INKing Out Loud

Hey, D-Ray and Cameron and Becky, good to see everybody. Hope you guys are doing well. Happy Tuesday, March 7th. March 7th. Hope you're having a great, great day. I'm popping on, just doing a little bit of sketching. My brain's kind of tired and I want to get my sketching in today before I go to bed. Well, actually, before I do some homework. So I am not procrastinating, I swear. I love organizing all of my tax paperwork so, so much. So this is not me procrastinating, but this is me doing what I love, and that is sketching. You guys can see everything okay? I'm using a pretty big format here, 11 by 14 sheet of— this is actually hot press, hot press paper. A little different for me. I usually use cold press. I like the texture. We're going smooth hot press, and I'm looking at a reference picture of a see a snapshot I took. People still say snapshots. Snapshot I took in New York City. I'm just really loosely kind of roughing things out, um, as a first step before I come back and add some detail. Back in here we have the building known as the Avengers Building. This is where Tony Stark had their— had his headquarters. So it's way back here. I'm just trying to keep this sketch really kind of loose. Kind of wiggly. The lines aren't perfectly clean, which I like. Awesome. Hope you guys are all doing well. It's so nice to see you in the house. Let me know, say something in the chat and let me know that you're out there watching. Cameron, hope all is well. Hope your projects have been going nicely. And I think you're in the homestretch to break, which is so cool. I am— I still need to look at my schedule, Cameron, to let you know what would be a good day for you to come in. I think it's next week, or is it this week? Let me know. I could be totally off my Schedule brain is shut down. So if it's this week, I apologize, or let me know and we can see what we can figure out. If it's next week, that would— that's awesome too. So I'm just sketching some horizontal or kind of angle lines here. These are actually windows back in here. This looks like a little rooftop railing area, perhaps. Kind of happening in here. This is actually— this is a steel structure. This is a bridge happening there. And then there's another bridge here in the foreground, the railing, the guardrail of a bridge. So we have a guardrail, another guardrail. And I'm thinking too much about it. I should just be sketching and not worrying about where the lines are going too much because I don't want this to be exact, precise. Let's bring this up. There's a nice crown or cap on top of this building here. Let's add a little crown up there. This is actually at an angle. We have some angles coming like this. Boom. This I should have really kind of brought up, made a little more prominent. Like that. Camera says, next week, you're doing good so far, A's. Oh, that's great. A's are cool. B's are cool. C's are cool. You know what? As long as you're getting something out of what you're doing, You're learning. That's awesome. Great job. So I think next week will work fine for you to come into school. Just trying to think in my brain as we're talking here what is going on in my classes. You might be able to come in and critique some house designs. They're using Chief Architect right now. They're learning it and they're just creating a very simple house. If you do come in, I'm going to ask you to be not— not to be too, too harsh with your critiques. I know you have college brain, which is awesome. I know how they critique in college. They're relentless. But, um, we're still kind of at the high school level, so I have to remember that as I'm critiquing students' work. You know, I can critique but in a positive way. So, we'll talk a little bit about that. College professors didn't really care. They just, at least for me, they kind of just ripped us apart. But, I know you'll do an awesome job and you were once a high school kid so you get it. You want to encourage and not discourage, right? And I think you'll be awesome at doing that. Cool. All right. So this is just kind of blocked out a scene here. It looks kind of loose, a little scribbly. So I'm going to take a darker marker and just pull out some shapes a little bit more. I'm going to just use my Sharpie. We'll go over some lines. Cameron said, "Certainly." Awesome. Thank you, Cameron. You are cool. All right. Karen, and maybe we can also talk more about that light study model. We haven't done anything in class with it yet. I'm trying to remember which— I had one student that was interested in making one. I have to remember who that was. Maybe I can have you talk to them. That would