and welcome once again to the record Rockhound. Today we're out at a special place of Eric's that he has asked that I don't reveal where it is so I'm gonna respect that.  Look at all that agate. Everywhere, lots of red stuff and there's also supposed to be some petrified wood around here. This is very similar to the, it's the same unit that you get all this stuff at Yellowcash so basically the same thing. Anyway, we're gonna take a look and see what we can find. This hill is just covered. Look at that nice red right there. Just chunks of it everywhere. So we're trying to find the nice looking chunks. Yeah, could be here a bit. Well there's a nice big piece right there. Take a look at that. So we got some red, yellow in it, some black. Wow, that one's crazy. That's really cool. This is some nice looking piece. Look at the red and yellow swirls in that. And the black. Oh, that one's cool. I like that one. I think I'll take that one. Just right next to that, I've held this one out. Look at that yellow and red in there. Really cool patterns, some swirls. That'll be nice.  Here's this one washed off. This was quite a nice one. Look at that. I think in my personal opinion, the best stuff to try and find out there is where you get the colors, running into where it turns mostly colorless. And if you can get enough where the light goes through enough, you might have some really neat things going on right here in this boundary. Or maybe if you kind of ground it down or cut it, you might be able to expose some really cool, maybe almost looking like seascapes, like coral in the ocean or something. Look at this broken piece. It's all fractured, but isn't that cool? The colors and everything going on in there. Neat.  Good red patterns going through that. Yeah, I'll take that one. Look at that one. Look at the swirls in that one. That is cool. That is a nice piece. I'm guessing just like a lot of agate areas, the best pieces are gonna be small. Here's this one washed off. Really cool patterns and colors in this one. Really like this one. Such a neat piece. Another nice looking red one. Washed this one off and went ahead and cut it open, but it shattered into a lot of pieces as things out here will be. There's the inside. Nice, but I think the outside might even look better with the darker red bands in it. Just pulled that out. That's cool looking. Got a lot of yellow in it. And I see something else that's really cool close by. Look at that. Right along the edge. Yep, so it looks like the very edge where it formed, you get the nice red and yellow kind of dendrites or whatever going up and then you got clearish kind of in the middle. Here's this one washed off. This is a prime example of getting the colorless right next to the colors and see all the cool things going on between them. Looks like coral or just something cool going on in there. That looks like it's gonna be a good one.  Almost kind of looks purple. Maybe a little bit, kind of a hint of purple. Ooh, what's this right there? Nope, dropped it. Whoops. So we got here some more red. That'll probably look pretty nice. I'll take that. Hmm, got one hiding here, that might be good. Let's take a look. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, I think that's gonna be great. Hmm, yeah, we'll take that home, wash that off, maybe even cut it. Here's this one washed off. Some more good bands right there. But what's really cool about this one is that it's a very interesting cross pattern right there. It's just, I think it's just on the surface. Very interesting, but I don't know for sure. Look at that. Let's put that up to the light. I think that's really gonna be good. That one, like that band on the bottom, that's really neat. And of course, just another good solid chunk. Here's this one all washed off and cut open. And there it is on the inside. Hmm, can't tell a whole lot in there. I mean, there's some stuff going on, a little difficult to really see. This looks like a really neat shard. Nice and big and really cool looking. Yeah, I think I'll take that one. Yeah, look at that one. Let's see how that looks. Get it out. Yeah, it's got some yellow on the top again. Look at that one. Look at that one, that's beautiful. That'll look wonderful washed off.  That's probably gonna be pretty nice once I wash that off. Probably not quite as nice as that other one, but still, that's cool. There's a nice little one. Look at that one. That'll be good.  