INKing Out Loud

Artist and architect Jason Nicholas sketches Battersea Power Station in London live, mixing watercolor, ink, and graphite while talking with viewers. He explains his material choices, wet-on-wet techniques, and uses the building as a case study in adaptive reuse for his Architecture Kids class.
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Hey, Jennifer, cheers from Arizona. Good to see you. Hope all is well. Dawn's in the house. Dawn, good to see you. Long time no see. Hope you guys are having a really good Saturday today. It's 10:52 PM here in New Jersey and I did not sketch yet today. So, actually that's not true. I did sketch this pencil thing here this morning. But I want to work on it a little bit more tonight. So what I'm sketching is the Battersea Power Station in London. It was an old power station that's been converted into a very, very high-end shopping mall slash living quarters, apartments, condos. Really, really, really cool building. So I thought it would be fun just to mess around with this for a little bit tonight. I am actually sketching on hot press watercolor paper, something I have not used too much, but I thought it would be fun to see what happens when you add some color to this. Hope you guys are doing well. So I just use my Sharpie. I wanted to give an outline here to the building a little bit. And we're gonna just throw some colors on. This is gonna be a kind of a really loose— I'm imagining it to be very loose. Do I wanna pull this out a little bit? I think I might. How do I wanna do this? I think I wanna pull this out a little bit also with ink for now. That's cool. That's good for now. And what are we gonna add? What kind of color? So it's a brick building with glass here, very modern. What do I want to use? Do I want to— maybe we'll just mix up some red and orange here in the watercolor palette and we'll just throw some colors on and see what happens. Uh, let's see, let's use, um, let's use this brush here. Move this over so you can see the palette a little bit better. It's a pretty big sheet of paper. It's 11 by 14.
How do you want to do this?
I'm thinking too much. I just want to be loose, loosey-goosey. Let's just mix up some color in the palette here. Throw some red in. We'll throw some orange as well. I have some scrap paper here that we'll just throw colors on, just see what it's looking like. I am not liking that color yet. I think that's better, has a little more orangey in it. Alright, let's go with it. Let's just throw some color on. So it's hot press paper, you can see the water, the color is just laying on the top, it is not being sucked into the paper. Very, very little, I should say. There we go. So I actually have dirty water. I always like to keep some dirty water around. You may have noticed the black here, just, just from the dirty water, which I kind of like. I like that actually. So it worked out well. So let me know what you guys have been up to. I got to spend pretty much the whole day organizing paperwork and Working on getting my tax stuff organized, which I'm behind schedule on. Taxes are just one of those things I can't bring myself to do, but it has to be done, right? So I've been busy all day doing that. My brain is shot from looking at all these numbers, and I'm still not done. It's all good though, we'll get it done tomorrow. I'm actually dipping into turquoise. I'm going to throw a little bit of turquoise, I think, on some of this area, just darken it a little bit. And the turquoise and the orange make a really cool rusty kind of color. These smokestacks are actually a kind of a cream color in reality. And I'm not trying to really match the color, just getting the vibe of what's there. There is some orange, orangey back here as well. Let's throw some orangey stuff back here. We have some windows in here as well. Actually, we'll just kind of scrub it on here and then we can paint the windows on later. We're over the orange-red color. Hey, Becky's in the house! Good to see you, Becky. Hope all's well with you. I love when you guys pop on, it's so much fun. I didn't know who would pop on, if anybody, and I said, you know what, let's just go for it. So we went for it. Um, Don said school's over for good in 6 weeks. Hey, they'll be back to being in England again. Don, that is awesome! Hang in there, 6 more weeks, you got this thing. You are still in England even though you've been so busy with school. You are one of the original One of the OGs. So awesome to hear that. Good luck. I know when I finished my school and got my master's, it was just the best feeling ever, let me tell you. By the way, guys, let me know if my music is too loud for you on your end. I have it turned up a little bit louder than usual just because I needed it to to, uh, well, you know I love painting with music. Let me know if the music is too loud and drowning me out, which might be a blessing. Some people like to drown me out. This is looking cool. I'm loving the colors on this. This will be a good base. I'll