Inking Out Loud - 11-30-2021

In this 90‑minute YouTube livestream, artist Jason Nicholas conducts a real‑time sketching session while chatting with his online audience. He begins by experimenting with ink, graphite, watercolor sticks, and a "dirty water" wash, explaining his choice of brushes (3/4‑inch flat brush, AquaBrush, mop brush) and how larger brushes keep his work loose and spontaneous. Throughout the stream, viewers suggest visual ideas—treehouses, towers, fire‑water towers, windows shaped like the number 7, bridges, and a hidden wilderness chapel. Jason incorporates these prompts, building an abstract architectural scene that evolves from vague structures to a detailed chapel concept with bent timber bents, stained‑glass‑like bird motifs, and a sepia‑chartreuse background. He frequently discusses his creative mindset after 8 p.m., noting that analytical thinking wanes and intuition takes over. The stream also features technical tips such as wet‑on‑wet bleeding, blotting excess ink, and using flat‑brush edges for tree trunks. Color discoveries like a mysterious yellow, chartreuse, and fluorescent pink emerge organically, prompting commentary on how camera lighting affects perception. Interspersed are personal moments: health updates (stent check‑up), gratitude for the audience, music choices ranging from Celtic playlists to "Whistling Cowboy" outro, and a playful community ritual of voting on the final piece. The session concludes with Jason planning to revisit the piece later, noting the importance of the creative journey over the finished product.
Chapters
Hey, D-Ray, how are you? Good to see you. Hope you're having an awesome Tuesday night. It's good to see you on. Thanks for tuning in. I'm just popping on for a little bit, not too long tonight. Just, uh, wanted to get some sketching out of my system. My green pen does not want to play. I hate when it happens. It's all good. Alright, so I'm just throwing down some oil. Some graphite and watercolor stick. Very abstract, just throwing down some line work just to have fun and just kind of get some of my creative energy out that's been building up all day. Pardon my voice. I'm actually using dirty water as well. This is not clean water. Water. It's just water I've been rinsing my brushes in. I like this kind of a— this kind of sepia color that's coming out of the jar. We'll see how it dries.
Where's my pen?
Here it is. So maybe these are some kind of towers, or maybe I could make them into some kind of treehouses. Maybe this is a forest with a bunch of treehouses kind of happening here. I don't know why it took me so long to finish that sentence. That was weird. It was like a slow-motion sentence. Kind of talking and sketching at the same time. It's kind of weird. It could be dangerous. Good thing I'm not driving and sketching and talking and chewing gum all at the same time. That would not be good. So I'm sketching just kind of a— some roof structures back here. Just bleed some ink on here, see what happens. I have a 3/4-inch 3/4-inch flat brush, one of my favorite sizes to use. If I'm not using a flat brush, I'm typically using one of my AquaBrushes, medium brush size. Um, and I've also been playing around with a mop brush a little bit lately. I like the 3/4-inch flat brush because it keeps me a little bit looser and freer. I'm not thinking in detail. If I use a small brush, I start thinking detail. Details. This is just about throwing down some ink, letting it bleed, getting— just getting some shapes. And I find it much free— much freeing? Freer? Pick your proper word there. Much freeing, more freeing to do with a bigger brush. You guys know what happens after 8. My creative brain's still going, but the rest of my brain is shutting down for the night. Shutting down. So spelling and grammar go out the window after 8 o'clock. Creativity keeps on pressing forward.
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Yeah, I like the way this is looking. I'm just playing around. Playing around with this dirty water and letting it bleed. Hey, Patty, good to see you. Welcome. Thanks for tuning in. Hope you're having a great day. This is really cool. I'm going to zoom in on this, uh, for a second. Pardon my voice, guys. I am so sorry. I get kind of congested at night. Uh, we like that dirty water. Thanks, T-Ray. I'm loving the dirty water. Patty's painting happy bluebirds tonight. Oh, awesome. Yeah, I'd love to see your happy bluebirds. Um, what's cool— what I like about what's happening here is I have this really interesting yellow color that's just It just appeared like magic. I don't know where it came from. Um, this is the dirty water I'm using. Maybe it pulled it out of here? I'm not sure, but it's really cool. I'm gonna let it just dry. Actually, I'll work a little closer.
Maybe that's better. There you go.
