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Happy Christmas everyone. I'm really pleased to be Chairman of South County District Council. I'm proud of the work that we've done. The council, officers and members work really hard for their residents. And it's one of the highest quality and life areas in the country. Last year was really very exciting in that we worked hard with the City Deal to bring more homes and businesses and better transport rates to South County. And this coming year we look forward to developing the devolution deal where 100 million pounds is being spent on more homes for our residents. This time last year we were looking forward to opening 20 new council houses in Swabsea. This year we're looking forward to opening new homes on an exception site in Foxton. Homes for local young people who are desperate to find a home of their own. My charity which is Dogs for Good has been sponsoring a new puppy called Hope who will help some person who really will benefit from a dog, who helps them dress, is their companion, helps them find things, finds the phone for them, all sorts of jobs. Dogs are wonderful and our charity has done very well this year. We've raised over 3,000 pounds, we only need 2,000 more before we've taken a puppy and re-edit ready for its link with its new owner. We all get rid of a whole lot more recycling materials this time of the year. So please try to compact it in your bins and put it out on the correct day which is bound to be different from the usual day because of the holiday period. Over the holiday period the offices will be closed. So check our website, it will tell you when we're open and if there is an emergency you'll find emergency numbers there to help you through. Finally I just wish you a really happy Christmas and a really good new year.


Hi there and welcome to the free art show, the show where I draw whatever you want and to release it for free use. With me, I'm Kim Holm and with me is my lovely wife, Beanie. I am. I am, as we say, and today we have picked six requests and we will roll the dice and whoever gets his request drawn will win this postcard, the intro card, and will get their art drawn. Is this show number 8? Is this show number 8? I think it's number 7. Then why did you make an 8? Oh, good point! It's not an 8, it's a Ouroburo... Okay. It could have been a zero then. No, that's not the symbol. It could have had many different shapes for them. I feel like you're just making fun of me. It's a perfectly normal symbol. No, I am making fun of you. Yes. Okay, shall we go through the suggestions? First, we have Robert, the second. We have two Roberts. Luckily, one of them was called Robert the second, or some middle names in between those. Oh, it's the name. That's not the request. No. And he wants me to draw, to paint an unidentified flying object on one of my Seascape oil paintings. So, just to please him, I've picked out an already dry Seascape. And if he wins, then we will have to clear out all this drawing equipment and get the oils out. And then we will do the first free art oil painting. Will that also be sent out for 100 euros, including shipping? That will probably have shipping. Yes, because you can claim the drawing and purchase it for 100 euro, including shipping. Except if it's the oil painting, then that will require shipping, I think. Anyhow, that is suggestion number one. Suggestion number two is from Fnuff Drawing, who wants a maniacal joker-like demon. And it's interesting because I can't do copyrighted characters like the Joker, but in this instance, I think I can do a joker-like demon because it's a sort of a state of mind we're going for. We're not going to copy the Joker, but we're going to try to bring the essence of the Joker into a demonic character. And that's OK. And number three. Is three the essence of the Joker? Cheshire, rare, rare, rare cat? Cheshire cat, yeah. And I can draw the Cheshire cat, I think, because I think that's in the public domain. You plan it as long as you don't base it on this next? Yes. Then it would have to be a parody. The copyright laws are complicated on those points, but parody is allowed. And this complication is actually not why I'm against the copyright laws. There should be some complication, but there should also be room for art to live and living art gets remade. Then number three, we have Rassvan, which is a funny name in Norwegian, but I don't think it's an Norwegian name. Who wants me to draw Atlas the Titan carrying a broken world upon his shoulders? That fits well into the Greek theme we have been going with for a little while. And then Jimmy wants me to draw the Norwegian giant of theatre, Henrik Ibsen, as he would look if he was from Innsmouth, the fishy city of Lovecraftian lore.  That's nice and lovely for a Tuesday night. And then finally we have Robert, the other Robert who just wants a battle of clowns. Shall we see if any... shall we see who wins? There is the dice. And I'm rolling it and... Ooh, it's the UFO. Then we have to... Yeah, we have to... Congratulations Robert too. Robert too, you have to contact us so we can send this to you. And we will take away all the acrylic and ink equipment. And we will put this... It doesn't have to write number 7 there when you've done a huge number 8. Ah, let it go. Let it go. I will not start singing, let it go. Have you told people about this? About what? This oily thingy of yours. No, I haven't really... I have talked about it. I started painting oil paintings and finding the craft of painting at sort of the only angle from which I could learn it was through...  