Look at all of that stuff. So much good, high quality agate. Man, this would be heaven for a tumbler. I mean, I don't really tumble stuff. I mean, just, that's huge. Not particularly pretty, but just huge. And just tons. Oh, that's a good looking piece right at the app. Taking that one. Just all over. Oh, that's another good looking piece. I'll take that one. That's a big piece, but it's very good. Wow, just all over, all over. Here's this one washed off. Got some nice transition going all the way through that. Colors, banding. A lot of cool stuff happening there. Another good looking piece. I need to put the other lens on, but you should be able to see that. Here's this one washed off. Every surface seems to have a different thing going on. Look at that. Just every other piece you pick up is an awesome piece. It's just so good. Everywhere. Just look at that. So good. Here's this one washed off. Got a strong red band on the outside there. And some other cool things going on. Very nice. Here's this one washed off. Some of that red could be so cool with those bands and layers. Another beautiful piece. Here's this one washed off. These bands on the bottom are really nice. Really cool. Found this one. Nice piece. It's cool it had like a little circle right in the middle. Kind of a dot. Cool. Here's this one washed off. Kind of this almost purplish color in a few places. And then kind of that little white spot there. So the center of this isn't great, but it was kind of that nodule shape. And I thought, maybe we'll take and cut it. Just to see. That's a nice piece. Look at that. Very nice. Just found that one. Look at that. That's a nice one. It's got some good bands in it. And he's got a nice one here too. Look at that. So many good pieces. Oh yeah. Here's this one washed off. Stuff is so beautiful. Look at those colors in those bands. Where Jasper meets Agate. Love it. Got a pair of decent looking pieces that were sitting next to each other. Cool. Here's this one washed off. Nice, strong red bands in that one. Definitely the pieces that stand out are where you get the red and yellow meeting up with the colorless. In this case, it's not very clear, but when it's nice and clearly clear, then it's really cool. Here's this one washed off. I loved this side. That right there could be a volcano. There we go. Looks kind of like a volcano. It's really cool though, either way. I think we're kind of hitting the seam. I think it kind of works its way like this because I'm getting these big chunks and look at that piece right there. That looks good. Oh yeah. That's a nice piece. Is this a good one too? It's got a lot of clear in the middle. Not sure if it's good. I'll take it. What about that? Got some good red there and then it immediately turns to black. Here's this one washed off. I really liked that one. Good strong red through the middle and you got this white colorless on the edges. Just got another really nice piece. Look at that one. Nice. Any others right next to it? Let's see. Yeah, maybe. Oh, that's a chunk. Look at this. That's kind of nice. Here's this one washed off. It seems to be mostly a Jasper but definitely has some agate. Really cool. Really cool. Here's this one cut open and washed off. And it looks like it doesn't outside except better getting that fresh surface nice. I like this. I like that contrast all the way from top to bottom. Cool. Here's this little agate cut open. Oh, it's got a little bit going on in there. It's kind of hard to tell. It's a little dark. That looks like it might be a nice big one. A closer look. Okay, we got a little bit of good right there and then that's not that great. It's mostly just that. And that, not too bad looking. Some other good ones here but this looks maybe promising. Oh, I'm gonna need the hand picture. Here's this one washed off. Some good red color in this one. It's got a vein, not the greatest. Oh, that's, that looks like a nice piece. This one's pretty nice looking. Yeah, I'll take that one. Here's this one washed off. I really liked the red and yellow. And I went ahead and cut it as well. Unfortunately, it did break on this side a few pieces came off but here it is cut open. And that's pretty neat. It was just nice to have that red and yellow contrast. So just down here's the agate and I just got past the agate and I don't see any and all of a sudden, boom, petrified wood. There you go. Petrified wood pieces. I mean, not super great yet, but maybe, maybe there's something in here that's nice. I don't know. Look, this one's kind of an interesting looking piece of wood, like that one. That's kind of a cool little piece of the wood. I'm getting a few bigger pieces now. Bigger one. Still not great wood, but at least it's everywhere. Is that a bigger one right there? Ah, there we go. It's a bigger piece. So most of the wood isn't that great, but some of it is still kind of nice. I like some of these. We'll keep some of the pieces, better looking ones. Hey, look at that piece of wood. We got some better solicification going on here. Okay, maybe we got more of that. Just found this.  