be awesome. We could talk about some ideas for a project. Alright. Alright, so I'm just pulling out some of the shapes a little bit darker. Still not cray cray about the proportions of this. It should be a little bit narrower. But that's alright, we're just having fun playing around. Cool? Cool. Alright, what do we want to do? Let's throw down— we'll throw on some color maybe. Use some watercolors. It's 8:41. I'm only going to be on for a few minutes. Yeah, we'll throw down some color. Definitely model making a practicality. Model making Practically the basis of design along with sketching. Yeah, you definitely need to, um, I do sketching for design, model making for design. Absolutely, everything all plays together. There's different methods produce different types of results and can inspire you in different ways. So I totally agree. I wish I had a color. I'm thinking of a pop of pink here. I don't— I do have, I do have some acrylic pink here. Let's throw some of this on here if I can open the top. It's stuck on here. Oh my gosh, holy cow, I can't get the top off of this. Yikes, that's not happening. I put the cap on this so, like, super tight. What color is this one? I don't really— is this fluorescent? I don't really want— if I can get it open, I'll use it. I can get it open. I'm just gonna throw some right on here. Oh, this is almost empty. Darn it. What the heck? I guess I'm not using pink. There goes that idea. It's all good. Gotta improvise. Out of curiosity, do your students know how to make drawings? Um, not sure what the question means. What kind of drawings are you referring to? Let me know. I don't know if you mean architectural plans, if you mean sketch— sketches, or loose sketches, or technical drawings. If you could let me know, that would be awesome. Technical plans, sections, sketches, etc. Um, so yes, they know how to do sketches. Um, we haven't done any freehand technical drawing, so any drawings they've created have been through software. So we have not gotten too deep into technical drawings. Um, not yet. That's gonna actually be something we're gonna be doing next year in Architecture 2, is we're gonna really get deep into just using, um, creating a project from start to finish, including the technical drawings. So this year is really just kind of really loose conceptual stuff. My classes do understand what a floor plan view is, what an elevation view is. We've talked briefly about what section views are, so they'll have the general understanding of that stuff. So hopefully that answers your, your question. Uh, boom, I forgot you had Architecture 2 class. Oh yeah, so this year we're calling it CAD and Architecture Design Studio. Next year we're changing the name to Architecture 2. It's going to be a kind of a revamp of the CAD and Architecture Design Studio with a more intense focus on creating an architectural project from start to finish, or maybe a couple different types of projects. So yeah, so I don't have Architecture 2 this year, but we are bringing it back next year, which is awesome. I'm so excited to, uh, as a teacher, I'm always learning how to do things differently. So I'm very excited to kind of revamp the class, go down a different path with it. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Becky says, and just like that, Jason's sketch starts to pop and start feeling 3D. Hey, that's cool! Thanks, Becky. Becky, it is so great to see you. I miss you and the other Inklings in our Zoom sessions. I have just been so overwhelmed with work and catching up on just stuff that I haven't done any Zooms with you guys, and I miss it. We always had fun. We'll have to do it. We'll do it sometime. I hope you're doing well, and I always enjoy seeing your artwork you post, so thank you. It is fun being on here, guys. Thank you for tuning in. If you have any questions about anything, about sketching, drawing, life, Well, I'm just chuckling because I can't— I'm not really a good life expert, but I'll share what I can. Hey, you guys are awesome. So yeah, this is starting to come together. I'm kind of trying to work a little fast here. It's still a little wet. I'm going to sketch some more details on here. Let's break out, um, what do we want to use? Maybe break out Mr. Sharpie and sketch some more details on. Carol says, "It's a good perspective, New York City." Yes, so this is New York City. It's a view actually taken from the High Line near the end. I think it's near the entrance to the High Line, if I remember. So as I pop, actually I wanna use my, I want a pen that's gonna roll and let the ink really flow. And I feel like I need to use my— I'm gonna use one of my Pilot