The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey Daniel, hope all is well with you. Good to see you. Uh, what bridge is this? This is the— see if I can bring it— the Astoria Megler Bridge. That connects Oregon and Washington. Uh, good question. Hope you're having an awesome Saturday. Mental the way some suspension bridges are just held up by massive lumps of concrete sat on the sand. Yeah, right. It's incredibly engineering of bridges. Um, yeah, I totally agree with you. Really, really cool, cool stuff, cool structures. I think this sketch might almost be done. I'm just trying to keep this with one medium, just a Sharpie. That's all I'm using on this one here, Sharpie, and on some watercolor paper. I'm not going to add any color to it. I think it's— I kind of like it. I like the simplicity of it. Hey, thanks Daniel, I appreciate your comment. Thank you so much. Yes, a cool bridge. So I think this one's done. I'm gonna move on. And do another sketch. So I'm continuing with my bridges, my bridge theme. I'm going to be sketching at least one bridge or part of a bridge, either real or imaginary. But I want to do at least one sketch every day from now until the end of the year, just to practice and have fun. They might be imaginary, they It might be wonky looking, and that's perfectly legit. I'm not trying to recreate a photograph here, just my impression, uh, my expression of what I'm looking at. So there you go, that's cool. Let's flip to another page. Oops, I did that on the back one. This is a sketch I had done the other night from Bellingham Bay, Washington, and then I have another Let's see, what do we want to do? I am not sure. I may revisit— this is a sketch I had done of kind of a take, very loose take on the Brooklyn Bridge, at least this part here. Very, very loose take on it. But I really liked this sketch. I might just play around and just try to capture this shape or this form again, and we'll just— maybe let's play around with that for a couple minutes. Hey, DB's in the house! Good, DB, how are you? Good to see you. Hope all's well. DB says, QQ, how do you draw the roads coming from the openings? How do you draw the roads coming from the openings? I'm trying to figure out— I'm not sure what the question is. It might be like a perspective type question, so If that's it, I'm just really— this is not a— I'm not constructing a perspective, a technical drawing by any means. I kind of have a little reference point I put here, kind of a reference point here, and then I imagined the railing, the side railing of the bridge, kind of being this high. And I'm connecting that line of the top of the railing back to that imaginary point. So I don't know if that kind of helps, um, to answer your question. So I'm not measuring, it's just kind of gut feeling, just playing around with scale. I kind of just imagine my railing being this big. This is very, very loose loosely based on the Brooklyn Bridge. Proportions are way off, but I just like the, uh, idea of the two arches on that bridge. So hopefully that helps. Um, I might add some wash to this one. I know I have a railing on the other side, so it's going to probably be somewhere in here. I'm imagining this height, bringing this across. Top of the railing might be here somewhere. Here's that imaginary point I made. And I'm just going to kind of play connect the dots very loosely. Just do something like that. And I'm drawing a little dark here. Normally, I wouldn't have drawn this line all the way through as dark, but I want you guys— I want you to be able to see what I'm trying to connect, what I'm trying to construct there. And the bottom of this rail is here. If I bring it across, it's going to be somewhere here, maybe. And again, I'll just connect that dot, that vanishing point, to this here. So this railing would do something like this on that side. I hope that kind of helps explain what I'm trying to do here. I am— I'm spinning this around, this sketchbook, because the spiral— the spiral on this sketchbook annoys me. I love spiral-bound sketchbooks, but it's just in the way of my hand moving freely, so I keep just spinning the paper to get away from that metal binding on here.

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So it's just the idea of a bridge, you know, just a perspective kind of coming back this way.