Here's this one washed off. It is quite different from the other stuff that we found down lower. So hiring the unit, you can get some weird things like this, this red speckled through the black. Really cool. Just got a piece of wood with a hint of red trying to go on there. Maybe just found this piece, a little bigger. Nice. Yeah, getting some bigger, better looking pieces. Just walking along, picking up more piece of petrified wood like that. Yeah, a lot of that around. But just down there, I picked up this stream bevel that is an agate. Look at that thing. Look at that thing. Who knows where that really came from originally?  Look at that thing. Oh, and it even has some agatization going on inside of it. Oh, wow. Okay, that's something to take back. Yeah. Some crystals on it too. Probably a little piece of the wood that fell off of it. Yeah, but look at that chunk. So we got some potential here. And here's this big chunk all washed off. So I got some quartz there. And that's just a big chunk of wood. Not the prettiest wood, but definitely not the worst wood I've seen. Just found this piece of wood. It's got a quartz pocket that was on it. Nice. That's a decent piece. I think I'll take that. Got into a spot where the wood looks a little different. That's a cool little piece. I think I'll keep that. Oh, well, hello, bigger pieces. Oh, look at that. And that. Okay, a few bigger pieces again. Look at that. That's kind of a pretty piece. Like that one. Let's see this. All right, I think that's a little bit more of a limb cast. Interesting. Still getting lots of petrified wood pieces all over. Just found this piece. A little bit better, solicified. Still not the greatest, but I like it. Nope. That's a no-K piece. Yeah, see, I found this little shard. It's a nice agatized piece of wood. Not the best colors, but something. That looks a little better. Oh yeah, that's a better piece. Just found that piece. That's a nice one. Just found this one. It's a better-looking piece of wood, so far as it's got more going on in it. Just found that better piece. Not too shabby. I think I see something over here, right there. Not too bad. Probably won't keep that one. Look at that one. Got some patterns going on in that one. We are now at the top, and we've made it to the source. The source is pretty much on the top. Here's a log poking out right here. And then, you can see there, there's another log. Looking out right here. These things are so fractured. Another one right here. It just... Look at all that wood. Just covering the ground. And then, on it goes that way. That's a good size. Yeah, it is. So, there should be technically wood, then, all over the top of this thing, going that way. Oh, that's a log right there. Yeah, it is. Yup. That's where all that's coming from is. That log right there. If we could just find where it's more solidified so you can get a nice, pretty large piece. Oh, here's another log. Right there. There's a big piece that came off of it. Yeah. Usually that indicates volcanic ash. Catches my eye because that guy that's... There's some wood. The big cast guy said the hole comes out of green soil with red and green peat gravel. Oh, that's a better piece. Yeah, it is. See, that's a better looking stuff. Oh. Yup. Eric just found this. Look at that. It looks like literally the bark just ripped off. You know, it's kind of the under part of the bark ripped off. That is so cool. But it's petrified. Made it back to the vehicle.  Got a whole bunch of nice agates in there. Bunch of petrified wood in my pack behind me. And we've had enough of hiking for now. Ha, ha, ha. Oh, this has been a great spot. Thanks. This is a neat spot. This is some great agate and the wood's fun too. So until next time, remember, there is treasure everywhere.


