Speaker 1: Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Danielle Fishel.
Speaker 2: I'm Ryder Strong.
Speaker 3: And I'm Will Friedle.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Pod Meets World on Disney +. I'm
Speaker 1: Danielle Fishel.
Speaker 3: I'm Ryder Strong. And I'm Will Friedle.
Speaker 1: So this week, we are taking advantage of our brand
Speaker 1: new visual capabilities, and we are bringing you... Something, what?
Speaker 3: What are you going to say? Our brand new visual game.
Speaker 3: Like our ability to see?
Speaker 1: Their ability to see us.
Speaker 3: Okay, so it's not like the technology's new.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: This new telephonic device, you can actually see what we're doing.
Speaker 3: Wow, you can see everything.
Speaker 1: It's called a television.
Speaker 3: Television.
Speaker 1: No, we're bringing you something that's not only for your ears,
Speaker 1: but for your eyeballs as well. We have invited artist
Speaker 1: and instructor Allison Lowe to the podcast with a hefty
Speaker 1: challenge in mind. Allison, welcome to our show. Thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. On a scale of one to the
Speaker 1: craziest people you've ever met, what is your first impression
Speaker 1: of us? You've been around us now for about 10 minutes.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the three of us so far?
Speaker 4: Well... I just hope the canvas gets covered.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: You're right.
Speaker 1: I think what she means is we have been all
Speaker 1: over the place and she's not wrong. So we are
Speaker 1: going to try our hardest to replicate one of Allison's
Speaker 1: Beautiful landscape pieces. Here it is for you to see
Speaker 1: as well. We do have some constraints, one of them
Speaker 1: being time. We don't have the entire day to do this.
Speaker 5: I would argue that none of us are artists is
Speaker 5: also a constraint as well.
Speaker 3: No artistic talent.
Speaker 1: I actually could say I have just no talent. Not
Speaker 1: just no artistic talent. So I'm really... This is really going, I,
Speaker 1: my stick figures are unrecognizable.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: If I were to draw a dog, you would not
Speaker 1: believe that that's the best version of a dog I
Speaker 1: could give you. Like, it's truly mind-boggling how bad of
Speaker 1: an artist I am. But at the end of this episode,
Speaker 1: Allison's going to look at our three paintings. She's going
Speaker 1: to give us her expert opinion and say who she
Speaker 1: thinks is.
Speaker 3: And we have a winner?
Speaker 1: We have a winner. Yeah, there's a winner.
Speaker 3: What do we win?
Speaker 1: Well, the respect and admiration of your peers.
Speaker 2: You mean the other two?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 5: 35 years, they're going to start respecting each other now?
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 1: I will say that we have... A painter in our midst.
Speaker 4: We don't.
Speaker 3: Don't set me up for a failure.
Speaker 2: You've worked with paint before. I've literally touched paint like
Speaker 2: twice in my life.
Speaker 3: No, I've worked with paint before. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: You had a painting show on the internet for like
Speaker 1: three years.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yes. But it's painting miniature figures for Dungeons and Dragons,
Speaker 5: which is very different than painting this beautiful landscape.
Speaker 1: And you said you've touched paint twice. You've never painted before?
Speaker 2: I did during the pandemic when my family was locked up.
Speaker 2: We had like an extended family. There was like six
Speaker 2: of us in the house. And so we did a
Speaker 2: Bob Ross day and I was horrible.
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's no mistakes, Ryder.
Speaker 1: Just happy accidents.
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. I want to be like ASMR. I think that's
Speaker 2: what I'll just narrate what's happening with ASMR.
Speaker 3: Do you know the story of why Bob Ross never
Speaker 3: spoke up? Like always kept his voice level?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Is because he was actually an army drill instructor. And
Speaker 5: he screamed and screamed and screamed for years at people.
Speaker 5: And when he retired, he said... I'm not doing that anymore.
Speaker 3: And he never raised his voice again.
Speaker 1: I love that. Half his life screaming, the other half
Speaker 1: of it whispering.
Speaker 2: Things you learn from Wilson.
Speaker 1: Well, for you, our dear listeners, you can head over
Speaker 1: to our Instagram at podmeetsworldshow and you can help pick
Speaker 1: a winner as well. Do you think one of us
Speaker 1: will be the next Alexandra Nikita? Would Ricky Ferris approve
Speaker 1: of any of our.
Speaker 3: As long as we're trying to be artistic, he'd approve.
Speaker 3: That's all that matters.
Speaker 2: I wish we had berets.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, I really wish we had berets.
Speaker 1: You should have taken this one step further.
Speaker 3: It's a bang in.
Speaker 4: Front of me.
Speaker 2: Beret in my head.
Speaker 1: My life is ready. For those of you who are
Speaker 1: only listening, we are going to look to Allison to
Speaker 1: verbally express some of what she sees.
Speaker 4: How bad we are. Yes.
Speaker 1: As you're going along.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, as you're going along, you can call out to people.
Speaker 2: That almost looks like a mountain.
Speaker 1: We've set up our little workstations here on set. Allison
Speaker 1: so kindly gave us some paint. Allison, will you walk
Speaker 1: us through what you gave us?
Speaker 4: Okay, I gave you basically a warm and a cool yellow,
Speaker 4: a warm and a cool red, a warm and a
Speaker 4: cool blue, and a violet. And white, of course.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: And so this way you can make all different shades of...
Speaker 4: of any color you want with those. Right, right.
Speaker 2: And do we add water to the paint?
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 3: You can, yes.
Speaker 4: And you can spray it if it starts getting dry,
Speaker 4: and it's up to you to decide how thin or
Speaker 4: thick you want it. You know, use the water. You
Speaker 4: each have your own water cup. And, yeah, I would
Speaker 4: start thinner, and then you can always work thick.
Speaker 2: It's hard.
Speaker 4: If you put chunks of paint on, it's going to
Speaker 4: be hard. You're going to be fighting that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I feel like I have all the information
Speaker 1: I need to begin. Oh, you're going right. Oh, water
Speaker 1: in the middle.
Speaker 2: Water in the middle?
Speaker 3: Well, you can if you want.
Speaker 6: So as I advanced more as a mini painter, you
Speaker 6: go from a palette like this to more of a
Speaker 6: wet palette where everything is kind of a mass of
Speaker 6: water in the middle and you're pulling your paint through it.
Speaker 5: Which thins it but can also blend it a little better.
Speaker 5: But that's not for everybody.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean, all right. Allison, please.
