Hi guys I'm just trying to bring up the chat on my iPad before we get started and I'm having trouble hang on and There's at least one of you out there Hold on. Hey, seriously. I Hate hesitate to say I'm trying to find myself because it just sounds so weird, but I'm trying to find myself Well, there we are there. I am yay There's three of you watching now put me the mute on Let's make sure the mute is on the other Let's talk to you. Okay, cool. All right. Good morning. Welcome to water color Wednesday First before we get started while people are joining us. I thought I would unmold these so this is just Inspired by and William sin over Annalise creates and or Nancy Vastina somebody else is on it too That's exactly the problem Michelle my new iPad I'm still getting used to it, although it's very similar to my old one It's definitely different I Just use golden molding paste Some brands call it modeling pastes the same thing there is a flexible one. I don't have that I just had this I know and used the deco art one and so I Just used what I had closer. Okay. Hold on So I thought we were waiting for people to join us. We would unmold these so this is a leaf mold all of these This mold I got from Amazon. The rest of these are from Hobby Lobby when I got them when I was in Las Vegas And so let's see this these have been drying for two days and I wasn't super careful about You know that extra So you're gonna have to cut I'm gonna have to cut some of this trim the edges, but I Gotta say this is surprisingly more flexible than I thought it would be and look at look at that Detail in that I'm gonna have to trim it, but I Gotta say I'm very surprised. I might have to order some more molds now I Like the idea that I don't have to like get anything special like any special kind of clay or anything I could just use what I have Hello, isn't that what we're all shooting for not having to buy more stuff and I love these feathers. These are gonna be great Right, that's what I thought Michelle. I thought it should be more stiff because on paper. It just is so stiff All right, let's try the I'm nervous about the lace ones. Let's try the hearts first. Oh Yeah, see look at this now. This is I think a chocolate mold Cindy found it at Hobby Lobby when we were in Las Vegas and she cut it and it was a big mold she cut it in half and Gave me half Well these little hearts are cute Yeah, very great for inexpensive embellishments Teresa. I totally agree with you And you could use them on your journal pages ATC cards, you know Of course, you could put them on a canvas you could put them on so many things Let's try the lace ones now Now the lace ones you really have to make sure you get your Stuff in all the cracks There's no holes Look at that I mean, I'll have to trim the edges, but is anybody else is surprised I am as I am About how this more modeling paste works and this is just golden modeling paste. It's nothing special It's hey Lisa. It's probably something we all have in stock You could definitely glue these down to a page and then watercolor around around and over them Use your spray inks and some water soluble things that would be fun You could also mix paint with your modeling paste before you do this or molding paste All right, let's do another one I'm just I'm just so surprised That's what I thought Michelle. I thought they're really delicate ones would not pull cleanly out of the mold and that they Would break when I tried to pull them out. I Was really kind of nervous about it and this one's kind of thin on the end But I don't think that's because of the mold I think that's because of the way I put the paint the modeling paste in I probably missed a spot See I missed a little spot. All right now this one was also a big mold and Cindy cut it in half and gave me half and This one might again might be a little bit broken I went back and put a second layer on there because it looked like I had some holes in it Never mind How cool is that? So again be glad this is not smell of vision because I literally just got home from the gym like with 10 minutes to spare I did manage to get some inspiration photos put up to my website One of whom one of which we're going to use this morning how cool is this this is going to be This is going to be so cool and these are inexpensive and it's a great idea because this this mold was twice as long And so Cindy cut it in half so for our journaling and what we do with it. You don't need that huge long mold So you definitely could cut it in half and then sell half of it or share it with a friend That would be a great way to get more of these molds and they're not super expensive They do sell them at all your arts and craft stores in the cake decorating aisle and you Can use a coupon, you know use your 40% of coupon and yes, that's what I'm saying. I stink Alright So this morning, I think I Don't know which paints we're gonna use I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Okay, so I when I was in Las Vegas and we went to Dick Blick and for those of you who don't know Dick Blick and Utrecht are the same company Yeah, thankfully Michelle since we shared in bed all right, so Utrecht and Dick Blick are owned there, but they're part of the same company. So when we were at Dick Blick, I picked up some Utrecht brand Watercolor brushes. These are synthetic These are the Utrecht 6150 line of brushes these I got around number four a six and eight and I thought I would get them to try now these brushes are super affordable They start from like two dollars and sixty three cents and the most expensive one is like less than eleven dollars So I really wanted to get them to try So that we could you know, I'm always looking for a good inexpensive paintbrush So we're gonna try those this morning. I Have my mission gold paints. They were honestly out before I left and then I have my mixed paint palette I'm not honestly sure which one I want to use this morning Don't know and We'll get off the watercolor journal And my watercolor travel journal. Okay, so this is my watercolor travel journal This is the one I bring with me when I go out of town one of that couple and Yes, you are You are Teresa and LOL. Yeah. No, it was a nothing cakey going on. I'm not I'm 52. I don't do that anymore Anyway, before I stick my foot in my mouth So my travel watercolor palettes about this size I could take this one traveling with me if I wanted but I don't usually have one that's much bigger than this This is the mission gold palette And this would be great for traveling because it has just enough of the right colors in it except no pains gray But I could mix something close with the van dyke brown and some blue and toss a little bread in there I'd get something that's pretty close So when I'm taking watercolors with me, I just take this and like a water brush So this is my travel watercolor book Yeah, that wasn't the least of it I let all I can say is somebody we were hanging out with and having lunch with one day made me blush like crazy Okay, and I'm not gonna say anything about the baddest so don't ask So these are some different paintings that I've done while I've been on vacation different vacations This is one that I did on this last trip to Las Vegas and Then this is one another one that I did. I normally only do one this time. I did two and This one got a lot of comments And I thought this would be a good one to paint today rather than doing more test swatches We can do test swatches next week And I may even start filming some of them because I've got a lot actually to finish And I don't want to keep doing swatches on a watercolor Wednesday live and Speaking of that there are two videos That air today the first two parts of the next four-part painting and in this next four-part series at the end of each section Each brand then I have put my conclusions about that brand now. These are my conclusions This is my opinion take it for what you will you're totally okay It's totally okay to disagree with me. I live like Yeah, I like What was the one I whole buying watercolors straight out of the tube they're fabulous But when they're dry like this and you go to rewet them they don't rewet super well So while I like their paints and they're nice then they're a little pricey, but they're nice I Like my to work from a dry palette like this. So in that particular case I'm not super excited about them. So that's but that's my opinion at the end of each section I put my opinion. Hey Josie. How are you? I'm just catching up on the comments here Okay, so yeah, Michelle broker bet in Las Vegas like on the first like two hours All right, so we're gonna work on another version of these desert blooms and I did put my reference photo up on to my website So you can go there and print it out. I put a couple of other photos too I think there's five pictures and all that I added this morning What do I like in regards to what Josie? So I put I think five pictures up this morning Hey Sharon and so you can go to my website and you can there's an inspiration photos page and You can print out print out and use this reference any of the photos on there I've taken all of them my daughter took a couple and but I have her permission to use them and They're great photos. This is one I took at Red Rock Canyon and so we're gonna work from this I'm gonna stick it up here And we're gonna work here in my watercolor journal. Let's see find a blank page. Oh Oh type of so my favorite type of watercolor paints are Daniel Smith. Um, I do also like Shminka They're very well pigmented. They're a little bit pricey, but they're really nice paints to work with As far as inexpress in it blah blah blah blah blah Some more caffeine.  