My name is Kate Thamaze. I'm a sort of ski of Team GB. I'm from Sheffield and I've been skiing for 16 years. So I was 60 years old when I first started skiing. My dad worked at BT in Sheffield and he could see the skis like from where he worked. So he just thought he wanted a hobby from me, my sister and my mum and dad to do. So he just took us for a lesson and it kind of just kicked off from there. I think we all just fell in love with skiing and haven't looked back really. So as soon as I learned how to ski, I joined the Shark Ski Club, which was a ski club based in Sheffield, and I just joined the club and just kept going with it really and that's how I got into freestyle really. So my first competition I did was actually at Sheffield as well and I used to ski every Saturday and this competition that was coming was taking part on a Saturday and the part was closed. So I was kind of upset that the part was going to be closed so everyone just said, why don't you enter it? So I entered it and it was going to be there. It was a bit of fun really. I just didn't really know what to expect. I ended up coming third place I think in the 112 category. I just loved competing and I think I've always been a competitive person. So I just carried on from there and started entering tours that went around the country and every competition I could do. So during the winter we were very hectic and I think my normal week kind of looks like I ski for five, five or six times a week for four hours a day. After that I have physio appointments a couple of times a week. Also do gymnastics a couple of times a week and I make sure I go to gym as much as I can during the week where I do an hour session which could be anything from stretching, cardio work, jumping and hopping and also low maintenance weight stuff. So one of the hardest things I find with skiing and not skiing is having to balance my life and my life as a professional athlete. So I've travelled nine months out of the year which I think is quite a lot. But I'm just so used to it. I've been travelling as a skier since I was 13 years old and to be honest I don't really know much difference. So when I come home my life just carries on with my friends at home and when I go away I'm so focused on skiing and I have some really great friends on the circuit that everything I do when I'm at home or skiing is just all going towards my big goal of being successful at skiing. So a person that's definitely helped me along my way in my skiing life is my coach Pat Sharples. He's been my coach since I've been nine years old so he knows me better than anyone else and he knows how to push me and how to get the best out of me and he's also one of my best friends and I think when I've had tough moments and wanted to quit I just always speak to him and he definitely brings up my mood and when I'm in competitions he's there pushing me on and definitely helps get the best out of me and someone that I thank my whole career to. So I think one of the stand-up moments in my career so far and I think probably one of the best moments of my entire life was getting to represent Team Juby at the Olympics. It was such a great opportunity and it's something I will never ever forget and just getting to where the Team Juby crests on your chest I think just an unforgettable moment and hopefully get the chance to do that opportunity again very soon.


So this is a quick video to show you about how to make a physical model of one of the moon phases and I've got a ball and I'm using just a paper plate to keep it from rolling off my chair and I've got some sunlight coming in the window Which gives me a nice bright light Now you may notice that the light changes a little bit because we've got some clouds going over the sun here and now But it's still bright enough to show what I need to show So what I've got here is that when I look at my ball I see part of it lit and part of it dark If I move the camera relative to the ball I can get different portions of it lit and dark and These represent the different phases of the moon So the one I'm going to highlight for you right now is this phase Which would be a crescent moon phase So for your videos you will actually not create a video You're just going to take a static picture and you can hold it or do something like I'm doing where you leave it Sitting still and move the camera Somehow or another you need to get your ball into a position Where you can see one of the recognizable phases of the moon and be able to list that


Hello, welcome to this week's legislative update. I'm Jim Baumgart and co-host is Nanette Boulebache. Thank you, Jim. How are you doing? From El Carly. I'm doing great. And we have a great program today. We're going to be talking to an outstanding director of the Maywood Environmental Park. Which is an outstanding place. An outstanding park director. And a lot of things going on at Maywood 24 hours a day almost, I guess they do close down the park at a certain time in the evening, don't they, Dave? Well, we do shut it down to the public, but that doesn't mean that there still aren't a lot of things going on out there with wildlife. And this time of the year, of course, birds coming back. But anyway, welcome, Dave. Thank you very much. Welcome back. Thanks. A lot of things going on at Maywood. I know that you have these early feeding things. You have pancake and things. You just got done once a while back and you have that every year. All kinds of things going on. Why don't you remind people what they may have missed so far this