Speaker 3: I'm just setting myself up for failure, by the way.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 4: And I would suggest first look at the seascape and
Speaker 4: start with the drawing in the horizon line so you
Speaker 4: kind of know from there and then start mapping in
Speaker 4: the larger shapes.
Speaker 1: That's a really good idea to do the horizon line first.
Speaker 1: I'm going to move this.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 3: I use Horizon and it just cuts in and out
Speaker 3: a lot of times.
Speaker 1: That's a Verizon.
Speaker 2: Close, though.
Speaker 1: Really close.
Speaker 4: Okay. And don't be afraid of whatever color you start on.
Speaker 1: I am afraid. Don't be afraid.
Speaker 4: No, no, because the paint, well, you can always layer
Speaker 4: on top. So don't worry. Don't think it has to
Speaker 4: be exactly.
Speaker 2: My Horizon already went up.
Speaker 4: We're going to fix that.
Speaker 3: You'll be able to fix that.
Speaker 4: Or maybe you'll like it. And look at the relationship
Speaker 4: of the rocks, the water, and kind of the angle
Speaker 4: that it's moving it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Guys, I am already– I would have already given up
Speaker 1: on this. I would be like, well, that was fun.
Speaker 1: I'm terrible at this. Not going to– The beautiful thing.
Speaker 4: Is the paint will dry– very quickly, like within minutes.
Speaker 4: And if you don't like something, you can literally go
Speaker 4: over it with another color or you can go over
Speaker 4: it with white and then begin again.
Speaker 1: Right. Okay. What do you do if you've accidentally touched
Speaker 1: the top of your canvas?
Speaker 4: That's okay.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: You broke it.
Speaker 2: Get out.
Speaker 6: Get out.
Speaker 2: You lose.
Speaker 4: Just try to pretend you're like a kid and you
Speaker 4: don't really care. That is the way to.
Speaker 3: That's one thing Danielle is really good at is just
Speaker 3: letting go.
Speaker 4: Your challenge today would be to actually let the colors touch.
Speaker 1: Okay. Like, how do I... Oh, that's what the cup
Speaker 1: of water's for if I want to get this color
Speaker 1: off of here?
Speaker 4: And that's why there's paper towel there, too, if you
Speaker 4: need to, like, dry off your brush.
Speaker 1: I love paper towel. Okay. Right.
Speaker 4: And the table is going to get messy. I'm glad
Speaker 4: you gave me purple. It's okay if it gets messy.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: No, no.
Speaker 1: It's not okay. It's messy.
Speaker 6: It's messy.
Speaker 3: It's not okay. It's a real problem.
Speaker 4: And once you get going on it, if you see
Speaker 4: like a dominant thing, like the blue of the ocean
Speaker 4: that's dominant, you can just mask that in and mix
Speaker 4: up a light blue and take the bigger brush and
Speaker 4: sort of mask it in.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I'm so stressed. I
Speaker 1: do love purple. I was like really glad you gave
Speaker 1: me purple. And now I'm stressed about the fact that
Speaker 1: I picked purple.
Speaker 4: You can go over it with a different color.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 4: Just rinse off your brush.
Speaker 1: I'm also doing this as if like the time was
Speaker 1: that we had 45 seconds to do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like racing.
Speaker 1: I'm like racing through it. And I guess I could
Speaker 1: take a little bit more time, you know?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I am concerned.
Speaker 4: Yes, but remember to spray the paint after a little
Speaker 4: while just so that it doesn't completely harden up on you.
Speaker 1: Right, that's my problem.
Speaker 3: So once you're outlined, then what would be the next
Speaker 3: kind of step? You've outlined the whole thing?
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, so look at you.
Speaker 5: See?
Speaker 4: You're just more comfortable because you've done some painting.
Speaker 3: That's one thing I learned right away is you just
Speaker 3: can't be scared of it. You just gotta go in
Speaker 3: and do it.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, you've gotta be scared of it.
Speaker 4: So you would ask me what, so I would take
Speaker 4: the bigger brush and mass in the big, I call
Speaker 4: it shapes, but you might call it color. Okay, I
Speaker 4: see a big area of green. I see a big
Speaker 4: area of like a light blue.
Speaker 3: So start with, okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: I might stick with the smaller brush.
Speaker 4: And that might cover the canvas, because maybe part of
Speaker 4: what's intimidating is the idea it's a white canvas. So
Speaker 4: if that's what's intimidating you, just get your bigger brush
Speaker 4: and start really covering the canvas. And it just has
Speaker 4: to be a thin layer of color, but that might
Speaker 4: help break out of any concerns.
Speaker 1: Oh, can we just not do this anymore? This is
Speaker 1: just so uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Oh my, you really, it's a control thing, huh?
Speaker 1: I don't like art. This is challenging.
Speaker 3: I don't like art.
Speaker 4: This is challenging.
Speaker 1: This is no, can we do word problems or math problems?
Speaker 3: Okay, if you add, Six plus eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now paint that.
Speaker 1: Okay. Does everyone here have a favorite painting? Allison, I'm
Speaker 1: assuming you have a favorite painting.
Speaker 4: I don't actually have a favorite painting.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I have a handful of favorite painters. Okay.
Speaker 3: Are you more of the landscape variety?
Speaker 5: Are you more of a Monet kind of fan when
Speaker 5: it comes to the surrealism?
Speaker 3: Not surrealism, but the.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah.
Speaker 3: No, Monet is.
Speaker 4: Well, Monet is impressionist.
Speaker 3: Impressionist, that's what I meant, impressionist. Are you more from
Speaker 3: the impressionist school?
Speaker 4: Well, I started that way, but my favorite painter is
Speaker 4: a guy, his name is Wolf Kahn. He's my favorite
Speaker 4: landscape painter. He is a landscape painter, but he's really,
Speaker 4: his colors are what makes him stand out. If you
Speaker 4: look at any of his paintings, they're the most stunning colors,
Speaker 4: and he really challenges, that's what inspires him is to
Speaker 4: challenge himself using really colors that you wouldn't necessarily think
Speaker 4: go together. So he's my favorite landscape painter, but I
Speaker 4: have a lot of other painters that are not landscape,
Speaker 4: but I personally just, I've always been drawn to the landscape.
Speaker 4: So that's where I started and that's sort of where
Speaker 4: I'm always most comfortable.
Speaker 5: What's the farthest you've ever traveled to see a single painting?
Speaker 4: I think, well, I guess we were in London and Spain.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: Ryder, do you have a favorite painting?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I've never really thought about it.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: I do love art.