It's pretty where readily available of just about everywhere. Hobby Lobby has it The fact they've had some of it on clearance. So if you want to go pick it up on clearance I think that's a great idea. I also like Koi Koi makes a really nice watercolor paint It's very well pigmented fairly transparent and I enjoy working with it and my travel watercolor box is Probably three-quarters Koi It's Koi and Daniel Smith so But at the end of each video there will be a text box at the end of each of the four new four-part series that gives my Conclusions about that particular brand of paint and when we're done reviewing all the brands that I have I'll give you some sort of overall summary probably in a video where we will go through The swatch book and talk about each brand and what my conclusions are That'll be coming up All right, so one of the other things I did and I did this right before I left was I went out and got some ox skull liquid now ox skull is a watercolor medium and Windsor this is the Windsor Newton brand. I got it at Hobby Lobby and yes, it was 1299 a Yuzukupon It is supposed to increase wetting and flow in your watercolor paint And you add three to four drops to a cup of water and so I actually put some in this spray bottle I think this came with my twinkling H2O's and I got it to try See if it Rewet the dry watercolors any better than using plain water Which it's supposed to do also at some point We're going to try it on those dang Holbein paints that I had trouble rewetting so I Thought we would try that this morning, and I think that I'm wanting to I think we'll use the mission gold palette I'm really liking the mission gold paints now. They're not super inexpensive. In fact, they're you know Pricey like everything else out there. They're not the most pricey thing in on the planet But they're not cheap either, but they're very nicely pigmented. I gotta say I really like them and This 12 color palette is really nice. Okay Yeah, I gotta arrange everything so let's get our palette wet first Normally I do this off-camera, but I was at the gym so We'll let it sit for a minute Let's see what I did the last time Okay, so the first thing you want to do is get a number two pencil and I just got some Drawing pencils from map at helix and this is they're called black peps This is a HB to Drawing pencil this will work any pencil will work and Also, too when you're talking about types of paint you want to you know Decide what you're gonna do with it if you're gonna just play in with your art journal in in your art journal with it Then I would definitely go with something more budget-friendly like the Koi paints or the Van Gogh paints or something like that rather than Spending a lot of money on like Daniel Smith or something Unless you decide you really really really love watercolor I'm gonna try and move this up a little bit so that you guys can see what I'm doing Let's see Rearranging my table. This is all stuff. I usually do before I get started I'm still trying to get back in the swing of things from being on vacation So if you're a beginner, I would definitely say go with Like the Koi I wouldn't spend a lot of money on paint So now we're going to first do a drawing And I know all of a lot of you don't like to necessarily do tons of drawing and that's fine but doing good art and good journal pages Requires a little bit of drawing skills You don't have to have tons of drawing skills But a little bit goes, you know, you should have a little bit and you don't you can be suggestive I usually am so I'm going to follow this stem. I'm really just picking out the flowers and the stem here and I'm using my photo as inspiration For my drawing and first I'm going to put my stem in oops And I'm not going to worry about the extra lines this you know journal is for experimenting in and practicing and I kind of like the Suggestion and the interest that the extra lines give you when you're a page And there's only one way to get better at drawing To do it So as a beginner Josie, I would stick with that, you know, something that's budget friendly Like the Koi you can get Koi at Like Hobby Lobby they have the Well, I guess it's the 30 pan set now, but I last time I was at Hobby Lobby they still have the 24 I Think the new one is like 30 Okay, so now I'm gonna look at these flowers here and I'm going to just I'm looking at the shapes I'm looking at I'm drawing what I see not what I think I see Think about that statement so draw what you see Not what you think you see Which is way easier said than done. I'm aware of that Yeah Sorry, sorry Josie. I forgot that you were in Italy there for a minute. Yeah, there probably isn't I have been in communication with an Italian paint company I Forget where in Italy that makes watercolors Trying to get them to send me some things To try Maybe you can get something like the Koi kit on Amazon does Amazon Prime. Do you have Prime there? So I'm just looking at the shapes in my inspiration photo and if you want to get a better look at the inspiration photo then Go to my website and print it out. Oh good. You know, I love a good small mom-and-pop art store There's just really nothing like it We found one when we were in Las Vegas desert art supply. Love those guys. They're a little bit off But you know there you can tell they're creative types because aren't we all a little bit off So I'm doing light pencil sketches You know if you're not sure that you want to keep the lines Maybe you want to erase them later then you want to keep your pencil lines light no no digging any holes to China with your pencil and You know, there's nothing wrong with a good suggestive sketchy mark Yeah, we really love that guy. They had tons of the place was packed Florida ceiling with art supplies great prices great selection of stuff and probably the most Manufacturer pamphlets and stuff I've seen in any art supply in a long time No, I agree with that Teresa. You wouldn't think that at all, but they but we found them They did have some Now especially when you're doing some kind of a study or a practice sketch don't worry so much if your image ends up running off the end of the page and Even sometimes when I'm working on a canvas or a piece for a client Sometimes I do that intentionally or even if it's accidental. I like it and so I end up not changing it So don't feel like that you've made a mistake if things run off the end of the page Like this one's going to the other one did too in the practice in the travel journal remember your inspiration photo is a suggestion and You should you know use it as such if you want a true representation of what you saw. Well, that's why we have cameras But when you're working on a piece of artwork Use your photos as inspiration for your art and you try to create the impression of what you saw rather than Trying to make yourself crazy painting exactly what you saw. I think that's pretty good So now I'm going to come in with a black pen And this is exactly how I did the one in my journal So once I had the basic shape that I was happy with Okay, wait tea break. Let the camera focus. There we go then I took a black pen something that was waterproof and I went and highlighted Some of the shapes that I liked No, I don't worry about the pencil showing generally. I just let it help me suggest My shapes in the finished piece now if you're worried about the pencil showing and you really don't want it to you have two solutions One would be to use a water soluble pencil like a watercolor pencil One would be to let your waterproof ink dry and then erase the pencil Now you can try and erase the pencil after you've water colored on it, but I find that that's difficult at best I usually don't bother because hello lazy crafter here Not the food frugal crafter. That's Lindsay lazy crafter. Hey Katana, how are you? No problem. We're just getting started So I'm going to use my sharpie stainless steel pen to Help me suggest some lines and I kind of like these Accidental pencil sketches here. So I'm going to put them in and you can use any pen. I'm going to use the sharpie pen, but I don't either so I usually just leave it. I either do it before I watercolor or I just leave it so go ahead and Take some of your lines and highlight some of them.  So that's pretty good. I am going to erase this little line right here Because that one's kind of in the wrong spot Let's use this eraser That's not suggesting any anything so it needs to go away You know, I don't know what these are these were this was taken in red rock canyon. There's some kind of wild desert bloom I think they had the name of it on one of the signs at the visitor center But none of us remember what that name was if one of you out there knows let let me know but I don't know Okay, so now we're going to start painting All right, so the first thing we're going to do is put this up here Because now it's really color and shadow reference So I'm going to take the wider of the brushes the bit that number eight round And I'm going to mix on my plate here because this palette of paints.  They're beautiful flowers. I yeah, but I have no idea Okay, so I'm going to just randomly the first thing I wanted to do was You see how this has like a grayish brownish green background because of the rocks and the dead vegetation So I wanted to do that first before I did anything else and this is how I did the page in the journal This is a little too green. Let me hang on. Let me Okay, now it's too red It's not the color I want Yeah, yeah, yeah That's better Just keep mixing it until you get the color that you want That's better Holy moly. All right. So the first thing we're going to do is this okay Then take your brush with just water and take some of those droplets And put water on them And spread the pigment out you can leave some of them the way they are the background of these flowers was very uneven And um had lots of textures and tones in it. So don't worry about that And your color could be even lighter than the one I started with and to do that just add a lot of water to it And you can even take some plain water and do this and that's going to You know Hit some of the paint The best way to learn about watercolor is just to start playing Don't listen to have should haves or need to's or must do's just start playing and enjoying your paints and figuring out What what they can and can't do and what you like and don't like about it And just go from there. I've never ever taken a proper watercolor class I watched a few dvds and youtube videos So I like that And just keep doing that until you're happy with your background. This is the background So do this first and then when you paint your flowers and you don't have to touch it up And the only thing I did with the original Was after I was done then I put in some shadow And I actually like this even better. So that's the other thing is if you do one of these when you're um On vacation, you know consider it like a study And if you want to paint it again, the more you paint a subject the better you're going to be at it Globe mallow. Okay. See there you go You have to find your own style. Teresa. I totally agree with that All right, so we're going to leave that I like that we're going to mix up some green I'm going to do the stems first Now that greens a little bit bright and limey for me and for what I'm seeing in the picture So I'm going to add a little bit of Ultramarine to it There we go and tone it down a little bit by just mixing some more blue in it I'm going to put this on the side of the stems where I want the shadows to be And then I'm going to take my brush with just water on it And I'm going to blend that pigment out to the other side And it'll give me some Variating shades of green without adding any more color I'm going to see if I can zoom in a little bit for you guys And don't worry so much if you go outside the lines, you know, this is not You know about this is about suggesting your shapes and colors. We're not Crazy about going outside about not going outside the lines Have fun with the process And that was um sap green for mission gold and then I added some ultramarine blue to it fyi for somebody who's asking If anybody's asking So when you know when you're working with watercolors start with your lighter colors and work your way darker I almost always with watercolor or acrylic do my backgrounds first That way when I'm painting the focal point I don't have to go back and try to paint the background around it. It's already been done And I don't have to go back