The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey Jennifer, hope you're doing well. Good to see you. Hope you're feeling okay and having a nice day. Pleasant music? Oh cool, yeah, I have, um, just called jazz, so it's a jazz playlist. We'll see what happens. Thanks for tuning in. Let's see, I'm gonna— I haven't done my daily bridge sketch, so I'm gonna sketch right here, do a bridge. This pen, this Sharpie does not want to work, so we're gonna go back to this Sharpie. Hey Chip, good to see you. Hope all is well. Oh no, bad throat came back, but doing better. Ah, Chip, I'm sorry to hear that. I'm glad you're, you're feeling better though. That's good to hear. There's so much junk going around these days, it's crazy. But yeah, thanks for tuning in. I'm so glad that you're watching. You guys are awesome. So I'm doing my daily bridge sketch. This is the Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine that I was turned on to from our friend Rue. And I've just been sketching it and we're going to do a real quick sketch tonight. It's kind of late. This is my third sketch of it. It's a really interesting bridge. It's a complicated bridge to sketch. There's a lot. Lot going on here with it. But my goal is just to kind of capture the flavor of it. I guess bridges have flavor. Um, not that I would eat one. This is a really quick, loose sketch. Just kind of listen to music, letting the music taking over. I'm using a Sharpie. I'm just going to outline some things in Sharpie, and I'll come back with my Lamy pen, and we'll just bleed some ink on it, keep it kind of simple. The really tricky part is— here's a sketch I did of it a couple days ago. The sketch actually came out pretty— this was about a 28-minute sketch. I would say a half-hour sketch. I like the way it came out. So I'm not trying to duplicate this sketch, but I'm just trying to just kind of recreate it here. This is very, very fast. Attempt at it tonight. So I have this up there so I can see it. But the structure is really tricky on this bridge. It's got curves, it's got cylinders, it has Mediterranean tile roofs on it. I don't know if there's octagonal buildings, 1, 2, 3, I don't know how many sides they have, Crazy stuff, but it's fun and I love a challenge. So it has these cool arches which are key right down here, has these cooler arches happening, kind of a key component of it. I think next time I sketch this, I'm gonna sit down and do a real serious kind of loose sketch, but serious. I'll take my time. I like doing these quick sketches just to get kind of muscle memory, just to capture the form, the idea of what's happening. I'm not trying to capture all the details. A bunch of these arches, we have another one here. These curved brackets kind of coming to the underside of the bridge. I'm gonna have to read about it, about the history of this. It's really— it's a very cool design. Arch, another arch here happening. Can have a pier back here, and we have these straight walls that kind of come back here. Yowzers, a lot going on there. I hope you guys are having a great day. Happy, uh, Wednesday. I think I— yeah, it's Wednesday. Happy Wednesday. My break is going real, real fast here, unfortunately. I mean, I love school, but I kind of wish the break would slow down a little bit. I feel like I'm just starting to catch my breath, just starting with just catching up on things. It's all good though, no complaints. I always say if I was a superhero, my superpower would be to control time. I feel like time for me, it sounds weird, but time is like my— I feel like it's my biggest villain or enemy. It just escapes and goes so, so quick. But I can't control time, so that's why you gotta kinda be in the moment and just make the best that you can in each moment that you're in. I'm getting deep. Sorry guys, I'm getting a little deep there tonight. I'm just thinking about time a little bit. And just wishing I had a little bit more this week to chill out.

But again, it's all good.

So this bridge has these kind of two, almost like a turret type of structure or tower you'd see happening. So there's one over here as well. There's another tower over here. I'm just going to kind of ghost this in. I'm going to ghost this in a little bit over here, and the bridge actually does— in the background, it does kind of come down here a little bit. But I don't want to draw a lot of detail or attention to that. Area. There's some kind of pier, it looks like, happening out here. I can't tell what that is, honestly. Um, yeah, I don't know, looks like some— I don't know if it's a pier or some kind of maybe a wall, like a guard wall here. I think the boats come in between these two towers.

It's a drawbridge. Better bracket, better bracket.