Speaker 1: That's looking good.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: I got a compliment.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: That is looking good. You did really light.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like sketching.
Speaker 2: Like, I like sketching with a pencil.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I just decided to start looking at this like
Speaker 2: I'm using this like a pencil.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: And that helped me, like, get over the fear of
Speaker 2: putting paint on it.
Speaker 3: You guys are all doing it.
Speaker 4: Did that help getting the horizon line in and starting
Speaker 4: from that place?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I would have been able to do
Speaker 1: it any other way. I mean, I still hate this.
Speaker 1: I still hate it.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: What's the word? What's the word I'm looking for? This
Speaker 1: is not soothing.
Speaker 3: I loathe this.
Speaker 1: This is not soothing to me. This is like one
Speaker 1: of those things that if you, I guarantee you my, yeah,
Speaker 1: my heart rate is like through the roof.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: And... Oh God, making brown is not going to be easy.
Speaker 1: No, brown, the color that you get when you mix
Speaker 1: all colors together is not good.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, that's as fun as like
Speaker 4: anything you mix together eventually will become brown. If you
Speaker 4: just mix a bunch of stuff together and then use
Speaker 4: your white to make it lighter or darker.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh.
Speaker 3: You didn't ask me, by the way, Danielle.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Will.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite painting?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Great answer. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Will.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite? Starry Night is my favorite. Is it?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: You love the episode so much.
Speaker 4: Starry Night. Starry Night.
Speaker 3: I'm Mickey Ferris.
Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
Speaker 3: That's the way it is.
Speaker 1: Okay. I have other questions.
Speaker 4: Hold, please.
Speaker 3: Why are we doing this?
Speaker 1: I just got paint on the microphone. Sorry. Writer, what
Speaker 1: color would you say best represents you?
Speaker 5: God.
Speaker 4: Black.
Speaker 2: Are you answering for me? What color?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to separate what color I like.
Speaker 2: I'm such a fan of blues. So I like blue
Speaker 2: and purple. My son's name is Indigo. I think Indigo
Speaker 2: is probably my favorite color. But I don't know if
Speaker 2: that represents me. I'm probably more like a forest green.
Speaker 1: Oh, you are a forest green. Yeah, you're a forest green.
Speaker 2: How do you get rid of a color that's on
Speaker 2: your brush?
Speaker 4: Just keep using the water.
Speaker 2: Just keep going?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It's not going away.
Speaker 4: And paper towel. And eventually it'll come off.
Speaker 1: I can't believe how fun it is to mix two
Speaker 1: colors and get another color.
Speaker 4: Isn't that great? It might blend into whatever color you
Speaker 4: put a little bit, but you might end up like that.
Speaker 3: Like science or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like science.
Speaker 4: Could you wipe it on the smock? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're allowed to do that.
Speaker 3: Do you have a paper towel?
Speaker 2: Did I take way too much paint? Why did I
Speaker 2: end up with not being able to get your brush?
Speaker 2: Got a nice green color.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's what I was just saying. It's very
Speaker 1: satisfying to mix the two colors and start to see
Speaker 1: the new color that you make and then adjust it.
Speaker 1: That part was fun.
Speaker 2: I want a lighter.
Speaker 4: You know why you like that?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 4: Because you have a level of control.
Speaker 1: Ah, thank you.
Speaker 4: Just gathering this from what the three of you have
Speaker 4: been talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't know if you have your therapist license,
Speaker 1: but you're welcome to diagnose me. Yeah, you're right. That
Speaker 1: is why I liked it so much. It was nice
Speaker 1: because I was like, hey, I want green. I just
Speaker 1: made green. Well, what color do you think represents you?
Speaker 3: Represents me or is my favorite color?
Speaker 1: Represents you. But if you only want to tell me
Speaker 1: your favorite color.
Speaker 3: Well, my favorite color is green. Always has been.
Speaker 2: I think the color that maybe I'm a pretty happy
Speaker 2: guy and I like to bring.
Speaker 3: Joy to other people if I can. So I would
Speaker 3: say something like a nice sunny yellow.
Speaker 2: Probably represents me the best because I've been told I'm
Speaker 2: like sunshine on a cloudy day.
Speaker 1: When you're doing.
Speaker 4: The water, it's a big brush. So you really get
Speaker 4: it on the canvas.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 1: I am really unhappy with the line of my.
Speaker 1: My rocks over here. And I was, I was thinking
Speaker 1: I'd be able to change the, change the color of it,
Speaker 1: but I really didn't do a good job.
Speaker 4: You could let it dry for a few minutes and
Speaker 4: work in a different area. And then once it's dry,
Speaker 4: you can literally go over it completely and you wouldn't
Speaker 4: even know you had anything.
Speaker 1: I like that suggestion. Thank you.
Speaker 3: How about you, Danielle? What color most represents you?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I feel like in this case,
Speaker 1: my favorite color and a color that represents me is
Speaker 1: maybe both the same. And that's red.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: I feel like.
Speaker 3: Like the red you're wearing?
Speaker 2: Like a bright red?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a bright red. One, it's the color of anger.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 1: It's.
Speaker 4: The color of judgment.
Speaker 1: And also it can be like bright and kind of cheery.
Speaker 1: So it represents both. It's also just my favorite color
Speaker 1: to accessorize with.
Speaker 5: Um.
Speaker 1: What are you guys mixing to get, oh, you're doing
Speaker 1: a brown. I see what you're doing over there, Will,
Speaker 1: for the rocks.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: Like he's doing, I know.
Speaker 2: It's going dark.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a little bit of this. Is
Speaker 1: this the warm orange? Yes. Okay, I'm going to take
Speaker 1: a little bit of that warm orange and this white.
Speaker 4: It matches the color of your shirt.
Speaker 2: Sure does.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take some of that. I think I
Speaker 1: need a lot more white, though, to get something that
Speaker 1: represents something.
Speaker 4: Do you need more white paint or you have it?
Speaker 4: You just need to add it.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, I just need to use it on my brush. Will,
Speaker 1: do you think this is harder or easier than painting
Speaker 1: a minifig?
Speaker 3: It's easier on my eyes, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: The minifig, I had some of the best minifig teachers
Speaker 5: in the world that sat next to me for hours
Speaker 5: at a time to teach me, which, again, makes it
Speaker 5: a heck of a lot easier.
Speaker 1: No offense to you, Allison.
Speaker 3: No, I was just about to say, we get Allison,
Speaker 3: who's a great teacher, but we're having her here briefly,
Speaker 3: you know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not only that, but we refuse to let her
Speaker 1: get up and move around because we won't hear her.
