(bright music) - They are small and I don't know how I initially started doing small work.

I think, I don't know, it probably started because I was buying handmade paper and a lot of it is not very large and I was painting on handmade paper, it was tiny, I just started going for like teeny tiny little brushes, and then I eventually was like, "I should frame my stuff in vintage frames."

And I started looking at all these cute little round frames and they're all tiny.

So I think it just kind of, I've boxed myself into small stuff.

(chuckling) (bright music continues) So I started specifically looking for frames for paintings.

And now when I paint normally I choose my frame and then paint to go with it, like the colors, I figure out the layout of my painting to fit within that frame.

I started learning how to paint in acrylics and you can paint really tiny, pretty, not quickly, but it dries really fast.

It's very different to paint oil.

And I swapped to oil probably a year or so ago and it's very hard to do those tiny details all in one pass.

I tend to sit and do a painting all in one session because they are really small, and it's very, it's very hard to do these little details in oil because it tends to just wanna blend all together.

I do mix my colors and honestly I used to only paint with primaries 'cause it's amazing what some of them do.

It's like, "Hey, if I wanna paint this color, maybe these mix really well."

I painted in high school in my parents' garage with stinky like oil paints and paint thinner.

'cause I watch Bob Ross, Saturdays it would be on PBS.

It's not as easy as he made it look, but he really did make it look easy and he was just so easy to watch and listen to and encouraging.

When people message you and say how much they love something or what it means to them, it's very humbling because I'm just painting something that I think, I think is pretty, I enjoy it and it's nice when somebody else really connects with it.

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