Kind of this going on. We have our railing up here. There's some block work happening in there in the building. Windows. Notice for the windows I'm just kind of drawing these rectangles. I'll actually come over with Lamy ink, we'll bleed those. I just want to indicate there's some kind of windows happening there. These are stanchions over here, I think they're light— there are lights on these. These posts coming up. And I'm going to pull some— pull pull a lot of this out with the Lamy ink and just darken it up. I just want to kind of block it out. So that's just a real quick outline of it. Hey, Patty's in the house! Patty, hope all's going well. Good to see you. Patty is in the house. Patty has been a creative dynamo with all of your posts and all kinds of cool stuff. Hope you're doing well. I'm guessing you're maybe on a break from work. Just guessing, just on all the cool artwork I've been seeing you post. Alright, cool, let's break out some Lamy. So I just have some black Lamy ink and we're gonna just throw it on and we'll just bleed some of it. So how long have I been on? I should have set a timer. 14 minutes. So we'll try to keep this maybe around, uh, 20 minutes or so. We'll see. See how crazy I get. I'm gonna throw some Lamy ink here. I just want to these arches to be darker, so I'll bleed that ink there. Um, I'm gonna create the idea of some shadows, so I'm gonna just throw some Lamy ink on the left side here. And I'll show you why, because I'm just gonna bleed and take my brush We're just going to bleed some of that ink. Ooh, this is a— that's— that brush is too big. Let's grab this one. This one's better. So you can see where I threw the Lamy ink, I'm just, just kind of adding some water, just letting it bleed so you guys can see See that?

Okay.

And then we'll do under the arch. You'll see how it kind of darkens it. Things start to pop a little bit more, which is cool. You know, even on these buildings, I'm going to add some— for the windows, I'm going to add some Lamy ink. We'll just bleed some of this for the window areas. Uh, and also under here there's kind of a dark— create some kind of shadow here because the structure overhangs a little bit. Actually, it looks like it overhangs by a few feet. So I want to create some kind of shadows under here. We'll just let the Lamy ink do that for us. I might come back in with some hatching later after it dries. And these windows, we'll just kind of do this. And we'll add some maybe shading to the left side of this. Maybe this one's kind of in the background a little bit, so kind of add bleed to ink more on that one. I'm not really crazy about the way this one looks, the proportions. That's okay.

Cool.

Just a little bit more a little bit more ink on top of this. Cool. And I think just to create the idea of water, I'm just gonna throw down some Lamy, and then we'll, we'll bleed this as well here. Pull those down a little bit more. All right, cool. Let's bleed this here. Make this— I'm going to make this fairly wet down here. And I'm gonna pull this down, create the idea of maybe reflections in the water. Cool. Patty loves the groovy music. Yeah, we got the jazz playlist on. Glad you're liking it. Merry Christmas. You're not on break? Oh, you had Monday off, you're working the rest of the week. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Well, I'm glad you had Monday off. That's fantastic. Very, very cool. There's actually these little arches under here in the bottom. Whoa, I almost dipped my Sharpie in the water. That would have been a first. It was actually pretty funny. I know we've all dipped our, like, paintbrushes in coffee or tea. Right? I know I've done that intentionally and unintentionally. Actually, I haven't done a coffee sketch in a while. I need to do a— maybe tomorrow I'll do a coffee sketch. I have some of Chip's coffee here. Chip, I need to grind up that coffee. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I'm just dipping in ink that's on here and just painting with it. Cool. I wanna be even a little bit more loose with this, so I'm gonna throw down more black ink 'cause I wanna bleed it mucho more. If that's a true thing. Oh, I think the jazz list is over. We'll go to my standard playlist here. I have to add more jazz songs to that playlist. Glad you guys like it. It's probably a nice kind of music to listen to in the evening, right? That kind of light jazz.

Stuff.