come back in at some point after this all dries and I'll, with my ink, and I'll add some detail, show some lines, indicate some brick maybe. Dawn says, fingers crossed. Our fingers are crossed for you. You'll be— you'll do awesome. Becky says, very sleepy but doing good. I'm with you, Becky. I'm with you. I was just saying I spent the entire day trying to get my tax stuff all in order, and my brain is extremely sleepy. My creative brain is always going, but the number side, the memory side, is kind of shot right now. Um, so up here, this is actually glass up here. I believe there's, um, I don't know if they're condo spaces or apartments, some kind of rental, high-end rental spaces up here for living in. So I'm just going to indicate that kind of with this blue just to show some kind of glass up here. That's cool. What am I going to use for the cream color? I have These are cream-colored kind of smokestacks. You know what I have I might use? I have a brush marker. This might be a good color for that. Either that one or maybe this one. Not that one. I have, you know, I have a cream-colored colored pencil, but I like to throw a colored pencil down afterwards. So I'll leave the smokestacks alone for now. I'll come back to those. Vicky says, should get some cool hard watermarks from their paint. Yeah, right? Let me zoom in. Let me show you guys. Yeah, I'm, I'm loving this here. So again, this is hot press paper. The color is really— you can see it's kind of— it's just pooling on here, right? Especially here and here. So it'll take a while to dry, but I agree with you, Becky. I'm looking forward to seeing— I'm actually going to use a flat brush. I want to move some paint around a little bigger areas. Yeah, I love hard edges with watercolor and ink. I'm just gonna kind of blend these a little bit here. It's okay if I lose some of those hard edges, I'm fine with that. So I switched to a 3/4-inch flat brush. I wanted just to hit some areas, um, a little bit bigger than using the bamboo brush. And I'm just lifting off some of that turquoise where the windows are here. All right, cool. I want to add some, uh, some pen on here. I don't know if— I think it's too wet to use my Sharpie. Let's break out— I don't know, either this or my Pilot. We'll see. Don says, I love that glass color. Hey, thanks, Don. Yeah, so this is turquoise in here. Um, actually it's turquoise, I think, and I mixed in a little bit of the orange with it. That's so cool. I'm glad you like that. No, I don't— what do I want to sketch with? I'm just thinking out loud here. I'm inking out loud. Sharpies don't work too well on wet areas. I could get out my Lamy pen, but I feel like the Lamy is going to bleed too thick here. Oh, you know what, heck with it. Let's just do it. I'm thinking too much. Actually, you know what color we're going to use? I'm going to use this. Or is this one? One of these I think has Apple Snail color ink in it. I don't remember. This is neon green, I think. This has neon green or lime green in it. Does this have the Apple Snail? No, this is black. Oh, Apple Snail's in this pen. I hope it's in here. Oh, nothing's coming out. It's gotta be in here. I just haven't used it in a while, so I'm gonna have to clean the— there we are. So you can see this Apple Snail color. I'll put it on this paper towel. I love this color. I feel like I'll sketch with this for a while and just see what happens. I'll pull out There are some lines that come down like here. I— so I did sketch this in pencil first, something I rarely do, but I felt like it was important for this one because I did want to pull the shapes out of this building pretty well and get the perspective looking halfway decent. That's why I wanted to lay it out in pencil first. Which is okay. I'm not going to take any points off for, um, for effort, for creativity. Sometimes you got to break, break our own rules, right? There's some vertical lines coming down on this facade here. Uh-oh, the ink stopped coming out. It could be— there we go, just had to start it again. It's being fussy with me. We have kind of a thing happening here. There's something coming down over here vertically. Lemme zoom in, it's probably hard for you guys to see what I'm sketching. My pen's being a little fussy with me. Alright, I wanna be kind of loose, let me be a little more loose and sketchy with this. There we go. We have some windows happening in here, which honestly I'll probably just— will end up doing in black. You kind of a line up here. We have a corner here and we're gonna bleed this Apple Snail ink, see what it looks like. Let's just put an edge up here. All right, let's bleed some of that. Hey, Karen's in the house! Good to see you, Karen. Hope all's well. Thank you guys for popping on. So if you're just joining, this is, um, this is the Battersea Power Station in London. Um, it used to be an old power plant that has recently been converted into a pretty high-end shopping center. Shopping mall and living district. It's actually a whole community. They've