pens if I can find it. How can I not have a Pilot pen? Oh my gosh, this is not like me to not have any Pilot pens around. What the heck? Isn't that funny? I don't even— where the heck are they? I got some in my school bag, I think. Yeah, I have one in my school bag. I just want to use a Pilot pen here because the ink's going to roll and flow pretty nicely. Let me zoom in a little bit. You just do a little maneuvering. It's kind of a big drawing, so it's kind of— it's hard to fit it, but I just want to zoom in a little bit. Here we go. "You're inspiring me to make some cityscape masks and stencils for my gel plate. Flatiron Building, maybe." Hey, Becky, I am loving, loving those gel plate paintings. Is that what you call them? Drawings? They're really awesome. And I have right here, just breaking this out, Becky, I have this right here behind me on the shelf. Do you remember this? So guys, this is a really, this is a really cool art piece that Becky did. So Becky's in the house. I have it right behind me. I love this version of the Flatiron Building. So Becky, shout out to you. This is so cool. I love the wintry scene. Um, it just, this just tells a story. It has such a cool vibe to it. So guys, give, uh, give some hearts or thumbs up to Becky in the chat because she really deserves this piece. And I'm so honored that I get to own it right here. So thank you, Becky. Love it. Love it. So yeah, I'm just— I am doing a cityscape here. It's kind of quick, loose. It's— now I'm going to just start throwing some detail on. I probably would start— maybe we'll start over here. We'll just kind of sketch in some ideas of windows happening on here on this building. I want to keep this looser than usual, so kind of holding this, the pen towards the back. And we're just going to throw in these vertical lines to help indicate maybe some windows going on here on this facade. Notice I'm not measuring, but I'm just trying to capture an idea. There are some lines kind of happening in here as well. So I want to play with this hot press paper. I have it sitting here. I don't use it that much, so it'll be fun to break out. There's a lot of detail in this. How do I, how do I capture this and capture the— this kind of an abstract way, not every bit of the detail, but we have these kind of diamond shapes happening on this railing here. This is a guardrail for a, um, a walkway, a bridge area, pedestrian bridge. So we have these diamond shapes happening in here. I'll make them a little smaller as they get— go back. I want to do something really fun. This is a light fixture with a banner on it, so we'll— I'll do something fun with that. I might just use a— maybe a red. We'll just pull out with red just for fun and pop it out. So I'm just getting kind of diamond shapes there happening. And then we have horizontal piece of the guardrail here. Boom. So this is all the steel structure here. It's actually really beautiful. I'll do a sketch one day of just this small detail of this railing. It has all this gorgeous riveting and stuff on it. It's riveting just like this sketch. No, I'm kidding. This is not a riveting sketch, but I am just popping these little kind of rivets here. Hopefully you guys can see that. It might be a little small. Let me zoom in a little bit. Bunch of rivets going on. Not rivet like frog, but rivet as in construction, holding materials together. It's a fastener. You guys wouldn't want to see me draw a frog anyway, because drawing frogs does not make me hoppy. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Um, I've lost it. He's lost his mind. He's gone cuckoo. Yes, he has. And I'm just kind of throwing in kind of quick here. There's a cool plate here as well, steel plate. And then we have some vertical pieces here. I wonder if Cameron knows the technical term of these vertical pieces of steel. I wonder, I wonder if I know this, the technical term for those pieces of steel. Not gusset plates. Oh my gosh. Bridging plates? I don't know. It'll hit me. It'll hit me. I know, but I don't know. So you can see there's kind of that bridge kind of happening there. The railing, I mean. Let's get fun and let's just throw down. Yeah, he's gonna do it. He's gonna break out some red. We're gonna just pop this light fixture out. It's not red in reality, but this is my reality right now, so we'll make it red. Let's see. Hey, Karen's in the house! Karen, great to see you as always. Hope you're doing well. Gel plate prints. Yeah, Becky, your gel— take two. This is unrehearsed, no cue cards. Gel plate prints. Very, very cool. I love the patterns, colors. It's just, it's fun to see your work, to post those. Something I've