 Hey, what's up y'all? I hope you've had an amazing day so far. You've had a pretty great day. Just pulling up everything so that I can see what you guys can see. In fact, let me turn a light on. So there's no weird shadow. What's up you guys? What's up, what's up? So today, thank you Heidi. What's up, S-S-S-A-Doc? This yellow? Tanzania, that's fun. Denise, Tracy, Shane. Heidi, JJ, Maureen. Thank you guys for coming in and seeing what I'm painting today. I have been thinking about alcohol inks since I did JJ's, nope, Shane's elephants. And I really want to try to figure out that rocking look with the inks, letting them flow like this. And then I want to create water so I have a reflection. So then I'm going to rock the inks this way. Hopefully it won't get muddy. We'll see, we'll find out together. Phoenix, Julie, welcome. Haven't seen you live in so long. Well, where have you been? Hope things are okay. I'm gonna put some paper towels under the backside and the front side of this board because I'm going to probably make a mess. So this is just gonna prevent too much mess from getting on the floor, I don't know. I tend to use a whole bunch of alcohol when I do inks and it tends to get everywhere. Hello, Bowman. I won't tell anybody that you're watching while you're at work. So the camera is trying to auto-focus because everything is white right now. As soon as I get some color down, it will stop that. So I'm gonna be using my typical go-to palette of a teal, a pink, and a yellow. So I'm gonna use turquoise from Ranger. If I can get it open, cool, got it. I'm gonna use fuchsia from Copic. I'm gonna use blick, yellow, canary yellow. And probably sailboat blue by Ranger. So that'll be the only palette except for jacquard black, but that'll be later. These two. Oh, I'm sorry, Julie, I just went through that and I can't even imagine. Well, I can't imagine because I just went through it, but I'm sorry. I still carry Kujo with me, my little heart. Okay, so if you're new here, welcome. I'm Erica. Jeff is over there playing with Bowie and we're artists till death. We go live every day, usually. Usually at six p.m. central, except for on Tuesdays it's at two p.m. central. And it usually resins. Sometimes it's alcohol ink, sometimes it's acrylic, sometimes it's glitter. You never know, but today it's alcohol ink and it's always art, so welcome. If you haven't subscribed, please do so. And if you're already subscribed, can you just double-check and make sure because YouTube likes to unsub people because rude. Hello, Tim, Claire and Melissa. So I'm just going to, I think I'm gonna have kind of a lower water. I'm gonna have my water-ish area here. So I'm just going to put some ink down, just a little bit sporadically. And this is going to make my skyline. You can add more color later. I know this looks really crazy right now, but y'all just hear me out. All right, now I'm gonna take some 91% isopropyl alcohol and just like run a line all the way across the bottom of the inks. And I'm gonna just rock them back and forth to make them run. Once they get all the way up there, I'm gonna let them run back this way. I do love to wiggle draw. I didn't know that's what it was called. Oh my goodness, you guys, I could, this could be a finish all on its own. A crazy EKG, right? So as it's rolling off, I'm kind of turning the board a little bit extra forward so that not too much is gathering on this top edge. I don't want it to pool. Glad I have this. All right, I'm gonna add a little bit of heat, very low heat, just to help it start to dry. I don't want to do too much craziness to it because I want the lines of color to stay kind of true. Actually, do I feel like I need more pink over here or should I leave it? I think I should leave it actually. TG, you be careful. I just flipped it all the way around so it kind of made all of my inks that were up here shift and then they again. So yeah, I'm going to dry this just slightly. I'm trying to dry it as the inks are kind of running down to give like a difference in peaks kind of. I don't know if that makes sense. In my head, it makes super sense. But I like that this business. And if you don't like that, then just let everything run off. Hey, Amy, how are you? Love seeing old and new fam coming in. Makes my heart happy. If you don't like these breaks where the ink just didn't hit, then you can wash it with more alcohol ink and rock it back and forth again and just make sure that you put the alcohol in that area and it will dry up a bit. Nope. It'll cover that part. Whoa! Just wanted to show Jeff my, it could be a finish all on its own. Hey, Sam, how are you? Amy, I'm glad you're doing well. So, hey Nancy. So, I wanna keep this part as the top and this part will be the water. In my head, I'm