built these incredible high-rise buildings around this as well. It's— this is on my bucket list of places to visit. It's pretty, pretty awesome. So I suggest Googling the Battersea Power Station. You guys know I love these industrial buildings, right? And I love it even more that it's been It's been turned into an adaptive reuse project, which I'll be talking to— we'll be talking about in my class soon. Architecture Kids, we're going to be talking about adaptive reuse. Typically we do a shipping container house project where we talk about shipping containers being used for adaptive reuse, having, you know, being used for another purpose. So this is a really cool example that I'll be talking to them about in class. I have to read more about it and study more about this, the Battersea Power Station, but it has captured my fancy for sure. Did I just say captured my fancy? Oh my God, I don't think I've ever said that before. That's kind of weird. Um, all right, let's, let's do some windows on here. We're going to use— I don't know what color is this in here. I don't even know what color I have in this. I think it's just some kind of green. No, I don't want to use that. I'm just going to mix— I'm out of my blue. I was going to mix blue and brown. Dang, Nebbit. I think, you know what we're going to do, guys? We're going to just break out a brush pen. We're going to just break out a brush pen. Karen, it's good to see you, Karen. Thank you for sending stars. I always appreciate that. Thank you so much. I don't see— I don't see them when they post live, but I think I figured out when you post on my end, and if I don't see any comment, I think that's when you send stars. I'm guessing. But I thank you for always helping and doing that. That's so cool. Helps me to, um, be able to try things like these Tombow brush pens, which I'm just starting to learn how to use, work with them. And I think some of you guys have used these. Let me know, has anybody used the Tombow brush pens? There you go, that's really pulling out the black for where I want the windows to be. I'm loving it. So cool. So we have some windows here. There's actually— there are some windows happening over in here. There's actually some line work I need to add with my Sharpie or Pilot later. Ooh, this just popped up on screen. All right, I'm gonna show some windows right in here, very small, kind of in the distance back here. You can see the water still laying on the surface of this hot press paper. It's kind of, it's kind of cool. Alright, I have— let me zoom out, you guys can see my desk. I have mucho stuffo out. If you want to see, here's what it's looking like. I have way too many things going on on the upper left, so I got to put some stuff away for a sec. Like, I don't need this brush out, I'll put it in here. I'm not using this fineliner pen, I'm not using these little watercolor Brushes. Sometimes I just gotta clear my desk a little bit to clear my head. I know that sounds kind of weird. That actually goes on this one.
All right, cool.
All right, I'm sure you guys don't want to see me tidying up, but it's kind of how I work. Sometimes I need to have a tidier area so I can think better. All right, cool. Part of me wants to break out the sepia graphite here, do some sketching on here. So let's do that. Let's break out the graphite sepia. We are going mixed media on this piece. So again, I'm not staying true to the building colors. You know, the original building was just a starting point. Why isn't it sketching on here? Weird. Graphite does not like sketching on this paper too well. Huh, I don't know what that's about. Yeah, that's really strange. This graphite doesn't really want to play nice on here. That's not cool. Alright, well that's not going to work. I like sketching in the wet area, so why don't we do that. Live and learn, my friends. Be playful, see what happens. So it's water-soluble graphite. It is— it's enjoying the wet areas here. just want to curve this piece. These are curved chimneys going up here. So let me zoom in a little bit. So just to help give the illusion that this is a curved chimney going up, you can see the line I sketched has a little curve to it. It's not straight. That helps just to give it some contour. Same thing here, a little bit of contour. And then when I eventually shade this in and add some hatching, you'll see it even more curved. There are some pieces at the top that do like come out like this. Just put my hand on the wet area. Let's do this, curve this one a little bit. We'll curve those a little bit there. Something that's really cool about this graphite holder or lead holder, it has a built-in sharpener. So if I unscrew this— I've had this thing for years, I think since college I've had this— there's a little sharpener in this end. Just do it off to the side. You can hear it. So my point is sharper now. Sometimes I'll actually use the shavings and I'll Actually, let's do— I'm actually going to just dump the shavings in this water here, dirty water. We'll mix it in.