What are you talking about? I might have enough brushes. So the only angle from which I could learn painting I found out was to dial in the deep end with oil painting.  The whole thing? You'll see the whole thing I think. It looks like it's just where it should be but you won't see the color mixing and there will be more color mixing than usual. Can't you mix on top of here? At least Facebook viewers can see it. Yeah, I can do that. That's a good idea. And filled with them. You're filled of good ideas. Okay. Then the YouTube viewers will only see my arms stretching up the mixed colors. Let's see what I've done here. Here is some old oil from last week which I've just mixed together to make this one red gray and this one blue gray. And here are some oils from earlier today when I was working on another painting. So I'll just use that as the basis so I won't have to mix all that much. What can I do? What can you do? I don't know. You need this? I don't. I don't need any of those anymore. You don't need this? I need that, yes. You don't need this? No. Okay, some brushes there. Okay, we're just about ready. Oh, I don't even know how I'm going to tackle this. This was a poorly planned stroke of luck. Yeah, but what I'll start by doing is getting some more color. Look at my huge paint tube. I should really buy more of these big ones because... You prefer the Fungog? No, I haven't painted long enough to figure out what I prefer. But, okay, how to do this? I'm trying out different types of paints and hoping it goes well. Now I'll start by having some... I'll need my Talo Blue, which is a really, really dark blue, and need my burnt umber, which will together make... As close as you can get to black. And then I'll make it... This is painted without black. So if I started using black, then the UFO would crash. And I'm taking a bit of thinner on the brush, very unscientific of me, and I'm mixing them and I'll dot in the UFO. Should it be in the opening here? Should it be a tiny UFO in here? Or should it come down like this? Or should it be up here? Then we have a problem. I'm thinking about the composition. I think this is the cloud's opening, and they should really open for the UFO, right? Yes, maybe. But I also don't... I kind of like the idea of the UFO being higher up. Yeah, compositionally that's better. Because it just seems off for it to be so far down. It's also really cloudy day. I just have to commit. Wait a minute, I have an idea. Okay. Let me see, let me look. We're all waiting in excitement for whatever you are doing. My brilliant idea. Yes. Ooh! There's the UFO. Stand up a bit and look at it from afar. That's not good. And it can be here. That's a bit weird as well. Mark says here that some UFOs hide in the clouds. It doesn't have to stick out. It could be just about to appear. Yeah, I think so. It's coming out here. There's already a UFO shape that I need to break a bit. And it's coming out there. Thanks for being helpful. So these clouds are in front and this is in the back of the UFO. And it's a very classic... Mark does here this brilliant idea. The post-it UFO? I don't know if it's the post-it UFO or if it's the suggestion. I am taking it as the post-it UFO. It's a big UFO, this. So it's a... Terrified UFO. Or maybe us. And then we need to... This is enough for me to go on as a sketch. He says that that cut-out was an awesome idea. Way to go! Thank you! The thing with the oil is that it won't dry for like a week or two. And while it's wet, it's really slippery. So you can almost push it around. If you don't like it? Yes. I can dry it off, but it will leave stains on the...  But to do it like this... I don't know how it will work if I dry it off. We need to have a bit of color. However, we need to have a color that isn't used elsewhere, I think. So we... There's very little green. We'll green out the white a bit and then we'll have some yellow from the sun in places as well. So Kim is attempting to make a UFO... I don't know, to merge a UFO into his own... Seascape painting. Of the people on the other side of the fjord. Yes. That's exactly it. This is the view from our window more or less. I painted it in the garden, but it's the same view as from our window the people at the other side of the fjord. It's enough to check out... It's actually uske. Oh. Usk is the territory here, I think. We need to keep it loose like the rest and realizing this is going to be really hard. It is. You don't really like doing the mechanical things. No. Do you?  