gonna put more alcohol down and rock this part back and forth and that's gonna make the reflection. If that just doesn't happen how I want it to, then I'll just wipe that whole bit off in theory, in my head. I'm gonna try not to let it splash. Let it go back and forth. I'm sorry, Melissa, I hope everybody feels better soon. So, I wanted a little bit more color payoff in that part. So, I'm just going to drop the more color in the areas that they kind of already are. I'm hoping I'm just not about to make muddy waters. Badunch. Well, good luck on your exam, Amy. Yep, I think I like that a lot better. I'm a fan of all of the colors, as you guys know. And you can just start hitting it with air to dry it but I really want it to just kind of do what it's gonna do. I don't want to make it do too much just yet. It's gonna turn it up. Let some of the color run. All right, now that it's not really flowing much anymore, I'm gonna start to dry it. I don't really wanna create any hard lines in this part. So, I'm kind of drying it from further in the air. Also, I did just stop my alcohol. That's fine. It's 91% alcohol, so it'll dry relatively quickly. Well, I'm glad I can help you to relax. And we're dry. So, now, not happy with this right here, but I like it better than what the alternative would be if I tried to go in and mess with it. The base is a, it's just an ultra smooth Gesso panel. I think it's from Da Vinci, you can get it from Blick. I think this one, Clara, had brought over a while back. Okay, now for the Skyline. I'm going to use the Dallas Skyline. Everybody watching obviously use whatever it is that your sky looks like. So, our Skyline has a lot going on. You guys have never seen our Skyline, let me just say it's pretty awesome. I'm gonna use some Posca pens. You can get these on Amazon. I have a link down in the description below this video. Be careful because there are knockoff Pascas. This is a knockoff. It has not English writing on it. They're almost the same. The quality and the actual Pascas are just slightly better, but if you end up with the ones that are knockoffs, it's not a huge deal. I'm gonna go ahead and seal this. It is a Da Vinci panel that you left behind. Mwah-ha-ha. So, I'm gonna seal it with UV archival in matte. This is very important for a couple reasons. If you aren't going to put resin on your piece, this will seal it in and protect it from anything messing with the design or from fading. And if you're gonna put resin on it, you really should seal it as well so that the resin doesn't kind of soften your lines and everything. Also, make sure you get it in matte because the alternatives will wake up your ink and move them. I'm surprised the blue had stained and none of the other ones did. Thank you, Clara. So I'm just drying that matte spray that we just put down. Because it's matte, I can see where it is easier than if it was a gloss. When a gloss is dry, it looks like exactly what it did when it was wet. When a matte is dry, it's no more shiny. Okay, now for skyline stuff. We have a couple interesting buildings here. We've got a Bank of America building, which is green. So I'm just gonna put it here. This is not in any kind of exact order because I wouldn't be able to get all the awesome buildings in where their colors are if I did them exactly. I like to bow my buildings just a little bit. If you wanna do something a little bit more exact then by all means go for it. This building has a little topper. And then we've got, I just put some other buildings just to make it look more of a skyline. I'm sorry, Bowie. Let me help you back into your chair. Come on, that's not cool world. Heart that movie so much. So we've got a good diamond shaped building. Let me go in and fix that one. We've got Reunion Tower, which is a big orb. We've got another one that has these peaked light towers on top of them. There's criss-crossy lights all the way down. So now all of the major ones are there. So you just need to fill in. Oh, I didn't do the keyhole building. I can't remember what this one looks like. Hold on. Let me pull this up because I cannot remember. All right, you guys, hold on one second. I'm trying to find just a simple image of the keyhole building. Looks something like that. So let's fill in some of these. Sorry about the ruckus, my windows are open. All right. Now I'm going to give some of them a little bit more character with a thicker Posca pen on this trip from Jeff, and it's pretty nifty. Hi Gail, how are you? I'm a sucker for a dry brush look, so that's kind of why I love this particular style of, I don't even know the words, but you know what I mean. Swish, we could do swish. In my head, I wanted to do some rough pen lines, but I need a better pen. I'm gonna give myself like three