and try to touch up something because I Got you know background paint on it Okay, I have this other color of green that's more Blue darker of veridian green. So we're going to take some of that And we're going to add it in here and I'm going to actually brown put some of the brown in it So we're working our way lighter to darker And and I know my other green is still dry and I'm okay with that And this is going to blend in with it a little bit, but that's all right I'm using just the very tip of the brush. I'm still got this number eight brush And I got to tell you guys I like this brush It's a nice paint brush It holds a point very well Now you notice I didn't draw any stems over here, but the way the painting is coming out I didn't really need to it's being suggestive of the stems, which is nice I definitely if you're in the area, I would recommend that you guys take a trip out to red rock canyon I do know that Now I know why my husband and I usually go in the summer when it's really hot because there's nobody there The weather was beautiful, but everybody on the planet was at red rock canyon Also valley of the fire is gorgeous, which is out that way and um hoover dam They're all great places for inspiration That's pretty good. I kind of like that. So we're going to leave that and let that dry for a little bit and work on some other part of the painting So I've got some permanent yellow light here Did anybody notice I accidentally stuck? Oh, you can't see it on camera I accidentally stuck my paint brush in the clean bucket of waters and on both buckets of uh Our little tinted. I'm sorry So the first thing I'm going to do If you notice the flowers have kind of a yellowy orange center So I'm going to put just the permanent yellow the way it is mixed with a bunch of water in the flower centers Kind of sloppily when it come back in with some water and blend it out just a bit Towards the petal edges Missed a little that should be green Let's fix that shall we here we go. All right. Don't be nervous. Josie I'll keep you distracted When I do have to tell you that I I loved these mission golds before I thought they rewet nicely There's something about using that ox skull in the in the water though. I think it's even better than it was before All right. So now we're going to work our way more towards the oranges and when I did the sample one I even added a little bit of pink in there. So We're going to start with um, I have just orange mission gold orange. I'm going to mix it with the yellow that's on my plate Yeah, I heard about brussels and I haven't heard about anything else going on But I haven't really watched the news since I got back. Are you safe? Josie? I hope I'm just yellowing up my orange a little bit. All right So we're going to work our way from the center to the outer edges these flowers for the most part have darker outer edges and the centers are lighter So we're going to just put a little bit of pigment remember a little bit goes a long way There's no need to go crazy and overboard and you know do some lifting We're supposed to call it lifting not blotting. I still think it looks like blotting same difference And blend it out a little bit towards the outer edges And you notice how right there I suggested the outer edge of that petal By putting paint behind it These brushes hold a lot of water. I got to tell you I'm impressed No bristles are popping out. There's no stray hairs So I'm going to work my way around the page I'm sure he's going to be fine. Josie. He'll be careful. He and his new wife And how great is that that you have a new daughter-in-law? That's fabulous I shouldn't say that or son-in-law. It doesn't matter new your that your son has a partner He will be it'll be great Okay, so then I'm just blending it out If you don't get to it quick enough And it's the pigment starts to dry on the paper and it doesn't rewet well very well on the paper It stains just do this and take some more pigment And go over it some of those lines may show but just work with it and you know what like what bob ross used to call him happy accident just work with it And Work it into your piece like it was supposed to be there. Okay, so that's pretty good. We're getting there. I like it All right, so we are going to Let the centers dry a little bit. I do want to do something else to the centers We're going to keep working our way out We're going to take our same orange mixture and we are going to add some permanent rows to it Now just because your inspiration photo of whatever flowers you're using is a certain color Doesn't mean you can't paint them a different color. So you can take some creative license there So i'm going to take this permanent rows and go around some of the edges and darker parts of the flower It's going to blend with the orange paint on here where it's still wet and i'm okay with that It's going to give me an interesting secondary color and like right there. That's a little too much water So let's get some of that up There we go If you have a paint that you're using that's super pigmented like these mission gold ones then you know just You're going to have to practice with them and try to remember a little bit goes a long way And when you switch to an artist grade paint from, you know, something like the koi That's a hard it can be a hard adjustment It is very important to have to have good brushes now That doesn't mean you need to spend a ton of money on brushes because it that's not true You just need to have a good decent brush and like I said, this is an inexpensive utrecht brand paint brush Um I bought it at dick lick. It's not expensive brush at all And it's holding up really well. I also like the princedin nap tunes and the princedin select brushes for watercolor And again, those are a little bit more pricey than this utrecht brush, but I buy them when they're on sale Um, I have a local place to your I know you don't have in in italy joe'sy, but Aaron brothers and they'll have buy one get two free and that's When my local stores have sales like that that's when I go buy brushes I want to be a grand grandma someday too joe'sy, but my daughter's only 21 and her boyfriend's 22 I would rather they both wait a little while and finish school So i'm in it continue working and you don't always have to blend all of your paint lines out Let you know let your paint lines live on the paper and let them help you suggest your shapes Um, you know if you make a line on your flower that you like Then leave it There's no law that says all your marks have to be blendy my my paintings are usually puddley I like them that way I fully anticipate being the grandma that spoils the kids rotten fills them up with sugar and then sends them home My daughter's gonna kill me But her grandmother used to give her bowls a cool whip just cool whip no pie. No cake. No just cool whip and then send her home Hey victor We're just painting some flowers here this morning. Thanks daniel They're called globe mallow. I know that because michelle looked them up while I was here painting them because I couldn't remember what they were called Um, they're wild desert wild flowers We saw them in red rock canyon When we were there I took some pictures at the visitor center You can download the the photo that i'm using as inspiration off of my website And I took a few flower pictures while I was on vacation some of which were taken at my brother-in-law's wedding Um outside their wedding venue They had some beautiful blooms and I got some great shots with my iphone The camera on the iphone is it's not as good as michelle's um HD camera I mean a dslr camera, but it's that's pretty good. Good. See i'm glad you're here and lisa. I'm sorry about your grandmother You know, I just made it through a couple of airports recently obviously so Um, you'll be fine. You know just you know, that's what tsa is for you have to trust them to do what they're supposed to be doing and um, you know Security might be stepped up a little bit. So you might want to Um not carry anything on board that you don't have to And i'm here every wednesday at 10 a.m. Pacific time Okay, so that's looking pretty good My stem is a little thick, but i'm okay with it. We're gonna just leave it Um, what do I want to do next? I think I I need to do this i'm gonna take a little bit of my green and if you look at the flowers There's a little bit of a green highlight in the center of the flowers Like a green shadow So we're gonna put some of the green in here And i'm not gonna blend it this time. I'm gonna leave the Painty marks or lines and let it do what it might And i'm just using i'm just i'm still using it. I'm using this number eight. It's holding a point very well this number eight brush And I think this brush was only like Four or five dollars. It wasn't expensive I thought the mixed media fabric beads were interesting. I haven't had a chance to watch the video yet I'm still catching up But I thought it was an interesting idea When I stopped talking it's because I'm catching up on the comments Okay, I'm gonna take some of the yellow straight out of the pan Well, don't be afraid of your watercolors. Just have fun with them and play Don't listen to anybody's well, it's supposed to look like this or you're supposed to do that Don't listen to that just do what makes you happy So this is permanent red and I'm just mixing it with the other stuff that's already on my palette I'm gonna put some yellow in it And now I'm using my paint colors to help me define some of my shapes They may do like blooming like this just did here, but I'm okay with that. Thank you victor I'm just playing I did get asked by people when I was in Las Vegas if I would do private lessons with them over Like google hangout or skype and I said I would so Karen no, we only know each other from online. I know a few of them in real life in person, but um, we've just been hanging out online for a long time And welcome by the way, so I'm using this darker orangey red color that I mixed up from the paint I had on my palette to Find my flower petals. I'm still working on the flower petals. You really want to before you start putting the shadows in really Make sure the rest of your piece is the way you like it You don't always have to make your shadows with Black think about making your shadows with colors Oh, I love a good abstract I work in acrylic too, but I really love watercolor. It's what I started in first Just playing I haven't done a canvas in a while. Actually, I probably should do one soon. So I'm still in practice And it's not like I have a shortage of canvases around. I've got a ton of them out in the garage They're on my do not buy list So you start to create depth in your painting in your in your flowers just by adding more layers of colors And I've taken classes to try to be better at abstract. I still kind of suck at it I work primarily in watercolor these days, but not only I do have a commission for um, some Sketchy watercolor pieces I need to do for a project for somebody Hey, you said how are you? Good morning Or afternoon what time is it? Oh, it's still 11 