and stuff and more in my Instagram and other things. So all of those links are in my link tree, links, a list of links in the description below, along with other ways to support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups. All of that's in the video description. And I'm not the only creative on the planet, on the YouTube planet that has that right now. So if you have a favorite creative YouTuber and you would like to support them in a small, even in a small way, they probably have a way for you to do that in their video description. So check it out. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe and above all go out and have a safe happy creative day. Don't forget to keep your social distance and wash your hands and yeah, go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Paint on some rocks. It really was very therapeutic for me. That's it for right now. Bye, guys.


A lot of people wonder why a model therapy is different than typical marriage counseling. First of all, most people who are actually doing marriage counseling do not have much training in working with couples. Everyone who gets a master's degree in therapy and counseling social work has to take one class in marriage and family therapy, so that's about it. So if someone does not have advanced training in working with couples, which most therapists don't, you're already going to be at a disadvantage because couple therapy is very different than working with an individual. Working with an individual, you can focus on one person and deal with their issues. Working with a relationship, you're dealing with a dynamic. And if the dynamic is not safe, then the fights can break out and you can accomplish nothing in therapy, or you can actually make things worse. We hear of therapists who will take sides, they will side with one spouse over the other, or they'll give advice, they'll tell people to get divorced. All of these things are very detrimental to a couple who actually wants to make their marriage work. So first of all, you want to find someone who has advanced training in working with couples. But beyond that, Amago provides a whole context for understanding the relationship. And what that does is it gives a couple hope, because when a couple comes in the power struggle and they're fighting, they don't, they think of, well, maybe I should find someone else, maybe I made a mistake, maybe this is a wrong relationship. Amago already comes in with the assumption that you're in the right relationship. If you chose each other, then you're in the right relationship. You just need to understand the conflict and help you take that conflict and be able to use it for the purpose of growth and healing. We're showing them that their situation is normal, that it's normal for couples to experience conflict, which takes a big load off of a lot of people. And then we're giving them practical tools. So we're not taking sides, we're not blaming one person or the other, but we're helping, we're focusing on the relationship. That's the focus. So the couple sitting face to face, we're here facilitating their connection. And what we're doing is teaching them a very structured process that creates emotional safety where both people can feel heard and understood and seen. And some of the other modalities, they might give you helpful tools, don't roll your eyes, this is what you should do, this is what you shouldn't do, or they may help facilitate some form of connection, but it always involves the therapist. Whereas in Amago, the therapist is more of the facilitator. In the actual sessions, you're doing the work. It's not like, here, this is what you should do, do it at home, come back and tell me how it went. But you're actually doing it in person, in live in the office, in real time. You can actually experience your spouse in a different way in this session itself, and that can give you a lot of encouragement that your relationship can be better, because you see that it can be. You see that you can be heard for the first time ever. You see that you can express yourself in a safe and connected way. You see that you can have a conversation about something difficult without hurting each other's feelings. You experience it and then it gives you the courage to be able to apply it at home. I find a lot of people who have been in other modalities who come to a model and they said, you know, I did this, I did that, you're a seventh marriage counselor, how are you going to be able to help me? And what they found is that we give them a very specific process and tools that they can take home. It's not just kind of this amorphous thing that they come to therapy and they're dependent on the therapist, but we empower the couple to take the bull by the horns and do the work themselves.