TWiT+ Club Shows 741 Transcript
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Mikah Sargent [00:00:00]:
This is TWiT. Good evening, Kraftonians and Kraftonites. Can you hear me on Discord? Because if you can, that would be the first time that's ever happened. There was certainly a good evening, but if there's a chance that it was only a good evening because it's the evening. Paul, can you hear me? Oh good, Dustin, thank you. Wonderful, wonderful. Hello everyone, how's everybody doing? I have, as you can see, set up another camera. It's not quite out of the frame there, um, but in theory will make a difference for our setup.
Mikah Sargent [00:01:05]:
So now when I switch to this view, this was the view before where when I stuck— whoops, oh great, now I've messed it all up. Hold on, uh, let's switch this. So I've got this, uh, camera on the right side so that my left hand isn't blocking it, so that should be helpful. Hello, Joe. We are working on a paint-by-number. I just got some new brushes specific for acrylic paint, and I'm excited to continue. You may recall that this is a process where we work from small to large. And— or excuse me, from light to dark.
Mikah Sargent [00:02:15]:
And so what I'm going to do is start by painting the two over here, and then we're going to dig into the rest of the butterfly here. So I'll head over here, paint this, paint perhaps underneath the butterfly, and then we'll finish the butterfly. Oh my goodness, that's so cool! Sandra is working on Braille using a Braille doodle and has rendered my name in Braille. Now I'm trying to remember because there was a really, uh, there's something that you had talked about where I think it's like if a certain— if a certain braille, what, symbol is felt, then it means that numbers are about to proceed, like are about to come along. Down there at the bottom, for everyone who's watching, that says Micah. That's so cool. Thank you, Sandra. I just remember there being something about sort of letting someone know that numbers are about to appear because numbers and letters share the same arrangement, maybe? It's been so long.
Mikah Sargent [00:03:53]:
So since I'm doing, uh, yay, I was correct. So since I'm doing a large amount. I'm going to switch to one of my, um, filbert brushes. Yeah, it has been a while since we've seen you, Joe.
Mikah Sargent [00:04:41]:
Oh, wow.
Mikah Sargent [00:04:47]:
You really do a very good job of capturing light. Thank you, Lightspeed Tractor. I appreciate it. I'm adding a little bit of water. Pro tip that I've learned: when you're working with paints and you are adding water, distilled water is your best bet because it doesn't affect texture as much. Now I am being a little bit wild here. What I found with these is that they do require, um, for the darker colors, they do require 2 coats. And for the very light colors, they often require 2 coats as well.
Mikah Sargent [00:06:55]:
Now I did have a plan and I did say I wasn't going to do this side. Because I needed to put my arm, my hand here. So I don't know why I've gone and done that. Oh, and I've just hit the camera. Sorry, camera. Did I just do it again? There we go. All right, now that we got that out of the way, Trying to get it to refocus here. There we go.
Mikah Sargent [00:07:59]:
Doesn't it look a little dark? It looks a little dark. Well, maybe not. I think it's— yeah, I better leave it alone.
Mikah Sargent [00:08:18]:
All right, let's continue.
Mikah Sargent [00:08:31]:
So as I was mentioning, you may remember that the instructions say to start out with the lighter colors and then move to the darker colors. Little— my little round brush. Well, they call it a detail brush, but— and now we're working with 17, and I've just touched the paint. I swear I've done this before. Now, as Burke pointed out last time, you are kind of using the, um, lines as a guide. And the rest is 19. So we'll clean the brush. Uh, yeah, this is the same one as last time.
Mikah Sargent [00:10:48]:
We're still working on it. My goal is to get one butterfly done per MCC. Very dark color here, so this will be fun to paint with. Yeah, I really like the blues as well. So I'm basically going in where there's not currently color, not currently paint, and adding in this very dark— it's not black, it's a dark, dark blue. Do you do a lot of those papercraft, 3D papercraft things, or did you gather that for MCC today? I'm curious if you made any other animals. Never ever done. Oh, how fun.