spring by Flapjack Day and other programs that are coming up and we'll try to encourage them to come out. Sure. Well, although we do have things going on in the winter, March is when we really concentrate on one particular thing and that's maple sugaring. And so during that whole month, we're capturing sap out of our maple trees, processing it, making maple syrup and inviting hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of fourth graders to come on out and learn about that process. And we usually celebrate the whole thing by having Flapjack Day, which is that usually every year it's the third Sunday of March. So that's always a huge day when the public can enjoy learning about maple sugaring as well. Especially when you have a wonderful day that was and hopefully it'll be next year. Oh my gosh, this March has been just one of the best marches on record, I think. We've had a nice, steady, gradual warm-up. Not many days of sleet and rain and other nasty weather and the day for Flapjack Day was outstanding. And people can actually buy some of the maple syrup, can't they? They can, they can. Yeah, we sell it in bottles. We use most of the syrup that we capture in process for our maple sugaring program with our kids, so they get to taste it. That same day, they're tasting. They can taste it that day on Flapjack Day, but all the month of March when we have all these fourth graders out there eating pancakes too with our homemade maple syrup on it as well. And then whatever's left over will bottle and sell to the public. Well, how can, well, I'm interrupting the net here because my bias is they'll have in a wonderful environmental park. What kind of programs can people expect in the rest of the spring? April, May, and June, it's coming up. Yeah, there's, well, we'll finish off the academic part of the year through June with all these school programs, which there's a lot of, but public programs there are many, many programs, a good diversity of programs for the public throughout the month of March, April, May, and June when we do a lot with birding and hiking and just discovering what's out there in nature, we have that open and that's for everything from preschool kids all the way up to senior citizens. So one program we started not too long ago was our OWL's program, which is an acronym, stands for Older, Wiser, Livelier Seniors, and we do a lot of the same things with them that we do with young kids, taking them outside, introducing them to new discoveries that they might not have ever seen before in nature and opening their eyes and their hearts to what nature has to offer. I find that fascinating. What is it, what kind of comments do you get for those senior citizens? Oh my gosh, what do they like the most? I think the fact that they're seeing things that have always been right there in front of them, but they never took the time to discover. So whether it's birds, whether it's tree identification, whether it's use of a compass and mapping, just all kinds of outdoor skills and interests that these people are finally discovering for the first time. That's, I will get out there. Well, you have a Lunch and Learn program too where people on a certain day, if they look at your schedule, they can bring their lunch out, you'll give them coffee and water to drink or whatever and they eat their lunch and they learn something about the out of doors or watch a movie or whatever you do on that lunch and learn. Yeah, that's another wonderful program. And in fact, on the one that's coming up, we're having some folks from an organization called WOW, which stands for Wildlife of Wisconsin. And they're bringing in some wild critters. So it will be a great family program. So if parents want to come out with their kids for that one, that one's coming up over the spring break period. So I think the kids will have off of school. So they can come out during that lunch hour on that day and discover some of those critters. How wild, what are the critters? Oh, they, I'm not sure what they're bringing this time. Sometimes they've brought birds. Sometimes they've brought big turtles. You just never know. Sometimes snakes. Maybe. I know kids love them. You've got your own snakes there, don't you? We do, yeah, we do have a box turtle there. We have a snake there too that are great teaching tools for us. That's what's so wonderful. When I walk into the Maywood Center, just being there, it's, you feel like, wow, the city's not that far away, but here we are in this sanctuary. You really feel like you're crossing something. You do, yeah. It feels like you're in northern Wisconsin, although you're right on the very edges of us, our urbanization, but yet here we have all of this, these wonderful habitats in a very concise area.  We have several indoor exhibits and in fact, we also have an indoor beehive that's always fascinating for people, so you can get right up close, stare into the glass and watch these bees working as they're going out.  