You know what I'm gonna do? I am going to— I lost my thought. I was going to do something. Sorry, I want to sketch. There's actually— you can see some of the bridge structure on the other side kind of happening back in here. Same thing here, you can see the bridge on the opposite side, bridge structure in the background. This was really just kind of all dark under here. So I'm just gonna— I was gonna actually just take— I have ink here, it's called Cast Iron. I was just gonna actually literally dip my brush in this and maybe paint with it. I'm gonna hold off for now. I think I just wanna— I don't think I wanna use it. I think it's gonna be too strong. Actually, you know what, let me try it out. Yeah, this stuff is like super, super black. I don't I'm watering it down a lot. I know you guys can't see what I'm doing. Here's kind of what I'm doing. I have a scrap piece. I'm just watering this ink down because it could be really powering— powerful. Like there, boom. That is powerful stuff. I'm going to blot some of that back. That she works. These structures are way back in shadow, so I'm going to make them darker. It's kind of dark under there. That's cool. So guys, we're almost done with this year. Isn't that incredible? Where, where did the time go? It's crazy. I think I like that. I think, I think it's at a point where I don't want to add any more, bleed any more ink. I think it's at a point where I want it to dry, and then I can come back in and add some more detail with my Sharpie or Sometimes I like to add detail with my Pilot Precise Pen after it dries. Just gonna let it dry for a minute. Chip says you have another package. Really? Oh Chip, that's awesome, another package for me. Smile face. That's not necessary, Chip. Ty says imaginary bridge. No, this is the bridge of lines. In St. Augustine, Florida. Bridge of— the Bridge of Lions.

There are—

here's the tricky part. I'm going to sketch on here, but I don't want to get my palm on anything that's wet, so we'll figure this out. There are light fixtures kind of on the sides here, which I'm actually— I'm going to end up bleeding these, so I don't have to be too precise with detail. There's some steel structure happening through kind of along here. These railings I want to put a little bit closer together. I really want these curved brackets to pop out, so just taking my Pilot Precise Pen and just kind of really emphasizing those kind of curves happening. And then we have We have a steel structure here, kind of the ribbing going on to reinforce this metal. So I'm going to bring these vertical lines down. Cool. All right. Just waiting for it to dry because I want to add a little bit more line work to it. Just want to kind of pull out some of these shapes that got lost with the inking. And it's always fun to come back with my Pilot pen or Sharpie and just bleed those a little bit. I mean to pull those out. I'm not bleeding these. One of the things I do when I'm sketching is to keep the loose style look I like, I will go back over the same lines. I'll go over and over them, but not trace them exactly. I'm not trying to stay in the lines. It just helps to create that loose sketchy style that I like. And I'll go back and I'll try to rework some things, and I'm not afraid to show the mistakes I made and how I went back over on top to correct it. To me, it just kind of adds to the whole vibe and the style. Like here, I'm just correcting these roof— this roof line a little bit. I'm not— wasn't crazy about it, but it's looking better now. Same thing here, I can just kind of kind of fix this a little bit. Let's do some hatching for shadows. I'm just gonna do some vertical lines. I'm just hatching some shadows here. This one's kind of in the background, so I want it to be darker. This This one's kind of in the background. Scale is way off. This should be much bigger. But I'm just showing that it's there. I won't tell anybody if you don't tell anybody. And then I'm going to add some hatching here too. I could bleed this. To make the shadows. I like doing hatching because for me the hatching, I like to see the line work and it helps to create that loose sketchy style by seeing the line work of the hatching. If I was to bleed ink, I would lose this line work which I know I'm like repeating myself but I think that line work really adds to the vision or how I'm seeing the sketch. I see the world— it's really weird— I see the world in lines and shapes. I am always, if I don't have a sketchbook or pen with me, I'm in my brain sketching what I'm seeing, mostly architecture. I'm always sketching in my brain. You'll sometimes— people will see me, I'll have I'll take my hand and I'll even just gesture with it and in the air like I'm sketching it. And I have had people look at me and I'm like, it's okay, I don't care. It's almost like I'm conducting, but I'm kind of sketching. And by moving my hand and sketching what I'm looking at, it's putting it in my brain. It might sound a little weird and maybe I'm a little obsessed about sketching, but It's just something I do. You know, someone just recently noticed me doing that. I'm like, I'm just sketching in my brain, sketching my brain. It's my therapy. It's how I capture the world in a different way. I process it in a different way. Maybe that's because of my architectural training, is I've— and creative nature, right? I just learned to see the world and capture it in different ways. So it's really fun. There's some shadows here, so I'm just embellishing this how— wherever I feel it needs a little more. I want to pull this edge out. I kind of like that ghosted there, even though the bridge does continue on the left. This is actually, this is actually a traffic light here, so I'm assuming the drawbridge opens here somewhere because there's a traffic, there's a light there, or a traffic signal. I think we're gonna do some hatching under here as well. Same thing here, just quick and loose. I'm sketching— here's a close-up of what I'm doing. I'm not sketching like this. I'm not sketching like that and making it solid. I'm kind of doing this. I'm leaving spacing between. That spacing keeps that sketchy look. If I was going to do it solid, I probably would go back to doing an ink wash to do that. But I'm really doing quick lines like this. Sometimes I'll hatch horizontally, um, diagonally as well. I almost call it like Charlie Brown hatching because it's almost like the zigzags on Charlie Brown's shirt. Right, you can kind of scribble like that to get hatching as well. That's my Charlie Brown hatching there. So there's many different ways to create hatching to get shadows and to keep that sketchy look. And it's just the way I like to do it. Everybody has different techniques and that's what makes the world wonderful. We're all different. Because the world does not need another me in it, that is for sure. One is enough. There we go, I just wanna hatch some of these in here a little bit darker. It's basically scribbling, I'm just kinda scribbling in here. Scribbling, there is nothing wrong with scribbling. There are little lamp posts back in here. I'm just going to dot it in. I think some kind of lamp post happening way in the distance. There's like another one up here somewhere.