Mikah Sargent [00:14:22]:
It's also very German. Fair enough. I would argue that paint-by-numbers also feels pretty German. Oh yes, your Lego Enterprise! Wow! Oh my goodness, is that Guinan? Ah, oh, I love— wow! Oh, Dr. Beverly Crusher! Yeah, the minifigures are instantly recognizable. I think it might expect me to put— let's see. No, I guess not. You have an epiphany and you understand the German puzzle.
Mikah Sargent [00:17:34]:
I mean, the German, um, papercraft. You know, the process of metamorphosis is pretty creepy when you think about it. Pretty alien-like. Sort of like, gee whirlikers, mister, I'm gonna climb into this little this little pod made from, from me, and then I'm going to turn into juice, and then I'm going to grow wings, and then I'm going to fly away. Oof. Especially if you watch it sped up. And the way that thing wiggles creeps me out. Tea.
Mikah Sargent [00:20:09]:
Earl Grey.
Mikah Sargent [00:20:10]:
Hot.
Mikah Sargent [00:20:22]:
Joe, have you ever done the Borg Queen? God, I'd love to see your take on the Borg Queen, just because I know you would do those, like, electronic conduits tentacle things justice. When I was a kid, I was so afraid of the Borg. So afraid of the Borg. Now I kind of love the Borg Queen, if I'm honest. Not— I, I love her conceptually. I don't obviously support the Borg's whole thing, but it's just a clever concept. And the Borg Queen is— well, there's a word that we use in the queer community that is outside of the queer community a rather powerful word that is incredibly inappropriate. And so I won't say it here.
Mikah Sargent [00:21:35]:
It's not as bad in other countries, uh, to, to say. I'll just say that it rhymes with a certain Wonka candy that has a banana and a lime and a strawberry and some other things. Yes. Oh yes, Joe, it is that. Yes. And the Borg Queen is serving that. Sometimes we just say the word on its own with a Y on the end of it too, and that's what was coming, going through my mind at the time. And it just means that you command a room in such a way that you can't help but to respect and also fear at the same time.
Mikah Sargent [00:22:46]:
Yes, girl boss. Girl boss would be the family-friendly version. Anyway, super terrified of the Borg growing up, but I loved then the storyline in Voyager. Or I guess several storylines in Voyager. That's spoilers if people haven't seen it, so I'll just say that there's coffee in that nebula. Assimilation enthusiast is funny. I should put that in my bio. That's a joke, everybody.
Mikah Sargent [00:23:59]:
Don't you worry, I'm not a British colonizer. The true assimilation enthusiasts Next to what, like the Spanish? The Dutch, to a certain extent. Oh, heck yeah, Joe. This is— I'm discovering that this is particularly satisfying as a paint-by-numbers because you are basically getting to do a bunch of mini paint-by-numbers. And so you get that sort of boost when you see one coming together and you go, oh, this is cool, versus somewhere it takes time to see results, so it all just looks kind of blobby until things start to pull together. But this is not like that. Today is my grandma's birthday, and I got to, uh, send her something that I had I'd heard about these a long time ago, and I had kept it in my— it was like my oldest Safari tab in my phone. And for some reason, I just never remembered whenever it came time for, you know, a gift or something.
Mikah Sargent [00:26:38]:
I never remembered that I wanted to send this thing. And so Earlier this week, I happened to be going through my phone, my Safari tabs, and I said, "Oh, we are doing that." They're called piñata grams, and they're basically little piñatas, although they're like, they're stuffed animal size, small stuffed animal size. Piñata in the mail. And they have different wording, and when they open up, you can put, you know, a message in there. And it was really fun to do. I use grandma, so I don't say grand-maw despite being an enunciator typically. I say, Grandma. We didn't have any— the sort of unique names were my great-grandparents.
Mikah Sargent [00:27:53]:
Mamu and Papu were their names. And then my grandma on my dad's side doesn't quite count. Because I called her Grandma, but her name was Von Tella, is Von Tella, but people called her Bonnie because Von Tella got shortened to V-V-Vonnie, and then Vonnie got turned into Bonnie. Oh, it's looking kind of terrifying right now, Dustin. Kind of looks like a ghost. Ooh, ghost. Okay, now I think we'll move across and do this one. Somewhere around here I have— I need to grab it.