Yes, yeah, I think most bee-raising folks were having a difficult time that winter with keeping their bees, and so a lot of us had to go back and buy new batches of bees, so, but now there seem to be thriving now. Well, one of the interesting things if you walk in, there is a rude awakening that tells people the reason we need environmental places like Maywood and others is that we don't necessarily always take care of the environment. There are two passenger pigeons that are mounted and the last of them died probably about 2000, I mean, 1900, 1905 or a little bit before. Right, right. There's none left and there used to be millions and millions that used to darken the Wisconsin sky, and there's not one left. Because we ruined their habitat. We ruined the habitat, changed the things and they couldn't recover. And over-consumption, a lot of hunting and over-consumption of passenger pigeons. More than barrels of passenger pigeons to the Chicago market. That's why we've never been friendly to the Illinois people again. Well, on a positive note, I can't help noticing this incredible display and it's all these kids with smiles on their faces, they're doing things outdoors. And I understand that now Maywood recently started a partnership with Camp Lycota. Right. So tell us about your youth program. Couple years ago, I approached the president of the YMCA, Donna Wendlinton, suggested that maybe we ought to work together, Maywood and Camp Lycota in order so that we could reach more kids. Because really, in essence, what we're trying to do is create the next generation of stewards of this planet. And if that's truly our mission, we need to be working at a much faster pace because we're losing more and more kids all the time with their introduction to screen time. And so many kids are spending just inordinate amounts of time in front of computers and handheld devices and don't have opportunities to spend time outside seeing the wonders of nature. So these are just a few pictures of some of the things that kids have gotten to experience in their time out at Maywood. And it happens throughout the year. So you can see some winter scenes, spring and summer scenes, and it's just wonderful to see these kids out there for the first time experiencing something that should have been something they've seen many, many times in the past, but all of a sudden, here it is, a brand new thing. They've never seen this before. Oh, that's so great.  Yep, absolutely. I grew up on a lake in northern Wisconsin, and I spent just tons of time just on a canoe or back in a bog, and it was those experiences that got me into a position like I have now, and that's what I'm hoping for these kids. Well, you have something that's coming up during the summer in cooperation with Camp Lycota, we're gonna do another program for next week, which we will delve into it, but you're gonna be dealing with summer programs that for whether five to seven year olds, eight to nine, and then 10 to 14, something for everyone during the summer. Well, Camp Lycota, first off, they do an outstanding job of putting this brochure together, and in the brochure, they have programs beginning as soon as school gets out. We don't start ours at Maywood until after the 4th of July, but that don't count out June, because there's a lot of great programs that they have at Camp Lycota. During the summer months for us, though, we start our programs after the 4th of July, and we work with kids ages. We have what's called our eco-buds, and that's for five and six year olds. Every week we have these five and six year olds there, but every week we also have ages, a group for seven and nine, and also for 10 to 14, they all have different subjects that they're focusing on. And they go home every night, except some of the older ones have an option to stay over at night one night and have a camp out. We usually have one night of the week, usually Thursday is our evening camp out for some of those kids, and again, for many of them, and so that's a whole new experience, sleeping in a tent. Yeah, that's right. So if a parent is interested in enrolling their child in your program, say, they would just contact you directly. So if they wanted to get into our camp, they just contact Camp Lycota. They'll handle all of the registration there, and Camp Lycota's staff will then be doing the programs with them, but at Maywood. I see. And all those staff are highly trained and have to pass certain tests. So people have children, they wanna make sure they know that they're protected, and these are highly skilled young men and women that have made this a passion for teaching kids. Yeah, I used to work at a camp way back when I was a college student, and all you needed at that point was first-aid training. Well, it's well beyond that now. They go through a long checklist of things that they have to be trained on before they're hired as camp counselors. Well, and then this fall, you're gonna have something that we'll talk a little bit more about next week, which is a school program that is at Maywood, and people should really pay attention to that because it gives kids a chance to get outside and see nature as it really is. There is a new movement afoot at Maywood. We have discovered that in all the years of doing programs, we usually worked primarily with third grade on up, and we discovered that since all of these students now are kind of addicted to being in front of a computer or a television. Even at a young age. Even at a young age. I think they give iPads to babies. Yes, we've discovered that we definitely have to try to reach out to a much younger age. So this fall, we're starting a nature-based preschool for four-year-old kids. Oh, my, that's wonderful. But we must end it. Thank you, Dave. Oh, my pleasure. My pleasure. Thank you so much. And everybody who's come to join us, so if you're interested about Maywood, please stop out there and visit or look at the brochure at Camp Waikota. If you have a child that may need some experience and some excitement during the summer, that's the place to stop and go and visit. Till next week, this has been Legislative Update.