seconds to find a pen that I would use to do what I want to do. These microns will work, which is a one. These like extra pen lines are so, typically when people draw something, they will sketch it out first. So these kind of sketchy lines would already be there. However, I'm apparently backwards because I tend to draw out first. Nope, I tend to draw out second. I put my shapes down and then I want to add this kind of detail. This is the look that I like to utilize, but if you want a cleaner look, be clean. We're gonna garden right now because I'm live. That's cool. Thanks people. I'm gonna close this window. I was gonna yell get off my lawn to them, but I'm there right there. It's been awkward because it's not my lawn. Anyway, loving it so far, now I need to decide am I gonna do like some bush work here to create a separation? How do I wanna do this? I know a lot of artists do like foliage to create the separation. Was I rude her off in it? Sorry about that. Yes, go check out Emory Rude off. She's amazing, love her. So now you want back in your chair. What do you guys that create a road? I would except for the best road that I could possibly add to this. It's too late. It would be there's a bridge, a yellow brick road. I love me a yellow brick road, but I don't know if it will work on this one. Then I'd have to add hills. There's a bridge in Dallas that I would love to add, but it wouldn't work. So, and besides, this is water. Remember, thank you George Ray. I mean, I'm gonna stick to the plan, but I need to figure out if I wanna create foliage or just let it be and create a reflection. Based on this. Thank you Phoenix Bloor, I'd appreciate that. A fence. So if I did a fence, it would be super tall for you to be able to see it. Reflection line wonky, of course. So do I wanna like scribble? If I do black ink, it's going to most definitely bleed and probably not be the cutest thing. You may have to call Jeff in and do that from time to time. Well, thanks Shane. I hope your meeting went well. Poor from the heart. I really appreciate that super much. Jeff has the best eye for details and I've learned a lot over the years watching him create. His mind is absolutely brilliant, but I appreciate you're saying that. Borderline around the sphere. A borderline. What kind? I will thank you, Julie, I appreciate that. Vy, can I borrow your face? Well Sam, since you're a Dallas person, it's kind of, you already have a great styling to work off of. That's super fun, babe. Thanks. Now I have to figure out my bottom half of this because every Skyline reflection has like, fully bushes, but then now I have to do the black reflection, I feel like. So yeah, I appreciate that, George, right? Because in my head, I was just gonna be like, but I don't wanna mess, no one to quit is kind of where I'm at, but I want it to like, Sandra. The reason why there's, the thing is just imagine, start dark down here, start kind of a line, and then down here. Start that on top of that, see what I mean? I understand what you're talking about. I don't know if you guys can hear, I'm talking about things being mirrored in reflection, and so don't start with the dark right here, since it's not dark right here on this part, it should be lighter on this part. Just take one of these pieces of paper, and then just flip it so you can mentally see, you know, what you should do, but up here I just kind of, you understand? Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I wanted that literal of a reflection. Can you resin over Mod Podge? I don't see why not. Just make sure it's completely dry. So yeah, need your help. Separation, and basically that's just, I tell they have these boats, just kind of a foreground to give the illusion that there's something else out there, and that's where it stops, and it's a little bit more focused. So Jeff and I are looking at a reference photo just for reflection on an abstract skyline. But in the reference photo, the colors would have continued instead of doing what I did here, because it looks a little bit more like it's on a cloud now, which is fine. Hi Dana. So now I'm trying to talk my way through not messing this up, doing what I wanna do. I'm trying to do it not recognized just to feel for reflection. You can do that, just do abstract line. A little separation, just a little, and then line this part, and then just kind of do the same thing down here, and then start it there. Just do a, you can always paint over it. It's gonna like it, you can always paint over it. Thank you, Dr. Rizan. Is that what you said you wanted? I forgot what this building looked like, to be honest. I had to pull up a different kind of reference. Anyways, that one's gonna be focused on this building. Yeah, Shane, Jeff mentioned that too, put