Mikah Sargent [00:29:56]:
It's— it changes the flow of the acrylic to make it a little bit more flowy, which is what we want.
Mikah Sargent [00:30:16]:
A c—
Mikah Sargent [00:30:39]:
art— Artist's Acrylic Flow Improver. Just a couple drops. Also, my skin looks so shiny, but that is because I just did skincare before the show, so it's dewy. Everyone okay? Glow, Glow Improver right before the Flow Improver. Oh, Paul. You crack me up. Just a couple drops of flow improver and then a wee bit of water. Remember, distilled water.
Mikah Sargent [00:32:15]:
Then I take one of these cheap brushes. Yeah, that— so Paul, I'm glad that you I figured someone was gonna catch me out. Normally I use distilled water, but I, um, put a brush restorer in the distilled water that I was using to dip my brushes in to clean them. And so obviously I don't want to put soap into the paint, and so I just had to use my purified water instead, which is not the same as distilled because there's purified water that I have adds pH balancing minerals back into it after it reverse osmosizes. So thanks, Paul, for calling me out. But yes, it isn't great to drink distilled water because it will— the argument is that because it's distilled, It doesn't have any other minerals in it, and so it actually ends up leeching minerals from you. But I don't know if that's— I haven't— I was told that, and then I have not verified it myself. And so, you know, I'm hoping it's not one of those things that you just learn and then you take as belief.
Mikah Sargent [00:33:43]:
I could look it up, but I haven't had a thought to. And also, whenever the sort of logic of the argument seems to make some sense, that helps as well. If you leave the window open, you'll catch a draft. La la la la la.
Mikah Sargent [00:35:00]:
All right.
Mikah Sargent [00:35:16]:
Note, they gave me one, they gave me 5 of the number 2 because it is the background color. This sort of parchment color. It's interesting, it dries to a far pinker tone than it starts out. This time I think I'm going to overlap the lines a little bit. I don't trust ChatGPT's opinion. I guess that makes sense. It's not that it won't— it's not that it'll hurt you, but sort of part of the reason for drinking water is that it hydrates you, tops you back up. And so if you are drinking water that doesn't have the extra stuff in it that you need to be truly hydrated whenever we say hydrated, then you're not doing yourself a service by doing so.
Mikah Sargent [00:36:25]:
That seems to be a reasonable argument. I wish that I would stop, um, painting on the left side. I do wish that. The place where I need to rest my wrist. Now again, I am overlapping with the lines here, and that is on purpose because I noticed in this, this one, um, I'm going to have to go back through and do some fine touch-up work around the outside because I didn't let it bleed, if we're going to use a print term. Oh, oh no, thank you. I did not know. And that's because I'm looking at a different view.
Mikah Sargent [00:37:29]:
Wow, this whole time. So yes, there's that pinkish that it dries to instead of the lighter color that it starts out as. But as I'm doing this, you'll notice that— well, maybe you'll notice it's— how far does this let me zoom? 4x zoom out of focus. Yeah, there you go. You can kind of see how I've gone in a little bit on those lines, and that is by choice. Just so that we don't have— because the rest of these colors are darker, and so we'll be able to kind of paint over. Wow, you've almost completed it, Dustin. That's awesome.
Mikah Sargent [00:38:49]:
A wee little panda. I don't— I've We've been watching, um, the UK version of The Traitors, and as you might imagine, there are lots of different European accents. Joe, are you— when you paint, are you painting with oil-based paints or acrylic, or does it change? That wet-on-wet technique. Oil with acrylic. I didn't know you could do that. I mean, I guess you can do whatever you want. Now, what's the benefit of doing a mix like that? Maybe you're about to tell me. Ah, a background color that you don't have to worry about mixing with the oils.
Mikah Sargent [00:41:24]:
Interesting. For some reason, in my mind, it was going to be be the opposite, like the— you do the background in oils and then the foreground in acrylics because of the separation. But I think that might be counterintuitive, perhaps. Hi, Chaotic Chickens. No, um, this is an after-hours program that we do here on the network. It is not part of our daily scheduled programming. This is just an extra fun thing for our dear followers, and I'm definitely not teaching anything. Yeah, acrylic dries so fast.