Cool.
I actually got some on here too. You can see it. Hey, DB's in the house! DB, good to see you. Hope all is well with you. So great to see you guys popping on. Thank you so much. There we go. And then I'm also going to just sketch, use the graphite And I'm going to sketch just some more, some lines on here to indicate that there's some glass panes up here. I want to keep the lines pretty fine, not too thick. And then we'll just do some vertical lines here to show some glass happening. I gotta be careful. Let's see, because this is all wet over here. Let me just cover it for a sec. There we go. Sketch on here. This is kind of trailing off in perspective, so I'm going to bring these lines closer together just to create the idea that it's receding away from us a little bit. Alright, cool. I'm gonna break out some water-soluble graphite, the Taylor's chalk. Because this color here, I was just thinking in my brain, would be pretty cool to use for some of the brickwork. So we're going to take this color right here. Um, what else are we going to pull out here? Maybe we'll pull out Maybe I'm trying to think what color I want to use. Uh, let's try this one. Try that one. So I'm just dipping this into some water. Hey, Cameron's in the house! Cameron, good to see you. Hope all is well. DB says, do they still make them? Um, I'm not sure if DB— are you asking about these? Oh, DB might be asking about this. Yeah, I think they do. If you— if you're talking about the lead holder, Google or I don't know if you can read that. Koh-I-Noor Hard Hartsmuth. I'm pretty sure you can still get these lead holders. Breaking out the fun art supplies. Yeah, I'm just going and breaking out the fun stuff. You got that right, Becky. Gotta have fun, right? No fun, what's the point? So Cameron, I'm glad you're on. This coming school week, I think you are off, correct? So we have testing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We're doing the— it's not, it's not the NJSLA, it's something, I forget the acronym, but we have testing and delayed opening schedules. So I don't think Monday through Thursday would work because the class periods are gonna be really short. Friday probably looks like it would be the best day this coming week if you wanted to come in. I feel like, I feel like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday may be a little crazy with the testing, but we can, we can talk about that. And I also feel like we're going to be getting a snow day this week. It looks like there's some snow headed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, somewhere in there. So that could definitely throw the schedule off as well. All right, cool. So this is the water-soluble Taylor— it's, it's graphite, but it's shaped like Taylor chalk. I love this stuff. It is just so dang messy. But that's okay. I love wearing art. Love wearing it. It's not art unless you wear it, right? You guys know I love saying that. All right, so now I'm going to get really fun and loose. I was being a little tight before. I just want to get these lines in here. I'm liking this. Bring out some of this color. I love this color. This is really, um, adding to the industrial vibe of this, this building. At least for me it is, and that's okay. It's my artwork, so it's working for me. That's why they call it artwork, because it can work for you. And now we have Beethoven, because why not? Why not? Bring on the Beethoven. I hope this is Beethoven and not— no, I'm pretty sure it's Beethoven. This is not like Bach, is it? Beethoven would be so proud of this masterpiece. I'm just cracking myself up. I'm losing it. I'm so tired, but I'm having fun. So this hot press paper is really buckling here because it's so wet. I'm like drawing over a hill. You see my lines are so wonky there, but it's cool. The whole thing's kind of wonky, which is fun. All right, so we use that color. I'm going to put it to the side and then Let's break out— this looks like chocolate. I wish it was chocolate because I just could— I could go for some chocolate right now, actually. Caffeine doesn't keep— does caffeine keep anybody awake at night? Doesn't keep me awake, so I guess I could have some if I wanted. All right, let's just kind of pull out some of these building edges with this. I'm dipping it in water. Can't really see it off camera. Um, we had some windows somewhere in here-ish. I'm just going to pull them out with this chalk. Boom. And we have some vertical lines in here. Let's just pull these out here. I'm just using a flat edge So kind of pulling it down. Boom. This is fun. Dip this in some water. And I have some vertical lines happening in here. Kind of a detail at the top of the