Welcome back to the Breakfast in Plastidia Africa. It's time for Off the Press. As always, we take you through the pages, front pages of a precise of a national dailies. We have G.D. Johnson, who is on standby. He joins the conversation in no time. G.D. Johnson, happy Friday and thank you for joining us. Merci. Happy Friday to you. Good morning to you, I'm G.D. Johnson. Good morning to you. I'm Justin. Good morning to you. I'm Messi, I'm Messi, I'm not the boss. Good morning, G.J. Well, it's definitely, we started with the leadership newspaper this morning. For Abandoning Zoning Principle, South East to Dump PDP after 23 years of party loyalty. What does that mean? We move away from that. Several riders, South-South leaders kick, says party has dug its grave. Atiku, wike, ayim, obi, Emmanuel, intensifies consultation. I will be a bridge between the North and South, directly declares. ISIS releases video on execution of 20 Nigerians in Borno, and Tambuels, Sultan, Koka, appeal for camp, and demand justice for students who are killed in Sokoto-Dos, bitten to death. You also find another head of this morning, Odili retires from Supreme Court and backs restructuring, talking about Mary Odili. Jonathan, not yet registered member, but also APC insists. There's been a back and forth with that particular story. First, Cursity Federal Government falls Ipman's 500 billionaire bridging claims. Quick notice, Emethili visits President Muhammad Buhari, urges Nigerians to aspect news. What could he be? These are the headlines on the leadership this morning. We'll move on next to the nation newspaper. Emethili admits Buhari as SGF clarifies quick order. CBN governor, I am having fun. Appointees to APC, AINEC. Protestants students block highways, as so adamant after talks. Tambuels, Sultan, condemn lynching a female student. Retirement of justices, the police Supreme Court. Expect flooding, nationwide agency alerts Nigerians. LRFI, Kaduna delegates a pledge support for Tinubu. AFC backs African economy with $2 billion facility. AINEC reconsidering a safekeeping of ballot papers and CBN's votes. All right, Federal Government launches mobile app to tackle antiquity. Councilor held with AK-47. Those are the main stories on the front page of the nation newspaper. We move away from the nation and let's quickly look at the punch and find out what's happening on the punch. This morning, 2023 presidency, Jonathan, submits APC firms today. Okay, so we're wondering all of the reports we're getting. He's a member, he's not a member, he's not registered. Emethili shuns resignation calls. CBN governor entitled to stay in office 30 days to general elections and he's quoted on that. Adam and her point is UAPC. AINEC Yahya Bello submits nomination form. Buhari's resignation ordered to save APC candidate from loss. That's what the president is quoted to say. Despite 129 billion nair intervention loans, aggregate import heats 2.7 trillion nair. AINEC says 1.4 million online registration is invalid. Wow. Buhari signs anti-money laundering counterterrorism bill and inadequate data based threatened SIM and NIN registration. You also find NIMC admits deficit. Vice chancellor's delay admission process and student protest spreads. You have student protesting. AINEC says 149 in four months says NCDC. 20 princes show interest application and today talking about the al-Afi and thugs attack onto female aspirin supporters and several injured. Some of the headlines you find this morning on the punch, household consumption rises to 108 trillion nair according to national bureau of statistics. Nigeria is 15 million out-of-school children. Population frightening. That's what the former president, Olesha Gun Basandro, is quoted to say. These are the headlines on the punch. Finally, we look at the Nigerian Tribune. Outrage that allege blasphemy. Outrage of a killing of female students in Sokoto Polisarist II governor Mitz Kan. Under Ohaneze Pandef knock PDB for throwing presidential ticket open. 32 states, 233 LGA's risk flood disasters federal government wants. I like to adopt manual electronic transmission of result. Federal government licenses 12 new private universities. Pilot daughter of ex-minister 10 others die in plane crash. 223 SGF rights ambassadors, heads of power statels, others with political ambition to vacate seats. We get hopeful of fruitful end to strike as Asu, Sanu, Nassu and AATNLC meet federal government team. Keep a date with destiny on May 29, bellow campaign DJ. I'm having fun. Let Nigerians have heart attack. Oh, wow. And those are all of the stories on the Nigerian Tribune. Jeanne Johnson is good to have you join us this morning on the show. We appreciate your time always. Let's start with the Central Bank of Mozambique. Sean's call for resignation and his visit to the president. He's telling us how she expect news and also giving us the wonderful news that he's having fun and then we can have heart attack. Issues the irresponsibility and insensitivity of the person that is in charge of the monetary policy of our nation. And that's when I was had a free fall because issues his entire attitude is lack of respect for statutory provisions of the constitution in the process. So, and his general attitude, you know a man through whatever, through the way they speak, through the awards, you can't know my thought until I open my mouth to talk. And we could know his thought, we could know his attitude, we could know the clear of his professionalism and the rest of it. Do you need any locate science for you, for anybody to tell you that if you are seeking an eye office of the presidency, you are applying the sense that you should reside. And then I think that the president himself has not had matters. And that's been up to the approach of the president. He has developed a laid back approach in dealing with indecisively. I'm sorry for doing this comparison, but I did public administration while I was in university. One of the elective courses in the department of politics. I've seen you do