So, I'm trying to bring some architectural shapes to this scene. I'm picturing this to be very abstract. I'm picturing treehouses or fire towers or water towers something happening. I'm not sure where it's going to end up going. It'll probably stay very loose and abstract, which is cool, and that's kind of my style. I like you guys and the viewers to kind of fill in the blanks with your imagination. Let's just play around with this for a little bit longer, see where it goes. I'm only going to be on until 9:30 tonight. It just feels good to let the creativity flow. I love the way this is drying at the bottom also, the ground. And this is just the Lamy ink and the dirty water. Let's see, I'm going to sketch some more, uh, let's do some more of these shapes on here. Sure, let's indicate maybe some kind of windows or openings happening on these buildings. And if you notice, I'm not really drawing rectangles for the windows. I'm just kind of— they almost look like the number 7. Let me do it on a scrap piece of paper. So you could draw windows like this, right? Boxes. Shapes, shade them in or bleed them in. I'm actually drawing mine more like this, kind of like a number 7, and I like to bleed that. So you can kind of see them here, like these kind of number 7s happening. I'll just take my aqua brush and kind of bleed them a little bit. This way I get kind of a darker edge on top and on the right side. You could do the opposite if you want darker on the bottom, you could do like an L-shape. Maybe there's a bridge in here connecting these structures together, some kind of walkway right there. Maybe we got some kind of a— I was picturing like a curved kind of— maybe some kind of curved walkway or bridge. Maybe this has kind of a pattern like this, made as a rope, kind of going across here. So some kind of bridge linking those structures together. Actually, it's looking kind of cool. I don't know if I want to add more. I'm debating. I kind of like the open space on this side. I like the open space on this side.
I don't know.
I was thinking about adding more of the structures across the top, but I feel like if I add more, I get kind of busy. And I like that these are kind of in the center. They're kind of standing out a little bit. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the background on this. I mean, I probably won't leave it white. I'll probably add a sepia color when this dries. I'll add sepia to the background. This is cool. This is actually turning out to be a neat little piece here. I'll sketch some— you just got a ladder or something kind of coming down here to the ground, climb up there. Structure there. You're saying, where are the trees? So these are treehouses, where are the trees, right? It's a good question. Kind of just floating here. So I think I'm going to add with graphite, I'm going to come in to add some kind of suggestions of trees here. And I want graphite. I want to keep it a little bit lighter. So graphite I like because it's— I can be very loose and sketchy and I can keep it lighter. I don't really want to do dark trees. I kind of want a murky, misty feel to this. The dirty water gives it favor. Yeah, it does. I love that. Wow, the mystery yellow is cool. Mr. Yellow is mysterious.
I love that.
Really cool. Um, they do look like treehouses. I have 6 bluebirds that could use homes. Patty's bluebirds are moving in. Send them south to New Jersey. Set them free. That would be incredible. Um, How cool would that be to have little pops of blue kind of here and there? May add a little bit of brightness to this, maybe a little more interest. I could see pops of blue maybe in some places. And I don't think the bluebirds would be more than just kind of a smattering— smattering is not the right word. It's not splattering, not smattering. A dab, probably just like a dab of blue or something. I'll think about that. That could be cool. If not blue, maybe a red. That would be awesome. That would be fantastic. Waiting for the tide to come in. D-Ray is waiting for the tide to come in.
Ooh.