Speaker 1: She can't even get behind us and give us real
Speaker 1: proper instruction.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, this is.
Speaker 5: It's certainly easier to put paint on canvas than it
Speaker 5: is to put on a mini, but... The mini, it's
Speaker 5: like if you hit the steps, you know, you look
Speaker 5: up at the end and you're like, oh, I painted
Speaker 5: a mini.
Speaker 3: That's what I miss, steps. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Paint by numbers. I'd be all over, you know?
Speaker 2: I like paint by numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's basically what I've done.
Speaker 3: Color me mine is when you know you're on a
Speaker 3: bad date.
Speaker 1: No, or you have children.
Speaker 3: That's better, yeah.
Speaker 2: I've never done that.
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 2: No, I've never done that.
Speaker 1: Oh, take Indy. He'd enjoy it. They have like all
Speaker 1: kinds of cute things you can paint. And my kids
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. We then forgot the items and left them
Speaker 1: there for weeks. And there was a possibility they weren't
Speaker 1: going to have them anymore.
Speaker 3: But they did.
Speaker 1: We went back and they had kept them for us.
Speaker 1: How do you think we're doing, Allison?
Speaker 4: Well, look, I think you guys are all doing well.
Speaker 4: I really do. But.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: But.
Speaker 1: There is no but.
Speaker 4: I like the fact that. Some are doing more natural.
Speaker 4: Some are doing more bright. Some are doing more bold colors.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you think about artists, right, it's like
Speaker 4: if everybody was doing the same thing, how boring it
Speaker 4: would be. Totally. Right?
Speaker 1: If everybody was good, it would be terrible.
Speaker 4: Some people like things more colorful. Some people like things
Speaker 4: more naturalistic. So I think that's part of the fun
Speaker 4: is getting to decide what direction you want to take
Speaker 4: it in.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: But all of you so far, honestly— And I like
Speaker 4: that you're all doing what we talked about, which is
Speaker 4: you're focusing more on the big shape, getting that in,
Speaker 4: and then you can go on with smaller details or
Speaker 4: darker or lighter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that was really good advice. Are you okay, Ryder?
Speaker 1: You just took a really deep breath.
Speaker 3: Deep sigh over here.
Speaker 4: That's just me.
Speaker 3: That was, whew.
Speaker 2: So my wife recently went to, a friend of hers
Speaker 2: had a birthday party.
Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
Speaker 2: Where she decided to hire a naked male model.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Easiest $ 20 I ever made. And they do the paintings
Speaker 3: that these women put together. Oh, right.
Speaker 2: It was one of the funny, because like, I don't
Speaker 2: think anybody really took it too seriously. So there were
Speaker 2: lots of really funny, but.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's good.
Speaker 3: Was anybody really good at it where it's like, damn, that's,
Speaker 3: that's great.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: No, no one was.
Speaker 4: That's actually really funny. That's actually a really funny.
Speaker 2: It was sort of like a, it was kind of
Speaker 2: like a bachelorette-y sort of vibe.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, it's a nice spin on the
Speaker 1: old bachelorette style.
Speaker 2: How do we get a naked man and have it
Speaker 2: be a fun activity?
Speaker 5: I ask myself that all the time.
Speaker 1: Will saying that was the easiest $ 20 I ever made.
Speaker 2: Made me laugh.
Speaker 5: Well, we originally negotiated for 40, then I took my
Speaker 5: top off and it dropped to 20 and stuff.
Speaker 1: If you could turn any moment of your life into
Speaker 1: a painting, which moment would you choose?
Speaker 3: My wedding.
Speaker 1: Oh, so sad.
Speaker 3: No, not to her.
Speaker 1: Oh. The one you're going to have next.
Speaker 3: The next one. No, yeah, my wedding. It was an
Speaker 3: amazing day. It really was. I would say next to
Speaker 3: getting Boy Meets World, it was the best day of
Speaker 3: my life. You know, wedding was the best day of
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 3: The wedding was the best day of my life, and
Speaker 3: then Boy Meets World came second.
Speaker 1: That is so sweet. One of those would be cool.
Speaker 2: I would say, do you remember when I talked about
Speaker 2: that morning where we found the hot springs?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was so beautiful.
Speaker 3: That's when you wish you knew how to paint, when
Speaker 3: it was just like.
Speaker 2: The landscape.
Speaker 4: Where were you?
Speaker 2: It was in Idaho, and it was a, yeah, it was,
Speaker 2: you were hiked in two miles, and it was a
Speaker 2: cascading series of waterfalls. That had, and there were, you know,
Speaker 2: 100 degrees going down to like 98 degrees. It was
Speaker 2: so amazing. Like, yeah. So it's just so cool to
Speaker 2: be in a waterfall that was warm.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: And beautiful. And it was up on a hillside looking
Speaker 2: down in a valley. So it's just gorgeous. So like,
Speaker 2: if I could paint that moment from the view or
Speaker 2: just capture the feeling of that place, it would be
Speaker 2: amazing to have.
Speaker 6: Hmm.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 2: I can see that. How about you, Danielle?
Speaker 1: God, I don't know. You know, you guys have heard
Speaker 1: me say joke, even though you know it's not really
Speaker 1: a joke, that I don't love art. But I have
Speaker 1: grown to appreciate art a lot more, obviously.
Speaker 4: Jensen.
Speaker 1: Jensen, owned in our gallery for 20 years. And so
Speaker 1: I have, over the years of... being married to him,
Speaker 1: I have started to be able to enjoy art a
Speaker 1: lot more. So I have purchased on my own several
Speaker 1: paintings that hang in our house.
Speaker 3: One by McCracken, right?
Speaker 1: One by the one and only Jeff McCracken even, which
Speaker 1: was very cool and special to me. The one I
Speaker 1: got from McCracken is actually of a boy he saw
Speaker 1: on the subway that was carrying a Spider-Man mask. And
Speaker 1: it just so reminded me of my son, Keaton, who
Speaker 1: was such a costume kid. He wore costumes like all
Speaker 1: the time. So I would definitely want to, I would
Speaker 1: want to pick some moment of children, but I don't
Speaker 1: really know that I've, that I've had a moment that
Speaker 1: I feel like would be worthy of a painting. But
Speaker 1: you know what? I take it back. You know what
Speaker 1: I want to remember of my kids forever? Their disgusting
Speaker 1: little lovies. You know those things they sleep with?
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: And they're completely mangled. And like, you know, like my
Speaker 1: ba that you guys horrendously made fun of.
