Hello everybody, so this is the final video in my house paint series and I'm really happy to share this with you. Very happy with kind of the last things that I did and wanted to talk to you a little bit about what those things were. And I kind of call this my Clarify Stage. So those of you who are taking my online course, Powerful Design and Personal Color. And yeah, so basically this would be that final stage where you're trying to pull things together, you're trying to harmonize and what better way to do that than applying a glaze. And here I did start out with kind of a light glaze and it was just that Golden Niko Azo, Kwonakuro and Gold, I believe it is, it's kind of a long name. But what I like about it is that it's really transparent and I do set it out with airbrush medium made by Golden as well. And so by doing that I have full control over how much color there is, how transparent it is, that kind of thing. So I just applied that glaze and now I'm going back into painting. And what I'm doing here, just adding little touches to move the eye around. And yeah, this is something that we talk a lot about again in my course. And it's all about definitely, we all use our intuition and that's what guides us for much of the painting and that never changes. But I think the difference, what I noticed was that when you start to understand the power of understanding what makes a strong composition and how much latitude you have in mixing your colors, it just changes everything. And when I discovered that, and again, it's been a 30 year process, a 30 year journey. So my reason for creating that course was to hopefully allow people to greatly increase their ability to not make the same mistakes I did to kind of learn from my own experience. My greatest sort of regret, I guess, is that I didn't know this information 30 years ago. And that's what really motivated me to get the information out there in a course that people could take and literally learn everything that I learned over a 30 year period in just a few months. And again, if I had this information a long time ago, I think I would have produced a lot more paintings, but things are what they are. And that's why I'm so committed to sharing whatever I can through all different sorts of avenues, whether it's YouTube or Facebook or my course, or I now have a new membership group, which those students who are now in my online course, Powerful Design and Personal Color, can actually join this membership group where I share in greater detail and in greater length these videos. So for instance, this video is actually going to be a very long video that I'll be sharing with them pretty soon. It's not quite ready yet, but I just have so much to share. And every platform is a little different. Like YouTube, I realize that people are busy and they don't have a lot of time to watch a video. I like these kind of short and concise and try to share what I can, but art is not easy. And there's an awful lot that can be learned. And I'm kind of giving you the main things that I'm doing. I mean, here in Trinketson spray paint for the very first time. It was so excited to try it because I've always loved graffiti. And I didn't experiment with the different kinds of tips. And again, that's material that's going to be in my watch, learn, grow membership group. So for those of you who are in that group, you'll see that test. And I talk about the different tips. And again, there's way too much information to share everything here on this platform. But I do love it. I just think that this is an amazing way to share some of the things that I do. And obviously, this painting is very non-objective. And some will call this abstraction, but it's really non-objective work where there is really no relationship to anything that you really recognize. I mean, stripes and shapes and things like that are not really considered to be what we talk about when we do abstract work. So there's a difference between abstraction and non-objectivity. And that's also something that I'd point out. But in any case, I think what I want to say in this video is that, yes, this painting has been a process, but it's such a wonderful process and such a wonderful journey. And one of the big things that I try to encourage my students to do, whether it's a live workshop or the online course or whatever it is, is to set the bar really high. And it's good and high so that you're aiming for something that you love in your work, right? And that could be the elements, the various kinds of elements of design, whether it's a shape or a color. Maybe you love to play with scale or maybe you love texture. All these things are really important. But even looking over my 30 years of painting, on one hand, could probably list the number of paintings that I truly love. And I feel really thankful and that this one painting actually came together. I think it's probably one of my favorite paintings that I very rarely would ever say that. And so I'm so happy that I was able to document this and then share it with you and now show you the final painting because it is rare when that happens for me. I show you a lot of things, you know, and I always aim for loving what the final thing is. But even if I fall short of that, a lot of great things happen. Number one, I did the work. And number two, I learned an awful lot. It's all about the journey for me. And if you happen to love your painting or like it a lot at the end, that to me is just a great bonus. But really, the best part of painting for me is always the journey. And it's good to aim high because loving your work is a very high standard, at least in my world and I'm sure it is in yours as well. So you know, and it doesn't mean that even you love every single part of your painting, you know, maybe you love certain parts and you know, you kind of remember that. You remember how you love this one area and then as you move on to the next painting and the next painting in your mind, you know, you are learning a lot about yourself. And it's like a puzzle piece that you don't, you just can't get it all for one painting and you can't get it all from painting for one year or five years or ten years. It's like a lifetime. It's a lifetime no matter when you jump in to start painting. It's just something that comes from, yes, intuition, but there's a lot of information gathering in your life. You know, think about all the things that you've seen over a lifetime and all the things that have inspired you. Well, those are the things that are going to help you to know what you want to say in your work. So thanks for staying with me in this series and I'm now working on a new one. It's going to be very different than this one. I just started it yesterday, but I appreciate your comments. You know, if you have any suggestions for titles, I'd love to hear what you have to say. I'm currently trying to figure that one out myself and this will be part of a very large solo exhibition in 2020. University of Idaho, a school of art and architecture at the Pitchard Gallery in Moscow, Idaho. So I have a lot of work I'd like to do before that show and I hope to share a lot of it with you. So thanks again. Bye now.