never, never done, but it looks intriguing to me. We might have to do our Zoom, a Zoom session. You can do a demo for us. How cool would that be? What, what'd he do? He's throwing red down. I am. I'm actually gonna get a thinner brush. I have a thin brush here. Let's grab a— let's grab this bad boy here. I don't know if I've used this brush yet. So I'm just making this red because I want it to pop out against that kind of that grayish green background. And then we have the black down here. I kind of like how it's blending in. That's fine. There we go. Cool. And believe it or not, that might be the only red thing on here other than some, uh, some red splatter on there. Flatiron Building is my favorite historic NYC building. Someday I need to see in person. Me too. I have not seen the Flatiron in person, believe it or not. I was very, very close to it when I was in the city of 3 weeks ago. I was so close to it, I just— I should have went there and I didn't. I was on my way back home, headed to the bus station, and I just, just didn't muster up the energy to walk to Flatiron. We need to do an Inkling trip to New York City. We should all meet there, that would be so cool. Uh, so I'm just going to pop in some— we have some windows. I'm going to just pop in some of this color I'm lifting right off here. Oh my gosh, he's making a mess. The kid's making a mess up here. Um, I'm just going to pop in some color, this color I'm lifting off this black. What is he doing? He's gone bonkers. I have. I've lost it. Lost my mind. So this is an interesting color. I'm mixing some sap green with turquoise, and I'm going to throw it back some on this. Hey guys, I'm still here. Sorry, I'm just kind of got lost in this, so I'll check the chat in a minute or so. Just letting the music take over. Alright, cool. Awesome. Alrighty. Mr. Nick, you know the High Line is not steel, it's iron. Hey, thank you Cameron for the correction. I love that. I was gonna say cast iron, so thank you Cameron. Who doesn't love having a smart, educated youngster in the house? You're not a youngster. Hey Cameron, I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Yeah, anytime you guys can fill in with facts, let me know. I'm just running by the seat of my pants here. So that's awesome, Cam. Uh, I am Cuco. Mono printing. Becky says mono printing. So mono means one printing. Is that, um, that's for the gel prints, gel plate prints? Is that called mono printing? That's a new, new thing to me. I'm learn— I'm learning. I got to be careful because this is really getting wet and It's not art unless— what, guys? It's not art unless you wear it. So there you go, I am wearing it. It is now art. Thank you, thank you very much. So this is actually a banner, this white area. It's a banner that has polka dots on it, so I might throw into some dots on there. And we are enjoying some Beethoven, it sounds like. Some windows here. Let me see if I can throw them on while this is wet, see how this looks. Eh, I give it an eh. I give that an eh. Wasn't really worth it. Come up with another way to do it. Gotta learn to improvise sometimes, uh, think on your feet when you're doing these kind of quick loose sketches. Something's not working, there's always another way to do it. Sometimes the original way you want to do it isn't always the best anyway. So I love just kind of riffing, thinking on my feet, creating on my feet. That's what gives me the fun and the energy, the vibe I like. Starting with a loose framework and just kind of filling in and going with it. This turned out to be just kind of fun, fun piece here. Ah, let's see, uh, I feel like I'm actually liking this yellow color. There is some yellowish happening kind of in this area, so I'm going to pop it here, right in there. Alright, that may be enough background color. I think I'm going to wait for it to dry, then I'll add some detail with ink on top of it. Probably use my Pilot pen or Sharpie to come back and add some details after it all dries. D-Ray says, here comes red! We got the red on there, we got a red, a red street lamp going on right here. Boom. Um, D-Ray says, loving this. Becky says, red really brings the zing. It does bring the zing, I like that. Bring the zing. Uh, I would be down for Inklings NYC get-together. Oh, Becky, how cool would that be? Dang, maybe we could plan something for, I don't know, summertime, this coming summer, or even fall. How cool would that be? I would love that. Let's, um, let's, let's see if we can all put something together. We'll do some urban sketching. That would be so fun. I'm going to try to get into the city, I think, at least once a month this year. I really