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We'll play around. Let's see. I think I'm going to throw down just some kind of sepia wash on this just for the heck of it. I have enough of an outline there sketched. DB says, fine, enjoying your work. Yes, it does. Awesome. I'm glad I could help you, DB. You are awesome. I miss seeing you guys on our workshops, on our Zoom. We will get there. We'll get back there. Let's see, sepia. What am I going to use? I'm going to actually— I'm going to use some of this walnut ink. So let's just add some walnut ink on here and play around for a few minutes. And I have some water over here. Let me move these pens. Hey, Jennifer is in the house. Jennifer, how are you? I hope all is well in Arizona. Good to see you. Yeah, looking forward to January, DB says. Yes, so I was thinking about it today. I want to do a January workshop. I will do it. It'll be sketching architecture. I don't know the theme yet. Maybe we'll do bridges, or I know cottages is always popular. Maybe we'll do some wonky cottages. I don't know the exact theme. I'll put it out to you guys maybe for input. Yeah, we'll get those up and going. So I just have some water here and dipping it into the sepia, this walnut ink, and I'm just going to let it flow on here and have fun. And my light went off back there, it's telling me it's 10 o'clock. All right, um, I do want to tilt this up a little bit. What could I put I'll put my AirPods case under there. All right, cool. British cottages, Jennifer says. Jennifer, that's an awesome idea. Yeah, British cottages would be fun to do. I actually, if I got enough people watching tonight, I was gonna do the mystery art giveaway where I ask you guys to pay $10 just for shipping or mailing charges, and I was going to put out some art pieces, and I think I had a cottage or two in that, but I'm not sure if we'll do that tonight. We'll see. All right, let's just throw down some of this, this cool walnut ink. I love this stuff. So the reason I like to sketch— I usually start my sketches with a Sharpie is if I do want to come back and add a wash on top, whether it's watercolor or ink, the Sharpie pen will not bleed. If this black was all bleeding right now, it would be kind of a— it could get to be a bit messy. So that's one of the reasons I do like to use Sharpies to start my sketching with. Trying to be a little too clean here. I want to be kind of just really loose and have fun with it. I'm thinking too much about what I'm doing. I hope everybody, everybody is having a great Saturday. Unfortunately, the weekends fly by too fast sometimes. I know I'm just letting it run off the page. Really, it's very watery here. I don't mind. I'll let it dry like that. Cool. My ink is splattering on here a little bit because one of my, my brush ends is kind of hanging out there, but I don't care. Alright, cool, we have some Walnut Ink on there. What else do I want to throw on here? What other colors? Let's see. DB says, that's my problem, I overthink. Yeah, you know, me too. I mean, it's cool to— if you're really trying to plan something out, right, obviously you want to think about it. But here I just want to be kind of quick, fast, and loose, and I'm starting to think about laying this out, and that's not my intention right now. Sometimes it is, but usually when I'm on at night, my intention is just to be really loose, really, really playful, and kind of see what happens. I'm, I'm going to break out, um, I'm going to cover this up before I spill it. Put the cap on here. Perfect. I'm, I haven't— I'm breaking out some pink. He's doing it actually. Let's see which one. Like the Reflex Rose. Just like throwing some color on here. It's kind of a gray, rainy day here today. I would just add a little bit of vibrancy to the day. We're going to throw— we're going to throw a little bit of pink on there and just have fun. Where's my paper towel? Jennifer says, looks cool. Thanks, Jennifer, I appreciate that. I like the color combination of this this pink with the walnut ink. There's just something really fun about it. I'm not going to go too crazy with the pink. I might even just leave it as that. Actually, I'm maybe put a little bit down here too. You know, I've had people say to me, why? Like, why are you— why are you making things bright pink? That's not really the color. And I'm like, well, that's why we have photographs. If you want to capture exactly what you're seeing, we got photographs for that, right? I am not a photorealistic painter. I am painting for fun. I sketch, paint for fun, just to get it out there. So I strongly believe that you can do what you want with your artwork, and you're not gonna please everybody. But as long as you're having fun creating it, that's all that matters. Unless you're, I guess, a working artist and you're, you know, if you're doing it like more for fun like me, you know, I like to make some money selling some stuff here and there, but it's not my full-time career. So I'm just painting for fun. There we go. I think that's enough pink on this one. I'm just blowing some of it out. I'm going to let that dry really bright there. I'm also streaming on YouTube. I hope it's working. Maybe I should check. I'm just going to do a little tech check here on my computer. I'm trying to stream to YouTube and Facebook tonight. So let's go see if it's streaming there also. If you have any questions, let me know. Put them in the chat. I would love to answer some questions. Let's see. Am I on YouTube? Yeah, it is. It looks like it is live on YouTube. Awesome. That's cool. Hey, if you're watching on YouTube, let me know. Just say something in the comments. I could see the Facebook comments. I'd like to know if I could see the YouTube comments. So feel free to say hello if you're out there. Love to chat with you. Cool. So we have some color down here. I don't know if I'm going to add much more color to what we're seeing. I'm going to come back and add some more ink work on top of it. So when this dries, I'll come back with my Sharpie and add some more texture on here, maybe some stonework on the bridge structure. Sharpies don't like to work on wet ink, so I have to let that dry. But we can sketch, um, some of the cables in here. I'm gonna rotate it. That's right, if I rotate it. Actually, I can get rid of that for now. And it is not art unless you wear it. And I just got some on my finger. Cool. Here's a tip. So I'm trying to create just the idea of a perspective, some depth here. And one of the ways to do that is I'm going to draw these vertical cables. The further you go towards the distance, the closer the cables will be. The closer they are to me, to this side here, they'll be further, further away. And I'll show you that. Again, I'm not measuring, I'm just, just kind of eyeing this up a little bit, just to get the idea that there's some distance on here. I'll turn this around so you can see better. I'm just sketching. Keep my hand out of the ink here. You can kind of see these cables are closer back here, and as you get to the front, they're getting a little— the spacing is getting a little further apart. Do the same thing on this side, although we'll do it, uh, let's see, is that dry? I think it's dry enough. Cool, there we go. So I'm going to let this dry and I'll come back and definitely add some more to it. I think it's at a good stopping point. I'll have some show and tell. If you guys want to see some, uh, show and tell, let me know. I'll show you some quick sketches I did today while I was at my wife's chorus performance. We had some Christmas activities in town today. It was awesome getting into the holiday festivities and spirit. I did some sketching while I was kind of sitting there watching and listening. All right, yeah, this has to dry, so I'll put this over here. Let's see, I'm going to change the music up. I already put some—

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Cool. So today while I was sitting listening and enjoying the chorus singing, I had my little pocket journal with me. I love this journal. It's— I have the bigger field journal. This is the smaller pocket one. So I was sketching and I'll show you what I was sketching. It's I'm trying to practice sketching things without looking at them or staring at them. I don't know if that makes sense. So I don't sketch people, but I thought it would be kind of fun just to sketch the chorus as they were singing. So here's kind of what I was sketching. Where's my pen? So this is me sitting in the audience looking up at the chorus. These are the the people singing up front. And it was one of those drawings where I was kind of looking more at the people singing and trying to capture, um, it's almost expressive. I was listening to the music, letting the pen move around, not worrying about detail or proportions. It was really just kind of me being in the moment. And just letting the pen kind of dance around. So, this is a very, very, very loose capture. If I didn't tell you guys it was a chorus or people, I'm guessing nobody would even know what it was. But I don't care. What I care about is my takeaway is that I can, now that I did this while I was listening and enjoying the concert, I remember this moment next time I come back to my sketchbook and see this, it— this will transport me back to that event. I'll— I won't remember every single detail, but I'll at least remember the feeling I had when I was here. And that's one of the reasons I love sketching. It ingrains moments of time into my mind, into my soul. Um, If I was obsessing about, you know, oh, this person's holding a book and their hand is here and they have a scarf and a hat on, that obsession would take me out of the moment because I'm worried about the detail. This is about the pen dancing and being in the moment. I hope that makes sense. And that's just, just how I view kind of how I sketch. This looks like nothing but scribbles. Which is fine. But again, for me, this was a faster-paced song and my pen was kind of moving around much faster, and I'm just capturing the music, capturing the vibe. Here was a solo. There was a solo, um, solo performer here. And then I just did one more, I think. And then here is another one, kind of the— I think this was the last song. It was the last song today. Again, just capturing the figures. I tried to capture the idea of holding their songbooks in their hands. So I just want to share that with you. I think sometimes we just want to sketch detail, detail, detail. And that's cool if you want to do it. That's not what I do. And people— I've— people are questioning me about it, like, why do you do that? But now that's why I do it. I just want to put that out there. Hey, Chip's in the house! Chip says, just getting— just now getting here. Hey guys, good to see you, Chip. Hope all is well with you. It's always great to see you. Hey, Sally Ann Smith is in the house too. Awesome. Hey guys, thanks for joining. This is so fun. Sally, my daughter-in-law works at the bridge. What? How cool is that? Love that she works at the bridge. At the Brooklyn Bridge, if I could ask. If you don't want to answer, that's cool. I don't want to get too, uh, personal, but how cool would that be? Wow. I have, I have driven across the Brooklyn Bridge. I would love to walk across it. So that is on my, my list of things to do one day. Just walk across the bridge. That's so awesome. So I think the ink is drying. I might be able to come back in here and start adding some more pen on top. You'll also— one thing you might notice I do a lot is I tend to take the caps off of my markers or pens. Um, with the cap on, it's hard for me to freely rotate the pen because the cap gets kind of jammed. So I'll take the cap off a lot of times, and I, I tend to spit spin the pen around a lot as I'm holding it. So it's just a little more freedom. Let's just— I'm gonna just maybe sketch some— the idea of some block work in here. So I'm just gonna lightly sketch some horizontal lines. This paper has a nice texture to it. I don't know if you can see it there. And I'm sketching lightly because I want the texture of the paper— you can see it happen really well up in here. The texture of the paper is showing through with those lines. They're not straight, dark, hard, technical lines like you would see on a blue plan— a blue plan— oof, blueprint. My brain is tired. On a blueprint. I'm letting the texture of the paper help my drawing look wonkier. Which is so cool. So don't be afraid of the texture. Think of texture as another tool in your creative tool bag— texture of the paper, right? So let me do this down here. I'll zoom in, you guys can see it better. And I'm just literally just lightly dragging my pen across here. And then we'll do some vertical— actually, I don't want to do vertical lines, I don't think. Not yet. Uh, this might be still a little too wet in here, so the ink's not really coming out. I could switch to a different pen, like my Pilot. This, this writes okay when on damp paper, but I think it's going to be too dark, so that's why I'm going to stick with the Sharpie. It's still a little damp, but I'm impatient. I want to draw these lines on here. So just adding these horizontal lines is giving some texture to this bridge. Yeah, this is definitely wet in here. I do have a little heater down here I could turn on. You have the chorus music on. So you can see the texture the idea of suggestion of just some block work on here, right? Cool. Let's see, Cameron's in the house. Hey Cameron, hope all's well. Cameron, we'll have to get together when, um, you're off of school for winter break. It'd be great to see you. Hope things are going well in the architecture studio these days. Sally Ann says my daughter's at San Francisco Bridge. Oh, that's awesome! Love it, love it. So cool. Jennifer gave me a thumbs up. Thumbs up to you, Jennifer. Wait, which camera? Here's thumbs up. Chip says Golden Gate. Oh yeah, maybe the Golden Gate Bridge. That would be so cool. I'd love to go there one day. I haven't really sketched the Golden Gate. Maybe I should add that to my list of bridges to sketch. I've been sketching a lot of bridges in the Washington West Coast area. Um, a friend of mine was kind enough to send me some pictures. Chip sent me a picture as well. So Chip, I gotta pull that picture out and maybe that'll be my sketch tomorrow. I think I'll use your reference picture. And then I don't know what I was going to say. I was going to say something. Here we go. Cool. Oh, hello. We have Plumpy Lump in YouTube. Hi. Thanks for responding in YouTube. This— I'm— haven't streamed to YouTube in a long time, so I'm glad it's working. What did you use for the pink? Uh, good question. So the pink I used right here, it's Amsterdam Ink acrylic ink, and the color is called Reflex Rose. Reflex Rose. Um, I love this color. I use it a lot. Another pink one I like to use is this one right here. This is Daler-Rowney. Acrylic ink, and this is actually fluorescent pink. Um, I like the rose is a little bit redder, this one here. So, um, this is the one I chose tonight. Good question, thank you. Cameron says, definitely, my final project is due Monday. You're hand drafting? I love to hear that you're hand drafting old That is so refreshing. I think, I think we're in the architecture world, I think we are relying way too much on computers to do everything. And I think since you're hand drafting, that's awesome. And hand drafting will also give you another, a new appreciation for the technology we have. That's why I make my CAD students— we do a unit, whole unit on hand drafting. I call it old-school drawing. That's what I tell them. You guys are gonna be doing some old-school drawing. That's great, Cameron. I can't wait to see your project. So this is drying a little bit more, so I'm just coming back, adding some more lines down. Gonna change the tunes up a little bit. Let's go back to this playlist. There we go.