They're so straight and Kim really hates straight lines. I hate all manners of straightness. Well, I think you can do it still. It is very much a classic UFO. We will paint the skies over it a bit more. Why did I put this one on? It's interesting. It is. Now I'm going to mix some oil into it because when working in oil there is this fat over lean rule which is kind of confusing because it's not just fat over lean. I have no idea what you mean by that. The more oil, the more fat it is. Over lean? The less oil, the more lean it is. So... So the less oil, then you can have a thinner line. Is that what you're trying to say? No. If you have a lean painting, the fat oil will stick to the layer. It will not just... Can I try moving the line a bit? Yeah, try. I'm feeling it's really reflecting. Yeah. Okay. Is that better? Yeah, that looks better. The oil paint is also really reflective when it's wet so sometimes it's just really hard to paint at all.  Thin paint will stick to thick paint and if you do it in the wrong order the paint will crack. The paint will crack because the paint underneath will dry later than the paint above so it will crack the top layer. So if you use oil first than then... So if you use it in the wrong order then your painting might just crack. How much is one of these tubes? It depends on the pigment and on the quality. Thus far I have only bought student quality which has less pigment in it. So this one is about two, three hundred I guess. That's not too bad. But a quality pigment or like a... A real one? A red one would perhaps be five hundred. Oh it's the red, more expensive than the white. Yes, some pigments are cheaper. That's why when you ask me how much the golden acrylic is this one is two hundred corners and this one is almost four hundred corners. Oh, that's silly. Not really because... I understand it but I think it's still a bit silly. It's what the materials cost. Painting a bit too much now and I hope I can tone it down afterwards. Peering out from the clouds and it should have a silly little... Not a tree, a rocket engine blast or something. Yeah, definitely. So we need to do that in some other colours. I will start by having a pink. I don't often buy individual colours except the primary ones but I've found that a few colours are hard to get like a nice saturated pink or... You can't... It is difficult to mix. Yeah. What do you mean? Is there a reason you don't close them properly or is it just because of you? It's just because I'm me, baby. Will they dry out this expensive paint of yours? Please close them properly for me. I thought you knew me better than this. I was making some... putting some red on some of the clouds as well. That's not good. Oh, I like that. Yeah, but it's wonderful from that. Ah, I got it off. Now I've learned that. Mark Garcia says the movie Arrival had a big block as the UFO and Babylon 5 had many different ship designs like the Spiny Organic Shallow Ship so maybe you can design something that's so much mechanical work. Yeah, that would be great for another day. Now I have a completely different struggle which is just surviving. These paintings. Did you need more yellow? I will need more yellow, yes. Garcia needs yellow. No, I'll need a light yellow. That's another one I bought especially just to try out because I can get... this is just mixed yellow. I can get them kind of good but I wanted to see... It's ochre. Yeah, I don't need yellow ochre for this one. But thank you for going through all the colors and showing them off camera and asking about them. Yes, I will do that. Why this pink thingy? Why the pink thingy? It says permanent on it just because of the label of the brand. No, it's not. All of them have different types of names based on different elements and I'm not certain about any of it yet. I know that if, for instance, this one says cadmium yellow pale hue. Whenever it says hue it's because it doesn't have cadmium in it which is good because you shouldn't eat cadmium and I might have...  We've talked about this. Yeah, so... What is the point of such a brush? Okay, what's the point of this? Well, it's really good for doing straight lines. No. But isn't... No. A straight one? This will split much less when you drag it. You're dragging it at an angle and it will do that very well and... Mark Garcia is laughing at you. He's laughing at you. No, he would never do that. I like this, I like the colouring. Maybe that's really the... Very often our sunsets are very beautiful. Maybe they're really just UFOs, you know. It's worse than that. It's the pollution from the UFOs. UFOs don't pollute. Electric. They run on water power, I don't know. They come to steal our water, yes. And it's no more. Then we will need... No, actually, I'll go through with... this one a bit more. I will oil it out a bit. What are you doing? Oil it out. It's oil, that is oil. This is oil and thinner, mixed. But mostly oil. It's like... You're pointing at something out of the camera for everyone. This is oil and thinner. It's 70% oil and 30% thinner. This is special oil. So that you can actually eat. It's healthy for you. Is that you buy it at an art shop? Or can you buy it at an art shop? No, you buy it at an art shop because it needs to be... It's a particular kind of... artsy, faunty. You don't put it in a salad. You asked me a question and I'm trying to explain. This is thinner and you should not eat that. The linseed oil needs to be refined in a special way. Which I don't know much about. But you can do it yourself. And I know that people have done it by some sort of process of putting it out in... in bottles and in sunlight and letting it separate. And then something to that extent. Don't quote me on that. Gary Charles says eat in paint. Don't eat paint. It's very expensive for the first. And some of the paints are really harmful. You can get proper cadmium. Which is not good for you. And you can get... You can get... You can even get lead paint. Which I'm very interested in trying someday. It's not very poisonous. Not just to eat. Lead? Lead is very poisonous. Also to just touch. So considering how your hands look after your paint. Then I would paint with gloves, yes.  