o'clock my time. So good morning. It might be evening where you are A good abstraction in my opinion is one that just makes sense when I do them And I'm probably way hard on myself They just look like somebody just threw paint on the canvas and it doesn't make sense I don't work in oils. It's probably the one thing I don't work in The fumes make me wheeze, which would by what be why I don't work in oil So I'm just adding layers of color Until I get the suggestive look that I want. Yeah All right, that's pretty good And this was a quick painting when I did it. I think I did it well I did some of it before everybody got up in the morning. I think why we were having coffee Or when we got home I don't remember one of them I did before coffee and one of them I did after we got home Back to the condo So you notice I just mixed everything that was on my plate together And I got this nice dark brown color And I'm just going to work with what I have I might Add a little bit of ultramarine blue to it blew it up just a little bit There we go And that made sort of a grayish brown less reddish So I'm going to look at my reference photo and I'm going to put some shadows in A little bit of pigment and then a whole bunch of water Just do a little bit at a time Yeah, yeah, I I was almost done with it No, no worries Nancy. Welcome Watercolors are not forgiving You're right. They're really not and I but I like I think I like the challenge of working with them There's something about it that intrigues me So the only thing you want to make sure that you do is have all of your shadows going in the right direction or the same direction when you're doing and that's true for Any kind of painting or drawing So sometimes what I'll do when I'm working on a piece if especially if I'm working on an easel with canvas Is that I will put a post-it note that says sun and with an arrow So I know which direction the sun is coming from so that I don't screw up my shadows You can also use your dark shadow color to cover up and disguise Some of the lines and things that you don't like You won't get rid of them, but that's okay, but you can cover them up and make them look Less obvious so it can straighten out the shape of your flower a little bit if it's off It was a lot of fun and um, yeah, we're gonna have to do it again because it was a lot of fun I'm going to alaska in may With my husband so that's also going to be a lot of fun Yes, my husband says your guys are a bad influence on my vocabulary michelle But he said it with a wink and then he said the f board so I don't I don't think it I don't think it was that big a deal 41 you're just a baby Yeah, I love the challenge of watercolors. I love how they move on paper I love the translucency and the ability that you have to really just layer them on top of one another Do you see we had some orange escape, but I'm going to work with it I'm going to just put some water here and blend it out a little bit Well, my birthday's in august august second Okay, so we're going to just work our way around the page now if you're a mixed media artist Like I like to consider myself You don't have to stop with the watercolors and pen and pencil technically that's mixed media already But you could do some stamping in the background.  Especially if you're working in a journal like this where it's just a study journal Don't be afraid to try things Thank you These flowers were fun to paint as much fun to paint this time as they were the first time I would not want to be 14 again Not not for anything in the world So a little bit of pigment and then spread it out with water if it blends with other pigments in the page Don't worry about it. Let it go If you don't want it to then you have to control where you put the water and how much water And leave it don't be afraid to leave a white space It gives you an interesting Illustratorly look. Yeah, I'm my uh astrological sign is Leo Leo the lion Well, congratulations Karen. Yeah, you never know when you're on here for the newbies Be you male or female what we're going to talk about Sometimes it's menopause and if there's men in the audience I feel bad Because you're probably learning things you don't need to know or don't want to know But you know we just chat and paint and You can ask Michelle and Cindy. I'm like this in real life too. We just chat and do art and You never really know what I'm going to start chatting about So that's pretty good. I feel like We need something down here. I was 31 when I had my daughter. She's um 21. All right. That's pretty good I'm feeling like I want to break it up a little bit though and we are going to Add some let's see. We're going to try to mix up something that's more blue here Yeah, that's pretty good So if you want to make a dark black blue color Or a dark black gray color Mix here all your primary colors together together on your palette when you have a limited like 12 color palette here Like this one that doesn't have the black in it just mix red yellow and blue together until you get The color you're looking for if you have a brown you can use the brown And I'm going to take this darker color here Do you really want to add some dark darks? It really will make your peace pop I'm going to have to get used to these brushes. They really hold a lot of water I have to say though. I like them So it was looking good before but then I added that and look what happened.  I'll also make them eat vegetables. I'm like Our boyfriend we love him dearly If they get married we won't be upset, but The boy does not like vegetables. It must be something some a Lithuanian thing at least that's what he claims I don't know if I believe him But he claims it's a Lithuanian thing Okay, so now I'm adding my dark dark shadows and yes, I'm going right over the stems in some cases Where I deem there appropriate and I'm actually not really looking at my photo anymore Now I'm doing what's best for my painting And not necessarily what I see Um is best for What what is in the photo? I'm doing what's best for the painting. I'm trying to watch the chat And paint at the same time and it's just not working All right, so at some point you need to put the photo away And you need to do what's best for your painting Yeah, I like the Princeton Neptune too. They also hold a lot of water for a long time.  It doesn't hold quite as much water But you can use it for acrylic or watercolor Um, or this this one's nice for a cheap. This is a cheap brush Um for a cheap brush. This is a great one Thank you victor Oh, there you go. Now everybody has Karen's facebook, um link The use of water and where you put your water is just as important as where you put your pigments You definitely can use watercolor with stamping stamped images if you don't Draw or you don't have confidence in your drawing skills There's nothing wrong with learning about watercolor and playing with it with stamped images You have some fun figure stamps or something like that In your stash of stuff stamp them with waterproof ink or emboss them and then Play with your watercolor paints I'm going to have to go look when we're done with the broadcast because now you're all they're all talking about your work, Karen So I'm sure it's gorgeous Okay, I kind of like that. I am going to do this.  I do have some design team members Some of whom are here in the chat hint hint that have some of my stamps They should make some things and they should post them I would love to see or any of the rest of you So I like that that that's pretty good. So I'm going to set this aside Somewhere. I don't know where Trying hard not to get paint on my new ipad Yeah cough cough michelle So here's our original inspiration photo Since somebody brought it up. I was trying to figure out how To message all of you So here's the original photo and I just you know took some creative license with it Here's the original study that I did while I was on vacation. They're you know done from the same photo, but they're very different And there's nothing wrong with that You know take some creative license with it have fun and you know draw it a few times and do it a few You're bound to create one that you really like That's true. You do And just play you know and remember you can do something like with a stamp And one of my stamps or somebody else's stamp is stamp the image on your paper or in your journal with watercolor I mean in watercolor with water soluble Blah blah blah blah. I need more caffeine. Holy cow people waterproof ink Yes, I do a little bit. Sorry at or emboss it And then watercolor it you don't have to draw if drawing is not your thing But if you want to be better at painting you probably should practice your drawing and there's no Way to get better at it other than practice. There's no shortcut because believe me I'm the queen of shortcuts if I knew of one I tell you Oh, you're welcome daniel And I can't help this snoring. It's part of the asthma and allergy thing So anybody have any questions? We will be back next week with another watercolor Wednesday. I'm here every week unless I'm out of town And um some weeks we do paintings. Some weeks we do Swatches, um, I have um Daylar roundy brush show royal and langnickel Um Who else oh and peerless yet to do You're welcome everybody um, I do have a uh facebook group if you don't know about it called a life of self-expression Sorry a life of art and self-expression and if you want to See more of my work every day because I do post stuff every day. Um go over and join the group um instead of a fan page. I have the facebook group and um You can once you're in there you can tag me and post you can you know private message me if you have questions My contact information is usually in the video description below my email address and everything so if you have any questions or comments or anything like that don't be shy and uh Everybody don't forget the most important thing. You all know what that is right Have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. All right Yeah, are you feeling arty? I love that saying All right, so don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I will talk to you all later And like I said if you you know, I'm easy to find just google my name.  See you all later. Bye


There are 596 manholes that we have on base that we do periodic maintenance inspections on. Making sure that the cabling that we have is ready to go and those play a big role into how the work centers operate. Then we have PPE, which is our personal protective equipment. It's going to be our hard hats, our gloves, our glasses, our steel-toed boots. And that all helps us stay safe on the job. So right here we are putting on the safety harness for the A-frame that is behind us. And this keeps me safe inside of the manhole. We do air quality control to make sure that it's good to get inside. Then we go ahead and clean the tags to make sure that the labeling system is good for us to read just in case anything does happen that we do have the proper documentation. So those play a big role in how the work centers operate and I think our jobs are very important.