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All right, I'm gonna do some vertical lines now just to show some block work happening. I'm not counting blocks. I'm not gonna show lines everywhere. Just to suggest that there's some kind of stacked blocks happening on here. And I think that might be all I show on here. Uh, looking, maybe over here I'll show one too. Cool. I like the way this is drying. I, I love that it's so dark. It looks pretty cool. Do you want— let me just kind of sketch the base, maybe a line across here where that part of the bridge hits the path of the roadway. Sally says, I love your sketch style. Oh, thank you, Sally, I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Deborah says, looks great. Thank you. How many students do you have weekly? Good question. So I teach, I teach 6 classes. We do a really weird rotating schedule, but in total I have about 80 80 students. 8-0. So I have about, yeah, 80 kids, which is awesome. And the numbers are growing, which I'm so thankful for. It's— I have more, uh, this— I've been teaching 4 years now and this is the most I've had, and I, I love it. I think word is spreading about the architecture program, and architecture seems to be growing more than the CAD class. So I teach architecture, and I also teach CAD, computer-aided design. Um, but I think the architecture is really taking off a little bit more, which is great. They're elective classes, so if kids are signing up— most of the kids are signing up to be there. Some are getting put into classes because of their scheduling. Some are in there because their parents really wanted them to try it. And I teach all grade levels. Most of my class, 5 of my classes, are mixed with freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors all in the same class. And I have, but I have one academy class that is just freshmen. And I love having mixed grade levels of kids. Um, it's just really cool. I mean, uh, the seniors you know, are kind of like role models for the younger kids. But some of the younger kids are role models for the upper kids, right? So it's just really nice to have a mix. And the other thing I'm seeing an increase in is having girls in the class also, which I love. We definitely need more girls in the STEM world, right? Science, technology, fields out there. So I love the fact that those numbers are increasing as well. It's really, really awesome. Good question. You have to try it. Never heard of acrylic ink, but it looks like a dream for washes. Definitely keep including YouTube. They're pushing streams pretty hard at the moment. Ah, thanks, Plumpy Lump. I appreciate that. That is good info. I will keep going on YouTube. For sure. Yeah, try the acrylic ink and let me know what you think of it. Awesome. Yeah, and if you like the stream, I would love for you to, you know, at least maybe like this stream tonight. And if you can subscribe, if you really like what you see, subscribe. That would be so helpful. I'm hoping to get to 200 subscribers by the end of the year. I think I'm at 140. 144 or 145, somewhere in there. But yeah, I'm so glad you're watching. Thank you. Kermit says it's good to know how to do hand drafting. Sometimes it could be a better alternative. Yeah, right, technology. What happens when you have a power outage and your computer's down and you have a deadline? You have to show— you must show something to a client the next day. You gotta— you have to do some kind of freehand, some kind of sketching, right? So it's really, really important to know how to hand draft, hand sketch. Awesome. So guys, I know I'm not adding a lot to this. I'm kind of talking and sketching over the same lines. Maybe I'll— actually, I'll work on the cables a little bit. I'm just kind of pulling these cable lines down a little bit more. There should be one back in here. There we go. Cool. This is fun music. Oops, I just got my hand in that walnut ink. And I just wanted to kind of darken the cable here a little bit more, so it pops out. Uh, notice I'm not following the lines exactly what's downhill already. That kind of helps me with my loose style, my sketchy style. When you see lines that are kind of overlapping each other, I don't mind that at all. You see, I kind of just darkened those so it just popped those out a little bit more. This one I think is done for now. No, actually, I want to— I think I'm going to wash a little something in here. Let's see. You know, I'm actually going to break out— I'm going to use some graphite. So I have a graphite stick. So a couple ways I like to use graphite sticks. One is you can just use them right on the paper, right? Like that. Um, another way I like to do it is I kind of put it down on my palette here. It's water-soluble graphite, so when I add water to it, it'll dissolve and I can paint with it. So I'm just get— getting some water on this brush. Gonna pick up some of that graphite and I'm just gonna kind of add it in here a little bit. I like this one.

