Welcome to Artmaking Beyond Woo. My name's Jason and I'll be sharing various parts of my art making with you. I do hope you'll enjoy and although I think a lot of it is mostly about getting into these rums of play. Just taking a look here at my week to week last thing I did, falling back into that space that embraces the exploration of the art making of just trying to figure out what to do next or how to bring these ideas that are on the inside, you know, out more, not standing in the way of them so much. You know, he says that's kind of the way I've been approaching it. It's easy to go down deep into all these like psychological, healthy habits, mental constructs, which is totally valid. It's absolutely powerful. But I think as artists we can really, we have a tendency to overthink. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people relate to that. The overthinking and just the comparison unconsciously, right? Because if you're always comparing yourself to something else then you're not really, I mean, yeah, truly you're not being there for you in your own art making, allowing more that freedom to play and to feel like the child feels so silly. But it's like, it really is a critical part of making progress. Something I've incorporated into my process. For me, it's all about building up layers really. So the first few passes of a paint need to not be, you know, anything composition or whatever, just laying down color. So when I'm starting out with these paintings, I'm really not thinking much of anything, like there's no expectation. It's about pushing it beyond something that I would like just so that I won't attempt to attach emotionally to it really, at least up front earlier on. That's really the best way to go about it is just approaching each painting wherever it's at, just where it's at. Instead of, you know, I would struggle earlier on because I would have an idea, you're trying some things out and an hour or two go by and it didn't really go anywhere and then you come back to it days later or whatever and it's like, you're trying to chase that same thing down, but that thing has already done coming gone. So you're really just chasing your tail. That's a rough one, but I definitely found myself in that for a while, that kind of a pattern. And so yeah, preventing the chasing the tail and just not being as comfortable with how the paintings would resolve while I was working on them. And that's mostly what it was. It was just me trying to resolve it back to something that I was trying to do instead of just working with it from where it is now. And yeah, these are great teachings that I've learned from these other artists who are online who are awesome, like Judy Woods and Nicholas Wilton, Pamela Coey. You guys should be checking out all these artists because they are layer legit, awesome, so much valuable information that they're sharing. So yeah, the letting go of all these notions, yeah, it's a sticky trap of needing it to be right for other people's approval and all that kind of stuff, something that was influencing how I felt or thought about the work I was doing. These are all helpful hints for those of us on our journey trying to figure it out. Yeah, so I hope you enjoyed this. I'm really just kind of sharing the work that I'm in at the moment, the little things I'm learning along the way. But yeah, if you found this helpful, please do like and subscribe. You can check out more at the website, the link is below. So yeah, building everything up. All right, you guys have a great day and cheers to the art making.