All right, so let's take a look at how to use Unity's new post-effect system inside of our tank controller scene. All right, so let's jump over into Unity and take a look. Okay, so in order for this to work, make sure that you go up to the window package manager. And if you don't already have the post-processing package installed, simply go to the all tab and scroll down until you see the post-processing package right here and just say install. All right, so I've already got it installed. All right, so I would go ahead and do that and then just continue with the video. So in order to make this work in Unity 2018, the first thing that I usually do at least is I go to the camera and I go and add a post-process layer component to it. And so what this post-process layer does is it's basically what triggers the new volumes that are in the post-processing system. Okay, and what we need to do is we need to actually set everything that controls the post-processing effects. We need to set the layer so you can see inside of Unity, if you go to the layers, it has the post-processing layer. All right, and I'm going to go ahead and turn on the fast approximate anti-aliasing. Okay, all right, so I've also gone in and I've set the project settings inside of the player to be in the linear color space. All right, that way we can take full advantage of all the post-effects. All right, so I'll go and do that now. It takes a little bit, you know, if you set it from gamma to linear, it will have to re-import some of the textures and adjust their color spaces and stuff like that. Okay, cool, so once you have all that set up, the next step is to go in and what I'm going to do, at least, or what I've started doing is I go and create an empty object and I just call this my post volumes group. Okay, and this is basically where I keep all my volumes. All right, so inside of there I'm going to create another empty game object and just call this the global volume because you're always going to have that one global volume for your levels. You know, the nice thing about volumes is that you can move in and out of different volumes here and have different effects trigger as the camera moves in and out of the volumes. All right, but we always need that one global because that's what is going to be overridden. Okay, so on that global volume over here, I'm going to say add component and we're going to add a post process volume like so. Okay, and I'm going to make sure that it's set to the is global property there. Okay, and with that, we basically have the basic structures. All right, so the way it works is we have the post process layer on the camera. Okay, and then we create the volume, the global volume. All right, and then what we need to do is we need to create a profile. So if you've saved the scene already, all right, by hitting this new button right here, what will happen is it'll create a new profile for you and it puts it, if we just click on this right there, it puts it into the scene right next to the scene file. All right, so it's pretty cool. So once you have that, we can start to add post effects. All right, it's pretty easy. Okay, so what I'm going to do, I always start with the ambient inclusion here and you'll notice now that the effects aren't on by default anymore. Okay, so what I want to do is update the mode intensity and I want to set my mode to the scalable ambient inclusion, turn on my radius and I'm just going to increase all this. Now, the one thing, the reason why we're not seeing any post effects yet is because I didn't set the global volume to the post processing layer. And there we go. So now you can see it kind of did a little twitch there. So what I can do now is increase my mode and my radius or my intensity and radius. There we go. So now we're starting to get some ambient inclusion. I'm going to turn off my grid as well. There we go. All right, so I'm going to go then and add in my bloom. Now in this case, you know, there's not a lot of bloom, but I'm just going to put it in there for completeness. There we go. So you can see we're going to start to bloom this out, but I don't want to get it to during me looking. Okay, then I'm going to go and add my color grading. I always like to do this. And I always like to set it to the aces mode and then adjust my post exposure. So just pull that up a little bit. And I'm going to, you know, set the contrast or not the contrast, the saturation here, maybe a little bit of hue shift. It's a little bit too much. All right. I always mess around with my gamma lift and gain. This just allows me to kind of color it. And then I also use these little sliders. So I get something that I really like. There we go. Just start to tint it with these colors just a little bit. There we go. That's pretty cool. Awesome. Okay. So with that, we're good. And then what I'm going to do is put in the vignette and I'll call it good. Now I'll let you guys go and play around with all these other different effects there. So I'm just going to play around with the intensity and smoothness here. So I just pull up the intensity there and voila. Looks cool. It's probably a little bit too much color for my taste. There we go. Just, there's too much gamma there maybe. There we go. Something like that. Pretty cool. All right. All right. So let's hit play one more time and adjust the camera. I think I had the camera a little bit too high there. All right. The camera is a little bit too high. So remember, we can use the editor tools that we created here. This makes it a lot easier instead of having to go mess around with these values over here. Not that that's hard. All right. I always just, you know, try to make tools for myself just to make it more interactive and more fun to play around with all my systems. Pretty cool. There we go. So, you know, like I said before, I'm thinking about doing a whole set of series. I guess that's how you would say it. You know, just kind of build upon this little tiny tank here. Maybe do some weapon stuff, get into a level.  It's super powerful and I love all the features that it comes with these days.  It's that way I'm not bouncing back and forth between Houdini or Maya or any DCC package. So there we go. We have a nice little controller, tank controller that would be perfect for just about any game. I also want to go and set this to something more, you know, isometric there. So let's really change the height now and our distance. Let's just pull this guy up even more. There we go. That feels more like a top-down game. Let's give it some more distance. There we go. That feels better. Cool. Alright, so I'm going to leave you guys there. Thanks so much for watching and definitely let me know if you guys have any questions. Alright, I'll see you guys in the next series. Thanks so much.


10,000 volts this album was released. I guess what day or two ago There it is Kenny showing it up there. This is his eighth studio album Kenny was actually Sam Ash records in New York where ace freely was doing a signing You see some cool video that Kenny, you know Took and I posted there and Kenny posted and everyone's watching it He's coming out of his limo right or his car his black cars SUV and then the fans are there There's a lineup. Maybe you want to tell us about that experience there Kenny Well, I've done this 10 years ago when he did space invader in the same spot and then Johnny Oh his personal assistant John Astronomy it was very he's very helpful I went over to him first yesterday and I said John do you mind if I when ace comes out if I feel and he said Not at all I said well, you know, we're gonna put it up, right? And he goes, oh, yeah, yeah, so he let me get right in the front He was very generous with his time yesterday with me, and it was pretty cold We were in the shadow of the Empire State Bill It's on 34th Street off right in back of Madison Square Garden, and it was pretty windy yesterday People waited about six hours. He did the right thing yesterday though ace He really did it was well run Sam Ash does a good job there But it was very well run I got to say aces people are very good to get good to his fans He stayed an extra two hours and signed for every everybody that waited on the line It's a new ace isn't it? It's a new ace. It's an ace. You know what it is Jimmy ace is in love and it shows on this album He's got a new woman and she straightened to me my personal opinion. She straightened them out and You can hear it in the music half of it's an ace album half of it's I'm in love All right, Perry Wilson never too late never too late I Agree with that hey Jimmy one thing can Kenny show his his autograph album So for me ace has one of the best signatures in rock and roll, and he doesn't just scribble his name He always draws a large ace card, and I have what ace guitar pick from a show. I was at a couple years ago He has the same Signature on his guitar picks. It's really really so ace put some thought into a signature. I like that Yeah, here's here's the big question. So ace went on record. I think it was oh boy I don't remember which article was but he said this new album and he was hyping it up, right? I mean it's it's it's you know He's not being that that serious about he's he just said that you know This is gonna make ace a gene and Paul look like imbeciles once they hear the music on this album. I Don't think he meant it in a mean-spirited way He just meant that in a very marketing, you know fashion, right? Do you think this album is gonna make? I wouldn't say imbeciles. That's a tough word. I would say do you think this sort of is gonna You know I'll show you Paul and Jean that I can write great music and you know what this is better than what you guys and Put it out in the past, you know bass two albums. I guess we're kiss So what do you think does this make Paul and Jean look bad musically this is for me this for you?  