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So I just wanted to pull this road a little bit closer in the foreground. Another thing I sometimes I do with the graphite is I'll just take it and put on the wet areas of the page and let it dissolve a little bit. I'll zoom in so you can see what happens, and it helps to pick up the texture of the paper, which is really cool. This is the stuff I like geek out on. I love, I love watching the paint dry. I love the dried edges that are happening here. I love these specks, which I have no idea how they happened. I didn't splatter those, so that's interesting. And you can see how the graphite is picking up the texture of the paper here. Which is really fun.

This is fun.

This, this is like— is this like flamenco music? Loving it. Flamenco, tango-ish, maybe. Feel free to correct me, anybody.

I don't—

but I'm loving it. Cool. So there you go. So I just wanted to pull that road a little bit closer. Maybe I'll just throw some graphite in and darken some areas. No, I want to skip that. Let's, uh, let's go. All right, we'll put this on.

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So I'm going to take this graphite on my board over here and I'm going to put it in the shadow areas just to darken it up a little bit. I've been subbed for probably at least a year. Oh, thank you so much for— that's so cool that you've been subscribed for at least a year. I appreciate that. Thank you. So cool. Deborah says old school still rules. Looks great. Old school has a place. One day, if you guys would like, if you're interested, I'll pull out some old school technical drawings and I'll show you some, uh, some house plans I worked on that were all hand drawn. They were either drawn— they probably were drawn on vellum with a pen or a pencil, depends on the project. I've drawn on Mylar before, which is basically Almost like plastic sheets of paper. Mylar is interesting to draw on. Yeah, that'd be so cool. I could— I'll break out some old school stuff. So I'm just throwing down this graphite on here just to create some shadow ideas.

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Oh yeah, DB says QQQ vellum. Yeah, so vellum is, um, it's basically plastic. So it's not paper. You're drawing on really thin sheets of plastic. I don't have any here I could show you right now, but next time I— when I do the technical drawing stuff, I'll definitely show you. So when you draw on vellum, you could use inking pens, or they make special lead that you can draw, like for pencils, but it's a special lead to draw on the vellum. Um, sometimes architects used to use vellum over paper because vellum is more durable. It doesn't tear as easily as paper does. Um, you could do a lot of erasing on it without tearing the paper. So, um, that's one of the reasons that vellum was used over regular paper. It's just more durable. Cool, man. I, I'm thinking this one might be done-ish for now. For now. Just rough this up a little bit here. Just gonna take my fingers and kind of Actually, that's cool. Take my fingers and kind of do some finger painting a little bit. Bleed it out a little bit here. Chip says, love, love unfinished art. Yeah, Chip, I am 100% with you. I love unfinished art, so we're totally on the same page with that. Unfinished, a lot of lights, a lot of white space, splashes of color. Um, yeah, also unfinished lines, lines that are not completed, kind of just die out. Love that. Uh, Cameron said, when you said power outage, reminded me of last semester when the power went out in your studio class and someone shouted, "My Rhino!" Yeah, Rhino's a 3D program. Yep, so there you go. So you guys were working on a project and lost power. You get it. Deborah says, "I would love to see all them." Oh, so cool, you'd like to see some architectural drawings. That would be cool. I don't think I have any in this, my studio room. I'm looking around to see, do I have any? No, they're all in the other room. in files. I'll pull some out next time. Oh, Sally Lake says, "I like drawing vellum." Sally, there you go. Awesome. Can you use Sharpies? Uh, yes, you can use Sharpies on vellum. You can use Sharpies. I don't know if they'll erase if you make a mistake. I guess they would because you can use an eraser and it erases the plastic. So that's a good question. I'm thinking you can use Sharpies. "Those look fantastic." Thanks, guys. Yeah, so I think this one is done for now. We'll let it dry. And I'll wrap up with one really quick sketch. Maybe I'll even set the timer, give myself a limit. So we'll let this dry. I'll show you the one I was working on earlier that I kind of finished up, which was was this one here. This one I like because it's only Sharpie, nothing else on here. And quick loose sketch. I like the line work. I like the overlapping lines here, which is really cool. I didn't try to show every single structural detail on here. If you saw the photograph, my reference photograph, there's a lot, a lot of detail, but I left a lot of that out. I was really just trying to capture this kind of zigzags happening right there. And this isn't in the background, this is like a, a landmass back here. I just kind of outlined it and I just did a diagonal hatching. Just to kind of recede a little bit, just to show it's there but not draw too much attention to it. The camera's blurry. What's up with my camera? My camera, it just got blurry on me. Um, let me see, I might have to refocus. There we go. And then these are some kind of I think these are pilings, just pilings coming up out of the water. So I sketch the pilings in, nice big concrete base, and there is a little, little city skyline happening here back in the— on the horizon. So I think this sketch came out really cool. I actually love that one a lot. Uh, here's Uh, this was me sitting down watching TV the other night, and I'm like, I haven't sketched any bridge stuff, so I was just sketching bridge stuff, random, random stuff. So this is me just sitting here kind of sketching while I was watching some television, just to, you know, just to get it out of my system. It's a really small thumbnail sketches. I love thumbnail sketches. Here's my thumb. Then this was actually a bridge. This is the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge here that I sketched. So I'm trying to just keep up with my commitment to myself to do a bridge— sketch one bridge a day. Until— for the rest of the year. And this came out really cool. I like this. This is Deception Pass in Washington. I like the way the colors dried on this. So there you go. And let's see, back to that one. If you guys have any other questions, otherwise I'll do one last sketch, we'll wrap up. Hope you guys are having a good night. Hope you have some good plans tomorrow. Maybe you're gonna chill out a little bit. I have to do all my schoolwork tomorrow, and I'm working on a really, uh, cool architectural project that I'm bringing my students in on as well to help. They're helping to design. I may have told you guys. If I did, I'm sorry if I'm repeating, but we're helping to redesign a local American Legion building that had a fire over the summer. So I'm on board as the architect for the project, and I have— I brought it into the classroom. So my board of ed's on board with this, the Legion's on board, the community is on board. So my students are helping to redesign, come up with ideas for this new building. So it is so awesome. It's, it's education the way it should be. It's a real learning experience. And my challenge for me, I can do the architecture stuff. I know the process inside and out, right? I've done it for over 20 years. But my challenge is How do I break this down and teach the steps? I just do it automatically, so I have to take a step outside and figure out how am I, how am I going to teach the process. So it's a really good challenge, a way for me to rethink things. Fun project. I'll be telling you more about it. I'm working on a website. I'll let you guys know the website if you're interested. Check it out, that would be cool. And my internet, my Bluetooth is going in and out over here. What the heck? My wireless Bluetooth just went on and off. I don't know if you guys can hear music, I can't hear it. Darn it! Oh, I hear it. It's playing from my computer speaker, not— I gotta reconnect. All right, cool. There we are. Cameron says, uh, Mr. Nick, I know how much you like pens. One I recommend is Pigma Micron. Cameron, I know Microns super duper well, so I appreciate you recommending them. I used microns in college for my drawings. Actually, I might have some here. I'm looking in this cup. So I know exactly what microns are. That's so cool that you mentioned those. I haven't used them in a while, but I— no, I don't have any in here, but I know exactly what they are. Yeah, microns are really awesome technical drawing for technical drawings. I do have these pens here. They were on my desk, guys. I'm losing my— I'm going cuckoo. Oh, here they are. So, uh, Cameron, I've been— I just actually bought these last week. So these are kind of like Microns. They have different point sizes to them, everything from 0.05 all the way up to 1.2. So yeah, very, very similar to the Micron. Cool. Uh, you would like to know more about the project? Yes, I'll definitely tell you guys more about the American Legion rebuild project. It's really exciting. Um, hopefully we're gonna have a meeting next week where my class will be presenting ideas to the Legion members to get feedback. So yeah, it's really super duper. I just say super duper. Does anybody say super duper anymore? All right guys, if you want to— if you'd like to see me do another sketch, let me know. Put yes in the chat, say yes. If I see a few yeses, I'll do another quick sketch, maybe not a bridge. Um, also, if you want to do the mystery, I can do a mystery giveaway. Let's talk about the mystery giveaway. Well, it's not really a giveaway because it will cost $10, but let me talk about it and see if anybody would like to do that. So I have here— I'll flip it upside down. So on the other side of this 6x6 piece of paper, there is a sketch or an ink wash or watercolor of something. It could have been something I did live one night, something I was messing around on. Anyway, it's a mystery. So what I typically do is I'll put these out here, um, and I'll ask anybody who's interested in this mystery item. You would have to commit to paying $10 if you win so I can cover mailing costs. So for $10, you would enter. I would put your name into a bucket, and I'll just pick a random winner, winner out of the bucket for anybody who wants to be in the mystery giveaway. Uh, it's a great way for me to kind of get some of my artwork here out of here and, uh, into your hands and out of my drawer, because that's where a lot of these are hanging out, inside my drawer right underneath here. So let me know if anybody wants to do the mystery— be in the mystery giveaway. Just put "yes mystery" in the chat. Let's see, let's do yes You put yes mystery. It'll, it'll cost you $10 if you win, again so I can cover my postage, and then I'll mail it to you. Hope you have to be in the US though for it. Valentino, Jessica That's so— me, message me for your reading, love. I don't know what that means. I— hello? Chip says yes. Yes sir, I'll do another sketch. You guys are in for another sketch. Um, let's see. Awesome. If we have— guys, sometimes we might have spammers popping in the room, so if we have spammers popping in, just kind kind of ignore the spammers. I don't know how I can remove them. I might have to make some people— if anybody's interested down the road in being a, like, a moderator when I'm doing live streaming. So a moderator would be watching the chat, and if there's anything inappropriate, you guys could block people or take— remove them. But that's only if I become really, really famous. I need more people anyway. Yes, Mystery, $10 for this 6x6 piece of art.