that. I said in public administration, you can make science out of public administration. You should do comparative analysis. Now if you compare, I can imagine the central bank of now, under our person, your administration, doing this type of nonsense that the media is doing under Boris administration. He's not only insulting, he's insensitive, and for him, and he's coming back to ask for a vote. He said he's having fun, and Nigeria can have pain. We'll wait for him at the polls. We'll wait for him. So let's do it with the media, the media, open terms in the marketplace. We'll wait for him. We'll come and ask the marketplace. Now, let's look at the story of what happened in Shokudo State in this age and time. I have told anyone that cared to listen. Is it the way we practice the religion in that Christian religion or Islamic faith in Nigeria? Is it the same with the practice in Israel and in Saudi Arabia and other Arabian countries? Is it the same way that we practice it? There's a slight distinction. Now, this is even not our own religion. These are imported foreign religions. These are religions that are imported from Israel. In fact, the religion that came from Abraham, the Abrahamic religion, and that's what some of us are about to cater to. If you want to sweep people into office, let us use our local deity. You live in a mountain in Nigeria. You go to a mountain in Nigeria and you say, that's where God is. That's the only way you can see God. You live in a mountain in Nigeria in Okimesi and the rest of it. You go to a mountain in Jerusalem and you say, that's where God is. God is not limited by space. He's not limited by location. Now, God, any God that you have to fight for, there is not any kind of worship. Leave God alone for God to fight for himself. Don't fight for God. Leave God alone. This is the supreme being.  So, there are no judicial process. There are no process of resolving issues in the country. It's unfortunate. This itself, Nigerians are waiting on how the Shokudo State government and how the Federal Government is going to respond to this issue. With a fact that this itself has put a certain question mark on the aspiration of the government of Shokudo State with respect to what has happened in the state. Because the way this issue is resolved with the timing, if it is picked as a PDP presidential candidate, hypothetically, then the way this matter is resolved with the timing, whether I will get votes from people of other regions in the right or not, that's on being... These people arrested should not only be arrested, they should be prosecuted. And the attack should be made open. And it is clear in Nigeria, if you commit murder, it's clear, it's definitely... And this one should be... If it is proven by court of confidentiality, this one should be executed publicly so as to serve as an editor for others in the future, even though I'm totally against the execution.  You could arrest the person, take the person before your Sharia court and let the person be tried, and don't take laws into your own hand, and can imagine they are students, students of a tertiary institution. All right. Unfortunately, those are just very sad scenarios, though those two issues that you have looked into, the 2020 elections, and of course what happened in South Dakota State just yesterday. But let's move away from that. Let's talk about other stories trending. Let's look at the Nigerian Tribune, if we would. 32 states, 233 local government areas risk flood disasters federal government wants. The issue for me is the warning and all of that. Over time, there are always issues that are asked us, don't you think the federal government should just be doing beyond warning and find a way to mitigate against this, rather than just warning residents? Um, just in ones that will not present the program tomorrow. I said, just in ones the producer that he will not present just in ones the producer that the program might not hear tomorrow. Okay. When government that should be responsible for keeping care of means is warning the people, that's the restriction of duty. And here in the story, when the rainy season is about commencing, that are before one measures, one step, why do you have marginal emergency marginal emergency management agency? Never. Never. Why are they budgeting resources for them? If you look into the budget, you look at monies that have been allocated for dealing with deforestation, dealing with flooding and the rest of it. Where does this money go to? So it's year in, year in the same story, year in, year out, where government is shifting responsibility or what government ought to do back to the people, for the people, to do that. It is the same thing when you lead us to it, it is the same thing with vice-cancelors of university, saying that the strike is the lead admission process. You lead that to charm over the course of this week, early this week and lead last week. We had charm. In the last three years admission have done, there are still some schools that have not done the admission of their 2018, 2019, 2019, 2020 2021 admission process. They have not done it. Yeah, charm is still continued. Charm is a federal agency. Charm is still continuing with admission process. Now the mandate for charm is joint admission and matriculation examination board. Joint admission and matriculation examination board. Now there are two mandates. One is the admission, two is the matriculation. Now, you can do admission until you conclude an admission and the conclusion of an admission is matriculation. You do not do another. But we live in a useless sight. I am so sorry that you find a body that is interested in making money out of Nigerian faith. The admission of last year they have not concluded. They are doing another admission this year again. Running against their own mandate. But because they have involved a lot of critical stakeholders, nobody is talking about it. How would you do admission that they have not done matriculation? You have not completed the matriculation for one. You are doing the admission for another. And then you are collecting money for people. It's a crime. But the charm itself, Ministry of Education, they are committing against humanity.  