So it's different to work with. And it doesn't yellow. So when you see a painting from the Renaissance and the white is still just crisp and good. It means the artist died young. Of lead poisoning. It looks weird. Upside down it looks good. Excellent. So the problem seeing here. So just the concentration I use for this. I notice is much more than for my regular ink work. And still the result is so sloppy. Sloppy. Very sloppy. So what would your aliens look like? In this vessel they would look silly. This is your typical grey aliens I think. Aren't they green? Yes this is your typical little green man. I meant. I was referring to our most regular visitors to planet earth. The greys. You know the X-files. Did you see the X-files dear wife? I did but thought this many, many years ago. Okay do you know the grey aliens with big heads and big eyes? Yeah but aren't they greenish? They are called the greys. Okay I don't remember that. I don't think that's a specific name to the X-files. I have a song in my head now. And I think it's a mix of the X-files theme and the airwolf. That sounds excellent. Airwolf theme how was that again? I do not remember. I really replicate what's in my head. I'm having the A-team theme. Yes. Which is not fitting for painting a UFO. That doesn't work at all. X-files theme seems wrong. Something. Just know that the truth is out there. How is the airwolf theme? I don't know. The 18 alien teams as Michael's leader. Yes. Mr. T is a bit of an alien. But that's why he won't fly. Did he actually say that? Probably in some... He did. John the Wargibuffer said, Man I missed it. You haven't missed anything the UFO is. I don't know how done it is. I don't know either. I think actually... It's a UFO. Kim is painting a UFO on one of his oil landscapes. Janne had a great suggestion this week. Which was to my own take on Geiger's return to mother. And HR Geiger. The alien guy, yeah? And just a small joke for all the Norwegians. I meant that it wasn't my own version of Geiger's return to mother. But it was my version of Geiger's version of Janne's mother I wanted to return to. BAM! I don't know what... But I didn't dare put it on. But this is Kim. The hint of the sunlight hitting it. And then on the other side, a hint of lighter blue. And then we will try to mix that and that colour. To overlap it slightly.   Yes! Good point! Touche! This is too dark. Some more red in it. Pretty spot on. Yeah, not spot on. I filled them all up in my spayana. I'm painting with oil, not acrylic. So that's what making this extra hard. If it was acrylics, I could just wait a few minutes. And it would dry and I could do whatever I wanted on top. But this won't be dry until next week. No! Well it's hard. This one is reddish. You really like the colours though. Thank you! Since I'm already touching this up. I can go and try to make a few of the shapes a bit clearer. That's good. Which also will help hide the small colour variation. Stemming from that I haven't spent quite enough time mixing the perfect colours to match what I had. I guess I'm liking this better and better. It's very silly. Do you use linted oil or turpentine? I don't use turpentine. I use an odourless mineral cleaner that is not based on gasoline or turpentine. But you said you use lint seed oil. Yes I use lint seed oil and a thinner. Oh the thinner could have been turpentine. That's really poisonous. Yes and that used to be... We have a three year old who likes to eat. Turpentine. Don't let him eat turpentine. I'm just... Naively I'm waiting for some of the paint to settle a bit more. So I can paint over just to get some more shapes in there. And I'm also just trying to improve some of the clarity in that painting. Because I'm not satisfied with all the parts. Especially some of the sort of hazy clouds. Don't look quite right. That looks wrong. That was just wrong. So what else are you going to do with the UFO? I'm not certain how much I can do. Because now there's so many layers of oil on it already. That it's hard to paint on it until it's dry. Could you have used acrylic to do this? Oil can stick to acrylic. But acrylic does not stick to oil. So you can... As long as you don't do too much acrylic. So it becomes really slick. It's no problem doing an underpainting in acrylic and then oil on top. The other way around is just wrong. Yeah that doesn't... Houts and hands. The artist, the kid is healed. I think... These are not my best clouds. That was a rude thing to say. I think I do okay clouds these days. But your hands are silly in this painting. We'll take a kind of big brush and we'll just go over some. No, in general. She's not dissing your clouds. Just all artists. Random artists clouds. One