am enjoying going in for a day here and there on the weekends. And I have to tell you, whenever I go into the city, the time just flies by. And I don't mind the walking. I actually love the walking. So it's pretty cool, and I'm pretty comfortable walking around the city. Alright guys, I think I'm gonna let that dry. And the next step will be to finish it off with just some details with ink. Just clean this, put the COVID on this thing. Uh, nice green you mixed up there. Oh, thank you. So this is— this green in here, this is actually turquoise and sap green. That's what I've been using to kind of mix up this color for the bridge area. Oops, this color. So turquoise and sap green. Um, you guys might notice, take a look in my palette, I am very, very sloppy with my paints. You might have noticed, maybe I'm too sloppy, that I got some red in my sap green here. Um, I got some of the green mixed in here. So I'm okay with that, believe it or not. Sometimes I just like the randomness of these colors kind of jumping in with each other. I'm not really a purist and I have to have turquoise be just turquoise, although here I do like just the red popping out. So I am a little sloppy. Sometimes I'll actually mix the paints in the pans and not the palette part here. That's just being quick and sloppy. Um, you are not using pure forms. Outrageous. I'm— I don't know if that outrageous is a good outrageous or like Cameron's like totally outraged that I am not using pure forms. I don't know. I don't know what kind of outrageous you mean, Cameron. But you can mean it whatever you want it to mean, because I will take it the way I want to take it. I'm liking this. I'm liking the looseness, the fun. It's wonky. I really wish this would dry fast so I can do some sketching on top, but I will go for it anyway. I do want to wrap up in about 3 minutes or so. Oh my gosh. I, I just put my paints in a place I never put them, over by my keyboard. Look what I just did. I put my fingers right in the paint. What is, what is up with that? Let's start wearing a bib when I paint. All right, what do I want to pull out? Here. Hmm. There's some horizontal lines going on back here. Let's just sketch them kind of loose, maybe. Really lightly, I'm just throwing in some horizontals here. I usually like to sketch with the caps off of the back of the pen because I feel like it— I can't rotate the pen with this cap here, especially with this metal clip. So I usually just throw them off while I'm sketching. I like to take the pen and move it, rotate it. Gives me more freedom. There we go. There we go. I just want to do some horizontal lines on there. Um, I want to pop in some windows. Actually, you know what we're going to do? We're going to just put I'm just gonna throw another grid in here. And I think I'm about to sneeze, so excuse me. Oh my gosh, excuse me, guys. Oh my gosh, maybe I'm allergic to sketching. That would be— if that ever happened, that would be horrible. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't put pen to paper. This is just another voice for me, another outlet. Sometimes I think this outlet speaks louder than my words do. As to who I am as a person. I don't— I'm not the kind of person that likes to talk about myself, and I think through sketching is kind of a way for me to talk about myself. Good Lord, what would I be saying about myself with this sketch? I have no idea. We have some windows kind of happening here. Notice for the windows, I'm not drawing rectangles. I could sit here and do a fiddly rectangle. I'm keeping it— I like to keep it loose. So I kind of start with a number 7. I don't know if you can see that. It's like a 7 here. And then I'm just kind of filling down a little bit. I'll do another one here. So it's kind of like a 7 and then I kind of fill in around it. So that's one of the ways I like to just kind of sketch wonky windows. Welcome to the Wonky Window Wonderland. I am your host. I am the host of the Wonky Window Wonderland. Uh, we have some shadows, shadowy things, so let's just use a brush marker and just throw in some shadows with the brush marker here. And we got some shadowy things happening under here. We'll just throw in the brush marker there. Boom. I like this piece of music. Let's see, let's throw in some— kind of have some shadowy things happening under this bridge a little bit darker here, maybe here as well, kind of, kind of do that. Um, you mean— hey, Laura's in the house! Laura, hope you're doing well. Great to see you. Laura's in the house. D-Ray says hand in paint palette, reaching for a keyboard, but not sure bib will cover it. Jason Nicholas Nicholas, that's true. Yeah, I