My current obsession is painting foxes. My last You Tube video was painting foxes. On top of that I've just put up three other foxes. Also working on repeating the sitting fox with a background this time, think that one will take some time, as lots of small details in the background. In case you wonder why there's the same picture with and without a background, well sometimes like with the fox under the tree, I scanned it before adding the background, other times, like with the fox sitting, I repeat the same picture but this time with a background.

Some people prefer images on white, others with background. I enjoy doing both. I do like adding backgrounds but will always scan first just incase it ends up a disaster. 

Thinking at the moment about getting some blank greeting cards printed out for my website and possibly some other items. Hope to do either an exhibition or some craft fayres in the Autumn so will need some for that as well. Well need to go and get on with some painting!

So I've now up loaded two videos to You tube. The first one painting a Buddleia flower and the second painting a red squirrel. I wasn't really happy with the squirrel, but I was determined to get a video up each week and didn't have time to do another. What this did make me decide was that I wasn't going to put another video up of something I really didn't like (at least not unless I was intending to show that we all produce things we don't like.). I'll probably take the squirrel down once I've got a wider selection up and replace it with a squirrel I do like. So the next video is painting a fox, it's quite a long video so I've split it up into two parts. I know established You tubers often post this sort of thing over two weeks but as I'm new and haven't got a lot on  my channel yet, I'll put them both up together. Should be out on Friday this week.

I've learned an awful lot in a short time doing this. I've learned to film my process, edit with a video editor program, do a talk over (I really don't like the sound of my own voice, it's not what I'm used to in my own head. Do any of you feel like this?). I've also learn how to set up and up load to a You tube channel and do mini videos to promote on Social Media. When I set out doing this I didn't realise what a steep learning curve it was going to be. But I am enjoying the process, it has it's own element of creativity. The downside is it's taking me so long, I'm not doing as much painting as I would like, but I'm sure I'll speed up the more I do. So bye for now, off to finish editing!