a piece of paper down and sketch it to see if you'd like it, but I'm thinking of doing just very rough. It is like pointed. Right, I mean, that's all you're needing is, because water is ripply and you don't want any detail. So I'm just thinking of, my concern really at this point is because I didn't think about it in advance, is now everything's flowed, and when I do black, it's gonna be exactly against how the water is. So now I'm like, do I just do line that aren't connected, like just this? So I'm just using a pencil to get my thought down. Now I'm glad Jeff came over here because he mentioned something pretty important that I would have forgotten, is that you need to have a separation between your main piece and your reflection so that it doesn't get lost. So just a little bit of a white line. I'm just using a charcoal pencil, so it's gonna be on the darker side. Sorry about that. So I'm using a pencil, so it's kind of on the darker side, but one that I can erase. Sorry about that, is it still frozen? I don't think so. All right, so I'm gonna go in with this pigment graphic. That's not gonna be quite dark enough, is it? So let me show you the kind of a skyline that I was looking at, just as a point of reference, I've turned the light off. So the skyline is rather defined, but the reflection isn't. So it's kind of what I'm interested in, but I wasn't looking at this when I did my inks because this is a reflection of each side, obviously. So where it's peach here, it is peach here. Where it is teal and yellow, it is teal and yellow. So with the reflection running long ways, because reflection, how can I make that happen here aside from putting more inks here and letting it run down? Which if that's what I need to do, then that's what I need to do. Sometimes you just have to work through what you're thinking as you go. I find I do that quite often. I wanna make sure you guys can see still, cool. Now why that is wiggling like that? Run a line of black in your alcohol ink and do your drips like you did around the outlines of the figures. Well, sure. But I'm trying to figure out if before I do that, if I should make my water horizontal again, I mean vertical instead of the horizontal look. What do you guys think? Because I have my black alcohol ink here, ready to go. At least no worries. I appreciate it and I hope you have an awesome day. Right now I'm wondering if I should put an alcohol line here and run it downward. How about a slightly darker marker of this shade of the sky over the horizontal look? So do a darker median line here, you think, Shane? And Clara, are you talking about making it vertical? Because I can make it vertical, it is not a problem. Now, when you're doing your artwork, don't ever stress out if something isn't going how you think it should be because it's just not that big a deal. Everything is fixable. Let me move all my pens so they don't get inked. Sorry, bubble. My goodness, I'm just dropping all of them. I'm glad you're enjoying it, Joy Dre. I assume that you're not an artist or you are. You got pink, some blue, yellow. I'm putting more color down instead of just adding a whole bunch of alcohol because we did already feel it a bit. So I just have some alcohol in this needle-nosed applicator. I'm just running along this area so I can control it a little bit more. But then once it starts flowing, I'm gonna do some of that. Gotta be careful it doesn't run too far up into the piece. I have a big paintbrush here so I can get rid of some of these breaks in color. You just wanna break that surface tension so your inks can fill those in. So make sure you watch where your inks are going because they will flow up into your first bit if you're not careful. I feel like there's a lot of yellow in this piece even though I just put more yellow on it. With my aqua. Not an artist just interested, I bet you could do it. I think I like this look because it's got these stringy points so it's not exactly the same as the top half. It's softer on the top. So I'm happy about that. So I will be adding black to this bottom bit. I just have to get this all dry first. Oh yeah, I'm big on full bright colors, George. So if you look at anything on my channel that isn't a commission that I just decided to paint, it's always gonna be a palette. Probably similar to this one. Keep rolling the piece forward so that I'm picking up the ink that is still falling down because I don't wanna create a pool on the bottom of a color while it's gonna turn into a muddy mess. So I'm just trying to rock that off. So you see these little tie-dyed lines I have here? That's the color I was trying to pick up because it almost started to do it down here. You can see where there's a little bit of differentiation. So it's trying to avoid