On this painting, on this sketch painting here. Yeah, maybe this is a Waterfront. Maybe this is the beach area, waiting for the water to come in. I love how you guys are coming up with stories for the scene, adding your own kind of spin to it. Um, I like suggestions for windows. Sevens work. Awesome, Patio, enjoy that. Let me know how, uh, if you do sevens, let me know how you like it. This is actually, looks to me like it's turning into some kind of building shape on the left as it dries. Pointed roof. I'm seeing a castle-like turret or a little tower structure happening on the left. We'll let it dry and see how that plays out. Open space for the wind to go through. Yeah, I love the sound of being outside, listening to the wind go through the trees and the rustling of the the branches and the leaves. Love that. I also love the sound. I love tall grasses, you know, like meadows. Have you ever been in a meadow and just kind of sat there and listened to it as the wind blows through? I love the kind of swooshing or swishing sounds that the grasses make. You know, nature is more than just visual. It's listening and hearing sounds, smelling the air as well, feeling the crunch of the ground or the texture of the bark on the trees. I love taking walks outside and trying to use all my senses. Sometimes I'll take a walk and I'll say, okay, today I'm just gonna focus on the sounds I hear. As I'm walking. Or maybe this time I'll focus on what smells are in the air. Or sometimes when I'm looking, I'll say, okay, I just want to focus on really small details along the path. So I'll kind of stare at the bark on the trees to see what pattern am I seeing in the bark. Or I'll look at the littlest details of flowers or rocks. So sometimes it's cool if you go for walks out in nature, set an intention, you know, maybe focus on one of your senses for that walk. It's really, it's a cool exercise to do. And being a creative and artist, I find it really helps me to experience the world on a different level. And I think that translates, you know, into my brain, into my heart, into my soul, and out into the art, artwork I create. So yeah, part of being an artist is really being able to experience the world on different levels. It's more, especially, you know, visual artists, it's more than what we're seeing. So hopefully that makes sense. Hey Janice, good to see you. Hope is all as well. I haven't seen you in a while. Always great to see you, Janice. Yes, I always, I love your photographs you've been posting. I feel like I'm in the city. So thank you for sharing all that. Good stuff. I'm hoping to get in the city maybe next weekend. Good stuff. Smidge. Yeah, D-Ray, maybe the word was smidge I was looking for. Yes, love grass waving in the wind. Sometimes it happens on the hillside out back. Ooh, Patty, that's awesome. Very cool to hear that. You guys are amazing. I always appreciate all of you guys tuning in. So I really like the way this sketch is really drying here. I don't want to add any more water to it. I kind of want it to dry out, but maybe I'll throw down some graphite. Hey, Tamara Lee, good to see you. The music is so peaceful. It is. It is peaceful. I love this. It's kind of Celtic-ish, Celtic-ish music. It's just a playlist I have going, so I don't know what tune's coming up next on here, but yeah, good observation. So let's just get some graphite and maybe throw down the suggestion of very light of some kind of trees or something happening. These are treehouse types of structures. I think our peaceful music just switched to— maybe not sure where it's headed to. I might switch to my hero tunes. Let's see, I'm kind of hesitating a little bit because I like the way this is looking. I don't want to overdo it.
All right, it's just I'm thinking too much.
Sometimes if I think too much, I interrupt the flow. So let's just show some branches or something happening. I love what's happening here. Maybe, you know what, you're using the graphite. I'll use the 3/4-inch flat brush. We'll just dip it into the dirty water. Again, here's the dirty water I'm using. Maybe we'll just kind of— I like this look. Maybe I'll just kind of brush this and let this be the trees rather than sketching it.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm liking this idea better. So we'll see how this dries. I might translate— after 8 o'clock, Freddie doesn't know what it's saying. I might transform this into a building or something. I'm not sure. I don't want to it right now. The goal right now is to keep this kind of loosey-goosey. Now I'm just touching down the side of the brush on here. This is a really cool way to create trees, is just by taking a flat brush and just kind of using the side of it if you want to do the trunks of trees. Like, I really like the way this is turning out here. So it's a really fun way just to do trunks of trees. Or you can do the branches. I'll show you on this piece here. I'll zoom in a little bit. So I have some wet ink here, so I'm just going to take it, just kind of dab it like this. So you just see how it's kind of looking branch-like. Again, very loose, abstract. I'm not trying to be realistic at all. It's not my style. Oh, this is cool. Look how this is drying, guys. You know, I nerd out when I see colors happening. Where is it? Can I get it on camera? It's right here. I don't know if it's going to show. It's— personally, it looks awesome. Sometimes on camera it doesn't translate as well. Hopefully you guys are seeing what I'm seeing, but this area right here— I think I might point out so I can show I'll show you right here. This is drying really, really awesome. It has a— almost like a glow to it in person. It's kind of yellowish, a little orangish, maybe a little pink happening here. And we're talking such a small, small area. It's only Maybe, maybe 3/4 of an inch long, but that's really cool. I mean, that's drying. Wow, this is fun. I'm gonna actually blot some of these out. I don't like— there's too much on there. So don't be afraid to blot areas out if you feel like you've got too much going on, just take a cloth or paper towel, you can block things out. There we go. It was just too intense there. Even here I wanna block this out just a smidge. There we go.