I Think it's this album though makes ace look good, and I think that's what it should like let's forget kiss You know, yes, I know I know KK wasn't Judas Priest. I know ace wasn't kiss I know, you know Uli John Rappas and the Scorpions, but it doesn't always have to be this discussion So no, I don't think this makes kiss look bad kiss just came off like you know When they do the highest grossing tours of the year It'll be one of the highest grossing tours and you know, we'll have opinions about the quality of the show You know, we're not talking about tours and quality of tour here. We're talking about music output We're talking about sonic boom monster versus this out Well, how old are sonic boom and monster? I mean, those are those are those are a lot look if kiss put out an album today I think they could put out an album on a par with what ace just did So I don't think he makes kiss look bad, but I do think this is a good record Stefan, what did you enjoy about this new album by ace? I I Couple of weeks ago if you recall I gave a terrible review to these at the second single I thought it was generic on your produced rock and Now that I listen to the whole thing From the beginning to the end with my headphones full volume taking notes. I thought Okay, I was wrong the single does not reflect the album and as a whole I think it's an excellent record Now, let's open a parenthesis here I'm not gonna surprise Jimmy and Karen by telling me that if Kisses never been done it for me. I've never been a kiss and I liked a few of their albums The live ones the classics. I've seen them a few times at concert, but it's not my band when I was 13 years old people were to kiss I was into Van Halen and So it's never I don't have this Mythical persona in my head when I think it's freely. So what I had listened to this I had the privilege of listening to it as a Rock fan metal fan music fan not a kiss fan and based on That I find that their record damn it Stands on its own extremely well for for a guy who's that old and that messed up by life I Don't know kisses Later albums that much For me, I can't I'm not sure I ever listened to something after revenge but The fact is it's a great record. It's one of those records that if you still had Rock or hard rock Radiostations, I'd be calling in and say hey, can you play that song again? I think he liked it You know, I I find that it's it's solid. It is solid. It has shelf life But unfortunately We're in 2024 and kiss fanatics Are the ones who will be interested in this record first and foremost, but even among people who love kiss They love kids. They don't necessarily care about side project. So the impact I Don't know but I have no way no problem Believing that people stood out a record store for six hours yesterday I am not surprised at all because when you worship an artist and an artist gives back the way He seems to be doing More power to him and I'm glad I discovered his album without being his family I'm gonna say this before I ask Kenny on the internet This album has exploded with reviews and it's been very polarizing. I find people love it to death And then there's some people. Oh, I don't really dig it too much. And no, this is this is just I don't understand What people expect from kiss and ace. They've always been a hard rock melodic band And I've said this in my review and I'm not gonna get into it here because you could watch the review I gave on this already, but all of his past albums have been more guitar driven This is more melody driven the focus has been melody and that's why fans are lining up At the record store. That's why people are excited That's why he's getting such great reviews because every song has like a strong melody that I would say eight out of the 11 songs could be played on the radio easily easily Kenny. What do you think? I think you're right I think you got a lot of singles on there and I think it has a lot to do with this guy right here Steve Brown That's right. Steve Brown wrote almost Wrote with him almost every track on here except for what they have one cover life of a stranger That's right. Other than that Steve Brown's name and end guitar work is all over this album Steve Steve really did a great job But and I think it comes from Tokyo Motor Fist opening up for them a couple of years ago He did a run with ace freely on the East Coast And I think they might have met and ace might have been watching him play every night because Would you say this is stronger than ace's last few albums? Definitely, it just goes back to a space invader was strong Spaceman was they were good. They were good, but anomaly that was a really good very strong album. I thought that's the comparison for me That's what I think. Okay, so let's go back. I mean the solid album Like I think it's it's obvious 1978 ace freely solo album is regarded as probably His best work, right? Well, he was my favorite even amongst Kiss fans, especially in the solo album Sort of era that there was everybody says that's his top Then there's free lease Comet Perrin. Would you compare this to free lease Comet at that level? Yeah Look, I think this is his best release Since trouble walking from free lease Comet and before that since the free lease Comet debut I didn't love second sighting. I think that was a misstep, but trouble walking from ace freely and The debut from free lease Comet were good records and I want to say the parallel here and it touches on Steve Brown In that phase of ace's career the free lease Comet ace was working with great people He's working with the late John Reagan rest in peace fantastic musician He was working with Todd Haworth another great musician and Anton Fig whoever one knows great drummer from the David Letterman show and just Amazing session player and bring it here people might not know Steve Brown or might be like oh the guy in trickster Steve Brown. Yes was in trickster and wrote a lot of the hooks and that band did have some hooks Steve Brown is the kind of ace in the hole for Def Leppard when Vivian Campbell had cancer Steve Brown filled in and when Phil Collins Had to go away for a little bit his wife was having a baby Having some complications. He also filled in for Phil Collins. So he's Def Leppard's ace in the hole and He does a lot of other things as well. It's very very talented guy So I think ace is one of those people that when he surrounds himself with good people Good things come out of him and I think this is another example of that. So yeah, I think I think this is a notch better than anomaly I think it's his best album since 1989's trouble walking. So to say that a man On that one. Yeah, it's put out his best record in 35 years. Yeah, you know good good for him I just didn't like the hype machine that was going nuts with oh, it's his best even better than the 1978 slow album that there was one blogger who we all know Well, I don't know. I don't think anybody's really stated better No, there was one person who I won't name that we all know kind of just totally goes overboard of a lot of things Who was like saying comparing it to the 1978 record? Let's let's just not go there Let's not go there But you know what if we want to forget 1978 and put it with other things in ace's career It's with the best things that ace has ever done as a solo artist. There's there's 1978 solo album Then there's freely's Comet trouble walking and this and then there's like anomaly and some other things as well I I didn't love his last couple records. I thought, you know, again, I don't know if he was surrounded by the best people I think they were done a little on the cheap, but again, you surround yourself by good people They bring good things out of you Maybe you're motivated by the love of your life or whatever it might be and there's some me There's some good hooky earworms here. And let me say that's second single Walking on the moon was a big mistake because that really turned me off to the record and a lot of people And then the third one came out cherry medicine. What an earworm What a hook in that song and what I like about this album like you said Jimmy There's a lot of hooks on this record. There's a lot of songs that are gonna make you be like Yeah, tap your feet shake your head three minutes long and at the end of the day That's really what it's all about because even prog rock songs that there's no hook Even if you know hard rock songs or metal songs that there's no hook. There's no melody. Yeah, tend to not really care You know, Stefan, were there any parts of this album?  I'm not digging that song or This guitar work or anything about the album that you kind of were not crazy about No, I felt it helped up pretty well from the beginning to the end I will say that, you know, and it's a problem was discussed before and Before the CD and streaming revolution an album was two sides of Mostly great music and as artists figure Oh CDs you can push 74 minutes of music. So this start adding crap and left over And when you're doing a streaming album then you put everything and I find that too many artists do not know how to do a Final cut a final edit to stick to the best songs. So when I was listening to it and You know, after life of a stranger, I thought, okay, this album is getting a bit too long Okay, some songs are starting to Sound the same, you know, it felt like there was a I didn't write it down It's I'm in a car now, but there were a couple of fillers I could have done without and you know Artists should really learn to stick it under 60 minutes other than that you always always take the chance of adding fillers or You know tracks that are not up to par and you couldn't dare and unconsciously It brings down the rest Well, I think I think to your point is a lot of bands go You know, we'll throw a couple extra ones because people like a few extra songs But those tend to be weaker songs and bring down the whole rating of the album exactly So it's so more so more is not better. Sometimes less is more, right? Kenny a few songs that you really loved off this album. Oh You want to go back to Freely's comment fighting for life and up on the sky They could have they could have been right off that first album They they reminded me of something he did with Freely's comment But 10,000 volts like you guys were saying it stuck in my head and cherry cherry medicine Those are stuck in once you hear them and that's how I go by it I've been singing 10,000 volts for about a week now So it does get stuck in your head and when I prep for this and then it doesn't help stand in the record store Yes, today you're hearing it, you know 15 times, but the whole album as a whole I Liked it blinded. Definitely. There's a lot of ace on here. And then again, there's a lot of Steve Brown on you could see the bolt saw you could see where Steve's influences on this But um, I like it. I mean One song I would have probably left off like Stefan said it was a little was maybe cut it down to 10 songs and take Like constantly queued off. I think that's a consensus on constantly cute I love 80s hair metal. I love I do do I do And I have to say that song. Okay, I know it's not the most you know, it's not tales of brave Ulysses or anything like that Oh, I know, we know, but you know, but again, there's kind of a hook and a cadence in that song There is there is and I'm sure after I listen to the guys it like Jimmy Ward. It's snappy Yeah, yeah, I don't mind Stratas stratosphere is a great little instrumental could have been I just be a reminder be a fractured. Yes I said the same thing factor mirror part 20, right? But now he's in the stratosphere the sound of fractured mirror is it so Trademark ace. I want a little throwback to that on every record. You do need that a little instrumental from him I was goddess. He's got his he's got his space. He's got his electricity. He's got his girls It's got a little bit of everything It's arena rock. That's what it is because if you put on a song like cosmic heart, that's an arena rock song He's gonna do good with these songs live Jimmy. He's gonna I hope he plays them live I count it I love eight to nine songs in this album and then maybe one or two I could do without but they weren't like to your point Karen they weren't the worst out song saying there's a hierarchy of the best and then not so good You know, I think it's better as it goes along to like I was on the fence about 10,000 volts I didn't like walking on the moon and I just felt from cherry medicine the fourth song onward the album just built and built and built So I just felt like you know, you know, I'm glad I stuck with it you know because it really took the third single on the album to really get me interested and Again, like I don't completely believe the hype, but it's a solid solid record. I'm like to Kenny said about being on the road He needs to surround himself by a good band He has to because the last time I saw ace live was about five years ago And his band was Richie Scarlett Chris wise and Scott Cogan who some people might know has been a lot of different bands Scott's back with