Boom.

All right, I'm gonna do another sketch. I got 10, I'll join. All right, so we got Plumpy Lumps in the giveaway. Stallions are amazing. Yes, yes. So we have, um, I need at least, I guess, 2 people. We could do with 2 people. Is it— if anybody else wants— I'm all over the place, I'm excited. Sorry about that. All right, I'm gonna put a timer on. Taking a deep breath. I'm gonna put a 2-minute timer on screen. Where the heck is my timer thingy? It's hiding under here. Here it is. 2 minutes, not 10 minutes. 2, 2 minutes. I gotta change the time here.

All right.

2 minutes. So here you have 2 minutes, 2 minutes left to say yes, Mystery. So after, when my timer says zero, whoever says yes, Mystery, I will put your name into the bucket and we'll do the drawing. So you guys have 2 minutes to decide if you, if anybody else would like to join the Mystery. All right, we'll do another sketch. Uh, this is still drying a little bit, so I'm going to grab a different pad. Different sketchbook. Let's grab this one here. I don't remember what brand this is. Staedtler?

No.

I'm sorry, I don't remember the brand of this one. I ripped it— there was a paper cover I ripped off. I don't remember who made it. So let's just do a sketch in here. Um, so Plumpy Lumps in, Jennifer's in. Cameron says, with Mr. Nick, there are a lot of unsolved mysteries. That's true, Cameron. Cameron speaks the truth. He knows my brain goes all over the place. So Cameron, thanks for bearing with me all those years in high school. I appreciate you. Um, yeah, I say that every day in class. You guys know my brain is all over the place. Um, all right, DB says yes, mystery. All right, let's— where's my notepad?

Right here.

Oh, see, so I have a bucket. This is the bucket we'll use to put the names in, so I'll put that here. I got 15 seconds. If you want to be in, say yes mystery. You have 10 seconds now. So far we have DB, so I'll put your name, folding it up, putting you into the bucket. All right, my time is up. Let's do the mystery giveaway. Thank you guys. Um, Jennifer said yes mystery, so we'll put Jennifer in. Jennifer's going into the bucket. So cool. And then Plumpy Lump. I am just gonna put PL. We'll put PL into the bucket here. Let's do the drawing. Alright, so here's how this works. I have 3 names in the bucket. Zoom out so you can see it better. And that's for this 6x6 piece of artwork or sketch or whatever is under here. And let's put some game show type of music on and we'll do the drawing. Somewhere down here I have— it's called Quirky Fun Playlist. Somewhere there's like a game show thingy type of song. I don't know which one it is. Is it this one?

Nope. That one?

Nope. Alright, we'll do this, I guess. Alright guys, notice I am not looking.

Shaking things up.

I'm gonna spin this around a few times. Hopefully it's still on camera.

I don't know if you can see it or not.

Hopefully nothing comes out of the bucket. Maybe I'll just do this, kind of shake it. Turn it around again. Alright, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I'm going to grab this one right here. I have one in my hand. Move the bucket over here.

Alright.