of the things I'm really digging now is that since it's dry. You can go in and do dry brushing. Which is one of the techniques that I use a lot. In acrylics and in ink. I almost never get to do it. Why aren't those clouds now? They're much clearer now. They're not perfect but they're better. Okay and then we will... Replicate that. It is very different to see the real painting from here. I'm watching him upside down. And on the little screen. Mike wants to know, do you ever use a palette knife for sharp lines? Yes. I've never gotten the hang of the palette knife. At home I have the cheap plastic palette knife. Which works pretty for me. I actually think that the C here was primarily a palette knife. Just above. Very much almost a Bob Ross technique. I do love the Bob. I still haven't gotten further than painting one Bob Ross painting. But I will soon paint more. That did not help. That did not help at all. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. It has all to do with what I need. Yep. Let me work. Sit down. Make this into a separate cloud formation. And then we need to separate that cloud from that cloud. Which we will do my... This goes a bit green. So that will go a bit more red. Slightly. Just ever so slightly. Back to... I'm going to be putting more blue. Even more blue. Too much blue. Too much blue. You really should show them you're mixing. Yes. It's very chaotic now. It's all gray. Oh, like the aliens. Yes, honey. The aliens are gray.   Yes. I am. So I should have just went like this and left it. Don't do it. You should have. But it's too late now, baby. All the free art shows should just be me copying my wife's art. Really? Yes, yes. Yeah. This is... Yeah, everything is wrong. So what should we do? I'm going to try to make it better. Never in a free art show has so little happened in so much time. Usually we're very efficient, but not today. I thought this was going to be easy. I thought this was going to go fast. Yeah. It's not wrong. Oh, yes, you did. Yeah, in a sense.  But sadly, no. Yeah. I think there's... Yeah, this is... So I'll try to save it again by finding the tiny little brush. And this cloud here is just... Yes, the clouds are the bane of the artist. Yeah. I know what I'm doing wrong, but I don't know if I can fix it. Are you going to make some lights on it? Hmm? No, don't do that. Take away all the paint here. Then the tiny part, we're just going to add some thinner. Then we're going to repaint that area. Which area? The one that I erased with the cloud here. I need some pink. Is that an oil brush? Yes, that was an oil brush. It's easy to clean up for another week or so. It was just this one. So, we'll do some... Pink. And my head is spinning a bit. And then I think we will do just what you asked. Dear wife, lights. Yes, any UFO watch that salt has lights. Yes. Blinking lights. That's why they're so visible. Red lights? And... Here's a couple of more in here. That light slides through the down. Now it looks like a UFO. Then we need some yellow. You dripped on my painting. I dripped on my painting. Don't drip on my painting. As well. Where? Maybe. This is, I think it's the first time I'm painting oil on a flat surface. Not on an easel or a drawing table. Is it more difficult? Interesting. This is more difficult because the natural thing is to put your hands all over the painting. And you can't do that. So now we need a dark color again. We'll take in some details here. Two blue. G's Louise. I'm thinking you're going to have to just put this in. Yes. I'm trying. I'm trying. How long have we gone? No, it's 22.24. Yeah, so we've been going for a long time. Almost 90 minutes. Yeah, I'll, I think I'll leave it very soon and maybe I'll fix it some more later. But I've learned that... Oil painting. On the free art show is difficult. That's a worthwhile experience. Yeah, I think I'll leave it there. This one will not be available for sale. Wet on wet is tricky. Oh, yes. Wet on wet on dry is tricky. What were you saying, dear husband? This one will not be available for sale just yet. But I will try to finish it. Another date. I hope you still liked watching. You understand. Wife has a very nice voice. Wife is a very nice wife. Oh, I have a very nice wife. Yes, I have a very nice wife. Okay, you have a very nice wife. Yes. Thank you. She's the nicest. The reflection from your lamp is hitting just where you're working just now. Oh, yes it is. But that's another problem with... Wet on wet? With oil. I don't think you can even... Do you see anything now? Always entertaining and educational, Thank you, Mike. Okay, this was... Can you see the UFO now? Yes, now you see it properly. It's better. This was an experiment. I'm not sure it was an experiment worth repeating, but if you liked my art, then please do go to YouTube and follow me there. And you can also follow den ungeherholm on Facebook, den ungeherholm on Twitter, den ungeherholm on Instagram, and den ungeherholm on Minds.com. We will be back... He sees the UFO now. Yeah. We will be back in a few days with another free art show. Probably this weekend. We were very late this time. We will try not to be this late again. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm all spent. Cheerio. Cheerio. Bye-bye.