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See, I used smidge. Thanks, D-Ray. Now I have the word smidge in my head and I just used it. Perfect. Janice, love that dirty water. Laughing out loud, old song. Love that dirty water. I'm trying to think, what song is that, Janice? I have this song like Mississippi something just popped into my head. Mississippi, mm-hmm. Yeah. Then wait if you're not certain as to what you want to do. Yeah, D-Ray, sometimes you have to hold back. I agree with you. Sometimes just step back and you can always come back and revisit it. I find if I'm stopping and thinking too much about what I'm painting, I get out of the flow and out of the rhythm and have to kind of reset myself. You know, inking out loud is kind of about just keep being in the flow and just creating spur of the moment and seeing what happens. Um, ba ba ba ba, Patty! Art exhibit here called The Great Animal Orchestra. His lifetime of animal recordings and the sounds of nature immersive display like the Van Gogh exhibit. Really cool, just as you described, Jason, but with lions too. Oh, that sounds awesome. I would love that. Great song. What song? Yeah, you guys are amazing. I'm going to change the tunes up. We're gonna put on some Hero tracks. I'm only gonna be on for a few more minutes. Quick night here tonight. So let's switch tunes for a second, then we'll go to the choir music and we'll wrap up. I don't know if I'm gonna do too much more to this. I kind of want it to dry. I'm just gonna tap down, maybe give the suggestion of some more Thingy thingies, some growies happening here. Maybe we'll do some growies over here.
And I'm just—
my brush is already wet. I'm just kind of tapping it down a little bit, dragging it, tapping it. Alright, that's enough with the paint, the dirty water. I really like this curved bridge here, it's kind of cool. I mean, I may have just uncooled it by adding too many lines. Is it possible to uncool? Uncool a drawing after you've cooled it? Definitely is. Yeah, this will be one of those pieces I come back to and add more stuff later on. I just want to throw down some growies down here. I love the way this is drying. Let me zoom up here. This is really cool, what's happening down in here. Love the way this is bleeding. I love the way it's drying. Really awesome. Let's throw some more growies in here.
Add some texture down here.
Alright, cool. Alright, I think this one is good for now. Take a look at it, let it dry. I'll come back to it another time and add some more to it. Figure out what I want to do with the background. I'm thinking sepia, but then the yellow just popped into my brain. Some kind of yellow glow in the background maybe as well. Actually, maybe chartreuse. Maybe I'll chartreuse the back on this one. Maybe we'll break out the chartreuse marker. I haven't used it in a while. So I have a chartreuse marker right here, brush pen. So maybe I'll do that after this dries. I'll do— I don't want to do right now. Awesome, I see DB's initials in there. DB's in the house, what is up? What's up, DB? Good to see you. Hope all is well. DB is in the house. Uh, Patty loves Jason's growies. I love that. Thank you so much, appreciate that. Hey Deborah, good to see you. Just got on, love this. Happy holidays. Happy holidays to you too. Thanks for popping on. You guys are cool. Since I have Linda's in the house— wow, since so many of You guys are popping on. I'm going to go a little bit longer than I intended. Thank you for the thumbs up and the hearts. I appreciate you guys. Let's do something fresh. Let's put this one aside. We'll let it dry. This is turning out to be a cool little treehouse type of scene. Let's rip this off. So I am using Canson watercolor paper, 9 by 12, 9 by 12. I actually ran out of my favorite sketchbook size. I have to go replenish. So I'll be near Michaels tomorrow. I have to get a little heart scan tomorrow. And I'll be right next to Michaels, so— See, I purposely scheduled the heart scan so I could just go to Michaels. It's really about the art supplies. It's about the art, not the heart. Um, but I'll be able to get more sketchbooks tomorrow. Cool. Alright, put this aside. Let's do something, another sketch on this sheet of paper. I'm gonna restart this tune because I love this piece of music. I don't know what we're gonna create, but I feel like just going kind of— getting it out of my system. Linda, you said green and we all popped on. You like this green? Linda, I— this green is really cool. Except it's not coming out of my Pentonite. What is up with that? Let me try cleaning this out. I think it's the nib on this. I might have to replace it. I'm not having luck with this one at all. But since Linda's in the house, you know what we're gonna do, Linda? Just for you. You love the green. I'm gonna take the green right out of the inkwell and we're just gonna brush some ink right on the paper. Use our— let's play with the mop. We're gonna play with the mop brush and we'll use our dirty water still.