Give them hope in a no-place situation. Because the schools are on strike already. The admission of last year has not been concluded. Even for two years ago has not been concluded. You are doing another exam again. All you need to do is to visit the centers and see parents sitting down on the floor. Because they want their children to go to school. And the schools are nowhere to be found. In our trust Gide Johnson, do we still have you online with us? It feels like we have lost connection with Gide Johnson. We talked about this issue. We talked about it. You said I was laughing about it. We talked about people still scrambling or grappling to a right jump when some schools have not even done admission. When also was on strike. Gide is mentioning it again. Because it is a serious affair. Although I apologize for making light of it the other day. The issues are real. These issues are very serious. They are collecting money. And they do not even know their future as it is the term they admission. Jam is being at home for some months. And some schools have not been able to wrap up previous sessions. And the people are still writing U-T-M-E. So of course he is actually, I mean he's raised very valid points right there. If those who were supposed to have a session magiculating and all of that has not happened was the essence. So you are just going to have a backlog. Because if this set of persons do not magiculate was the guarantee. But you can't really really almost blame the student for the fact that they have to aspire to go to school now. Because in the first instance if Jam did not put out the publication there. If they did not put out the advertisement to say we are meeting. Then it will not, it's like saying you didn't even know that these contractors they will not pay you for the job. Then you saw a contract being published. You applied to be part of it. But we have GD Johnson back on the line and it's good to have you join us once again. Let's allow you finish your thought of line. I think the students don't know where to take their protest to. They are taking their protest to the IWI. Why shouldn't they take their protest to the IWI? They should take it to State House of Assembly. They should take it to National Assembly. They should take it to Government Buildings. Government Buildings and then they take it to ASUROC and then they take it to the Airports. The executive wing of the Airports. That's why they should take their protest to. Because these are the policy makers. The protest in the IWI is a duty-printed on another night here. There is no evidence to nothing about what is affecting them. I recall when we were in UNILAC one of the things that first of our administrative act of LECOS when they were put on Milankwit when we went on protest and we plucked on Milankwit we did not see the vehicles of private citizens. We see vehicles of federal government and state government and that's when they listen to us. I don't know the kind of student unionism that you can't admit your pains on another night. Don't protest on the IWI. Take your protest to the National Assembly. Take it to the State Council Assembly. Take it to government houses. These are the policy makers. Take it to the office of the minister. These are the policy makers. Not Nigerians that are going about their normal businesses on the IWI. And there should be a public hearing by the National Assembly on this duty of gold, admission and admission. This continues ripping off of Nigeria, collecting money from parents to do jam that there's no admission inside and there's no matriculation inside. I'll end on that. Alright, GD Johnson has caused this conversation down. Now let's look at the leadership newspaper it talks about. The South East to dump PDP after 23 years of party loyalty. What does this really mean? Well, the South East has gathered in terms of PDP to enlarge the South East but note that if you are looking for a region the South South and the South East South South West and then the South East The South East will enlarge the state because in Anambra state ABGA has been in power for 20, for 19 years now and so for 17 years now, almost 17 years because the last three governments with the current government are in Anambra. Then EMU has been under APC for the past six, seven, seven, seven, seven years. So the largest entity and then the governor of a boy instead has crossed over to APC. So you can't see that truly the South East is only PDP but over time in terms of voting, in terms of actual voting the South East has always been locked down by PDP. However, some gladiators in the South East started romance in APC almost seven years ago, Ken Namani who was the senate president. Paas Aym Aym who was the senate president, David Maewis who is a later governor, Oji Uzoakal who was a two-time governor. And you have them, these actors and players that have been critical players in PDP that have no free peace. But anyone that is the president of APC says that APC is PDP 2.0 so I will not be surprised even anybody in APC even anybody in PDP moves to APC because if we look at the entire structure of the APC, the entire structure of the party machinery of APC is controlled by the PDP, the national secretary. The national chairman was once the secretary of the body of trustee of PDP and was a two-time governor of PDP but the two-time senator of PDP back then. The national secretary, Iola Omishori was the senator elected under PDP so there is no PDP we have said we have no PDP or APC in Nigeria. One in Nigeria political class cares about, is about the interest. That's why you will see that Jonathan, good luck even Jonathan, there was an immediate, there was this grace that was humiliated by the APC who today be thinking of collecting the APC form and APC will be of fielding someone they delighted someone they humiliated someone they disgraced someone they gave all manners of name that they will be willing to accept quote-unquote the most collapsed, according to them and to accept them into the integral as a presidential as a presidential candidate. The bottom line is that they don't care about us, all they care about is themselves, all you need to do is to go to a Buddha and you see in the night, they relate together. So there's no PDP, there's no IPC. We've been telling the Indians about this for a very, very long time.  