them and they were great I lost your video. We're back on CTV news here. Yeah, no, I wouldn't be long Okay Then ace there was talk of really spotty performances because he kind of cheaped out on the band a little bit and there were no He hired jeans band. He fired everybody in high genes band and then he then he got going again He got Matt star and you got some different people playing so just Take it on the road have a cracker jack band And I think that's gonna be key because this album could have some legs could have some legs if The touring cycle and just everything is and the management and everything's done, right guys I will say as a as an end note here. I would say this is the surprise album of the year I think so it came out of nowhere and you know what I personally don't think he's making them look like imbeciles But he's raising the bar in terms of quality Hooky cause the last two kiss alms. I couldn't even remember Jimmy I think he's saying look you don't have to retire look what I'm doing I'm still putting stuff out. I think that's what he's saying to them They're not imbeciles, but look at this one of the best things I put out ever and boom I just put it out. Yeah, I think it's a little slap in their face that you guys could have still been putting music out Or they could have even asked him to be on you know the farewell tour They should have been I was at the garden. They should have had him at Peter Bruce Culek. They should have been there Yeah, not so I think the other guy should have been there as a huge ace fan my whole life I'm really happy to see that if it this is in fact his last album man. He's going out. Oh, I hope not either But if it is it's he's going out with a bang in him. I'm really I want to hear this out I put this like you know what I mean you some some albums you don't want to hear over and over again But this one I want to keep going back to what I keep the melodies are stuck in my head 10,000 volts and I don't know I love everything about this album. I think it's really good me too me too I would I just want to see him live again. I honestly wish he would go back get Richie Scott live again They really worked well live, but that's their decision. That's my personal choice But I just want to see him live again I'm gonna have a couple of chances to see him live coming up in the next couple of months I'll come back to you with that guys and you thought last word there's to find you want to say Which I lived in New York you guys see Any show that hits the road it doesn't right now Stefan will get in the guest room ready. You guys always welcome Careful because it's north so do I So to wake each other up on that note everybody have yourself a have a good Sunday everybody. All right, everybody. Thank you for Thanks chatting. Take care everybody. Thank you


My name is Audrey. I'm eight years old. How many uniforms do they go through a year? Tighten up. Audrey, this is a great question. Tighten up. Quite a few. I mean, we have some different combinations, right? We have the white and blue jerseys. We're going to add the throwbacks. Can mix and match the pants. Some jerseys get torn. Some get ripped. But also, at the end of the game, some players like to take their jersey off, sign it, trade with an opposing player. That's become very common lately. So, I don't have an exact number, but those would be the reasons why we would go through extra uniforms throughout the course of the season. Would players trade jerseys? Do they have to pay the team for the jersey they give away? That, I don't know the particulars of that. I think that there may be some that at some point we're probably going to have to charge them. I don't think that they're free. But I'm not sure about that. Does any player rip his jersey more than any other? Is there one guy who has a big problem with that? No, I wouldn't know. I could ask Joey next time. Joey Branko. Yeah, Joey Branko, our equipment manager. Those aren't things that, I mean, they tape them up or sew them up during the game and put them back in there. So, you really don't have a lot of information on this, do you? Struggling here with the number of uniforms. Let's say, let's say three per player. You got it, Audrey. You're going to hold me down for an answer. I'm not. I'm not. I'm just asking. More kids questions.


Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this video we are going to discuss some of the changing perspectives, how our ideas of planetary formation have changed over the last few years and decades as we've begun to discover more and more planets outside of our own solar system. And if we look at what we thought before, what we see is that our early thoughts were that planetary systems, if they existed out there, they'd be like ours. They would be much like our own planetary system. And that's because we developed our models based on the planetary system that we knew, and until just a few decades ago, the only planetary system that we knew of for sure. And in our solar system everything orbits pretty much in a circular sense, so all the planets orbit circular around the Sun. There are some other objects that have elliptical orbits, but we don't have any planets with extremely elliptical orbits. And we also have some other patterns with small terrestrial planets close to the star and massive Jovian planets far from their star. But what are we finding now as we've begun to discover thousands of planets outside our own solar system? And what we find is that there are new types of planets including many that are larger than Jupiter. There are some that are, if intermediate size, that sort of bridge the gap between Earth as the largest terrestrial planet and Uranus and Neptune as the smallest Jovian planets, but there's still a big gap in between them. So we're starting to find a lot of other types of worlds, things like super-Earths that are Earth-like planets, but two or so times the size of the Earth. We have also found a very puzzling thing we call hot Jupiters. These are very massive planets that orbit close to their stars. So we don't see that in our solar system. All of the massive planets are far away from the Sun. In other systems we find Jupiter mass planets that orbit closer to their stars than Mercury does to our own Sun. So let's take a look at some of the types of exoplanets that we see here. And what we see are we do get rocky planets which are very common and seem to be more common than the gaseous planets. Now that may be an issue of the way we are detecting these as to which ones are easiest and hardest to detect right now. But we do find that rocky planets are extremely common as you can see in the little plot here showing all of the a bunch of different planets that have been discovered. There's a whole bunch of them down here in the rocky planet section. And while we discover many planets, Jupiter size or even larger, the density of the dots is much much lower. So we do not see as many if just counting what we've been able to discover so far we don't see near as many. Now we also find a lot of these hot Jupiters noted here meaning that they have orbital periods. If we look right here anything to the left of this line has an orbital period of 10 days or less. That means these things are whipping around their stars and are very close to them. In our solar system Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and it has an orbital period of about 88 days. And everything else is a lot further away than that. So everything we see to the left of this line orbits in just a little over a week so their years would be less than a week in some cases even less than one day. So we do see those hot Jupiters which are something to study. We also see super earths, rocky planets that are much larger and many Neptune. So planets like Uranus and Neptune in the ice giants range but a little bit smaller than them. So we're seeing a more of a continuous spectrum of planets in terms of sizes from very tiny planets to very large ones things much smaller than the earth to things much larger than Jupiter. So what are these intermediate size planets that's something that we don't see in our solar system. So we haven't seen those before. So our models are not going to be able to discuss those, discuss those as well. Now if we look at this in another way we can see again the planets here where are the planets found. Well things that are earth sized or less which are right about in here or lower are relatively rare but we do get a lot of rocky planets that fall in this super earth to sub Neptune range. So all of these are relatively small planets compared to what we see in our solar system. In our solar system the planets are about equally divided. We get about half of them that are small and rocky and in fact those types are all here or to the left and we have several that are out here. And if we look at that we're missing this entire range of planets where most of the planets that we're finding seem to exist. So the planets that seem to be the most common in the universe at least based on our measurements to date do not exist within our solar system. We have the very large planets which are rare and the very small planets that we have not detected a lot of yet. Now there may be some problems with this in terms of what we call a selection effect. So let's look at that here for a minute. First of all what types of planets can be detected? Primarily we have detected planets through two methods and that was radial velocity and the transit methods. So these are the two methods that have been used the most in order to detect planets. They are very good at detecting large planets and planets that are close to their stars. So there is going to be a bias towards detecting these types because they are easier to detect. Why are they easier? Because the larger planet is going to make a larger variation in radial velocity. It is going to cause the velocities to be larger and therefore easier to detect. A small planet does not tug as much on its star so its radial velocity shifts will then be less for a small planet. So that is harder to detect. The transit method that we look at tells us that the planet is blocking out part of the star's light so it is going to detect larger planets as well. They are going to cause the star to dim a little more and again make the detection easier. So we are very biased towards detecting large planets and we also have to look at the orbital period. We look at planets that are close to their stars because the orbital period is small. So if the orbital period is one year and we want to observe this four or five times to see a good radial velocity curve and get a good transit, it could then take five years to get this measurement. That is not unreasonable but when we start to get to things like Jupiter which orbit every 12 years and if we want to wait five Jupiter orbits to really confirm that it exists, we are waiting decades in order to be able to do that. So there is a bias that very large, certain planets, by our primary method, certain types of planets are not going to be easily detected. I also mention here smaller planets probably do exist but just are not yet detectable. We are not able to pull them out of the noise in the data to be able to find out that they actually exist yet. We also believe that probably Jupiter like planets at great distances probably do exist. We just need more time to detect these and this is the number I gave here for 12 