Cool.

I just want to pull this edge out here. I think this one's done, guys. I think this one's done for now. Let's see, let me— if you have any more questions or comments before I wrap up, I appreciate all you guys watching. Hope you're having a great, great night. I hope hoping that, um, well, I want to wish everybody a Happy New Year and best of health and happiness and all that good stuff. I'm looking, you know, I just look at the new year as a reset. It kind of— this really doesn't do that. My angle's a little off there. I'm looking at the new year as a reset. I guess we all kind of do. I'm not really one for making resolutions. It's more of really just a reset for me and some, you know, some goal, some goal settings. I'm not very good at making goals and keeping with, keeping to them, but It's a chance for, you know, just breathing, starting fresh, cleaning some things up, organizing. I actually do want to add some hair lines across here just to create the more texture on this here. I actually like this sketch. It came out I wasn't crazy about it at first, but these sketches always have a way of coming together in the end, which is fun. Let's look at the two sketches next to each other and we'll see. Let me put the cap on this ink. Hey, Deborah's in the house! Deborah, good to see you. Sorry I'm late. Deborah, you are not late. You guys could never be late. Because I don't announce when I'm coming on, so you are definitely not late. I, uh, I always say I'm going to schedule these things and I just, I never do. I just, I, I just pop on. I, you know, I kind of go with my gut. It's very, it's, it's very spontaneous. So I appreciate you guys sticking with me. I know you know, I should have a schedule and stick to a routine. I just, I don't have one because sometimes I'm so exhausted at night from school, I just want to kind of crash for the night. So that's why I don't really set up a schedule. I mean, I could do weekends, but I like kind of popping on spontaneously. And the videos are always there as well that people can go back and watch. Cool. Alright, so this was tonight's. Let's look at the one I did the other day. This one, I'm proud to say, and you probably saw it in Roo's Crew, but Roo actually— this one's going to Roo. He asked if he could buy this sketch, so I'm deeply honored that he wanted to buy it. So that was really cool. I'm glad I made a connection with him. So these are the two. This one's definitely darker. I got more bold with the shadows in here. I'm trying to look— I'm actually looking to see if I like one better. I'd have to step away. Let me step back a little bit and see which one I like better. I, I think the top one, the proportions are better compared to the actual bridge. These are pretty dang close though. If you, if you look at the sketches, they're not, they're not exact, but they're close. I'm going to drink a water and take a look at these. Let's see. Oh yeah, you know what I wanted to sketch on here? Now that I'm looking at it. These are Spanish tiles up here. I wanted to get the curve. Basically I'm just kind of making the letter M, just repeating M's here to get the Spanish tile look. M, M, M, M, like M&M's. Not the wrapper, the letter M. M, M, M, M. Or not the candy either, M&M's. Cool. So I was just sketching this, I'll zoom up close. I was sketching these just to indicate Spanish clay tile roof. So here's how I do that. It's basically just the letter kind of M. It's weird, I just noticed I work from right to left when I make them instead of left to right. That's— this is just a quick kind of way if I wanted to do a— just do it, let me sketch something here. I love this piece of music so much. Let's just make a— here's a roof. That's just a real quick, loose way to create a Spanish tile roof. I mean, if I wanted to be more precise, right, I could slow down, try to make them all similar in size. This is very therapeutic, by the way. They would be staggered, so I would start here, kind of stagger them. Try— I recommend trying this at home. This is fun. This is kind of— this is very therapeutic for me. I don't care if they're not all exactly the same. So that's a cleaner way to do it where you can just do the quick M method. That's what I did here. They're so small here. I mean, they're so small on this. It just gives the idea there's texture happening. Cool! Jennifer says cool. Oh, oh, I mis-drew on that one. Put that one there. Cool, guys. There's just horizontal lines here.