Does this mean that, you know, afterwards you're not going to have Niger and the South is voting for the PDP? I mean, is this at a party level? Does this mean that you just go down the road of Nigerians not to support the PDP? The outcome, the outcome, the outcome, the outcome of the, the outcome of the presidential panelist, you know, the parties with the damning, where the voting bloc could go. However, PDP was economic with the truth. And it's unfortunate that Yosha Hayu is made the chairman and is a chairman that has manipulated the process. By the time he tested principle of PDP, once the national chairman is gone, you know, the presidential candidate comes from the South. And that's what they are doing. That's why when it was PDP convention, there was no president, there was no national chairman office that had, there was nobody from the South that contested national chairman ship office. In that sense, the office was zoned to the North, if it was my, my co-zoned to the, to the, to the North Central. And that's why Yosha Hayu was speak, Yosha Hayu was speak to, to, to do that. Now moving forward, whatever happens in 2023, we determine the, the way forward for Nigeria, whether Nigeria will remain as a corporate entity or not, whether they will be needed or agitation for self-determination. Because if you have principles that govern your nation, your relationship about the North and South that go to me, and how you try to reach that gap by having a seamless arrangement and a written rule that governs our power shifts between these two major, two major, two major geographical divisions that we have in Nigeria. Forget about the North, it's not West, not South. It's just up and south. And then if you don't have that arrangement, then you'll see. For example, in APC, the same thing was done, and then what did APC do? They threw the ticket open, same thing with the PDP. Now can move forward, will some of them politicians ever trust the Northern politicians? Now, what is at stake concerning 2023 moving forward is trust, is the issue of trust. And that trust will be tested, will be tested to the wire, and until the presidential candidates of the parties are beat, we won't know where the voting blocks will go, whether the South is the voting block will go with the PDP or they will go with APC. Because even if you look at the arrangement, the arrangement in APC is not even favouring the South East. Who is the presidential candidate that has come out of the South East that want to aspar? Some of them that want to aspar, they've just seen their aspiration. And some from the South East have also brought the form for example, like the governor of Cross-Investate, he bought the form of a presidential ticket, and he also bought the form of Senutura, Senutura, Senutura from soon. These are some of the issues that we resolve moving forward. Under the most circumstances, the South East deserve the first shot on the president, and the South South, the South West, the North West does not deserve to have anything in the presidency, whether the vice president or the president. It should be the South East, South South, not Central and not East. Those are the people that should have a conversation with the presidency. When I talk about the presidency, I'm talking about the vice president and the president. These are the conversations moving forward. We want to have principle of inclusion of every element that constitute my general mission. A little, you know, the actions or the action of the governor of Cross-Investate. Don't you think that this might just go with the saying that, you know, don't put your eggs in one basket? We knew that Ruta did the same thing in 2014, where he picked the presidential ticket form to contest against brawling beggars. And then after the same thing with Tampua, Tampua did the same thing in 2014. So it's not in Nium. It's just that Nigerians don't, you are sure that Nium and Nigerians don't follow history. It's not in Nium. I did this short story about the meeting that took place last week, Friday. You know, we were talking about the meeting of APC taking place last week. And I said, I'm not advising Ushiba to come. And Ushiba actually came. They all came for the meeting. And after the meeting, I did the short story where I wrote about the tale of Tupolas. What happened? They told the scenario that played out in 1999 between Pala and Niumbu, and me and Ushiba. So it's just 2014. Okay. We have to let you go now. We have to let you go. We have to let you go, Jaleigh Johnson. We are completely out of time. But indeed, thank you so much for all the useful insights and thoughts you usually share on the newspaper review. We do appreciate the time. It's a pleasure to be with you, Justin, and have a wonderful night. And messy. Once again, have messy on us. All right. Thank you so much. All right. That's as much as we can take in this segment. We'll take a quick break. First of all, we'll look at what happened this day and his channel. Come back and have our first major conversation of the day. Do join us again.


