First LIVE Painting Demo Completed!

Welcome back! So great news, after three Sunday painting demos working on my first LIVE painting I can report that the painting is done, signed, sealed, framed and posted on both the NEW WORKS page and the SHOP page of this website. The journey to produce this first LIVE work didn't go smoothly, mostly from the standpoint of getting the technical part of filming and going LIVE on YouTube which I have never done before.

On the first Sunday, August 24th, I was all set up to go live at 1 pm, but not knowing which button to push on my iPhone meant I fumbled completely out the gate. Finally, around 2:07 pm, after researching on Google how to GO LIVE on YouTube, I finally hit the right button. I was so flustered that I still didn't have the iPhone locked into the tripod so I could go start painting. So the first minute or so of the LIVE video the camera is doing an good imitation of the camera work in that iconic horror film, "The Blair Witch Project". ha ha.

But then the camera was rolling and and locked in place, I went and did a much abbreviated introduction from what I had planned, and then jumped right in to painting.

At the end of the first 30 minute episode of my LIVE show titled, "Painting Without a Parachute", my parachute only opened partially, and I had to end the show with a messy splatter.

But, I survived my first LIVE YOUTUBE DEMO! What a friggin' relief and near disaster that was.

So, I am a filmmaker with forty years experience, and I should be able to figure out the stupid technical aspects of LIVE filming. And I did. So week two the filming went smooth, step one, turn on the music on my CD player, step two, press the Go Live button on the iPhone, step three, walk into frame and welcome the audience to Episode Two. And step four, PAINT you idiot. So the painting after Day Two started to take shape. But at the end of 30 minutes I couldn't get the BLOOD MOON painted the way I wanted and had to close the Episode with my parachute not opening on the Blood Moon. Gersplatt!

So in between week two and week three, I came up with how I wanted to paint the BLOOD MOON, but it included an idea to cover the whole painting in gold wash after I fixed the moon. So I started to work on the painting mid week before the next LIVE Episode Three scheduled for September 14th. But darn it, once I got the moon right, I didn't stop. I went right on with the gold wash.

Then, I didn't like the gold wash and kept painting, pushing the canvas to a FINAL RESOLUTION. I broke my own rule about only working on a LIVE YouTube painting in the 30-minute window Sundays at 1 pm. So I finished the painting mid-week, signed it, lacquered it, framed it and decided I would simply showcase the painting on the next LIVE episode. So that's what I did. Here's the final FIRST LIVE STUDIO painting that was begun LIVE on August 24th at 1 pm, er, I mean, at 2:07 pm!