Art Vlog: lots of behind the scenes of an art business
thank you squarespace for sponsoring today's video as soon as the scanned file from the fungi painting was sent to me i got right into doing the digital adjustments necessary to get the prints ready before making the prints for a new painting i do some digital adjustments like erasing some pencil lines i couldn't erase on the original as well as evening out some parts that appear uneven in the scan but don't appear this way in the original painting this sometimes happens to some sections of the background as a scanner works with light and in the final piece the amount of painting placed on each part of the surface of the background is affected so i just even it out all digitally hello it is august 2nd and i finished today to do all the editing for the digital scanning from the fungi painting and i just did the first try out print i don't do the actual prints at home but this will help me get an idea of how much detail i'm getting of how the color palette is looking so i can make some adjustments and actually everything looks perfect i think i would just bring it a little down on the magenta and a little up on the yellow and after doing that i'm ready to order the first print to see you know if everything's working fine usually when i'm doing limited edition prints or any prints for that matter i first do one try out to see that everything is looking the way it should that i didn't do like extra pen work where i shouldn't and all all of those details um but i'm actually very happy with how it's looking i cannot believe it's almost here let me show you before we continue with today's art vlog i want to share with you a little bit about squarespace who is today's video and also is the virtual home of my online shop my website my art portfolio and my email campaigns so let me share with you what i've been recently loving about squarespace with squarespace i can link my art portfolio directly to my online shop using hyperlinks to go directly from a specific painting to a specific item in my shops you can choose your shipping zones and with their customizable shipping you can create shipping options for your customers to choose from thank you once again squarespace for sponsoring today's video make sure to check out the first link in this video's description and use the code cado arevalo to get a two-week trial for free and also get a sweet discount when you purchase your first website or domain through squarespace now let's go back to today's vlog today might be the day that the first artist proofs of the fungi painting arrive i order them maybe a week ago and i got two of them trying them in different types of paper both i always go with the most sustainable paper that i can find and these are hahnemühle papers the ones that i'm trying today are hahnemühle paper they are 100 cotton acid free archival um but i'm trying to they have a sustainable paper line so i'm trying two of them one is made out of hemp the other one is made out of agave i believe so i'm just trying both of them to see you know if there's any difference in the radiance and the vibration of the colors in how it absorbs the ink and whatnot i've used hahnemühle sustainable line of papers before and i really like them so i think this will be the paper that i will be going for and for the fungi painting i've decided that i will be doing a limited edition print per year so each year i will open up pre-orders for the limited edition i'm not sure how long the pre-order will be open for maybe it'll be like a two or three week window and after that the orders will close i will make the exact number of prints that were requested that year and then that will be the limited edition for 2022 and in 2023 i'll do the same but each year they will there will be something different either using a different type of paper or a different size maybe both none no years edition will be exactly the same as the other one so there will be size and paper variations probably um but i'm so excited for this and today i actually got a little nervous because i realized that there's four majors four major things happening at the end of this month we are moving we haven't signed a contract yet we've applied to do different homes and we're still waiting to hear back from them crossing fingers because the market is insane people are applying to homes and rentals before seeing them so we were actually on the list to see one and then they reached back to us saying someone actually already signed a lease site unseen people are offering more money than what the renters are their landlords are asking for so the business is crazy the rental business is crazy right now so hopefully we will rent out the perfect home in time so yeah we're moving i will be opening up the pre-order for the fungi painting i am aiming to doing this august 23rd most definitely you i will be launching this video and posting this video after that has happened but i will they say i will let everyone know that this is happening um so yeah moving releasing the prince for the evolution of fungi or the fungi painting i'm not sure what the actual name is yet because it's not the actual evolution it's more of a taxonomic view we'll see we'll see i'll figure that out then we the cbs sunday morning piece that i was interviewed for is coming out most definitely the last week of the month and then on the 2nd of september we are going to my sister's wedding so we're moving and then two days later we're flying out to my sister's wedding and there's just all of these things happening at the same time which i'm so excited for because all of them are super exciting and i just feel very very into them i also wanted to release a group of