Hello and welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins. We're gonna have some fun today And if you're new here, please subscribe and hit that little bell icon to be notified of future videos Well, have you ever gotten in an artistic rut? I know I have so I hope you will enjoy this lesson That will give you some techniques and things that I do to get spontaneous and to break out of those stagnant periods in our artistic lives and do some things that are fun and May even help you learn to do new things in new ways Hello and welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins And this is a lesson that I'm bringing to both the Monet Café channel and my patrons on my patreon page on Fridays we do something called PE patron education We usually do something fun and educational and it becomes their homework over the weekend So sometimes I create the video to work on both platforms now Have you ever gotten an artistic rut? And you're just like I want to paint or you get so overwhelmed by looking at reference photos and Or you just feel like you've lost the urge and you just need something to kind of get you going Well, this is a great exercise It's something I do just for fun a lot of times I think we forget to have fun as artists and paint and play like we were kids again So this is a neat exercise to not only get you out of that rut to help But to help you have fun and also to give you new habits and maybe new ways of doing things That you may not have done before we get in these artistic habits or these patterns of the The reference photos we pick or the colors that we pick You know, so this is a neat way to break out of our old habits Create new ones and have some fun. All right, let's get started Now for this exercise, what we'll be doing is allowing ourselves only 10 or 15 minutes per Painting you might be thinking wow, that's not a lot of time. Well, they're gonna be small I'm choosing to do five by seven sizes. You can choose smaller or bigger Whatever works for you, but we're gonna do multiple paintings. I'm doing six again You can adjust those numbers whatever works for you. I recommend four or more and We're to kind of get us more creative and everything we're going to tone each one a different color And we're gonna choose colors not based on a reference photo based on just what colors we think look pretty and To tone my watercolor paper a different color for each painting I'm gonna be using a few different products just to show you some varieties Maybe introduce you to some products. You've never used before. I actually really really love these Neocolor wax pastels. They are made by Kardashian-dash, I never say that name. So I'm not sure it's a Swiss made company But they are wax pastels water soluble wax pastels and what I love about these is their brilliance in color And it's so weird. They look like crayons. Literally This is the set of 40, which I really like and I've used it for multiple painting demonstrations and But here lately I haven't used them a lot, but there's such nice vibrant colors And I thought some of these would be nice to use To tone some of my painting under painting surfaces. I'm gonna be using now. I also will be using These intense blocks now these are compressed ink made by Derwent and I got the big 72 set But you don't have to get a set that big if you want to try it out. There's two layers to the set This is the like the warmer tones. Oh some cooler ones actually, too We got a lot of greens and everything underneath And kind of like your more neutral tones So so blues and greens and then reds and blues and pinks in here So I really love the set but the the great thing about these is they also are so vibrant in color Now here's another interesting things about both of these products. They are They don't fill up the truth of any paper if I was to apply pastel to this It counts as a layer, you know now another thing I like about these two products is that they are Translucent in color. They're not opaque. They leave the white of the paper showing through and I really like that I like the brilliance of the color to start working on For example, if you used pastel and you can to tone this if you don't have either of these two products You could use some harder pastels or whatever pastels you have I mean, this is like a yellow Rembrandt's kind of dirty. You could use this To tone it like I said, I'm gonna be using water to wash these or alcohol But you don't have to you could just use some sort of blending tool and blend them in if you're not using a water-friendly surface I often use let me go over here real quick Here lately I've been using these little chamois claws a lot I find they work great on watercolor paper and some of the other surfaces I use they don't work so great on You art sanded paper the catch in the grit But if you are using you art paper you can blend with a little piece of pipe foam insulation So you have multiple ways that we can do this we can use one of you could use watercolor Okay, so if you're using watercolor paper or a water-friendly paper So watercolor some of these products some pastels if you're using another medium use some acrylic paint You know whatever so we're basically gonna be toning each one just some colors that we like so this should be a lot of fun All right, I'm gonna get started I also wanted to share that I made my little five by seven frames by a technique I use a lot I use a mat and the inside is five by seven the outside is eight by ten So it's a nice quick way to make a standard size for whatever you're gonna be painting. All right Also, I wanted to mention to that my reference images. I'll talk more about them as well when I get done with this Same thing. We don't want to get bogged down with getting so serious about reference images So I'm gonna show you when we're done with this and I get the paper ready Just a way to also break out of our comfort zone with choosing reference photos and having fun All right, so I'm just gonna get started. I've got the the bright pink one here now I'm simply applying the the first page here. I'm using the neocolor wax pastels and I did the pink. I did that really interesting lavender kind of purple and that minty green I really don't like tearing these labels. I suggest always tearing the labels off your pastels But that's a little pet peeve of mine.  