building. Hopefully you guys can see this okay. Trying to zoom in so you can see it better. There we go. You can at least see where I'm working. We have some building, some detail at the crown or the top of the building here. Something, something, something. We actually have these vertical areas I didn't capture too well yet, so Instead of doing it with ink, I'm going to try to do it with this graphite. I'm going to wet— I'm just taking my paintbrush, I'm going to wet the edge of this graphite and kind of use it as a stamp and just kind of stamp, drag it down a little bit where I want these vertical lines. I'm going to add a little more water, I think. I could actually dip it I just dipped it in my water. Now let's just throw down these kind of— there we go. That works. Lines are a little heavier than I wanted. Just pull it down ever so gently, not forcing it down into the paper. It's kind of cool. So one of the things about, um, that I'm missing about the rough or the cold press paper, which is rougher, I'm kind of missing the texture of the paper. Um, here's what I'm going to do. There's a brick in this building. I'm going to just stamp this here to kind of indicate some brickage happening here. OMG, that is awesome! That I wasn't expecting to work so well. That's a win. Just to indicate some texture, even on this facade here, we have kind of do at an angle. And then let's do— we have the same thing. Let's try it over here also. Lines are— they're a little thicker than I want them to be. Maybe if I switch to this end. That's okay. We actually have some vertical brick here.
Cool.
Uh, Cameron said nothing is Friday, so that could work for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, that— let's, let's shoot for Friday. I'll send you an email to confirm or message you.
That would be awesome.
I'm just dipping back into some of this watercolor here with the orange and brown. Hey, um, Becky says looking wicked awesome. Hey Becky, thank you, I'm so glad you like this. Yeah, this is a fun piece. I love that you guys are here. This is like a— we have an Inkling reunion. DB, Karen, Becky, so cool. We have Jennifer in the house, Cameron. You guys are awesome. There are some windows here as well. And I'm gonna use, I think, that same— I'm just using turquoise. There's a little bit of the orange-brown, orange-reddish mixture, I think, in it, which is fine. We have kind of these vertical strips of windows happening in here, so I'm just using that turquoise mix. And I'm just gonna— just do some vertical lines here to show the windows. Yeah, this is really wet, guys. This is, this is what you call wet on wet on wet here. I'm not— I don't have the patience for it to dry, so I'm just adding wet on top of wet, and the paper is buckling like mad. Um, I'm taking some of that turquoise color, and I'm going to use it to create maybe some shadowy areas here. I probably should really wait for this to dry, but you know what, I like the playfulness. I like when the water and the colors just mix together. So we're gonna keep doing it. I think we're gonna use this gray, this kind of blue-gray color on those chimney stacks here, just as a shadow, kind of a shadow line. Just want to give a little bit of contour. These in reality are a cream color, so I might just end up leaving them white. Not sure yet. There is some detail on them, some vertical fluting. Fluting, which are just vertical lines on here. I'm just kind of tapping the brush down on the wet area, letting that color run down. Alright, I think it's, I think it's at a point where I need to let it dry. Pull this down a little bit. How could I do that? We can do that. Then you can see it better there, maybe. Cool. Um, this is at a point where I'm going to let it dry, and then I will come back and just add some— probably with either a Sharpie, probably actually the Pilot I've been liking my Pilot pen lately for just doing ink details, or even a flare maybe. So I'll use one of these two. When it dries, I'll come back and do some sketching on top of the, um, to pull out different colors. And this is the pencil I sketched with. This is back from my college days as well. This Rotring mechanical pencil. So I use that and I just lightly had sketched out. I may even use this to add some shading, who knows. So yeah, like Becky said, I was breaking out some fun materials, just kind of playing around. I may have gone a little overboard in some areas now I'm looking at it. Um, we'll make it work though. That's part of the fun. All right guys, let me know if you have any final questions or thoughts or comments before I head out. 11:45 PM. I'm missing the cap to my brush. Dang it. It's gotta be here