Speaker 3: Just because it looked like testicles.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know.
Speaker 3: You slept with balls.
Speaker 1: I know. That is what you've said. How dare you
Speaker 1: besmirch my ba. But I would love like a good
Speaker 1: painting of their little.
Speaker 5: Loveys.
Speaker 4: You guys, I'm challenging you all to take the big
Speaker 4: brush and get more of the canvas covered.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
Speaker 4: Just because then you can relate the colors next to
Speaker 4: each other. It's like, you know when you're getting dressed
Speaker 4: and you put on one color, but then you put
Speaker 4: on pants and they either work together or you're like,
Speaker 4: oh God, no, that's not going to work.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: And so if you think about it like something that
Speaker 4: you've already do where you are looking at color next
Speaker 4: to color, it's the same thing with painting. So when
Speaker 4: you have a lot of white canvas... It's scary. And
Speaker 4: it's hard to see the painting as a whole unit.
Speaker 4: So that's why I said take the big brush, and
Speaker 4: you could just use a thin coat of any color.
Speaker 2: I don't know. My painting's not going to make it
Speaker 2: into the Louvre.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to follow my muse. Unfortunately, it seems like
Speaker 3: I'm not good at this.
Speaker 2: What am I going to do? Too wussy for sports.
Speaker 2: And I spent all this money on this beret.
Speaker 3: I spent all this money. I'm embarrassed. I'm at the Louvre.
Speaker 1: Alison, that is a reference to a character who was
Speaker 1: on Boy Meets World named Ricky Ferris.
Speaker 3: Ricky Ferris?
Speaker 4: He was an artist.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've heard of him.
Speaker 1: Especially Ryder and Will just perfected his affectation.
Speaker 2: Puppies that I'm going to save.
Speaker 4: Ferris.
Speaker 3: I'm going there specifically to create a new type of art.
Speaker 3: That'd have saved souls.
Speaker 2: That's Ricky.
Speaker 3: You know what Ricky's doing nowadays.
Speaker 1: What do you think Ricky's doing? What do you think
Speaker 1: Ricky would think of our paintings?
Speaker 5: Five to ten.
Speaker 1: Five to ten?
Speaker 4: Is that helping? Getting some color next to the other colors?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. More than anything, it's making me feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm almost done. I'm not going to have to do
Speaker 1: this for the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: How much time do we.
Speaker 1: Oh, we've been doing this for 26 minutes. Are you serious?
Speaker 4: This is why I'm saying you've got to get the
Speaker 4: canvas covered.
Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 5: Wait.
Speaker 4: You guys are concentrating. That's what happens. Time flies.
Speaker 3: It goes fast when you're in the art world.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe what I just looked. I just looked
Speaker 1: over and looked at Will. I mean, I'm disgusted. Will
Speaker 1: is so good.
Speaker 3: Oh, wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: Not quite.
Speaker 4: I'm too short to say. Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: Look at his. Look what he's got over there.
Speaker 4: I have confidence. You guys are all going to pull
Speaker 4: yours together once the canvas is covered.
Speaker 1: Well, don't have too much confidence. How do you like
Speaker 1: to paint? Do you have like a studio, Allison? Do
Speaker 1: you stand?
Speaker 4: I always stand, yeah. I work out of my house,
Speaker 4: and then twice a week I go to an open
Speaker 4: studio where there are other artists there. And it's a
Speaker 4: fun way to be able.
Speaker 3: To be with other people.
Speaker 4: It is cool.
Speaker 3: Are you all different types of artists?
Speaker 4: Yes. That's kind of what's fun though. It's like, it's
Speaker 4: just nice to like socially be with other people and
Speaker 4: other artists. And even if your work is really different,
Speaker 4: you kind of speak the same language. Right. Right. But yeah,
Speaker 4: the rest I work out of my house. I've always
Speaker 4: worked out of my house and it's, it's.
Speaker 3: Have you been painting your whole life?
Speaker 4: I started painting my senior year of college. I had
Speaker 4: been drawing and doodling around. I'd never taken a class.
Speaker 4: But then in college, I went the other way. I
Speaker 4: became completely obsessed.
Speaker 3: So you didn't go to school specifically for art?
Speaker 4: No, I went to George Washington University in DC and
Speaker 4: I was, but when I had to declare a major,
Speaker 4: I was a fine art or history major. And then
Speaker 4: when you're that major, so if I was a studio
Speaker 4: arts major, I would have to like pick a subject
Speaker 4: like painting or sculpture or something. But since I didn't
Speaker 4: even know what I wanted to do, I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'll be a fine art and art history major. And
Speaker 4: then I can take a little of everything. You didn't
Speaker 4: have to like declare one thing. And so painting was
Speaker 4: the last actual type of medium I did. But I
Speaker 4: became obsessed with it as soon as I don't even
Speaker 4: know why I wasn't doing it sooner. I just was like,
Speaker 4: this is exactly my thing. Because I like making a mess.
Speaker 4: I love working with color and the subtleties of color
Speaker 4: and using the brush and.
Speaker 3: Do you do anything else? Do you sculpt or?
Speaker 4: I've done, yes, I've done sculpture. I used to do
Speaker 4: some figurative sculpture. Painting is my main thing. I do
Speaker 4: a lot of printmaking too. And I used to do
Speaker 4: a lot of, and a collage, but I always go
Speaker 4: back to painting. I just love it.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: All right. All right. All right.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: I see you.
Speaker 3: We see you, Danielle.
Speaker 1: Okay, she was for sure right on the fact that
Speaker 1: now that the canvas is mostly... Doesn't that help?
Speaker 4: It really does. Because then you can relate what's next
Speaker 4: to it.
Speaker 1: Yes, and now I'm like, oh, I can see now
Speaker 1: how I can go in. I've got to.
Speaker 4: Get to my rocks. Yeah, and when you look at
Speaker 4: my painting, you can see where there are really dark, darks,
Speaker 4: and then you can start putting that in because you
Speaker 4: have something to relate it to.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: And some of the first things you've painted, if you
Speaker 4: wanted to go over them or change them, now they
Speaker 4: probably are dry or somewhat dry. Yeah, close enough to dry.
Speaker 4: To be honest, with acrylic, I work more in oil,
Speaker 4: but these are acrylics. But that's one of the fun
Speaker 4: things with acrylics is if I don't like something, I
Speaker 4: just let it dry. And then I go over white
Speaker 4: paint and I just completely remove it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is nice that you can. Because I've thought
Speaker 1: about that before. Like what happens when an artist has
Speaker 1: like a huge canvas they're working on? What happens if you, like,
Speaker 1: sneeze and make a mistake?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's got to be a mistake.