So I always cut them And you can paint with them better by turning them on their side So those are the neocolors and now I'm going to use the ink tense blocks to tone This side and once again, I may have said this already before use what you have You can do this with pastels, but the point is get some interesting colors You might not normally pick and just tone it without thinking of any reference photo in mind Okay, now let's go ahead and wet these. I'm going to use alcohol Oh, I love this part. It's so fun. So I'm using alcohol. I could use water once again I'm using a water friendly surface watercolor paper. I'm also using my Chinese watercolor brush I really love this brush and I think I might have said this I can't remember but if you don't have any water friendly paper, you're using uR paper or something else Well, you can wet uR paper, but like Sennelier paper You can do this like I said with pastels and just blend it with a piece of pipe foam insulation Or like you see me using lately a chamois cloth. You'll see me use that again in this Example, I find the chamois cloth works really well Um, but no see how pale these are I've used wax pastels before on uR paper and they were way more vibrant So now I'm going to do the ink tense blocks Now they are compressed ink and they are bright and bold and more vibrant than see that than the wax pastels So you can immediately see that they have more color intensity and I love bold colors So I end up going back on the wax pastels and adding some acrylic inks You'll see that in a minute now. I'm altering my strokes On this one. I kind of did a little circular motion the first one sideways strokes the second one vertical All right, see that was much more pale. So now I'm going to add the dailer roundy acrylic inks Now these are very vibrant. I love using these. I want to keep the colors kind of the same so for the first one I'm using a It's called dark green, but it's really kind of a blue green And for the second one, I've got a couple of purples. One of them is a little bit more metallic I decided not to use that one and uh, the other one is called purple lake It's a gorgeous actually a wonderful color to use for Getting your darks in like if you want to do a value study with a brush For the pink one, I'm using fluorescent pink and I'm going to show you this color indian yellow I use this combination a lot because it creates a color very close to the Kwanakredo nickel azo gold.  So, um, all right, so let me get started with these I didn't want to do this slow or regular time because you know, you get the point Oh, I remembered I had a color called turquoise too. So I'm mixing turquoise and dark green And oh, it's so pretty. That's just the dark green. No, that was both. No, now I'm adding the turquoise. Sorry Dark green and now I'm adding the turquoise and oh, it creates such a lovely color And I'm just mixing it up with my watercolor brush I didn't add water to this and you see isn't that a beautiful color So I kind of went with the same minty green kind of color Um And just intensified it with the dail around acrylic inks And this next one is the purple lake color. That's the one I decided on and you'll see it's kind of a magenta purple It's not it doesn't lean towards blue as much as it does towards a purpley reddish Magenta kind of a color. Oh, isn't that gorgeous? Oh my goodness. I love it And last but not least is the fluorescent pink And it's a gorgeous color and once again this this hole in that pretty this whole exercise Is to just get spontaneous with color. Maybe choose some you wouldn't normally choose and To just have some fun and to play again We always talk about art being therapy and often I feel like uh, we get too serious So oh now i'm showing you what it looks like with the pink and the indian yellow added Isn't that gorgeous and I actually end up using this color To go back and tone one of the other ones. All right, so what I will be using to create texture is the technique I use often just clear Gesso clear liquid gesso You know how I talk about the clear kind not the regular gesso has a little bit of the grit in it It's like they add a little bit of pumice to make it a little bit sandy So it's just such a great way to make a little sanded pastel surface Many of you may remember or know I've been using a combination of the Clear gesso and the marble dust. That's my little two to one mixture two parts clear gesso one part marble dust But i'm not going to be using that for this particular example And here's where I am intensifying that one reddish color with the acrylic inks the indian yellow and the fluorescent pink that really like I said It looks so much like the quenacridone nickel azo gold that I just love. Oh my goodness. I love this color as an underpainting I'm speeding this one up kind of a lot because you get the idea I'm literally just putting some clear gesso on each one of these and Sometimes I just put it on my brush like I'm doing here rather than put it in a jar. It can get a little messy doing it this way so But use again, whatever you have if you don't have the acrylic inks I never want to you know encourage everybody to go out and buy these products because you can do this with just pastel All right, so now we have some fun colors to work with my clear gesso is dry I'm going to try to be quiet and see if you can hear this Hear that compared to Probably can't tell but There's definitely like a sanded surface to these so the pastel will apply now to continue with the spontaneity What i'm going to do I have a google album that I have reference photos in that my patrons have access to those photos But there's a lot of different sites that I recommend That you can use paint my photo is one of them pixabay is another Paint my photo is good because you can go through if you have an afternoon of just wanting to look at some photos You can save photos to particular albums.  