Boom.

Pull that out a little bit. I think the last thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to Let's use a Sharpie. Oh, this one's not working. Just kind of hint at some water happening here. I like to use my Use broken lines or kind of dash dot lines for this, just to indicate water. Skippy lines, sometimes I call them skippy lines because we're— they're not continuous, we're kind of skipping. And it's just a fun way to kind of show water happening on there. Jennifer says splash of blue in the water. Ooh, Jennifer, we could, we could definitely add a splash of blue. I like the idea. So here's what my brain's thinking. If I add blue here, my brain's saying, okay, if I put blue, then am I going to want to add something for the sky? Then am I going to add color on the bridge? Right, so I'd have to— I'm trying to edit myself from thinking, okay, just blue down here would be good. I don't know if it would work that well on this one here. If I just had a blue strip at the bottom, I feel like your eye would be too focused on here. On the bottom. It's a really good point though. It's kind of the same thing I was doing when I was thinking about this one, the original one here. You know, where do I stop? Do I add color? Sometimes I like to do a background wash. You guys have seen me do background washes to pop the building out. So this was a really hard piece for me to leave just without any color, just letting the black and the white and the kind of grays do the speaking. So I think what I might do, Jennifer, is based on your suggestion, is I'm going to be sketching this bridge again, definitely, probably again tomorrow. And maybe, maybe we'll do one that has color to it. So that would be fun to try this in color, but maybe we'll just do the sky and the water and leave this gray. So I love— thank you for the idea. I love when you guys come up with ideas and suggestions. I appreciate it. Not full coverage, just a hint. Hmm, yeah. Oh, I got you. Just a hint somewhere. I'll process, I'm gonna process that here in the creative factory. Patty says, "I like how you hold the pen differently when you sketch the water." Yeah, you noticed that. Patty is very observant. Yeah, let me show you. Let me get a piece of scrap paper here. Yeah, good observation. Piece of scrap paper here, let's use this. I'll just flip it to the blank side. Alright, so Patty, good observation. Alright, so let me just sketch a little something something here. Uh, what am I gonna sketch here? Quick, quick, let's see. I'm just sketching, um, maybe a building. We have some piers here coming down into the water. Alright, I'm just setting this up because I'm going to sketch the water. I'll show you guys. Alright, maybe we have a building, it's on some appears we have water at the bottom. So this is how I usually hold the pen when I'm sketching, right? And when I do the water, I— Paddy, now I have to think about what I do. I think I hold it like this, right? So now I'm thinking about it too much, but yeah, I do hold the pen differently. I kind of hold it like this. I'm exaggerating so you can kind of see me skipping here. You know, if I hold it the normal way I would try to do water, it's tough because of the angle of my wrist. So I kind of flip over. This way also it allows me to drag the pen. I can lift it, put it down again, lift it, put it down, lift. So I get that broken line look. It's easy just for me to kind of lift it up. So good observation. If I was doing it this way like I normally sketch, I can't— I mean, I can do it, but the lines are wavy, which is okay, but I prefer doing it this way when I'm doing my water. So good call. Yeah, so just by holding your pen in different ways, guys, you can get different— create different effects and techniques. I'm just going to play around since I started the sketch. Let's do a little— this turns into a look, maybe a little lighthouse tower or something. First, we got our bracing here on the pier. We got some planks. It makes it look wonky. Wonkify a little bit. Another pier here. Actually, maybe we'll do a Coming up like that. This might be fun. Let's throw down some— we want to throw down on here. Uh, here, we'll throw some blue down. So just, so let's see, Jennifer, I can practice throwing blue on