Speaker 1: But so depending on what the medium is, I guess
Speaker 1: you're just saying you can go back through and fix it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Or, I mean, I think that also you could make
Speaker 4: the most of the mistake. It depends on, like, you know,
Speaker 4: your personality and the type of painting you like to do.
Speaker 4: But a lot of times, like, I'll drop a brush
Speaker 4: while I'm painting. It'll, like, fall, you know, while I'm,
Speaker 4: and so it leaves marks on the canvas. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: I must have been, I must, there must be some
Speaker 4: kind of subconscious thing and I'll try to work with.
Speaker 2: It ooh let the mistakes land exactly oh my god okay.
Speaker 4: I have to say it it is hard to judge
Speaker 4: because you guys are I honestly feel like all of
Speaker 4: you guys there's something in all of yours that's that's
Speaker 4: fun and that I like that they're all a little different.
Speaker 4: Like I said, just these few minutes of hearing you
Speaker 4: guys talk and hearing bits about your personality, I can
Speaker 4: kind of see it through painting.
Speaker 1: Oh, I like that.
Speaker 2: Psychoanalyze us based on our painting.
Speaker 1: It's like a Rorschach.
Speaker 3: She's going to look at writers and be like, wow,
Speaker 3: that's really pretty. I like the colors. Oh, Danielle, it's
Speaker 3: really interesting what you did. Will, who hurt you?
Speaker 4: Got your brown in.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Figure it out.
Speaker 4: This painting I did, it's from Carmel. And you can
Speaker 4: go walk, you know, and jump on all the rocks.
Speaker 4: It's fun.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should take the podcast there, guys. Go visit
Speaker 1: this landscape.
Speaker 2: We'd just be.
Speaker 3: Walking around and be like, those are our paintings. They
Speaker 3: recognize that. We were great. Nailed it.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you think makes something great art?
Speaker 3: How much it costs.
Speaker 1: Is it the more expensive it is?
Speaker 5: Okay. It's like, that's good art. I can tell because
Speaker 5: it's $ 7 million.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: No, I think art is the most subjective thing in
Speaker 5: the world. So whatever speaks to you is art.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And there's plenty of conversations I can have with people
Speaker 5: about that ain't art.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, it's like comedy
Speaker 3: where I hate when people say like, that guy's not funny.
Speaker 5: Well, if he's got people laughing and you don't find
Speaker 5: him funny, then you don't find him funny.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: So art's just one of those things where I, you know, yeah,
Speaker 5: there's some art I just don't get, never will. Um,
Speaker 5: that doesn't mean that it's not art. It just means
Speaker 5: that I don't get it. So yeah, I don't, I
Speaker 5: don't know to answer your question.
Speaker 1: Um, what do you think if it speaks to you? What,
Speaker 1: what speaks to you?
Speaker 3: I love, um, I'm a big fan of sculpture. I
Speaker 3: always have been.
Speaker 1: Me too.
Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, and I like ancient sculptures.
Speaker 5: I love when I, you know, I, we talk about
Speaker 5: how I have no soul and don't really, uh, Cry
Speaker 5: or do anything.
Speaker 3: The closest I've come to tears in.
Speaker 5: The actual presence of art was turning the corner and
Speaker 5: standing in front of Michelangelo's David.
Speaker 4: Me too, man.
Speaker 3: And it was just like, it knocked the wind out
Speaker 3: of me. There was no way a human being could
Speaker 3: have done that.
Speaker 2: You guys love men. Naked men.
Speaker 1: Love men.
Speaker 3: That beautiful man?
Speaker 4: Damn right.
Speaker 2: It was just so, it's such a crazy scale experience.
Speaker 2: You're like, wait a minute, that's a giant person. And
Speaker 2: I feel small, but somehow like he's also kind of vulnerable.
Speaker 3: It's like the weirdest.
Speaker 2: It's such a crazy experience.
Speaker 3: You know why he has such a small penis?
Speaker 5: What? Because back in the day, anything with big genitalia
Speaker 5: usually meant you were in league with the devil. Oh.
Speaker 3: Or there was something about you that was lascivious.
Speaker 5: So the smaller the penis, the closer you were to God.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: Which is why I'm such a holy person.
Speaker 1: Okay, Will.
Speaker 3: What am.
Speaker 1: I doing? What is Ricky Ferris doing?
Speaker 3: Right now, Ricky's. Trying to help little children in the
Speaker 3: streets of Paris. How dare they?
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Honest question. What do you think Ricky Ferris would be doing?
Speaker 3: What would the character of Ricky Ferris end up doing?
Speaker 1: Well, do you think he was a success moving to Paris? No. No.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Couldn't win over Topanga.
Speaker 3: Couldn't cut it.
Speaker 2: I think he was a poser.
Speaker 3: I think he was too.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he went home with his tail between
Speaker 1: his legs to mommy and daddy after his failed.
Speaker 2: Allowance ran out. I also just kind of stopped looking
Speaker 2: at him. Oh, really?
Speaker 1: You're just starting to do your own thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it freed me up more to
Speaker 2: follow my own logic.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 1: Allison, how do you feel about that? When a student
Speaker 1: just says, you know, instead of trying to replicate what's
Speaker 1: in front of me, I'm going to do my own thing.
Speaker 4: Well, in his case, I don't necessarily mind it because
Speaker 4: you're still staying with the essence of it. It's not
Speaker 4: like you went from like, oh, I'm just going to
Speaker 4: completely go over this and I'm going to do something
Speaker 4: that's not at all reminiscent of a seascape. So I
Speaker 4: actually recently started doing that because I found that I
Speaker 4: was getting too literal. So I got to a point
Speaker 4: where I mapped in sort of the scene and the
Speaker 4: design and then I purposely stopped looking at the image.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's kind of the way.
Speaker 4: You know, again, it's like you start to figure out, like,
Speaker 4: am I more of a realistic painter? Do I really
Speaker 4: want to represent that particular place or do I want
Speaker 4: the essence of it? And then, of course, the more
Speaker 4: you're doing it, you get more confident where you feel like, OK,
Speaker 4: I like, you know, I like working with these colors more.
Speaker 4: I like working with warmer tones or cooler tones or so.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Have you ever worked with somebody and then said, you know, no,
Speaker 1: this is not for you. I give up.
Speaker 4: No, I've never said that. Okay.
Speaker 6: Never.
Speaker 3: Have you ever thought it?
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: No, there's a first time for everything.