You don't get bogged down with going in and going. I need a reference photo So this I call it reference photo roulette Where I've saved a whole lot of them somewhere these happen to these will all be mine I have a google album that i'm starting to put all of my photography Shots in that I think are good for painting and my patrons have access to that So the ones you'll be seeing me use right now are mine But I do recommend that you have them on hand even if you print them out I have a box that I keep or here's a file But I actually have a box too that I keep little cut up reference photos in and just do like Close your eyes and grab one and that's what you got to paint and then you've got 10 or 15 minutes to do it Okay. Oh, that's a sketch. I can't paint that This is not the way I'm going to do it But this is just a general idea of what you could do and this is good to take on trips if you travel There you go. I actually think I have one that's kind of like that. That's my backyard So, you know, and then go, okay, I want to do that one here And once again, I said I might turn these that might be pretty or might be pretty with the blue background Okay, so Purple I'm going to choose for this one. Let's take it down a little bit here All right, let's get going. What time is it? It is 210 all right I'm speeding this second one up just a little bit But the next one will be all real time. This one took about 11 to 12 minutes And the next one that is real time took about I'm thinking about 14 minutes So, um, I'm just speeding this one up to keep the video from being so long So, uh, you guys, I hope you have fun with this So, um, I'm going to add some a little bit of music right here You can enjoy this one and then like I said, the next one will be all real time All right, here's the quick little final on this one And I'm starting the next one now that once again is real time and also just a Reminder refresher of the point of this exercise is to get more Spontaneous Breakout of old habits have some fun And I think the end result for me anyway is it usually causes me to have more creative color In this photo it was obvious that the Energy and the focal point was the clouds those sweeping clouds that once again This is my backyard like many of my photos. I don't get to go many places, but praise the lord I got a cow pasture in my backyard and and just some awesome wide spaces to see these gorgeous gorgeous sunsets and sunrises on either side of the field and So the energy and the focal point was those clouds and there's my Oreo. You know, I didn't realize that until I Really looked closely at this photo that cow that's running in the lower left side is a cow. I named Oreo All right, let me you know I go on a tangent sometimes But the story is kind of neat of how we ended up where we are if you follow my channel for any length of time You may know that Three years ago hurricane Irma our home was totally flooded due to hurricane Irma And fortunately we had bought this property My husband and I were doing some home renovations trying to get into that, you know as another source of income and We bought this property. We found it at a good price but actually We got a better price because the lady who sold us this house. We call it granny's house right now Or the farmhouse She sold it to us because she was just a beautiful christian soul And she really liked us and she actually our offering price was less than others that she had And she decided to sell it to us. Well little did we know when we got this house now it was Not in good shape. Okay bad shape. Okay, but pretty pretty property Little did we know or did she know that within A year Our home would flood now we had we didn't have any time or the money to even work on this property where we live now But after our home flooded We had to bring our travel trailer to this property It's the only place we had to live and live in our travel trailer on this particular property Until we could renovate the house that we call the farmhouse now our granny's house. So that's the story But what's really interesting is when we were looking at this property before we even bought it I saw this cute little calf Named and I named it orio later. I didn't even know I was like, oh my gosh. I love this property I said there's a cow pasture next door and this little baby cow came up to me And I was just shocked that it would even come up to me And so I took a picture of it. We hadn't even bought the property yet It was much later that I just you know the whole flood and everything that the cow grew And um, I I guess I didn't realize that this was the cow because they're always having new babies That I had first met. I have a picture of right. I need to see if I can find it and put it in this video This was the cow that I met when I first We first looked at this property So anyway, I am just loving the fact that god provides even when you don't know what's going on So we ended up getting this place renovated. It's nothing like our other house was It's smaller and you know, there's a lot of things that are different But you know, we just make it work But I just wake up and cherish this beautiful sky every morning And I know many people I know many of you because you're patrons of mine and man, I love you patrons If you're a patron of mine, I just love what we have going on. It's really awesome I know a lot of my patrons they support this channel Just to keep the free lessons coming to youtube on mona cafe, but um And but I do give extra lessons when I can to patreon. So anyway, so I'm just very grateful for everything I've really gone on a tangent now, but I wanted wanted to say back to my point was that I I loved that I saw Oreo running to me She's come to learn to know that The cows are like my garbage disposal. I save everything I do a lot of juicing. So I save all of my They love lemon rinds orange grapefruit rinds tomatoes Just any kind of produce that I have left over they love it But Oreo has to run to me because the other cows they're kind of like bullies. No pun intended, but She runs to me because she knows she's got to get there first and I'm kind of partial to her. So Notice though in the sky Typically we think of skies of being blue