somewhere. The other thing with this is I kind of wish I had shifted this pencil sketch more to the left. It's really hugging the edge of the paper on the right. So if I had given more breathing room around it, it probably would have been better. That's okay, live and learn. This is a building I will be sketching a lot of in the future because I really love it. So this is my first crack at just doing something related to the building. Um, Cameron says, I'm guessing this is some kind of mill or some other form of industrial plant. Yeah, Cameron, this is, uh, this is the Battersea Power Station in London. Um, was an industrial power plant. It's been repurposed into very high-end shopping center and community. So definitely check it out. I would Google it, just Google Battersea Power Station. Um, I'm in love with this building and the whole surrounding area. It's on my bucket list. I have to go here. As an architect, I feel like it's an architectural gem. Um, whether or not I could afford to live in a place like this is a different question, but at least I can afford to visit it. So it's on my list. I'd love to get here, and I could spend a week easily here just sketching the outside of this building, the outside of the surrounding buildings. There's a Frank Gehry building here. Uh, some world-class architects are involved with this and the community around it, so definitely check it out. Battersea Power Station. Very, very— it's a very cool building. Hey, Patty's in the house! Patty, good to see you. It's always great to see you pop in. So cool. Yeah, so this I do have my heater on here. I could go hold this by the heater, let it dry. But you can see, I'll just kind of move it around a little bit. I need to add the fluting. So if you don't know what fluting is, I'll show you. I could sketch it on here, I guess. Let's, um, I'm going to sketch it with a pencil for now. So fluting on a column are these vertical lines. Cameron might know what classical order you would see these on. I don't remember if it's a Corinthian, Ionic, Doric— not a Tuscan column. It might be an Ionic column. So this is called fluting. So it has just those vertical lines. I should have— let's see, as it gets closer, it's— I want this to look like it's curving. So as it gets closer to the edge, I'm actually just going to sketch another line here. I didn't really think about the spacing when I was sketching these. As they get closer to the points further away on the curve, the vert— the fluting lines would be closer. Let me sketch one in here. And that just helps create the illusion that this thing is actually curving. I, I— guys, look at this. I love the way this is drying, this color. Let me see if it shows on camera. I don't know if it's going to pick it up that well, but I, I am loving— look at real— at the hard edge at the top of this column. I'm loving that hard edge. The color there is really, really cool. Then if you go down here, you can see Some really, really fun things happening with the texture, uh, with the colors. Notice I'm way out of the line here. That's fine with me. Again, I like loose, wonky style. Going outside the lines, it helps me keep that style. I don't have to be so precise. Takes the pressure off me. Um, Here's that blue, the kind of the nod to some kind of glass up there, some windows. Let's pan around. You guys can look at this. I'm gonna be quiet for a few seconds here. Some cool hard edges right here on this shot. On the left, you see kind of the orange-red hard edge. As you move to the right, you have some more hard edges happening. For me, this is— it's gonna sound weird, but this is the stuff that excites me. I, I, I love this, just this kind of stuff here with the hard edges, the colors, thick lines, thin lines, some texture happening. And I don't even care that this isn't a complete building in the screenshot right now, but I just love the kind of the frenetic energy. This is the stuff that really excites me about doing these kinds of sketches. And for some people it's too crazy, it's too loose, it's too not accurate with what's really there. And you know what, I don't care. To be honest with you, I don't care. I'm doing this, this is the stuff that really excites me. Even here, I just love, we have kind of the white space here. Whitish space. And just look at that cap. The colors are happening right there. So fun. This, this almost looks like there's lights on in here. It's not at all what's happening with the real building. This is all brick, but it almost looks like there's lights glowing, which is kind of interesting. I'll take it. So not to sound snobby about me not caring what other people think, but this is my time, my