guess the bib won't really work for that. Error. Sometimes I paint erratically and splatter things, and I'm in like the shampoo splash zone, so I need a— maybe like a poncho sometimes. D-Ray says wipe up an aisle too. Yes, wonky window 101. That's a tongue twister. Wonky window 101. I like that, Becky. Now we're out in the wild west with this music. I'm going to leave kind of blank area here, leave some blank stuff here. What else do I want to show on this? We do have some vertical kind of lines happening here. We'll just do this. Cool. Here we go. Hope you guys are enjoying this very, very loose, wonky sketch. So this is a banner here, um, and it has polka dots. I think it's— the banner is— there's a famous, famous artist, I'm not going to say her name right, I'm actually zooming in on the banner, see if I can read her name. Uh, I can't read it. Zaya Kusuma, maybe. Um, they have a big exhibit of her artwork in different stores, and this is the Louis Vuitton store. And I guess her trademark are these polka dots. Of colors. So that's what this banner is representing. So I am just going to take some pens and let's just pop some— we have red and blue and green and yellow like a polka dot. So let's just sketch them on. Actually, I like to— for my red, I'm going to use— I like using my red Pilot pens. So we have some red dots kind of on the sign here. I'm going to bleed these, I think. We got some polka dots going on, boom, just randomly. We also have some blue, so I'm gonna use a blue Pilot pen. Zoom in here. We have some blue polka dots. I'm just, I'm just kind of throwing these in wherever. Yellow and green. Whoa, I know I have yellow. I know I have a green Pilot pen. I can't find it right now, so we'll just use this Preppy. Oops, this Preppy's broken. Let me see if I can get the green out. I could have used colored pencils too. This hasn't been used in a while. There we go, we got some green happening. And then she also has a yellow on there. Let me just grab my yellow preppy, which is in my bag right here. Cool. And then I'm just going to throw some water on it. I'm using— let's use one of my Aqua brushes here. I'll just bleed these a little bit. And we got the green ones. Bleed those. There we go. So that is the banner that's out front. Bum bum. Alright guys. Let's see, any of— let's see if there's any final questions or comments as we wrap up. Um, won't be needing the splatter for the finish here, D-Ray says. No, I agree. I will be needing help getting my aqua brush back in. Too many things stuffed in there. We'll put the aqua brush in this one, maybe. Here we go. Um, Becky says, uh, says whole bodysuit, that's what I need too. There you go. How about some scuba gear? Throw on scuba gear when you're splatter painting. Guys, I think this one's done for tonight. I— it's not 100% complete. I'm going to leave it where it is and then, um, I'll throw some final touches on it, probably tomorrow sometime, but I'm kind of happy with where it is. It's— there's a lot going on with this. It's kind of very, very busy. I do like this black area here, which is actually a road. So this is the road underneath the bridge. That's what the black is. I kind of messed up here a little bit. I'm gonna— these were supposed to be crosswalk stripes. White stripes. I'm probably going to end up coming back with, um, probably take the pot— let's do it now while we're talking— the Posca pen. Let's kind of draw those stripes in, clean them up a little bit. This will be the last thing I do. By the way, pro tip, I got a pro tip for you. These Posca pens, I learned kind of the hard way the other day, keep the cap on when you're shaking them. I was shaking this with the cap off, and well, let's just say I'm looking at my Mac screen here and it still has white splatter on it, so I did not do a great job cleaning it off. So kind of shake this up with the lid on. Um, these Posca pens are really fun to use. I've, I've only actually used the white one But let's see if we can kind of pull these stripes out a little bit cleaner for, for the crosswalk. So you can see, just try to pull these out a little bit neater. Not that there's anything really neat about this, this sketch painting here. I'm going to put another layer on after it dries, but a little bit straighter, a little bit cleaner. And that's just to represent the crosswalk that's on the street underneath the bridge. So these are pretty fun to use. So it's a Uni Posca paint pen pal. It's a paint pen pal. All right guys, Laura says never shake it with the cap off. Yes, Laura, yes, 100%. Like I said, I learned the hard way. I think I have a little speck still here that it's just