Mikah Sargent [00:43:26]:
That's actually part of what the flow improver does, is makes it, uh, stay wet longer. Oh my goodness, that's so cute. Did you buy it for crafting corner destined? Wait, they release them on crafting corner days? That's cool. I didn't realize it was an IKEA thing. Now, can someone tell my camera to stop changing focus? How do I turn off— there we go. I'll leave it there. It was a gift and now it's about to become a regular craft for you, huh? Whoa, the cla— like, the, the textures in that, Joe, are just staggering. Technically, I'm breaking the rules because I am doing 17 before some of these lower numbers, but they can't stop me.
Mikah Sargent [00:46:56]:
Right to jail? Right to jail. Yes, that's so cool. Yeah, this paint needs some Flow improver quite a bit. It is, it is some chill lo-fi background music, but it's not a channel. I found some that I could purchase that would be royalty-free so that we did not have an issue. I honestly don't remember how I found it. But it's called Calm Evenings. The whole playlist is called that.
Mikah Sargent [00:49:40]:
Well, it's, it's a playlist, but it's packed into one audio file. Yeah, this is almost like putty. I just poked one side of it and the— a bubble on the other side, um, burst. So it's forming a nice skin at the this point. Problematic. I've gone and done it again. I wonder if I could paint from looking at the camera. Would certainly tell me if I could be like a laparoscopic surgeon.
Mikah Sargent [00:52:02]:
Oh my, that's not easy. Nope. Yeah, it almost feels like I'm pushing sort of Play-Doh around on the surface of the canvas. It's exceptionally thick. Now I've gone and thinned it out too much. What I'm also enjoying about this is learning which crafts lend themselves well to a show, right? Because there are some crafts like painting, especially in paint-by-numbers, where it is difficult to look up and see what the chat is saying. And so I do feel like the paint-by-numbers craft does make me less engaging from a show point of view. But I have found this activity to be rather satisfying.
Mikah Sargent [00:57:16]:
And so I ended up getting a personal paint-by— getting a paint-by-number that isn't for the show that I could, you know, do at another time. And Let me switch views so I can show you it before I say goodbye. I'm not done with it yet, but we're getting there. It's a photo— or it's a photo— it's an illustration of the Northern Lights. And so you can see the mountain and these waterfalls, and then those are the Northern Lights in the sky. Um, and yeah, I've been having a lot of fun with this. You can see this is the area that I'm still working on, and I've got, um, a lot of stuff I have to go over again. But the darkest colors I have gone over enough that they're good to go.
Mikah Sargent [00:58:38]:
My one complaint about this is I do think they went a little overboard on kind of what you were talking about, they're being solarized. I think they went a little overboard on how the colors are split up, but I almost— this part I love the most, the mountains and the waterfalls look really good. But overall, Overall, whoops, I'm pretty happy with it so far. Again, almost finished, but yeah, I've been doing this in my free time and having a lot of fun with it. And it's a little bit different from the butterflies. That's what I— when earlier when I mentioned the butterflies being fun because you're getting a little taste regularly of having it finished, that that would help. It's so funny you say that, Joe. Because I'm actually planning to do a glaze for that specific reason.
Mikah Sargent [00:59:31]:
Joe says, I wonder if you could go over it with a solid color to unify the color variance. And so I was reading about it, and, um, the company that makes the flow improver also makes several different types of glazes. And so I'm planning on applying a glaze, uh, which will help to unify the color, and then following that up with a satin varnish, um, to finish it off. So yeah, that's a great idea— test it first, because can you imagine ruining your whole thing? That would really stink. So yeah, that's the one I'm doing for fun. Especially when there's such a variance, Joe, between wet acrylic and dry acrylic. Like, the color changes. In any case, everyone, thank you so much for being here.
Mikah Sargent [01:00:32]:
Uh, another, another month has passed, which is wild to think about, and And we'll be back next time with even more crafting. Sorry, I got distracted reading the chat. Always appreciate it. Always love seeing your crafts, everyone. And I'll see you again next month. I'll see many of you tomorrow for Tech News Weekly. Goodbye, everyone. Goodbye.