Here we go. The winner is Jennifer. Jennifer, congratulations, you have won the mystery artwork. There you go, Jennifer. I am gonna make a secret special offer for you. I'm gonna grab another piece of artwork and over here. Another artwork. There's another piece of artwork, some kind of sketch or painting or something on the other side here. If you'd like, this is $10 for postage. I'll throw this in for another $5. For $15, you can have both Or for $10, you can have the one. So let me know, $15 for both or $10 for one. Um, let's see, and I'm gonna give you— I'll just count down to 10, we'll see what you say. So $15 for both 10 for one. So 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. Jennifer says okie dokie, both. All right, you got it, Jennifer. Jennifer's in for both. So 15. All right, so here's the original one. 6x6. We look at it. Aha, I think this may have been something that was done during our wonky cottages and castles workshop we did earlier this year. So here's your 6x6. It's a wonky castle sketch. Sharpie pen and a— looks like a watercolor background on it. So awesome, congratulations on that one. I do have hand applause here somewhere. And the bonus you got on this side, boom! I actually love this piece. This is a really fun kind of, um, Maine-inspired harbor sketch. Has a really cool electric lime green or lime yellow, I think it's called, ink on there. Uh, pink ink on there as well. This camera is not doing it justice. When you get it home, you'll see it looks really, really cool up in the sky. It's hard for the camera to pick up these really bright colors. So congratulations, awesome! These will be going out I'm mailing Monday. So anybody else that's watching, I have a couple of pieces of artwork here that have been purchased. They're gonna be going out Monday afternoon in the mail. Thank you so much, Jennifer. If you guys want to do another mystery, say yes mystery, and I will keep sketching. You put these here and we clip these together so I don't And also, Jennifer, let me know if you want me to sign these. These are not signed, so if you want me to sign them, please tell me. Let's put these here together. Cool. All right, let me zoom in. This is a small sketchbook. Giant Jefferson sign. Hey DB, have a great night. Take care. It's great seeing you. It's almost 11 o'clock. Holy cow. Um, I will sign it. Absolutely. I'll do that right now. Let's see, I'm going to sign this. I'm going to sign this. So I usually put my heart and I put Jason Nicholas Nicholas and then the year 2022. And then this one I'll sign. I actually do want to sign in this white space here. I like signing sideways, I don't know why. Very cool. There we go. All right guys, I'm just gonna do some sketching. I have nothing in mind particular. Alright, so I'm just sketching a— some kind of a house. This is just totally from, uh, my imagination right now. Got some chimney happening here coming out of the roof line. Maybe we have stonework on the chimney. Maybe we have some stonework at the base of this house across here. So let me sketch some some stonework. Let me zoom in on this. There we go. So we have some kind of stones happening. So some kind of stone base across the bottom of the house. Um, I'm imagining vertical vertical siding on this house. So you have vertical— it's called board and batten siding. So there's some board and battens happening here. You'll see this a lot on barn structures, cottage buildings, Cool, got a little wonky cottage happening. Uh, sign please. Yes, Jennifer. Oh, thank you, Jennifer, for your email. I appreciate that. So cool. I will definitely email you. I thank you again for entering the mystery bid. So cool. All right, so I'm gonna add some shadows on here. I'm gonna create this like porch, pull it out a little bit. So I'm just gonna stick with my Sharpie. We'll just hatch in some shadows in here, maybe kind of hatch in shadows where the columns would be, maybe under the roof here. And I'm definitely— if they outline these columns, they're not popping, getting a little bit lost in here. They come down to this porch. There we go. So we have some columns happening.

Cool.

You know what, I'm gonna pop in some yellow in these windows, and I'm actually just gonna use a neon yellow colored pencil. Just kind of throw a frame maybe around this a little bit. Box these out. Once I throw the pencil down, I can't— I won't be able to sketch over it. So I want to get those in a little bit. And let's just throw some yellow. There we go. Just to pop out those windows. Let's maybe the same thing down here in this window area. We'll do the same, could do my vertical siding here. There we go. So I pulled those roof lines out a little bit. And we'll just kind of add some pops of yellow in here. Maybe there's a transom window over here, over the door. Some light coming through that.

Let's do some shingles.

Actually, I can, I can color over that. Okay, I didn't know that. Got some shingles happening up here, just adding some textures. And let's add some shadow lines under the roof overhangs, just pulling out a little bit. We'll just kind of darken this up here. This roof sweeps down there, this kind of comes out here, and then we have a, uh, little roof on that as well. And let's break out my favorite color pencil color right here, Light Aqua. Yeah, let's just sketch it on here. Maybe it's like a copper roof or something that's aged. Now let's pull out this porch. We have some steps coming down like this. We have steps coming down like this. And we have some kind of ground. What do I want to do for the ground? Let's just grab Uh, let's just grab some graphite that's out here, and we'll just kind of just show some ground under here. Just kind of grabbing what I have out. You know what, I have some of that pink out here still. Let's throw down some of that pink before it all dries up. Uh, the acrylic ink, once it dries, you cannot reactivate it. Like watercolor paint. So just want to use it up while I have some in here. Just throw it down on here. Maybe I'll throw on these columns to pop these out. Cool. And then I'll throw some down on here also, kind of across the base. There you go. I'm off camera a little bit. Perfect. Cool. All right, quick fun cottage sketch. Awesome. Hey, you guys are amazing. Hope you— let's see, it's 11:10. I think that's going to be a wrap for today. If you have any final questions, feel free to put them in the chat as I just throw down some more color on this. I'm just grabbing some leftover paint in my watercolor palette here, and we're just, just adding that on here just for the heck of it. I just grabbed a dark color out of my watercolor. I'm literally just grabbing and going with these, whatever colors have been in here in the past. Alright, that's cool. Alright, awesome, very good. Love it, we got a spammer in the house. Um, hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much for watching. Hope you have a great, great night, whatever's left of it. It's late here. Um, yeah, and I will see you. I probably will not be live tomorrow online, but I hope to be on, um, one night this week. Thank you guys for watching. Thank you for liking. Thank you for asking questions. Thank you for sharing, subscribing, and most importantly, thank you just for being you and being positive. I really appreciate, appreciate you guys so much. As he continues to paint— there we go. All right, cool. Jennifer, thank you so much. Congratulations again. I appreciate you. Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, Cameron, it's late. Cameron, it's great seeing you. Good luck with your project. I'm sure you'll do an amazing job and we will definitely get together over your break, which I'm guessing will probably be, at least part of it will be during my school break, so that would be cool. And you could show me what you've worked on. That would be so fun. Would love that. And Paige, thank you, says, where are your napkins? Hey, yeah, right, Paige, good to see you. Yeah, the napkin sketches, right, from, uh, like Rue showed his. I might, I might have one here if you want to hold on a second. That's so funny. I think I might have one in my drawer here. I'll take a look. I don't think it's of a building. I think it's actually of a coffee cup. Let's see. I'm looking in my mystery drawer with all my scraps of artwork. That's so funny. I do have napkin— I do love napkin sketches. That is so funny.

