I do a little experiment about choosing colors for making artwork and come up with an analogy that choosing colors is like baking cookies.

I realize more and more as I age that I have been littered with self-doubt for most of my life. In this episode i am simple letting others know that I lack confidence even in the things I consider myself to good at and I hope to connect with others that may be able to relate.

For our 10th episode of Substrata Podcast I wanted to try and tackle the unforgiving medium of watercolor. I was not disappointed with how difficult they can be to use, because there is not turning back or erasing if you make a mistake. Watercolors are at the same time very user friendly in that all you need is a cup of water a brush and some paper. Use a pen or a pencil for fine lines, make sure your colors are wiped clean before using them, and use the white of the paper as the white in your painting. Good luck and enjoy!

For this episode I give cooking a try, looking to find similarities between cooking and painting. I made a curry simmer sauce dish with store bought simmer sauce.

I discuss the need within myself to stop the huge mistake of being numb and passive when it comes to racism and how creating art that supports a positive movement can help create change.

I go behind the curtain to reveal the reason behind the name Substrata Podcast. I also talk about how as a child I would play full football games by myself .

This episode is a continuation of episode 5. We take a favorite canned beverage and we smash it. Now we have an incredibly difficult subject to draw. I have visual overload and some dyslexic moments in this episode.

Draw your favorite canned beverage for this episode of Substrata Podcast. Take about 10 minutes for this exercise and change the brand name of your drink, try to be clever and creative with the name. I’m not sure if I succeeded with being clever for mine but, it made me laugh a little. I changed the brand name to Tasty Street and the flavor to Greatfruit. Save your can for next week’s episode because I will ask you to crush the can and then make another drawing of it . Have fun! The supplies for this episode is a pencil and a piece of paper.

This episode is about me growing up with dyslexia and how it has molded me in good and bad ways. I talk a little about how it affects my speech pattern and how that is on of my "whys" for doing this podcast. Maybe you can relate to this episode weather you have dyslexia or not.

This episode admittingly should probably have been episode 2 but we move on. The theme of this episode is getting used to using soft pastels, with a constraint of using only four colors. We keep the amount of colors down so you can concentrate mostly on how the pastels work with each other, how they blend, and how they apply on the paper. This is good because you are not worried about drawing a subject and you can put your full attention on what the materials are doing. This could turn out to be a good abstract piece of art like a Mark Rothko painting.