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Alright, gearing up. I am gearing up. I love the color of this pen, by the way. This is such a fun pen. Um, ba ba ba bum. What happened to the yellow? Did it disappear. The yellow— I'm not sure which yellow. Oh, the yellow, Patty, you're talking about the yellow on here. Good question. Where did the yellow go? I don't even— I don't see it. Where was that mysterious yellow? I'd have to go back and watch the video. I don't remember. I may have screwed it up and down over by mistake. So, I don't know, but I love the color that this is drawing right here. I get goosebumps when I talk about colors. I don't know why. It's kind of weird. I'm kind of weird that way. Alright, let's throw some green on here. So, the holidays are coming. Thanksgiving was just just passed by. Hope everybody had an awesome Thanksgiving. You know, Thanksgiving is a great reminder just to be grateful. We should try to be grateful for something every day of our lives. I'm grateful for you guys tonight, for sure. All right, let's just go back and play the other song, Lucy Goosey, and throw down more color. Let's throw it down. I am really throwing down. This is super wet here. I'm sure the paper's gonna buckle. Alright, let's try some of the green. I think this might be chartreuse. It's looking more yellowy to me. I never threw so much down at one time. I don't know, whatever color it is, I really like it. All right, these mop brushes hold tons and tons of water on them. Alright, we're kind of doing some wet on wet technique here, so let's throw down some, uh, Watercolor Stick on here as well. This will probably end up being one of those, uh, pieces I use where I just kind of create a background. And then I come back later and add ink on top of it. I'm thinking that's where it's going to end up going. But we'll see. Let's play around with it for a few minutes. I have an inclination to throw down some— well, I'm just going to do it. Just going to do it. Talking about it, I'm just going to do it. Alright, now I'm getting really cray cray. I'm throwing down some pink. Fluorescent pink is calling my name, and I'm just gonna put it right on the paper. That's plenty. I know, I know, crazy. I'm crazy. Again, this might end up being a piece that I come back and do some sketching on top of later. Ooh, this looks cool. This looks awesome. I like the way it's bleeding together here. These mop brushes are cool. You can get really fine points on them if you want. You can kind of be fussy and draw thin lines if you want. You can get thicker. I'm actually gonna take my flat brush and just kind of flick it, just to get some vertical lines on here. Straight down some horizontal, create some kind of base down there. I am gonna let this I'm not going to touch that.
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Whoa, what the heck is this? Just do it, Janice says. Yes, do it. Done. I threw down the pink. It's looking really cool in person. It looks a little washed out on screen, so you're not seeing exactly what I'm seeing. But it's— if I hold it up at an angle, you can take some of the glare out and maybe you'll see it better. Love all the things that happen in your drawings. Thanks, Patty. Scan, hope all is well. Yeah, thanks, D-Ray, I appreciate it. Yep, all is well, just going for my regular, uh, my quarterly checkup. I had a stent put in about, uh, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, so I just go for my regular checkups now. It's all good. Yeah, pink. We have a fussy line in pink. Uh, this is going to dry really amazingly. I can already sense it. I love this boom. I love this right here. Wow, the camera just went purple on me. These fluorescent colors are so hard to to show on camera, and they're even harder to scan, to get the colors to come out right when I scan them in. They sure look good in person. Really cool. Uh, I didn't throw any— let's do some graphite. Maybe we got some kind of tree shapes happening here. So I guess my brain's in the forest today, not in the city. You know, I see a lot of similarities in the cities and being out in the woods, similarities as far as A lot of vertical elements, right? You got vertical buildings, we got vertical trees.
Cool.