too much of that. Is your husband an artist as well? And if so, does he have a channel? He's on this channel and he is an artist as well. He does portraits, a lot of airbrush. I do inks, I do a lot of resin. And he does Pokemon fan art and a whole bunch of other stuff. I'll, if you've got time, George Ray around and I'll show you a little bit more. Of the other art that we do, if you've got time. Okay, so now we have some this. Knowing that when I put black alcohol ink down, it's gonna kind of spread out a little bit. I'm going to do that because I think it'll give it like a little bit more of an organic look maybe. What I'm going for, just get these inks out of the way. What's up, Elspicy? How are you doing today? Okay, so I have my black ink by Jacquard. I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna use like a longer oval brush, but still quite smaller one. This is just 91% alcohol. And I'm gonna drop some of the black ink in here. I'm gonna start with kind of a shaded gray. So I'm diluting it with a little bit more alcohol. And all right, I'm gonna try not to rid her off it, but y'all let me know if my crazy hair gets in the way. Heesh, heesh. All right, gotta leave a little bit of a separation. Oh my goodness, why am I so nervous? In fact, I'm just going to kind of paint on here where I want the buildings to go. I bet if I dripped it, it would look even better. I have another, I can just use a pipette. It's not gonna give me a lot of control, but it's fine. I'm just tilting it just barely. Don't know if we're gonna like that. Y'all don't stress out. If it doesn't look like we want it to, then I'll just start over. Maybe I'll just do it with a big flat brush. Can you just sort of swipe with inks? I'm gonna kind of try that with this just batter brush. So if you've never worked with inks before where it's already been, it's kind of, it's giving kind of a relief look because it's, the alcohol's been sitting for a little while, so it's picking up. You're seeing kind of a little bit of variance in the black tones, but I'll just keep going over it until it looks more like what I'm going for. I'm trying to go where the longer buildings are, and I'm doing more than less where the shorter buildings are. And it's an abstract piece. You know, it doesn't have to be perfect. I think a lot of people get really hung up on things being perfect when it doesn't really have to be. Like if you don't live in Dallas, odds are probably wouldn't know that this was a Dallas skyline building, and that's perfectly fine, you know? For this bottom that is a little bit darker than I would have liked it to be, however, it's okay. Now I'm trying to decide if I wanna add color to a reflection, since it is a little bit on the darker side. What do you guys think? We'll fill that one in later. So I'm still trying to think of your swipe idea that would probably not really work like I think you're thinking of it. Do you believe you were born an artist or is there a bit of an artist in everyone? I believe for real that there's a bit of an artist in everyone. I think that art is just expressing yourself visually or vocally. I don't know that it's so much. I think there's a little bit of an artist in everyone. I think the level of artist you are comes down to how much time you put into your craft as well as a born talent for something. I think anyone could be an artist, but the type of artist that you could do a lot of times comes down to a gift that you may have been born with, like singing, for example. I believe that something with coaching you can learn a little bit, but there are people that were born with it that you can't learn that level of skill no matter your practice. I hope that makes sense. Like my fiance is an airbrush artist and I could learn to airbrush, but I don't think I could learn to be as good of an airbrush artist as he is. If that makes sense. All right, I'm gonna let this live for a little bit, figure out what I wanna do. I'll probably brush some color back into the reflection, and then I need to find out what I'm gonna do with this break. But I wanted to show some of our new people stuff. That's a Bowie, and he's precious. Hi, big boy. Hi, Popo. I guess I could turn this light off. Hi, my big boy. Hi, big boy. They wake up from her nap, I'm sorry. Okay, so I do a lot of geodes, a lot of oceans. This stuff has to be shipped. This is Ipaki. This is the fiance. He did our sign up there. We have art everywhere. Yeah, that's Bowie. He's a sweetheart. He's my little guy. So here's a little bit of our gallery, our entryway. When you first come into our place, let me find some of his work he does. Star Wars pieces. This is some of his airbrush. He used to paint car hoods. He's done a lot. Hi there, big boy. Hi there. That's