Hello and welcome back to this beautiful sunny day in England. It's not sunny at all, I'm lying. But we've got shades of summer here from Meow Cafe Watercolor on Etsy. They looked really cute and yeah, that's pretty much my judgment on paints. If they look cute, I'm gonna try them. Let's get into it. Quite simple packaging, but we don't mind. At least it's not a nightmare to get into. Here they are, they're all handmade and I think that's really nice. It's something really special about one person, a company, a small business, hey, say, making stuff, like me. I don't know why I said that, I'm really sorry. Pesto, pardon you. I don't know if I can, no, I can't take them out. Stick off a little bit carefully. I think I spoke too soon about the packaging, but... Do I have tweezers? No, I don't. It's coming off, but it's a little bit stuck on the paints but I think that's just to protect them. Okay, so here they are. This is the shades of summer palette. I will link this down below, by the way. I bought this myself, so this is, you know, not sponsored or anything, it's a small business and I really like them. They look really cute and I can't wait to try them. I figured with this one, I would try it with some black paper, but I also wanna see how they look on white paper just to test them out. First of all, I wanna see what it looks like from this white paper. I'm just doing a quick test because I've seen them being used on black paper more because they're more like fluorescent. Yeah, they're quite nice. I mean, not so pigmented, but I think that's because I think the intention is to use it on black paper. Orange, let's try it. Orange, you're glad you're watching this video. Sorry, yeah, nice. I mean, I'm like, yeah, they work. Do you know what I mean? I really wanna try them on this black paper, which I fought ahead about and I got because I was like, I think I wanna try it on black paper. Let's try out them. Let's try out them. Brilliant English. Let's see what they look like. I mean, I'm just gonna, ooh. I'm a little bit excited because that looks really cool and I'm really glad that I'm testing them on water, on watercolour paper, on black paper because I think that they're intended to use so I think that looks really pretty. What do you guys think? Love it already. Okay, end of the video. Done and done. No, but we are gonna paint something and I have been thinking about what to paint in the meantime because, you know, I know I was gonna film this video and we're just gonna paint like a little jungle scene, I think, because I thought it would be really nice if this was like a jungle in the dark, in the nighttime. I'm a little bit in love with when the pigment first hits the paper and it's so bright like that. Finger looks so beautiful and I really, really like the textures that the paint is bringing up. Does that make sense? I feel like that does make sense and you guys are just being difficult. Come on, understand me. I really like these. This is so nice to just do something completely different because I've been working so hard on my new comics. And speaking of my comics, it's time for a little shout out to the sponsor of this video. And now a word from our sponsor, me. Do you like comics and stickers? And you don't know where to buy them and you just, you can't even know. Well, check out the link down below because there's some amazing quality products for you to let your hands on today. And so I just, I have this really nice idea to just do like a whole kind of jungle scene. Really like that you can just kind of push the paints around the paper a little bit. It gives off that kind of glowy effect. I don't think I've ever done anything on black paper like this before. So maybe that's why I'm just like having a bit of a moment of awe. Really wanna do like a, oh, I love that. A star field or something, like a galaxy up here. Oh, just love these colors as well. I know I'm just in awe of these, but I think they're so fun. I'm gonna try this blue because I think it's gonna be absolutely stunning. I was right. I was right. That is beautiful. Really like the idea of like these incoherent shapes like these inconsistent shapes in the background. I would just say that it just, it does just feel like I'm playing with watercolors at the moment, which is something that I haven't, you know, felt in a while. Crazy how well they layer as well because usually with watercolors they're not like this opaque. And I'm not sure if that's just because they're like designed for black paper, but usually if you wanted to layer this green over that purple, it just wouldn't look as vivid as this with like normal watercolors. So it's just fun. This is so cute and beautiful. And I'm really having fun. Truly having a joyful moment. It would be really nice if it had like a white in it, but that would be cool. Like a really opaque white like this. Not really looking much like a star field, but hopefully it will. When I've done more details, I'm kind of doing it like blocking out the rough shapes at the moment and then I will go in and rejig stuff. Didn't you know that was the artistic term rejig stuff?  