with white clouds white puffy clouds Look how warm the sky is the tones in the sky and even in the upper heavens You see I'm using those neutral colors right now And I want to carry that forward a lot of times when I'll put something in the sky I'll see if I can bring it down and put it on the ground You know, normally you would definitely do that in a reflection like if there was water But I even do it in things like fields because you want to bring a harmony to your painting And so I connect it that way But anyway Find what your focal point is and again the energy in the sky But it was really if you look in the uh photo you see that brilliant spot That's kind of to the Not quite the middle down a little lower and a little bit to the right where there's just the brightness That was the focal point and I changed the color a bit. I made it a little bit more of a bright pink But as long as you get value, right You're doing good and you follow the rules of Neutrality and when things should be bold and when they should be neutral I always recommend this one video I did because it's so popular right now, but it's five ways to create depth in your artwork and I think just over the years of me learning from others and everything that video just came together in such a Good way, and I think it's a really great one for beginners. Okay So you see the color that I'm using right now that kind of rng neutral color. I just had Can't you see the warmth in the clouds right there? So that's why I was choosing colors like that And I guess I should talk a little bit more about the point of this lesson to get out of an artistic rut And I really do think when you have these surfaces that are A color that you you just really didn't think about all that much. You just thought it was a pretty color And uh, then we just kind of go with it with a painting. Um, I really think it creates fun excitement energy and Kind of gets us out of our comfort zone. So Now I do recommend This is another thing to get out of an artistic rut This is going to sound weird. You got to be prepared to be spontaneous And what do I mean by that if you're going to go ahead and do these which I recommend Do a lot of them get them done and have them readily available so that when you get that artistic urge You don't have to you know, break out all the stuff again create an underpainting. You're like, oh, let me grab one I can't tell you how often I do that when I'm like I just have a few minutes and I've already prepared some of these whether they're a five by seven or six by eight And eight by 10 11 by 14. I prepare multiple sizes And then also have you like I say my reference photo roulette have you some reference photos in a little grab bag or Like I have some now on my Google album. Google albums are great But you know, there's other things like Dropbox and places where you can save things I've just found the google albums are really neat now notice. I'm giving a lot of cool colors to the grasses here and It's like many artists say Value is king meaning the lightness or darkness of something But color gets the glory So what does that mean? It means you get your values right And you know, your colors are actually second to value So as long as your values, right, you can get exploratory with color And that's one of the most common questions I get is how did you know to not make that field green? Well, I know the value was right It's if you squint your eyes you can see the the field is darker than the sky obviously The upright trees by the way things that are upright are typically darker in value like trees and Four ground grasses if they're tall like that things that are flat Um are usually lighter and they get even lighter in the distance. So if you understand those rules It's like I've been saying lately. It's not rocket science.  So Um, so anyway, let me uh, let me finish this one up here. I think this this painting Took me like Between 12 and 15 minutes something like that But I am speeding up this last little part to keep my video size down It's already right now showing it about, you know under 40 minutes And I did finally add some green you see that but I chose to use Uh more neutral cooler greens and here you'll see I'm doing a little bit of negative painting Kind of carving into some of those areas where there were brighter clouds and that is the focal point So that's why i'm spending a little more time on that now. I did do a total of six paintings Yeah, six paintings that I did and um Kept them all at about between 10 and 20 minutes. I have to say also my patrons did a phenomenal job on this Exercise or this what I call their pe lesson. This was last friday's pe lesson for them So patrons if you're seeing this you're not seeing uh, um a double take I just I give you guys the lesson with a little more content And you guys also get to share your work and I get to see it and we get to communicate which is awesome But I decided um that I would also share this to the regular Monet cafe channel And the paintings that I did are all viewable at the very beginning of this video I kind of do a little uh picture in the screen where you can see the paintings that I did And these were a lot of fun. These were really relaxing for me and The good thing about this is that you don't have to fuss so much or worry about it being some kind of perfect Uh creation of artwork. You're not so serious about it So once again, it may sound strange to say that you have to be prepared to be spontaneous But go ahead prepare some of these surfaces get you some reference photos available So that when you get that energy you can just paint and that is truly the way to get out of an Autistic rut. All right guys. I hope you enjoyed this video as always. I hope you will like this video Comment give me your feedback. I just got some feedback from someone who said they were looking for a video like this So here it is and please subscribe and come back often. All right. Happy painting


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