Speaker 4: I think that people have to get comfortable and some
Speaker 4: people are comfortable right out of the gate and some
Speaker 4: people it takes time to loosen up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is this the first time you've ever had people paint
Speaker 1: with the microphones and sitting in bar stools? I've never
Speaker 1: done anything like this.
Speaker 3: It's so funny, other than a couple of times at home,
Speaker 3: this is the only way I've painted. Yeah, I bet, exactly.
Speaker 3: It's on camera with a microphone in front of me.
Speaker 2: I got into drawing with Indy, like when, you know, just,
Speaker 2: because I never thought of myself as like somebody who
Speaker 2: could draw.
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 2: And like sitting with Indy when he was younger, especially,
Speaker 2: you know, like before he could really like, Gage in
Speaker 2: a lot of conversations. I guess he was always a talker,
Speaker 2: but like we would just sit and I would draw
Speaker 2: and he would draw and it was so fun. Like,
Speaker 2: and I found it incredibly meditative.
Speaker 4: It is. Yeah. It absolutely is.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: There was not even the mini penny. You just kind
Speaker 3: of put on some music and just let go a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: And it's a ton of fun.
Speaker 5: And of course, the cool thing about the mini figs
Speaker 5: is when you're done, then you use them in a campaign.
Speaker 3: You throw it on the table and you're like, I
Speaker 3: painted that.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of letting go. It sounds great.
Speaker 2: As long as you're completely in control of your letting go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is low risk. I mean, this is
Speaker 4: a very low risk thing.
Speaker 3: Except for all the judgment from the internet.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: And it's very high risk.
Speaker 4: I guess I didn't think about that.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's okay.
Speaker 4: I can understand.
Speaker 1: No, we don't care.
Speaker 3: None of us are painters.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to prove you otherwise.
Speaker 3: Exactly. And no one's going to look at this and go,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, you could be.
Speaker 1: Wait, you could be.
Speaker 3: No. You've got the possibility.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be fun, though?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be amazing to have an undiscovered talent? Or just,
Speaker 1: in my case, a talent? Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 4: You're talented.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not. You honestly don't think it takes talent
Speaker 3: to host? No. Oh, then anyone could do it. That's bull.
Speaker 2: What about acting?
Speaker 3: Directing?
Speaker 5: She'll never think she's an actor. I think you're directing
Speaker 5: as talent. And if anybody could host... everybody would host.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: Sometimes when something comes easy, you don't realize how, how
Speaker 4: it's really challenging.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know I have figured out at this
Speaker 1: point that like, I've heard from enough people that reading
Speaker 1: teleprompter isn't easy for everyone. And it's like when the
Speaker 1: three of us get in front of a teleprompter, it's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: what a, what a, what a dream. And then you
Speaker 1: hear from people and they're like, wow, you're really good
Speaker 1: on prompter. It's like, yeah, I, I know how to read,
Speaker 1: but that's apparently not, not common. So I, I've, I've
Speaker 1: heard that enough times to go.
Speaker 2: You also can do the thing where somebody is like,
Speaker 2: Oh wait, we got two minutes. Talk to the camera.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Go sell this thing real quick. Go talk. And you
Speaker 3: just do it.
Speaker 2: Whereas like, I would be like, what? No, I can't.
Speaker 2: I have no.
Speaker 5: By the time we leave your house, for some reason,
Speaker 5: we've all owned new products.
Speaker 3: And we're like, how the hell did she sell us this?
Speaker 3: I don't even have a cat.
Speaker 1: Oh, wow. That is so interesting how then once it's dry,
Speaker 1: you can just go right over it with another color.
Speaker 1: And it's like it never was even there.
Speaker 4: Wow. And it takes a lot of stress off because
Speaker 4: you know you really can fix it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You're like, oh, okay. Well, I don't like it now,
Speaker 1: but I'll like it in 20 minutes. Or I'll at
Speaker 1: least find it acceptable in 20 minutes. Okay. Oh, I
Speaker 1: know what I need more work on for sure.
Speaker 3: Your people skill?
Speaker 4: My people, exactly. My hosting.
Speaker 1: What'd you say, Marita?
Speaker 2: I completely screwed up the bottom right of my painting.
Speaker 1: How so?
Speaker 2: Like, I just don't even know what this shape is.
Speaker 2: It's not even part of it. It's like, I finished
Speaker 2: my painting here, and I still have, like.
Speaker 1: A whole other.
Speaker 2: So, I'm just kind of making up my landscape.
Speaker 5: I am.
Speaker 4: Well, if you think when you're walking on rocks in
Speaker 4: the water, a lot of the dark is, you know,
Speaker 4: when you're looking straight down, you kind of see the
Speaker 4: seaweed or the rocks below or underneath the water. And
Speaker 4: that this being from Northern California, there's that the colors
Speaker 4: in the seaweed are really burgundy and yellowish. purples and
Speaker 4: blues and greens because the water is so cold. So
Speaker 4: the type of seaweed is a little bit different than
Speaker 4: there is down here. Or actually, I'm sorry, I live
Speaker 4: near San Diego, so I'm thinking like down near San Diego,
Speaker 4: it's really quite different. It's more of a turquoise. And
Speaker 4: so from the painting that I was doing, when you're
Speaker 4: kind of at those foreground rocks, you're also sort of
Speaker 4: looking down underneath them.
Speaker 1: I think if I had my druthers, I would have
Speaker 1: all the individual paint colors on their own plate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: I love druthers. We don't get a lot of druthers anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm bringing it back. I love a good druthers.
Speaker 2: The druthers brothers.
Speaker 4: If you feel like, look at the movement of it.
Speaker 4: If you feel like you've kind of lost the initial
Speaker 4: drawing a little bit, you can always go back in
Speaker 4: with paint and kind of get that in if you
Speaker 4: feel like part of it got lost throughout the painting process.
Speaker 1: You mean the mountainscape?
Speaker 4: Like if you feel like you've lost some of the
Speaker 4: shape that you, some of the shapes you had or
Speaker 4: the scale of it, if something was bigger and then
Speaker 4: it kind of shrunk, that has a tendency to happen
Speaker 4: when you're painting, like you're painting around the thing and
Speaker 4: it starts getting smaller. So you can always go back
Speaker 4: in and sort of redraw it in with your paint.
Speaker 4: That's why I like drawing in with paint rather than
Speaker 4: with a pencil because it's all working cohesively.
Speaker 1: Hmm. What did you do? What's a mistake?
Speaker 2: Too much yellow.