Where the heck?

It might be in this pile right here. I'll just look really, really, really quick.

Actually, I think I put them in the book because I didn't want it to rip.

I'm still— I'm still here. Still here. Still here. Not there. So funny, now you have me curious to see where I put it, put them. Oh well, next time, Paige, next time I will break out some napkin sketches. It's not in the drawer. That's so funny you said that. Oh, your dad was an architect? Yeah, I remember you. I think you put a comment yesterday, uh, or on the auction about that. That is so cool. Hey, Jennifer loves this house sketch. Jennifer, Jennifer, should I make this house sketch available? Should I make it available? I'm willing to— I'm willing to part with this house How sketch? Let me know. It's actually drying really cool, and I love the purples. Let me hold it closer. I love the way this is drying. I like the purples and the pinks, and I like— I love the pop of that blue roof. It's a pretty cool little, uh, cottage. Jennifer says yes. Um, as soon as you end this, you will find them. Yeah, Paige, you're right, it's going through my brain.

I—

there's one in particular I'm picturing, it's of a coffee cup, and it's driving me cray-cray. Um, that would be so funny. Hopefully I can find it. Jennifer says yes, build it and they will come. That's right. Jennifer. Hmm, interesting. Let's see, I'll sign it. Should I sign this? Of course I should. Um, it's a little— got some paint on the sides there. It's a quick sketch. Let's just— we'll sign it here. Cool, awesome. Hey Jennifer, I can throw this— I can— how about, let's see, $15? How about for $5? For $20, I'll— for $5 more, I'll throw this in. You can have this on-the-spot sketch that you actually saw created live. That's kind of cool, actually. Um, and I can mail it along with these That would be so cool. If you're up for it, let me know. Would be cool. And then I can, I can get some more art supplies. That would be so fun. If not, no worries. I'm going to throw some growies on here too. So I'd like to do growies. Growies are Little growies growing out of the ground, flowers, weeds. I like to kind of set them at the base of these house sketches. Yeah, this is a cool little cottage sketch. Done! Oh, Jennifer, thank you so much. I always— I, I I always feel bad asking for money, but I appreciate it. It'll go back towards art supplies, which is always helpful. And American Express will be very appreciative as well. Cool. Awesome. Jennifer, thank you so much. This is yours. I will make sure that gets included with your other ones. So cool. Um, Patience says, I do love the colors of the sketch too. Will you share what you are using for the acrylics? Yeah, I can share that. The acrylic paint I used tonight is right here. It's Amsterdam Acrylic Ink. This is Reflex Rose. A similar color that I— Reflex Rose is a little more red. This is a little more pink. This is Daler-Rowney, um, this is fluorescent pink, fluorescent pink. So I like to use these for my pink acrylic ink colors. And then the blue is actually a colored pencil. This is my favorite, my absolute all-time favorite color of a colored pencil is this. As you can see, it's very small right now. It's got a lot of good use. This is Light Aqua. Light Aqua. And I always, always have a backup. You can probably see it there. I don't know if it's showing up on camera. It's Light Aqua Prismacolor. I love Prismacolor colored pencils. They go down really smooth like butter. Very creamy. Jennifer, I'm going to throw— I actually want to throw some. Jennifer, you could tell me to stop if you want now that this is yours, but I kind of want to throw some of this blue on the roof here with the shingles. You've never used that product. It's wonderful to be in community. Yeah, Paige, thank you. That is so cool. I agree. I love— I always learn from you, all of you guys. I started sketching on it. Sorry, Jennifer. Actually, I think it's adding more interest. I like it. Yeah, so I love using acrylic inks. I've been using them for a couple years now. Alright, that's enough.

No more.

Backing away. I'm backing away from the colored pencil. Although I lied, I feel like I need some down here just to create an edge on the ground. All right, now I'm done. There you go. Um, Mies would say less is more. Yeah, Mies van der Rohe. Look at that, we have an architect reference in the room. Mies van der Rohe, very, very cool architect. Less is more. Love that you, uh, love that you know about Mies. That is so cool that your father was an architect. Love it. All right guys, you're amazing. I appreciate you all so much. Again, thank you for sharing and being kind to each other. I'm hyper, I could keep going all night, and, um, I might actually do that during my break. I think I'm gonna do a sketch athon, a fundraising sketchathon where I'm just going to sketch continuously for one day. I don't know how it's going to work yet, a sketchathon, and I want to donate some money to, um, I have two ideas for different charities, and some money might stay with the artist here. We'll see. So we'll see if I'm gonna do a sketch-a-thon during my winter break from school in a few weeks. Oh my gosh, your father studied with Mies? That is so— that is so cool. Mies was a rock star. He was a— we call him— this is what we call them now. If Mies was around today, he would be known as a I don't know how you spell it. I think it's star-ka-tect, like an architect, but he would have been a star-ka-tect. So any of the famous, famous architects, current ones, they're called star-ka-tects. Mies definitely would have been one of those. That's awesome. I might be seeing one of Mies's buildings next weekend if I go into in New York City. I believe he did the Lever House building, the high-rise building in New York City. I've seen it before, but I might walk past it next weekend. That's so cool. Love it. Do another. Do another. Paige says do another. Are you talking about another sketch? Like this? Let me know, Paige. Let me know. I'm not sure what you're asking. This is drying really nicely, Jennifer. I think you're gonna like this one. So the only thing— oh, Jennifer, I have to— forgot to mention, I'm so sorry. There is, uh, hope you don't mind, there is a something on the back I was messing around with one day. So it's actually two You have two sides, the painted side and then this kind of sketch I was messing around with one day.

I was—

I forgot I was working on it. It was a barn, it was a barn sketch on here that I never finished. This was going to be the opening here. I totally forgot this was on here. I had a tree here with a kind of a hole. Anyway, I won't finish that side, but so you kind of have a bonus sketch on the back. Share some photos from your trip. Yeah, yeah, I will if I take some. Yeah, well, I will take some. We'll see if I go in. We'll see how the weather is and how I'm feeling next weekend. Cool. All right, awesome, guys. Um, you can fit— you can finish it. You want me to finish this side? I could finish it. I could definitely finish it. Let's see. Alright. If you guys wanted to hang out for a few more minutes, I will. I'm always happy to sketch. I will finish it. Okay, Jennifer says sure. Sure! Alright, cool. You might like this side better, who knows. I gotta change the music up. I need something— I wanted something peppy, but I can't play the music I want to play because it's all copyrighted. Let's see, this is the music we're listening to, is music I pay to play. Uh, where was that? I kind of like that flamenco thing before. I need something a little peppy. I don't know, I don't know what it was.