fungi gifts for the lunch of the of the prince so i want to make the lunch of the prince and at the same time lunch maybe like six or seven gifts to be used in instagram about the fungi i have three that are ready and i know what the other fungi will be i already have the list but i need to work on them i'm working on my patreon postcard which is ready i just ordered that earlier today today i'll be working on the patreon sticker which will be the flower of mimosa pudica the sensitive plant this leaf that has all the teeny tiny leaves that if you touch they like close down the flower if you haven't seen it is the most beautiful flower ever she looks very similar to bobinsana flower if you're familiar with bobinsana which is this medicinal plant from the jungle in peru and south america and i believe she's also in costa rica but anyhow the flower is this like pom-pom and fuchsia purple and hot pink colors so i started working on that yesterday maybe i'll finish today um we'll see how it goes because it's the first time that i'm working on a flower that has so thin petals maybe i'll be adding the leaves who knows but i'll be working on that i still need to make the key for the fungi painting i am aiming of having a black and white outline for each of the fungi in the painting and then having a key so everyone that gets the print knows what each of them is if you see a process maybe to understand if it's their reproductive system of a specific phylum and whatnot and i'll stop talking and start doing but just wanted to share with you all the things that are happening and the fact that i just you know came into consideration i was just awakened to the fact that oh my god all of this is happening and i haven't even started packing yet but that's why i'm trying to get all things work done and ready and ordered so then i can we can fully focus on packing up this space and moving okay bye hello i am sorry in advance if the audio sounds a little wacky my microphone has a battery and i cannot find the charger i will be doing that right after this but today we have our patreon call today our monthly call will be on our tutorial every month we change there's like four things we do one month we have an art tutorial the next one we have sharing our our challenge because we have a yearly our challenge and we share what we've worked on if people decide not to work on the challenge it's pretty much a space for everyone to share the current artwork they're working on or maybe not working maybe fill in a blockage or whatnot we also have um a cacao ceremony where we connect with the spirit of the plants and we pretty much wind down and share a bit of what's happening currently in our lives and the fourth one is we have a book club it's not that we're all reading the same book but we all share the current read that we have and this one today we have our art tutorial and today we are painting a lady veil mushroom which is one of my favorite mushrooms if not my favorite one i've drawn lady veil mushrooms before this is one of them i have a digital drawing i had a monthly patreon sticker i also have a gif coming out pretty soon maybe it's out before this video is and today we're working on another lady veil but yeah before recording i wanted to share with you my setup which is the first time that i'm doing these since i got this new tripod i got this new tripod extension maybe like four months ago it's actually been super helpful for art filming and it's the first time that i'm leading a class this way i used to use my selfie stick thingy um there was like 10 bucks and it's great for a lot of things but this is definitely way more professional than the other one that moves all over and you know this one is way more sturdy so i will be sharing all the section from the tutorial with my phone up here you still need to set it up completely i have omar my art supplies and i also have my computer because i'm joining our zoom call from both devices and that way for my computer i can record and film the whole call also i can manage uh who i'm pinning while they talk who i'm you know i'm also putting some i'm playing a playlist in the background so i want to be able to change the volume of that and i also made a pdf presentation sharing more of the physicality of the lady veil as well as the different colors it comes on some characteristics some fun facts where it's where it comes from where it's used etc so that's what the computer is for also i'm not sure if i'm able to record from my phone i actually usually don't have zoom on my phone so i downloaded it for today's class and yeah this is pretty much my setup and i'm super excited to be sharing this call and be painting a mushroom alongside all of the patrons that join our paint with me started with a presentation where we learned all things lady lady vailed where these mushrooms grow learning about how they grow by watching time-lapse videos the physical structures and sections of these fungi as well as how humans have worked with it throughout the years i believe it is so important to take a moment to learn and observe before painting a new living being we started our paintings by doing a sketch with pencil and then proceeded to paint it with watercolors each of us has their own rhythm and i love painting alongside others even digitally these classes are so fun and relaxing and i can't get enough i truly love the small and beautiful community we've been cultivating on the dancing flowers community on my patreon as we're moving and traveling quite soon i am focusing on leaving as much work related stuff ready and scheduled as i can so lots of logistics and computer work when i do my voice-offs for videos i take a special time of my day to do this