The layering and the textures that it's giving me is just so beautiful. I think, I don't know, there's something I really enjoy personally about this kind of texture that you're getting where it's sort of like not fully covered and just giving that that kind of grainy feel, but I just think it looks nice. It's definitely something very calming and relaxing about using these beautiful vivid watercolors on black paper. I'm just zoning out, having fun, chilling, vibing. You know, it's a rare thing for me. I don't get like that withdrawing.  So the only thing that I am having a hard time with with my own abilities, obviously, is that going from dark and then light on top and then no way to get back to that darkness is kind of like difficult for me because I want to do like shadows on these leaves and stuff.  So how am I going to do that? And yeah, that's a difficult one. Really loving these paints, man. Man, I want to see what it works like with pencils because sometimes that's what I do with watercolors is I use pencils over the top and I would be interested to see like how these work with that. So let's try that out. So I'm going to try the black pencil just to add definition in certain areas. It's working well. I nearly said it's working nice and I would have absolutely been annoyed with myself. A bit of mixed-media action, guys. I think that is going to be swell. Let's see what the blue pencil looks like on top. So it does like layer really nicely with these watercolour paints, which is something to consider.  I think maybe like the light is pink. I don't know. Yep, the pink is working nicely on top. Very good. I wanted to see if I could use black. So I've been using this pencil brush a lot recently, but actually I think the pencil is a bit more desirable. I think this might be like a little bit too dark, whereas the pencil kind of blends in like a little bit, if that makes sense. You need to work on the sky a little bit more just to define it what it is because at the moment it just kind of looks like swirly blobs. And I'm just like shading the areas where maybe there might be shadow a little bit behind the leaves just to give that like definition kind of pops out. It kind of looks like it could be like paper art a bit. I do love these like random blobs that are supposed to be like bushes and stuff, but they don't really look like anything. Interesting shape. Yeah, definitely shading with this black pencil is working I think. It's giving, it's making it really like pop out. Like everything is getting a bit more depth to it. I definitely want to do like some more definition on the leaves as well to make them look more like leaves rather than just like random shapes. That's looking cute. I changed the word nice for cute. Did you notice that? Just steadily changing my vocab there, you know? Do you just want to add like a few more leaves here and there? Before we start this action, need the jungle to kind of go way more higher, way more higher. So I like the idea of having this star kind of exploding over here. And to get that kind of vibe, I want to really layer some color here and then use the hairdryer and push the paint paint around. I definitely like in the way that's looking, I want to act like this is actually just a mountain. So I'm just going to try and do like a little bit of color here and then steadily get it darker as it goes down the page. If this is a mountain, it would pick up the color from the exploding star on top of it. So we probably need to emulate that a little bit. And we're just going to bring color down slightly. Getting some pink down now where the light might, where the star is exploding, it might just pick up on the leaves and around how that might look through different leaves. And it would just be like a rim light on most of this stuff. But I feel like it would shine through the leaves a little bit as well because leaves are not so opaque, right? So let's see, just a little bit here and there to hint at this light coming from here. That's the final look of this image. I really like it as you guys can probably tell. So a little thing there I want to change. And yeah, that's it. I really like these paints. I think that much is obvious throughout this video. And I'll leave the link down below. Obviously not sponsored again. And I really like them. So you guys should check it out. So please see the end of the video. Please let me know what you think. And I'll hopefully see you next time. Bye.


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