our little baby Bowie. So yeah, and then he did this for client slash friend out in Hawaii. Come on, let me just ship out. We do a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of different types of art. Stormtroopers, one of our lip pieces. Hi little Lulu, how are you? But yeah, that's one he's working on. Still working on that one. Then I have a lot of artwork from some of my lovely subscribers and friends. And then this is our art shop. All of the paints from all of the places, all of the time. So I also do a lot of stonework. That doesn't sound right, but I put crystals on things. So Bowie hangs out in front of his fans. We have a number of them. It is very busy. I need to, I need to do some organizing, but that will have to come after everything else. I feel like I need to put some color back into this. I don't know if it's gonna do what I want it to do though. I'm pushing some of my, some of the black back down. I'm organized. I appreciate that compliment. I don't know that I've ever been accused of being organized. My mom would love that compliment. So thank you very much. Bye Sue, thanks for stopping in. I hope you have an awesome, awesome day tomorrow. So I'm just going to kind of, if you guys have time to stick around with me, just kind of work some of this, the black back down. I went to him with the black ink. So I'm pushing it back down with some color. I was going to suggest you do this. Like that's great. Elephant Vines actually did this. I did. So I'm just working it back down now. Putting more pinks where the pink is. Now it's alcohol ink. It's not, it's not permanent until you really feel it. The black is alcohol ink. Try to do it. Well here, it's out here. What's happening? Am I moving stuff? Well, I just wanted to try something out. Yeah, go for it. Well, how big of a brush? Do you want me to tilt this at all? So that doesn't come off, please. So you guys, Jeff is attempting to soften my shadows. When you work with inks, you just have to remember that it's gonna pick up before it deposits color. It's gonna relief it. Am I moving this to this or you, this is what? This is not what I had envisioned. This is closer to it. I was just about to suggest what if you did that a little bit with a colored ink too? That sounds pretty awesome. I think the ability to create art spans a lot of fields. I think architects are artists. I think hairdressers are artists. I think, I like your Virgin better. It's softer. I thought you were gonna like pour it. Maybe, maybe, maybe we could do that, like. Are you moving? I think that it's gonna look okay. Chefs, for sure. I thought about that. Then I thought I should exhaust this idea first. I thought about, okay. So, I don't know if you guys could hear that. If you want clear spots and just all just fades. That's just if you want. I don't know. And then just put your color back up there. Nail texts, for sure, for sure. My dad was an executive chef for a while. I'm just putting some 91% isopropyl alcohol in to this little ketchup squirty bottle. So that I have a little bit more control. Jeff said, why don't you? Okay, I didn't close that. So, that's everywhere. That's exciting. I think I'm gonna try to do a little bit of what you were doing in those areas because... Well, that blacks is gonna get rid of some of it. Well, I'm trying to relief it. I'm trying to pick some of it up. So now, because isn't that what you were talking about? Like that? And then just do it like that. Or just do it back hand. When you say regular. No, because you're not trying to make it obviously exact. I just wanna see what it'll do. I can always put that painfully dark. Business back in there. I'm just trying to soften these. They answer you. So as I'm doing this, I'm trying to pick up again, the little bit of extra that's coming down. So it doesn't do what it did right here. See how it kind of bled outward? Trying to keep that from happening as I go. It was a bejeweled, crystal Pokemon, Auburn, ew, bus drivers, because I can be very colorful with my language. I believe, I believe you, Chris, for sure. I actually have a few stone figures, Beaumama. Okay, I like how this looks a little bit better. So I'm going to continue that on, but you guys can't see it because of the angle. So that is more like what I had in mind, this long fade. So I'm going to attempt to do a bit more of that. And then we'll have it. So, but like I was telling Jeff, I wanna pull out a little bit more of the black so it's not quite as solid. So I'm going to wet this paper towel with an alcohol. Just pick up some of it. Not all of it, just a bit. So that when I do this dance move again, it isn't quite so dark. Yeah, yeah. I just wanna make sure I don't have any real hard stops because that'll show. All right. I