to get inspired in order to write and to speak with presents i feel i can tell when i've recorded an audio in a hurry or tired so this is a special time for me to check in and re-center one of my biggest works lately has been the fungi key i truly believe in the importance and the magic that an art piece has when it stops being just a visual piece but it also become an invitation for education and for learning more about the beauty that our planet has so for today i finished adding all the numbers can you see anything so for now i finish adding all the numbers to the fungi painting and what i will be doing now is and i also did this quite simplified key where i have each division, so each phylum, each subdivision , like every subdivision for the ascomycota and from which number a range until what number range the species go i've only counted the amount of species i have a bunch of fungi within the same species so right now what i'll be doing is printing out the outline of the fungi painting with all the numbers that i've added so i can have that in handy and then and then slowly i can start writing down the scientific name for each of the fungi species that i have on the painting i believe that i have 315 species of fungi within the painting later on i will be counting how many fungi i painted maybe it's double maybe it's a little more because for most of them i have either two or more from the same species so yeah i'm just curious to really know how many fungi i have but so this is something that's actually super challenging i have to find out all the scientific names for each of them and not everything's on on the same space not everything is on the same digital folder because you know it's been two years and months so i need to find all of that put it all together but that's pretty much all work for today i'm so sleepy i am not used to you know days that i work so much time in the computer afterwards i'm just like my eyes the plants i'm currently communing with open up slowly with spiral they invite me to dance to open up police hello it is wednesday yesterday after filming i decided to dedicate the whole day and night to clean everything organize clean recycle it was one of those days i feel that you know for the past few weeks months i've been in this reset routine but it's definitely not a one day thing but you know i'm like 25 days meditating every day and showing up to my practices and cleaning has been the one that has been like in the back burner for the longest cleaning and organizing so stuff is clean but it's just like everywhere and it's chaotic and that really affects my mind i'm one of those people that really feels the more organized things are the clearer and organized my mind is so yesterday i had it and it kind of didn't make any sense we're moving in two weeks and it's like why not just put everything away instead of organizing but it'll just make me feel so good about this organization and yesterday i nailed a lot of it which was great that's why i don't have a lot of footage from yesterday doing non-painting art business stuff because it was more of a cleaning day and i feel that's definitely something that's also part of my art business which is not being a robot and you know there's days where i nail and cross off a lot of things from my our business to-do list mother's day is when i cross stuff of my to-do list of being a human like cleaning my home and taking two hours for uh traffic for drinking in english or you know like a good old 40 minutes to clean the whole shower and those types of things so yesterday was one of those days which is one of those reality checks and i do feel that you know some days i work on saturday so then a day off like that more for home stuff is okay because that's where the balance lies and with all the construction going on currently in this building i've also started to love to work on weekends because those are the the um quieter days so i can record stuff and whatnot so then i do work some weekends weekend days and take not take off but dedicate for other stuff weekdays just wanted to share that anyway today this morning started early and i've been doing a lot of computer work i recorded the voice off for an upcoming video that i'm very excited for also did the text so usually i'm like thinking about what i'll be sharing what is it that i want to share in this video of course that could be a whole other video how i plan videos but you know it's been kind of weeks in writing little stuff in my journal that are related to the topic of slowing down and slow painting days which is what this video is all about so today i put all that together and i feel that i'm the most inspired to write right after my morning routine so today right after my morning routine i sat down and i've been writing all that came up for that video then i you know edited that text now i did the voiceover for that i share that with evo as evo will be the one adding the voice off and the text and all of that to that upcoming video today i'm also working on a survey for patreons i want to get their feedback on what they love and want to see more what they would rather see less of on our patreon and it will be anonymous so i'm working on that i also have a to-do list i just got approved one of the videos that i have with a brand they're sponsoring one of my upcoming videos the one that i'm sharing this friday so uh that was just the proof which is great so i need to you know work on the subtitles and get everything ready i usually share my videos 24 hours before with patreons and then 24 hours later with the rest of the world so i'm working on that and i would also love to work on some gifts i am really looking forward to the launch of the