zone, my creative brain at work here. And yeah, you know, I guess I'm kind of creating this for me, and hopefully other people will like it, or they'll like something about it, or they'll feel something about it. Ah, the glass looks so cool. Doric order, Cameron says. Patty knows fluting. Yes, you too. Patty definitely knows fluting. Patty, would you like to play a song for us right now? What is your favorite song to play on the flute? One of your favorite songs, let us know. So guys, this is gonna dry and I'll come back and finish it probably tomorrow. Yes, clocks go forward for me very soon. It's 11:53. Thank you for the reminder, DB. So the glass looks cool. I like the glass. I just used some turquoise. I mixed some brown into it, a little bit of orange in places to create a— I don't have a gray paint. Sorry, DB, I don't have any Payne's Gray in my palette. I gotta replace some of these colors. Um, so I was just kind of making my own gray by mixing some colors up. And I'm gonna leave the background white, white on this. I'm not gonna add any colors to the background. It almost looks like there's— I just noticed this. Almost looks like there's like bubbles or something coming out of the smokestack. That was not intentional. One of these stacks, it may be on the other side of the building, we can't see. There are two more stacks. One of them is actually a, um, there's like a lift in there, an elevator, a lift that goes all the way to the top and then it protrudes out beyond the top of the chimney, and it's a 360-degree observation area. Um, how cool is that? They took one of these chimneys, put this— you got to see it, guys. I'm telling you, Google Battersea Power Station, uh, find it on YouTube if you can. I'll see if I can find the link. I watched a cool 20-minute video today. Just blew my mind. I don't even know how they engineered that. So, so cool. Um, DB says, I used to tell my mom if she liked her work, that's all that matters. Hey DB, those are wide, wide words. They're not wide, they're wise. I'm wide. Because I probably ate too much today. But those are wise words. Patty says Bori, Jethro Tull version. Oh, I may not even be saying it right. Is that French? Bori. I know who Jethro Tull is. I don't know the song. I'd have to Google that one. I know he and I'm forgetting Ian's last name. Anderson? I could be wrong, but he is an amazing player. Is it a flute he plays? Piccolo flute? I'd love to hear. I'm going to have to Google that or look on Spotify for that song. Karen says nice work. DB says oh no. Yes, oh no. Hey guys, I think that's gonna be a wrap for me. It's 11:56 PM. Thank you so much for watching and joining on my, uh, very unannounced hours, as they're always unannounced. So just anybody shows up is so awesome. Um, I love seeing what you guys are putting out there on Facebook. Keep creating your amazing arts, sharing your words of wisdom. And just supporting each other, whether it's here or in other groups like Roo's Crew. You guys are amazing. I wouldn't be here without your encouragement, that's for sure. And also the encouragement of Roo as well. We always— one day he'll pop in and it'll be so cool. We'll see him in watching. Um, thank you guys so much. I appreciate you all so much. Have a great, great rest of your— well, what's left of your Saturday. Enjoy your Sunday. And tomorrow I will be doing taxes. Yay. And architecture work amongst other things. Um, here you go, guys. We'll just do one more quick pan around. I'm out of here. I love this song. Um, oh, batter. See, Patty, batter, like pancake batter. Sea as in ocean. Battersea. And it's one word. Battersea. Look, I have an R there. That's weird. P-O-W-E-R station. Battersea Power Station. Hopefully that helps. Um, like a battery station got generators. That's so funny. No Payne's Gray. Sorry, DB, no Payne's Gray. Not in my box.
Womp womp womp.
I do have a color missing. Some kind of blue is missing. I'm probably gonna take this green out, which I never use. And maybe put Payne's Gray. I never use this color here. I don't even know what it is. Anybody knows what color it is, let me know. White, once, once in a blue moon I use. Sleep well, Becky. You too. Thank you for tuning in. I know you were sleepy. Always great seeing you in the house. Good night, Patty. Well, thank you. Haha, you got it, Patty. Guys, take care. Have a great, great night. Peace. And live creatively. I'll see you soon. Uh, yellow ochre, it could be. I actually have a brand new palette. I think it's even unwrapped. I could even, I can check this. Oh no, it's, this is all open. My bad. Thank you so much. Have a great, great night.
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