not coming off. You can see it. Pardon my hand, my fingers, I'm a mess. I got art paint everywhere. But there's a Posca thing that is just bare. I'm even scratching at it and it's not really coming off. So definitely keep the cap on your Posca pen, people. Posca pen people. Um, when this dries, I do want to use them black pen. I'm going to pull out this lamp fixture, just kind of clean up the outline of it. Hey, you guys are awesome. D-Ray says final touches later. Yes, the black looks great. Thank you, D-Ray. Cameron says no, always shake it with the cap off, it works better that way. Yeah, I mean, you could get some really cool effects with the cap off, so it has its place in the world to be shaken with the cap off. Can definitely use it that way as a tool. So I agree. Um, guys, I hope you really like this. It's kind of quick, loose. Um, I will pull— actually pull up the image before I go. You can see what I was looking at. I purposely didn't put it on screen because I don't want you guys to think I'm really trying to recreate that photograph, because the photo is just an inspo for me. I actually stopped looking at it a little bit through. I don't know if I like this. I'm just thinking out loud. All right. So, here's the reference pic I was looking at and then we'll wrap up. So, again, remember, it's just a loose interpretation. That is the loose interpretation of what I was looking at when I was doing the sketch. If you wanted to study, yeah, you could see the proportions are off, the perspective is off, the colors are definitely not even close. And you know what? That's perfect. That's exactly what I wanted it to be. Not like the photograph. That's why, for me, I have a camera on my phone. If I want something exact, I take photos. I love photography. This is where my creativity can just run, run loose, and the photo is a great starting point. And where this goes, you never know. So that's kind of my tip tonight, guys. Um, however you want to summarize that, I'm not sure. You guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. Have a great, great night. I appreciate it. It was Karen says I like it. Thank you, Karen, I appreciate that. Um, I'm still kind of sad. I wanted a pop of pink in here. I guess I could use my pink preppy. I feel like I need a pop somewhere, maybe even here, but I'm gonna leave it off for now. Uh, Becky says I did a great job. Thank you, Becky. Karen Great seeing you tonight, appreciate you. Good night, you're awesome. Becky, awesome seeing you too. We had like a mini Inklings reunion. Let's start thinking ahead to the spring, I mean to the summer or fall. Maybe we can have an Inklings meetup in the city and do some sketching and painting. Awesome. Laura, it was great seeing you back in. All that solid black is striking. Ooh, thank you. I was actually very, very, very afraid to put black on here, to be honest with you. Um, that took courage to throw this black on here. I'm— don't you— I don't know if I've ever done that. So thank you, Laura, for, for saying that. Um, I just wanted to create this kind of street scene, and it does kind of pop, and I like the horizontality of the black and the verticality here. Kind of balances to me a little bit. Um, D-Ray says, "Thanks, enjoyed another quick sketching group. Love your interpretation." Hey, D-Ray! D-Ray, you are awesome too. Everybody in here is awesome. I hope you're keeping warm. Hope you're not getting any more snow this week. Um, I could use a snow day here in Jersey, but I know you've had more than your share of snow in Alaska. Um, the race is pink. Ha! Pink's not going on tonight. Cameron, it's great seeing you. Thank you for watching and your comments. I always appreciate that. I will connect with you end of this week, about next week. Just give me some time to look at the schedule and see what day would work best, or I'll give you a couple options to see what would work best for you. Just looking at my pens here. I got I got paint on my pens. If I missed anybody else, I'm sorry. Thank you guys for watching. I appreciate you. Take care, have a great, great night. Um, thank you for liking my stuff, and I thank you for sharing your thoughts and your artwork as well. See you guys, peace, and live creatively. I am out. I am peace outing. Um, you will see a final version of this posted at some point. I'm gonna probably post a progress picture tonight. I do want to pull this lamp fixture out before I post anything. All right, great. I could keep talking and rambling, but take care, guys. Have a great, great night. Peace and live creatively. See you. Looking at this camera here, and I did not do my hair again. Rats.