The video is uploading now and should be ready in a few minutes! I may get next week's lesson uploaded a little early too, but it won't be today :)

Welcome to Jonathan Thompson, new member to our group! We're just getting started up here, Jonathan, so it's a little quiet most of the time. I'm about halfway through on the uploaded tutorials for the paint-making course now, but it's all go at your own pace until you catch up with me and the upload schedule :)

In my non-art life, I'm a real estate agent. Around noon I had to go to one of my listings that is about 2 hours away to put a lockbox on the door so an agent could show it to his clients. There was just no way to do the Zoom call in the middle of the sudden upheaval and running around. Ordinarily I have some flexibility, but I did not in this case and I hated to cancel the Zoom. But, before that call came in I did manage to get the videos filmed for both making the watercolor binder AND making a rough paint from the rock crushed in the previous segment on using the mortar and pestle. I'll get the videos edited and uploaded over the next day or two and they should both be ready before Wednesday. Look at that pretty color:

I’m sorry, but I have to cancel the Zoom meeting today. Sorry!. I’ll see you next week.

I just uploaded what may be a boring video of a painting in progress of a barn owl using my handmade soot black to make the underpainting, lol. It's just part of a new series (free) that I'll be posting here about how I use my own paints to make paintings. I forgot to start doing this when the canvas was completely blank, so it picks up shortly after I started, and then I forgot again on the latest session, so there's photos to show to the point where it is now. The painting progress videos will all be indexed under the 'Open Studio' tile on the Classroom tab as I get them made. Here's the first one: https://youtu.be/b7d4tdxEFm0 The next video in the Making Paint course will upload by Wednesday, and it'll be on making the watercolor binder.