pre-order of the fungi painting and i've been working on mushroom gifts i want to make some fungi gifts um for the lunch kind of having a fun guy party i don't know so i've worked on three gifts already i would love to make three or four more so i will probably be working a little bit on that also you know getting some stuff done for the move for our move and i don't know we'll see what other stuff in my to-do list we nailed down today because there's a lot so this is a reishi mushroom that i did for a sticker sheet that i released last year and i thought of turning it into a gift so this will be the end frame from the gif most of the mushroom gifts that i'm creating are starting on actually the evolution of these specific fungi from you know when the fruiting body appears until it's in full bloom or until the spores come out so this is pretty much reishi when it's ready and mature so i want to make the the gif be from as soon as it appears out of the log or the mycelium substrate bag wherever it's growing so in order to make the gift it's been beautiful to do a lot of research on looking at time lapses of different sorts of mushroom growth so today i will be doing the one for reishi maybe starting another new one and you're coming along with me if you're sticking to today's video today i would also love to add some fungi names to the key for the fungi painting and that's a bit of what will be happening today i love making gifs i think they are so fun to make and use so it is a special relaxing time for me to work on them i've been using my ipad since 2018 to make digital art and i feel like i'm finally feeling comfortable doing it i don't think digital art will ever replace painting with actual art supplies for me as it has such a special place in my heart but it is definitely a magnificent tool that i've started to love slowly this collection of gifts or gifs i'm not sure how to call them includes the lady veil mushroom reishi purple coral inky cup devil's fingers and verdigris alg i hope you love them as much as i've loved making them hi it is friday and today i'm working on the key for the fungi painting i hope i'll have it ready when i start sending the prints out i believe i've shown you before but i worked on adding all the numbers first i worked on doing all the outline for each of the fungi that are part of the painting then i added numbers to each of them to each specie because they're there's not only one fungi for each specie let's say if i have portobello um i don't have only one portobello painting i have like two or three painted in there so within the painting i have a little bit more than 320 species of fungi and what i'm doing is classifying them in order and then you know folks will receive their print the actual edition of the print and there they will also receive a paper with the numbered keys so then they can see i don't know maybe number 183 and then in the back they will have all the scientific names for each of the 320 plus species of fungi so they they can know you know which division which phylum and what's the actual scientific name for these fungi that they are looking at and the main reason why i really want to do this is because i you know this piece has been super educational for me it's been a source of not only inspiration and it's been beautiful to paint the fungi but it's also been research and i have learned so much and i would love to share a little bit within the painting so people are not only getting something i hope beautiful to add to their homes or wherever their they will place the paint the prints but also to actually get some educational information on it so uh you know it's been two plus years on making the painting so i have all the information regarding each species in hard drives in my computer in my ipad some stuff on my phone some stuff on the cloud so i'm trying to put all of that together in order to make the key and the only way to get it it's to start i feel that i don't feel a lot of fear surrounding the blank page when i start painting because it's a very intuitive and fun activity for me to start a painting without even knowing where it's going i feel that's part of the magic but then when this which is way more structure and you know right side of the brain stuff now i have so much fear of the blank page but the only thing that i can do to surpass that fear is start so that's what today's work is all about and whenever i have some part of my work that is you know fear of the blank page or i feel it's challenging or i feel kind of scared to do it or it's more like brainy stuff like doing taxes or you know the stuff that i prove i would prefer not to put together i love to just start the day pretty slow i did my yoga my cacao meditation journaling this morning then i went to my local coffee shop so i got some treats i got a kombucha i got my favorite popcorn so i feel treating myself is the best way for me to really be like okay let's do this i'll put a one of my favorite playlists at the moment and i feel that really helps me get past those moments where i'm like so now i'll get into it because talking here is also part of avoiding starting so i'll go ahead and start this fungi gifts are now ready and you can find them by going to the gift section on instagram stories and searching "caro fungi" as well as by searching their scientific names of each of the mushrooms i did that is everything for today's video i hope you enjoyed it thank you for keeping me company and thank you once again squarespace for sponsoring today's video feel free to use the code category when you have a next purchase through squarespace and i hope to see you on another video pretty soon
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