It—

this one wasn't that one, wasn't that one, wasn't that one, not that one. Oh, I can't find it. That's all right, we'll just keep this. We'll get this one going. All right, let's, uh, Let's rock with this one here for a few minutes. I'm just gonna be quiet and sketch for a few minutes here. Should I just do red on here? Should I just do a standard kind of red barn? I have— I do have some red watercolor right here I could use. Let me know, Jennifer. Let me know. Say yes, red, or no. I do have some red, and I think that's the only color I would throw down here is maybe some red. And if you say no, that's cool too. It's all good. That is so cool that your father had studied with Mies. Wow, love it, love it, love it. Read good. I will stay on. All right guys, you're so cool. I appreciate y'all. Thanks again. Thank you for watching, liking these. Always feel free to share these out. I'd love to get more people watching. That would be so fun. And I'm kind of honored we had some spammers, spammers in the house. That rarely happens, so thank you spammers. He says sarcastically. All right, boom, here are some red watercolor. I'm just gonna, uh, no, I'm not doing red watercolor. Changed my mind. I'm gonna use red pen. I'd rather bleed some red ink on it instead. I'm not a huge fan of red watercolor because I don't use it too much. I do like red ink to bleed. So let's bleed this. Yeah, let's throw some down here as well. Kind of throw some in the wet areas, let it bleed down.

Boom.

Throw some red on here. Awesome. Throw some down there as well. And we'll just kind of run some water over it. Just quick, quick, quick. Boom, boom, boom. There we go. Got some red. Let me zoom out. So cool. All right, just kind of tap this down, kind of, so it's a little bit darker there, kind of create some shadows. Even under the roof area, we got some shadows happening. Awesome. Like it, like it, like it. That's Fun. Cool. Uh, yeah, I know what I want to use. I have a color ink I love. It's called— it's called Apple Snail. Apple Snail. Uh, it's by Birmingham Pen Company. I love their inks. They're not— they're a little pricey, but I think you are paying for quality. And a little bit of this ink tends to go a long way. I'm actually just going to dab it off the cap here. Just want to create some ground on here with this ink. Cool. Love it, love it. I love this. Oh my gosh, this is so awesome. Oh, that is so fun. And I'm just going to kind of, uh, let's see. Oh, I think this was a song I was looking for earlier. I love this color ink, and I'm just kind of dabbing it in some places. I'm not going to go too crazy with it. I think I'm going to leave the tree white. I think I'm going to add this color up on the roof here. Yeah, this is awesome. Cool. I think that's all the color I'm throwing on this. Are you familiar with the Honeycomb sculpture in New York? Oh, yes, yes, yes. It's called the Vessel. I think that's what you're— I think you're talking about the Vessel sculpture. Yeah, it looks like a honeycomb. Some people say a pine cone. Some people say a beehive. I have not seen it in person. It's on my list. That's actually one of the things I want to try to see next weekend. It's closed, so you can't actually climb up the vessel structure, but you can go into just the bottom. So yeah, that is on my list of places to check out. You have been to Indiana, haven't you? We are known for Red Barns. Oh no, I have never been to Indiana and I did not know that. That's cool. Now I know. See, I always learn something new. All right, there you go. So that is the— that is the bonus side that I totally forgot there was a sketch on there. So Jennifer, it's up to you, whatever side you can flip them around. Change them. This is wet, so I am not going to flip it. I'll leave it like that. Very cool. If you guys have any final questions, let me know. I think we're going to wrap up. If anybody is still out there on YouTube, let me know and just say yes or say hi so I just know YouTube is still streaming. That would be really cool. Really, look up Columbus, architectural capital. Look up Columbus, architectural capital in US. I will, I will definitely Google that. Absolutely. I would thank you for the, the tips. I appreciate it. I'm just gonna share some— show some shingles. Should I say that fast? Show some, show some shingles on there. I do not— that is why I do not drink. I can't even talk normally. Um, show some shingles. That's a tough one. I'm just creating some shadow lines on here. Pop that out a little bit more. This is a cute little barn, if I may say so. Cool, there you go. Bang! Thank you, cheers. You're welcome. Cole H says hi. Hello, Cole H, how are you? If it's the Cole H I think I It is. It's good to see you, Cole H. Hope all's going well. You have, uh, you joined us just finishing up a quick barn sketch over there on YouTube. And then let's see how this cottage house is drying. This music is driving me crazy. It's like, alright, we're gonna Put some winding down music on. There we go. So Jennifer, thank you so much for, uh, this will— I'm gonna be mailing this to you, this as well. And then guys, let me just show you how the bridge has dried that we worked on earlier, and then we're gonna close up for the night. Cole says, good, how are you? I'm awesome, Cole. I hope you're doing well. Well, you just said you're doing good, so that is good. Thanks for asking. I'm always doing great when I'm sketching because this is I love sketching. So here's the bridge we did earlier. It's dried now. You can really see the contrast of the pink. Let me zoom in. The pink with the walnut ink here. And just the kind of splash happening here, which is fun. Chip was on earlier and he mentioned, you know, about unfinished artwork just being cool. And I agree, I love— not everything has to be totally painted, totally colored. This is definitely more my style, if not my style. I don't really like fully coloring things. I did one this year of a Disney scene I could show you, um, came out well, but I like to leave a little mystery. So there you go. This is dry, so I can come back and add some on here. Uh, Cole, thank you for checking in. It's good for me to know that YouTube's working. I appreciate that. I haven't streamed to YouTube in a while, so I'm glad that is all working. Uh, Paige, wonderfully executed. A glass frame is necessary so that you can switch out the art each season. Oh, there you go. Yeah, so Jennifer, you can, you can switch to either side of the page, other side of the paper. So cool. Yeah, I like this, this piece. All right guys, I think that's gonna be a wrap for tonight. So we have the bridge and then the 3 other sketches I did. Oh, I had one more mystery, but we'll see, we'll save this other mystery sketch giveaway for another time. And then, uh, here's the other sketches. Very, very cool. So thank you guys for watching. I appreciate you all. Have an amazing, amazing Sunday. Enjoy your upcoming week. Um, I have schoolwork to do tomorrow, so today was kind of my day off, offish. Tomorrow I have to, uh, prep for school for the week. Got a lot of work to do. But you guys are awesome. Thank you. Have a great, great night. I appreciate you all so much. Peace and live creatively. Jennifer, I'll be mailing out your paintings on Monday afternoon, so I will— I'll email you and make sure I have the— your right mailing address and all that stuff. All right, thank you so much, guys. Take care. Keep paying it forward with creativity. Keep being positive and keep being you. Appreciate y'all. Peace and live creatively. See you soon. I'm looking for the finish button. It is here. There it is. Boom.