year orbit of Jupiter. If we want to see it, if we want to detect that first signal and we get that today then we have to wait 12 years to get a complete cycle. Whether we are looking at radial velocity or transits and then we want to wait another 12 years to confirm it and maybe another 12 years to give us some good confidence on it so we can be waiting many decades to confirm a planet like Jupiter in our solar system. A planet like Jupiter that orbits within two weeks around its star, we can get a confirmation of that very quickly. So let's look at some of the systems of exoplanets that we have been able to see. And here we are going to look at one of these. This is the Kepler 90 system. These are all very close to the star. In fact, the Kepler 90 system has eight known planets just like our own solar system. There's also the Trappist 1 system that has seven planets. These may be ones that you've heard about. Several of these are within the habitable zone of their star. Now what we do note is that we have found a lot of systems with multiple planets. Look how many planets we have here. We've got six planets here all within the orbit of the Earth. So we can see all of those very concentrated together including very, very small. And I'm sorry that's six, but there's actually eight of them because two more you can't even see to this scale. And here's those other two very, very close to their star. So we know of eight planets in this system within the orbit of the Earth. So in the solar system we have Mercury, Venus, and Earth. Here we'd have eight planets within that distance. The Trappist system has seven planets, several of which are in what we call the habitable zone of the star. Habitable zone is just the area where liquid water could be present. Does not mean that liquid water necessarily is present, but only that the temperatures are correct so that liquid water may be present on those planets. Now, other one we can look at here. Let's look at these in terms of sizes. And this again is the Kepler-90 system compared to our solar system. And if we look at these, remember that these are all closer to their star than the Earth. So we have planets that are Jupiter, larger than Jupiter, that exist in this system. So while it looks like here we're comparing only sizes in this case, not distances. We are looking specifically at their relative sizes of the planet. So some of these are comparable to Jupiter and Saturn. Some are comparable to Uranus and Neptune. And the other ones are actually larger than our terrestrial planets. In terms of distances, we've got to put this one in here in a little bit closer than the Earth. So this entire system of eight planets is much closer to its star than the Earth. Now, the trappist one system that I mentioned, we can look at that as well. And again, I should have mentioned on the other sheet, these are all artist's conception. So we do not know what these planets actually look like. We are basing it on the sizes that we know, their temperatures, how far they are away from their stars. And that gives us some kind of idea, perhaps as to what they might be like. But we're using just an educated guess to really be able to determine what these look like. We do not know for sure that these are look exactly like this. Now when we look at this, several of these are within the habitable zone of their star. If you note their orbital periods range from about a day and a half to about 19 days. This is a much smaller star. So they're much closer to it. But even though they are that close, they will then be at the right temperature for liquid water to possibly exist. And we can look at the comparison. There are some of these planets that are actually relatively comparable to the Earth. In fact, E here is a little bit smaller than the Earth, a little bit less massive. But about the density of the Earth, F, a little bit larger planet, actually a little bigger than the Earth, although its mass is slightly smaller, is dense, but it's dense and a little bit less dense, so a little more concentration of rocky material and less concentrations of metallic materials. So we can get some ideas of how these compare to our own solar system. But remember, again, these are all very close to their stars. So all of these orbit within 0.06 astronomical units. Mercury is more than a third of an astronomical unit away from our sun. So these would all be much, much closer to their star than Mercury is to ours. And you can get that if you look at some of the statistics here, how much the orbital period is here for Mercury and its distance as compared to the others. But we can get an idea that there are these planets out there that would have surface gravities and masses that are very similar to that of the Earth. So how does this change what we know about planetary formation? And what we see is that, first of all, our solar nebula theory that we used could not explain hot Jupiters. We discussed how planets would form relative to their temperature within the solar system. So the closer to the sun you had more metallic material, you couldn't get ices forming that close. So we know that many exist. They may not be the most common type of planet, but we haven't just detected one oddball. We've detected dozens of them that do exist. So we talk about this maybe in terms of planetary migrations that planets do not end up where they are today. Now we say that for our solar system as well. There were some thoughts that maybe the giant planets actually migrated from a different part of the solar system and moved to their current locations early on. Maybe this happens in other solar systems to a more extreme amount, giving us that some of the things like the hot Jupiters that we see. We also detect planets orbiting at high eccentricities and at large angles. So what we don't know is, is our system unusual? Are having circular orbits and everything in a flat plane unusual? Or are we biased towards detecting certain types of planets? Are we biased towards detecting these unusual planets, things like hot Jupiters, as I've already said. We are biased towards detecting. So are we biased towards detecting things with high eccentricities? Does that make them easier to detect? Things orbiting at large angles, does that make them easier to detect? And as we go from only knowing thousands of planets to knowing tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, will we get a much better statistical basis for planetary formation? So a little bit more on this here. What our models show right now is that Uranus and Neptune probably formed closer to Jupiter and Saturn. So migration occurred in our solar system and may actually be quite common. We do see that planets are common close to stars. We see a lot of this, not just hot Jupiters, but hot Earths in the lava worlds that form very close to that. Why is our solar system different? Or are we only detecting the unusual solar systems first? And then will we find that there are numbers do not increase as much and we start to find more solar systems like ours. We have to remember that the solar nebula model was based on one system, ours. So we based everything on what we knew about planetary formation. Now we know of thousands of systems and we're getting a better idea. We're able to refine our models using the scientific method to be able to get a better picture, although it is still not clear at this point. Now the one thing, one last thing to look at is what we mean by a habitable planet and you'll hear this often in the news that a planet was discovered in the habitable zone and when we talk about a habitable planet there are a couple conditions that have to exist. It has to have the potential for liquid water on its surface. Why? Because we see liquid water as being a necessity for life. So if it's not at the right temperature for liquid water where water would be vaporized because it's too hot or water would be all solidly frozen because it's too cold we don't count that as a habitable planet. It has to be similar in size to the Earth and it has to be of these we've detected more than a dozen of these and more likely as our technology improves. Even including one of these that is only a few light years away and that is Proxima Centauri B. Proxima Centauri is a small red star that actually orbits the Alpha Centauri system but it does have a planet as well which is actually very close to us only a few light years away and the closest habitable planet yet to be detected. So let's finish up here as we do with our summary and what we found is that many of the exoplanets that we have found so far are very different than the planets we know in our solar system. We find some that are similar but we find lots of different types. Things like hot Jupiters are causing astronomers to rethink their models of planetary formation and we're also getting to the point now where habitable planets are beginning to be detected. So we're able to detect smaller planets that are going to be at the right distances from their star for liquid water to exist. So that concludes our lecture on changing perspectives in planetary formation. We'll be back again next time for another topic in astronomy. So until then have a great day everyone and I will see you in class.


What's up everybody Jason here for Jasper's case makes calm RMB three for one wax party Finale football mixture spa guys and the way this works guys is Instead of having a customer name next to a random team It's gonna be RMB three as the name and then of course if any hits do pop out It'll work just like a normal random number block break everybody gets an around a number from zero through nine as an example Of course if RMB three gets randomized the Broncos and we hit a Jerry Judy Autograph relic numbered card and it's your number five out of 20 Of course whoever has block five would get that card as we go by the first time around the left side a certain number dash Of course guys all non numbered cards will be randomized in one lot to one person and Of course the hits that are not number will be randomized as well But that'll be separately and we'll distribute those out as has many do pop out So let's say you know Broncos pop out we get a Jerry Judy non numbered relic. That's a hit It's gonna go to spot one in a randomizer once you randomize the names We get another Jerry Judy this time. It's a patch autograph No matter if it's a one-of-one it doesn't matter who's the second hit It'll go to spot two on the randomizer and so on and so forth if we get all the way back down to the bottom We'll just read go back to the top and again. That's in a crazy instance, but I don't think it'll go like that. So There it is right there and of course If a wax party promo spot is one with this one Then we'll take the ten cousin range randomism and the top name will get a promo and oh get that promo entry spot So you go here's a dice roller here's the customer names and numbers roll it Five and a one six times. Good luck one two three four Five six Mark down to David four five six one two three four five six seven down to one Mark with seven David with nine Mike with three David with eight Mike with six Martin any and all redemptions for whatever team you guys But that's up with it'll be yours David with two David with four Mike with five and David with one So there you have as R&B three in the books I'm sure we'll post up another one but R&B four will be posted soon Jasper's case breaks calm