here and see what it looks like. This is hot press paper, so it's really slick. This is cold press. So I'm just throwing down some Pilot Precise Blue ink. Let's kind of bleed it and see what it looks like. This stuff, I mean, this hot press, when you add the water, this, this ink goes flying. It like, it's flying. And just for fun, since we're using our Pilot pens, let's break out a red one. Let's just give this building Let's throw some color on this building. Again, this is just, this is just fun, guys. Yeah, there's some blue there. It may turn purplish as it's actually blending with the black. Let's make some red and purple here on these piers. So we'll just put on some red ink, and I'll take the blue. We'll mix them together and we'll get some purple happening. I hope. We'll see. Woo! And to create reflections, I like to pull these pure colors kind of down. It's not really mixing like I thought it would. There we go, it kind of worked. So I'm just kind of pulling these down a little bit, maybe across a little bit. Cool. Yeah, you hold it sideways, you get that skipping pattern. Yes, exactly. The water seems to sit on the surface more than with— yeah, so with hot press, the water is definitely, definitely hanging out on the surface. I've only done two sketches on hot press, not including this quick little thingy here. Um, the jury is out on it. I'm not used to it, so I'm not really liking it for what I do. But, you know, I'll give it a chance. I'll keep working with it. I have— I only have like 47 more sheets of it to use, so I'll play around with it. I'm sure I'll find a use for it, but my heart is— I love the texture of paper, like on here. I mean, I just love the way the texture shows through. For me, the texture is another creative tool that we have that we can use for our benefit. I don't really have that with the slick hot press. I like the feel and the texture. That's alright. I bought it, I wanted to play around with it, never used it, and maybe I'll like it. I mean, it's really awesome for colored pencil stuff. I think I showed you guys me last time, but hot press and colored pencil, it just glides on here, which is really smooth. So I do like it for colored pencil stuff. You know, I get to pop down some My favorite color here, light aqua. This is turning out to be a fun little sketch, guys. Oh, let's see, should we bring out the neon yellow? I love neon yellow. You know, put some of the White House thing. Here you guys can see. Oh, I got stuff falling off the table. Throw some under here. So colored pencils mix really well on the hot press paper. I'm gonna bleed some of this. Uh, let's take this. So some, uh, some siding on here. I'm going to do some of that hatching we talked about earlier, kind of scribble hatching under the roof overhang. Just want to pull it out, give it some shadow, some depth. There. So we got the scribbling going on. Boom. Here we got scribbling under there. I want to show this as vertical, as metal siding. So I'm going to do some vertical lines there. This will just do horizontal. This is cool, fun little quick sketch. Looks like the Little Red Schoolhouse on the pier. Maybe this is a Little Red Schoolhouse on the pier. Wasn't that a TV show? Deborah, what was this bridge called? Oh, this is the bridge of Lions. Bridge of Lions. There are, I think, these lion statues at either end of the bridge. Bridge of Lions. That was right here in, um, St. Augustine. Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine. And I ain't lying about that. You get it? That's a good joke. I miss school. No, and my dad jokes. I've been pretty much dad joke free this vacation, this holiday, whatever you want to call it. Break. It's a break for me. A vacation is when I'm like going— go somewhere. This is, this is kind of a break. Alright, cool. I think this little sketch is done. I like it. This is a fun little sketch. Mixed media, we have some Pilot ink on there, we have black Pilot ink, we have red and blue, and we have colored pencil on there also. These are almost rocks. Actually, now that I'm looking at this, these almost look like maybe there's some kind of a rock outcropping happening here. I'm gonna move this one before I ruin it. There we go. Maybe there's some kind of rock outcropping here.