think also I'm gonna try to put some color. I don't know if it'll do anything, but can't hurt, right? Your son bought the Pokemon Oreos the other day. I want you to put some in resin. I think you should. I would avoid using Casting Epoxy because that will yellow super fast. Also trying to pick up all this that's flowing. If I didn't take too much of the black. Ooh, that's a lot. Let's put this a little bit less of an incline. Also a little bit more than that. There's somehow a hair. I'm gonna have to work my way down because it's gonna always give me this part where the two inks are kind of matching back up. And I don't really wanna have a seam. I don't know any other way to avoid that other than keeping everything fluid all the way down. I guess I could try to paint it out, but I don't think that it's even gonna work that way either. Just kind of experimenting with you guys on the video. I hope that is okay. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying it, George. Welcome. Welcome and welcome. You've admired potters. I actually do the ceramics. So we're gonna have to do this all in one go so that we don't have these breaks of color. So I'm going to put some alcohol on my this and just pick up some of the dark color. That we have already put down. Just a little bit. Yeah, glass blowers are amazingly talented for sure. I don't think I have that much tolerance for being uncomfortable. There's a lot of heat. No, it doesn't look like much in this moment, but it's going to be amazing. Now that I have a real, I guess, concept in my head for what I'm trying to do. Of course it is vamp. I have watched that show on Netflix and it is bananas. Okay, so I like the little bits of color we worked in on this side. So I'm going to just do that over here. Just adding the color where it already essentially is. We're gonna have to redo some of this bit. So I'm doing color all the way across. I like the texture of candy corn. What, what? Why are we talking about candy corn? I'm confused. Here we go. I'm just using this colored water that we made up a little bit ago, not water. It would not be water. Don't put water in your alcohol inks. This is gonna work out, you guys. Just hear me out. You just need a paintbrush and break up. Well, this has black on it, so. So everything is still very, very fluid. I wouldn't try to do this if it wasn't still so fluid. Just transferred a whole bunch of pink where the yellow is, but that's fine. Those bits that had a breaking color will fill in now. Seems as though we've gotten rid of a lot of the black that we had, that's okay. It's probably gonna be stupid, but while everything is super fluid, there's a lot of alcohol still on the surface. I'm trying to mentally take notes for the next time I do this. I tilt it up just a little bit and add drips of the black ink in the areas that are just taller buildings. And as you guys have seen, it doesn't have to be perfect. You can always add inks back and start over. I think a lot of people hesitate when they do art because they think I don't wanna mess it up, especially if it's something you're doing for the first time, odds of messing it up are greater than if you've been doing it for a while, but there's always something that can be done to fix it. Just trying to soften these edges just a little bit. George Vamp had this various form of COVID for a little bit and she's been on the mend for a little while and we are so glad that she's feeling better as well. Waited a little bit too long to do this down here. Now it's dried on me a little bit. So it's picking up the ink instead of just moving it. So it's lighter than this top half, but I'm trying to decide if I wanna fiddle with it too much more, you know? I feel like I still need to do something to it. So I've done the other way a couple of times and it hasn't really worked out for me. So I'm going to do a lot of what I've already been doing, but from the opposite side and see if that gives me a different look that I'm more happy about, excited about. And then I'll just in this class because you'll probably have other stuff to do today other than watch me redo the same area on a piece 15 times. But then you're not, you know. If you do a reverse like this, be careful. Because you want it to flow down, but not obviously into the rest of your piece. I'm just gonna help this to flow, just moving the alcohol up to where my shoreline is. