 Well, hi there, I'm Sandy Unlock and I thought I would try and see if you can draw on toilet paper Let's try it. I Decided to do something ridiculously silly and get out my fountain pens This is my fancy new box that I got for them and it's so nice It's a big heavy box and it has another tray. I have room for more pens Oh Yeah, I know now I have to buy more pens don't I well I'm gonna use my twizby eco for this one because it's got the biggest nib out of all the ones I have it's a medium But it's still bigger than the others and it might poke through the toilet paper a little bit less. I Don't know. It's it's a wild hope Decided to get the toilet paper out I did put a piece of paper under it because I believed it was going to bleed through and it did and I just started it sketching flowers I had to keep the pen kind of hovering over the surface of the toilet paper because it was going to catch At any given point and it bled like mad. So Yeah, it's that kind of thing toilet paper is not really all that great for drawing on But the reason that I decided to do this right now is because everybody's hoarding toilet paper If you're watching this video off in the future, this is the period of the coronavirus pandemic and We just are at the point where the United States is starting to close down schools and everything and do social distancing I did this little meme that I created for the The time period we are in and if you'd like to spend time reading that and share it It's over on my blog just a little bit of silliness to add to the world right now because you know if we don't laugh We're gonna cry So why not draw on toilet paper? I did find out when I was watching the news that There actually is a reason why people are collecting the toilet paper I thought it was just an urban legend that you would need a lot of toilet paper for this particular virus But apparently in some cases There are issues for which one might want to have extra toilet paper I bought a brick in December, which was like a couple months ago and that is enough to last me forever Because I'm single and it's you know Not something that you go through all that fast when you're just one person So I'm fine with having plenty of toilet paper and I had it before everybody else started hoarding it and buying it all up and That sort of thing is just taken over our world right now I know the area that I live in is just gone nuts. Our schools are closed for the next six weeks so While everybody is kind of excited right now about the idea of having a Stacation of some kind Depending on your job You may be working at home But a lot of people who have service jobs or that sort of thing are just not able to work and some of You are getting paid and I'm sorry that some of you are not. I hope that legislation gets passed so everybody gets taken care of There are people like me though that this is really not a staycation at all This is just my life. This is just what I do and for me. It's just time to get more work done and Which is a good thing right now because I'm not gonna be eligible for all of those government programs and stuff So I have to do my own thing to make some income and one of the things that I want to share with you is that I have Gotten some of that done already. I have two classes that I'm launching right now One of them is called Copic wildflowers. It is available at this moment There's a link in the doobly-doo at the time of the launch of this video There are five different types of Copic wildflowers that you'll learn to draw in the class They're gonna be a lot of fun and make really pretty cards You can add a stamp sentiment to them and I have some ideas for different layouts You can use with them and then you can just do all kinds of flowers Once you have those skills and do lots more and it'll be really fun So why not it's a nice inexpensive mini course that you can take and learn how to do flowers The other one is not available at the time of this launch because I'm not quite finished with building the classrooms yet But it'll be done this weekend. So keep an eye out for storybook scenes This one I can really picture a lot of the stamped images that everybody uses on cards right now being able to be used with these scenes and I'm making them really simple clean types of Color saturated images. They're gonna be so much fun to play with So if you're interested in taking that one that I'm gonna pop the link into the doobly-doo as soon as the class is Ready and launched and I'll also post it over on my social media So that you are aware and also send it out to my email list. So there you go. All right The rest of this video is dedicated to a crazy project that you might like to try at home if you're not interested in drawing on toilet paper and this one is Starting by creating a background Mine is a big one You could do it on a smaller sheet of paper and I have a couple different paint colors that are mixed up one this one is Phthalo green blue shade and you'll notice it's kind of on the bluey side And I thought I would do the yellow shade as well so that you could see the difference between the two of them make it a little bit of an Educational art lesson and you can do this in any colors you want since March 17th is around the corner and that is St. Patrick's Day And we're all gonna be doing online celebration since all the parades and things have been canceled I thought it would be fun to do something with a little tiny bit of a nod to St. Patrick's Day So that is the phthalo green yellow shade You can kind of see the difference between the two colors right there But you can also see it a little bit more as it dries Then you can right now because the paint is wet now if you're going to Kind of blend out some of the colors like this don't blend everything you want to have some hard edges You can do this with watercolor you can use upo and alcohol inks You can use all different kinds of things anything that's going to create an interesting background Where you'll have hard edges that you can trace Because I've had a lot of people asking how you do really loose types of doodling and Something like this is going to help because if you have all those hard edges You can take a pen and trace around those edges and you're just making shapes And that's what I struggle with because every time I try to draw I tend to draw I try to draw a thing an object And I want to learn how to just draw from instinct draw from just the way my hand wants to move and Doing something like this is really helpful in creating something like that I've done this a little bit on Instagram TV videos But I thought I would do it here on YouTube on this project now I happen to be using one of my fountain pens, but if you're not going to add any more water to this You can use any kind of pen you've got in the house use a sharpie use a micron use a ballpoint pen Whatever you want to use will work just fine You could also do a sheet like this and get it all dry and then cut it up into quarters And give one to everybody in your family and give them a pen and just sit around and draw together Be kind of fun Mine is going to have a little bit of a St. Patty's Day theme because in and out between all of the doodling I'm going to add some shamrocks into mine So I'll have something to share on St. Patrick's Day So it's kind of a bummer that St. Patty's Day is going to be in the midst of the coronavirus Time away our little timeouts that we're having so we're not going to be able to go to parades and Go out and celebrate and have you know green drinks and green foods and green tacos and green whatever's Hopefully you've got something that you can celebrate with at home because it's a fun holiday for lots of people My birthday also is coming during this time period So I'm kind of a little bummed that I'm going to be spending my birthday locked in the house And yeah, not getting to see people so that'll be a whole lot of not fun But if you would like to send a birthday card over on my Website there's a contact page that has my PO box and I am going to sneak out to the PO box periodically Because I have to get out of the house at some point. I can't just always stay here I do take the dogs to the park even though we're supposed to all be staying in the house And staying away from people but I figure the dog park is kind of an open area and I just don't talk to people I just kind of steer the dogs off to a corner of the park where there isn't anybody so That we can have our little playtime outside and then I'm going to swing by periodically to check the PO box as well So if you want to send something and make my day You're welcome to do that because It's gonna be a stinky birthday. So there you go But one part of it that's not going to be stinky and that is also Something I'm really grateful for is that I was exposed To the coronavirus a couple weeks ago And I never came down with it. Fortunately, I didn't know until I was pretty much past the 14 days that they say that you should keep yourself away from people And I'm really glad because I would have spent 14 days just panicking that I was going to be sick And all that sort of thing. I never did get sick. So I'm fine I hope that I wasn't a carrier. I hope I didn't make anybody else sick But if you end up getting exposed Do yourself and do the world a favor and like hide out. Don't go given it to anybody else I know it's hard. I know we're all going to start going stir crazy When the time wears on, you know, the first couple days is not going to be bad where everybody's going to think it's a vacation And eventually it's going to get stir crazy. So just be careful be safe And keep your friends and family safe too I hope you got a little something out of this silly little random video There are links to at least one of the classes in the doobly-doo and there will be another one very soon So I hope that one of those will be entertaining to you and teach you a little something about art And get you excited to go make things and maybe you'll paint one of these backgrounds and start doing some doodling too Thanks so much for tuning in for this video. Leave me a comment if you wish And I will see you guys later on. Take care. Bye. Bye