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I just saw those marks on there, so I'm just trying to incorporate them somehow. Oh, it's too wet. When it dries, I'm going to come back and I can sketch just some rock— rocky outlines happening. Yeah, it's too wet. I have to do that when it dries. But there could be some kind of rocky outcropping here in the foreground. It's kind of cool, gives a little bit of depth to this. Hey Jennifer, have a great night. I have a PET scan in the AM. Have a fabulous evening. Hey Jennifer, hang in there. Best wishes of positivity and health to you. Hang in there. Guys, if you can just send some positive vibes out to Jennifer, that would be awesome. Thumbs up or some hearts or something in the chat would be really appreciated. So thank you, Jennifer, for hanging in there. We appreciate you so much, and thank you for watching. And I have to head to bed soon too. I am tired. Alright, here we go. Here's our quick little fun— started off as just like a water demo down here, and we just created a fun— this almost looks like a word. Looks like the letter A, doesn't it? I can almost like write a word in there if we want to. Anyway, it's cool. Very, very loose. Very, very sketchy. Thank you, Patty, for spreading some good words out there. Awesome. I appreciate you guys. So I think it's a wrap on this one for tonight. Thank you for watching and tuning in. I know it was random as always. YMCA. Yeah, we can make the— we could do that. We can make the YM— the YMCA. That would be actually pretty funny. Y, make this an M. M. Somehow we could have a YMCA. Patty is always— always has her creative brain going. Love it so much. So fun. Hey, you guys are awesome! I was trying to think, I feel like I got some new art supplies I was gonna break out and show you some coming up. What the heck did I get? Oh, I got some different color inks. I used a Michaels gift card, I got some inks, I got a new brush here. Oh no, I had bought a little table easel, but I returned it. Not the best quality. But anyway, I had to return that. Hey, you guys are awesome! Thank you so much for watching. I appreciate y'all. Have an amazing Wednesday. New Year's Eve is on Saturday, right? Am I right? I was, I was gonna do a sketch-a-thon this, this, uh, break. I don't know if it's gonna happen or not, right? Just sketch for hours and hours and hours, and it was going to be a fundraiser. I had a couple ideas for the fundraiser. One would be for Habitat for Humanity, or— and sadly, there was a recent fire in town. A family— fortunately no one got hurt, but they lost everything. So that was literally last, last week. Uh, so I was thinking about me doing some kind of fundraiser, uh, for them. We'll see what happens, guys. Thank you so much. Take care. Have an amazing night. I appreciate you all. Deborah, it's great seeing you. Patty, thank you for being in the house. Jennifer, thank you as well. Chip, feel better, guys. Uh, Chip, hope your throat feels better. Thank you for tuning in. Did I miss anybody? I'm not sure if I missed anybody. I feel like that was it. I missed you guys. Are you watching the replay? Thank you so much. Take care. Have an awesome, awesome night. I will— I'll see you again soon. Peace and live creatively. Take care. Wow, I look really pale on screen. It's the lighting. Oh no, I think I have a filter on. Just realized it. Have a great night. Thank you so much. I love sharing, it's my pleasure. I am looking for the finish button. I have a bunch of windows open here. Patty knows my routine, I can never find the finish button. Ah, got it. Take care guys, have a great night. Peace, live creatively, pay it forward with creativity.