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I can deal with this, but I also feel like I need to put some black back into the top of it. I have some here. Well, that's kind of a difficult color to work with because you never know really how much. Well, for me anyways, how much is too much? So I'm gonna just try to dry this a little bit. Some indirect heat from a heat gun. This table's a little bit slanted away from me. So as the inks kind of dry, they're gonna continue to roll back towards the far end of my desk. And that's fine because it'll create a really nice dark line. It may end up looking a little bit like an infinity line because I'm, as I'm drying it and it's pushing back and rolling back in, it's creating a lot of layers. So this actually might be the best solution to the problem I've been having. And I really like this wispy, almost yellow brick roadie type of movement that we have going on. Yellow brick roadie. I'm gonna make that a thing. I'm gonna make that a thing. And because I've been pushing and pulling all the black alcohol ink through this piece, the bottom half is darker than the top half, which kind of makes sense anyways. White tips above the black. Are you talking about in the separation or up here? I'm happy with this version. It's softer. That was the softest. I don't know if you guys noticed, but I'm engaged. I might be in here to clean my lunch. Sometimes I just let the ink sit and evaporate on its own. But I want you guys to see it before that point. So I'm trying to dry it a little bit faster, very indirect heat, so that we don't get too many of these drying lines like this one right here. Good, thank you, Teresa. Yeah, this one took me a few attempts. And not an expert at alcohol ink by any means. Sometimes it just takes a few tries to get something looking like you want it to. But you just kind of have to trust the process, I think. So I don't know why it's getting a little gritty, but I think I like the texture that it is. I'll give you guys a close up in just a second until it's almost done drying. I don't know if it makes sense for a reflection, for water, for what I'm doing, but I like the look of it, so I'm gonna know that it lives. When you use a heat gun like this, especially if I have a concentrator nozzle on it, like this one, make sure you don't leave your heat gun in one place for too long because you'll have to damage your board. That looks blurry and like ethereal and reflection-y, I think. Happy with it. I agree there needs to be a white separation. I am scared of using white ink. It's, I think to this day, never done what I needed it to do. So I have a white paint pen. See if Jeff feels like putting a highlight down for me. So let this video be a lesson to you guys on not giving up really quickly when things don't go exactly how you think you feel like you want them to, and trying a whole bunch of different things. I mean, I think I tried the same thing four different times during this video, but ultimately I feel like it worked out. I could be wrong. Y'all let me know in the comments. I have a white, I have a white alcohol ink, but I'm nervous. But I did pull out a white Posca pen earlier. And this is a paintbrush type bristle pen. Are you doing a favor real quick because you do it better and it's faster? I just need a little bit of a highlight separation, don't I? Between- You know how this has a little bit of a separation? I already sprayed the top half of it. Yeah, the smell is not fun. Definitely does have a cool world vibe. Wherever you think would look good. Do you want a different kind of Posca? So Jeff's just creating a highlight that'll separate the dark connection where the base of the building meets the trees and the water. Give it like smog. Our pleasure, George. Welcome and thank you for watching. The Posca pens are water-based. So if I wanted to lighten this up, I would have to use something water-based. So just keep that in mind when you're using Posca with alcohol-based water and alcohol typically don't mix too well. Yeah, George and Shar, thank you for watching, hanging out with us today. Hope you enjoyed it. Learned something, was inspired or entertained or educated in some way about kind of art that we do. Love seeing new faces. If you enjoy the video, please share it. If you didn't, then share it with someone you don't like. If you grow in their day, make yours better, right? I think. So I'm just pulling up some of the white that we put down into the buildings so that it's there and it's stark, but it's not too like distracting. Might add some glow paint to this later. Most of the skylines I end up doing have some glowy aspect to them because skyline. Happy with this piece. I hope you guys are too. I like it. I probably should add some highlight into the building, but save that for another day. I'm hungry and just cooked lunch. So thank you for watching and seeing what we're up to today. Please be kind to one another. You never know what someone's going through. And I'll remember. Okay, over right here. We do the test. So you don't have to. And we'll see you guys tomorrow, 6pm central. Bye.