Speaker 3: And it was all yellow. And it was all yellow.
Speaker 1: Well, I just realized I'm missing a whole rock. A
Speaker 1: whole rock. Just forgot all about a rock.
Speaker 4: You may not need it, but yeah. Because this is
Speaker 4: a smaller canvas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: It's between that and a hard place. Good night, everybody.
Speaker 1: Good night.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you're right. Maybe I don't need it.
Speaker 2: Should we stop?
Speaker 1: I think we can. You want to set a one-minute timer?
Speaker 4: Sure, one minute.
Speaker 3: One minute.
Speaker 6: I want.
Speaker 3: To take a class.
Speaker 2: I want to, like, learn how to.
Speaker 5: And I bet it's unfortunate because you're here to teach us,
Speaker 5: but you can't really get up and teach us. And
Speaker 5: you must be, it must be driving you crazy over there.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm trying to like, I'm trying to see where
Speaker 4: you guys are at. And I know we have such
Speaker 4: a limited time. So I'm very, I understand that this
Speaker 4: is not going to be, you know, you're not going
Speaker 4: to get it in perfectly. Not that there is a perfect,
Speaker 4: but you know, and it's hard to go into all
Speaker 4: of the little things that I would do in it.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: But I think, to me, the most important thing is
Speaker 4: that you are having some form of fun. Yeah, I've
Speaker 4: had a lot more fun now that I've... And you
Speaker 4: do kind of get lost in it, and then you
Speaker 4: start to have more fun the more you're doing it,
Speaker 4: because you start to, like, get comfortable with the brush
Speaker 4: and the paint and, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm putting up my... I'm putting down my paintbrush.
Speaker 4: You're calling it time.
Speaker 1: I'm calling time.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to call it two.
Speaker 3: Ooh!
Speaker 2: I think Will won this.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not even a doubt, but we're not
Speaker 1: the judge.
Speaker 4: I have to say, first of all, I like, believe
Speaker 4: it or not, and I'm not just making this up.
Speaker 4: I always, I feel like because I'm seeing the first
Speaker 4: go around, you all have something in them. Yours are
Speaker 4: more realistic and more tonal. Yours are the opposite. Yours
Speaker 4: are more of a colorist. That's how it's coming out
Speaker 4: in there. Yes. And yours are more natural. Like, they
Speaker 4: feel natural to the scene.
Speaker 2: And earthy.
Speaker 4: And earthy. So I feel like, you know, that's what...
Speaker 4: And I like that all of you guys did what
Speaker 4: we talked about, which is you got the horizon line.
Speaker 4: See how you started to get the scale of the
Speaker 4: rocks and the movement of it? So you all have
Speaker 4: the movement. It's very... Do I really have to pick something?
Speaker 1: Oh my God, Will is.
Speaker 3: I'm covered in paint. I'm covered in paint.
Speaker 5: The life of an artist is covered in paint.
Speaker 3: Look at you, get away from me. Hug Ricky Ferris.
Speaker 4: What is the winner based on? The best?
Speaker 1: Who's the best?
Speaker 2: Who's the best?
Speaker 1: No, you're right. I mean, it is hard to pick
Speaker 1: a winner. Maybe we could let the internet decide since
Speaker 1: they won't have a problem judging us.
Speaker 4: I would prefer that because it's hard for me because
Speaker 4: also I like to see something in all of them
Speaker 4: and I really do.
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 3: Should we show the camera?
Speaker 1: And it is kind of, don't you think it's kind of.
Speaker 4: Fun that yours are all different? You're here putting the
Speaker 4: same thing and you have the same colors. You had
Speaker 4: all the same, but your choices are different.
Speaker 1: It feels very representative of us as well, actually.
Speaker 3: I think they do, actually. It's so weird.
Speaker 2: Well, it just feels like our styles, like in life, actually.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: Yay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think of the three of us,
Speaker 1: I wear the most bright colors. I gravitate to color
Speaker 1: the most. You choosing earthy, natural colors. things go so
Speaker 1: well with who you are as far as like your
Speaker 1: love of the outdoors and you being a realist and
Speaker 1: painting it the most realistic.
Speaker 3: I guess that works.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. I get that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm proud of all of us. I'm
Speaker 1: proud of us. Thank you, Allison. Thank you, Allison. Allison's
Speaker 1: too kind to choose a winner, but we know you
Speaker 1: will not have a problem deciding a winner.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So tell us who you think was the best painting.
Speaker 1: And thank you all for joining us. We hope you
Speaker 1: get out and get painting. Do something creative and artistic.
Speaker 2: You know what? This is weird. Look at mine through.
Speaker 2: I like it through the canvas.
Speaker 3: That's actually pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That's what I was looking at.
Speaker 3: Yes. You can't really see mine through the canvas.
Speaker 2: How do we do that? or the audience, I don't
Speaker 2: know if we can, but like, I almost like it
Speaker 2: better through.
Speaker 3: There, it looks more. I like it better from the back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know why, you know what's interesting?
Speaker 4: Because if you think about water coming into rocks, what happens,
Speaker 4: they kind of pool around, and so you're seeing the white.
Speaker 3: Of it pooling around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it ends up looking more like that's, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's kind of what.
Speaker 3: I wanted to see.
Speaker 5: So the back of your paintings always look better than
Speaker 5: the front of your paintings, interesting.
Speaker 4: You see the values working. Value is how much light,
Speaker 4: like the rocks are that warmer, lighter, and the dark. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and your shapes, your silhouette.
Speaker 5: Of the rocks.
Speaker 2: Because I put on a lot of paint.
Speaker 3: I put on layers of paint, that's why.
Speaker 1: Wow, I can't believe how great your ocean looks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's beautiful. Gosh.
Speaker 1: Really nice.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. All right, everyone. Vote for Will.
Speaker 3: Obviously.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 1: Allison, thank you so much for being here with us.
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us. We hope we didn't ruin
Speaker 3: your pants.
Speaker 1: Allison Lowe, I want to give everyone where they can
Speaker 1: find you. You can find Allison at AllisonLowe underscore art.
Speaker 1: There is one L in Allison, and Lowe is L-O-W-E.
Speaker 1: So you can check her out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's on my Instagram, or I do a website.
Speaker 4: I haven't updated it lately, but it's AllisonLoweArtwork.com.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 1: Go check out the website.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: All right, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of us.
Speaker 2: Congratulations. I'm proud of us.
Speaker 3: This is good.
Speaker 1: Allison, you're the greatest.
Speaker 2: High five.
Speaker 1: We'll see you all next time.