All right, let's put on some choir music and cool down. We'll do one choir song and then whistling cowboy time. I'm gonna wrap it up. Wow, where did this night go? This is flying by too fast. I really love this— these are them guys. Uh, actually, I wonder if this— could it look better if I have that light out? We'll try sketching like this. Yeah, you can see the light is changing on screen. The camera's trying to figure out what to do with the colors on here. Alright, I admit it, this one's a little wacky. But I'm having fun just throwing down the colors. Definitely will be able to turn it into something when— after it dries. Alright, I actually see a building emerging out of this scene, believe it or not. So I'm going to keep working on it. So I'm seeing some kind of a chapel. We'll call this like a wilderness chapel here. There's some really beautiful wilderness chapels. Um, I'll post some links to some I've seen on my architecture websites that I go to. Really amazing, kind of Hidden jewels in forests. So maybe we have some kind of hidden chapel here. So if you can see, it's kind of a modern structure with this roof coming up. Here's kind of the face of the building. Now we have the cross happening here. Gonna curve the walls, give— make it look a little more organic. So this is kind of a back wall, the roof, front wall. I'm picturing this raised up on a few steps or platform. Some of this I'll have to sketch with ink after it dries to pull out the details. Yeah, I'm picturing— I'm picturing steps sort of kind of in here. So this chapel is raised off the floor of the forest. So this is where I'm picturing some steps coming up. Maybe it's a chapel made out of branches and tree limbs and tree trunks. So maybe it's an open-air type of structure. Maybe we have some— the curved bent of the wood. I think they call these bents. I love old barn structures, the Amish barn structures that they carved out of timbers and they would do the barn raisings. Really incredible, incredible craftsmanship they put into their structures. It's definitely such an art form. So maybe this kind of bent wood, another bent here. It's a little saturated, so my graphite's not going down quite like I want it to right now. I can picture it in my brain. Here's another kind of bent coming off in here, so we have almost a tree trunk. My hand's like purple on screen, that is weird. Um, this kind of splits here, it's holding up a roof structure. I have another trunk coming up with a branch bent coming out this way. Again, I'll have to do this in pen, but let me throw down some trace paper. I'll show you what I'm picturing. Hey, if you guys like this, let me know. Give me a thumbs up, give me some hearts. Do you kind of see what I'm seeing? Did you see what I see, Jason Nicholas? I want to show you, but I don't want to— I don't want to mess up this. I like the way this is drying here. It's wet, so I'm just going to sketch it off to the side. This is kind of what I'm picturing. So let's take my Sharpie and we'll just kind of sketch it. So the structure I'm picturing looks kind of like this. Maybe here's the bottom, some steps. Here's one of the trunks, branch kind of splits like that. The back of the building has another kind of trunk coming up. Another branch split out like that. Here's the roof, kind of curved. Some kind of cross happening somewhere in here. I'm picturing almost like latticework made out of branches for like a stained glass— stained glass effect. Effect. So maybe there would be another timber or across here, and maybe we have some small branches, or I want to create almost a stained glass kind of effect. So I'm going to lay these branches down at random angles. So let me just darken it. Hey, thanks for following along, guys. I know I'm a little wonky on this. I have 6 people watching. That's incredible. I appreciate every single one of you so much. A nativity scene barn? Yeah, Janice, that's kind of the image I'm picturing for this structure. So, you nailed it. Yeah, Hidden Chapel. I was squinting as to why colors were changing. Yeah, my camera is having issues picking up all these different colors, which is kind of weird. We are wrapping it up with calm music. We are wrapping it up. And then I got excited when I was doing this. Oh man. So, I'm just playing around with this a little bit and I'll show you what I'm thinking. Let's put on— let's see, I don't know what to put on. Let's put this song on. I think we'll wrap up after this song. Let's just play this one. So these would be kind of the— So this is that dirty water. I love the color that's coming up. Well, there's still some pink on the brush too. Right, so I'm just kind of— I'm gonna move this over a little bit.
All right, there you go.
You can kind of see what I'm sketching. And then Paddy's bluebirds can fly into my scene. Oh, we got blue. Let's grab some blue. Let's throw some blue on here. We'll use, um, some of the turquoise blue. Use my aqua brush. So what I'm picturing is, imagine birds birds flying, all colors of birds. Maybe we have the turquoise kind of birds, and they're flying and they're landing on these branches. I'm not going to sketch birds, but imagine these being kind of birds kind of sitting on the branches on our chapel-like structure, right? So maybe we have some birds kind of hanging hanging out there. Clean my brush off and just kind of—
there we go.
And what about like cardinals? Maybe we have some really bright red. Maybe we have some red birds kind of hanging out, flying here, sitting on the branches also.
Right?
So the birds are actually forming the kind of stained glass look as they're sitting on these branches. You know, maybe we have some yellow— what's a good yellow bird? Finch? Are finches yellow? Did you find a finch in the forest, friend? Hey friend, would you find a finch in the forest? Sorry, that was a pencil sharpener. You know, we've got some yellow birds kind of coming and hanging out also. So we got the pine cone. Tops of yellow. So this is just a concept, right? So the birds are forming the beautiful mosaic or the stained glass of this wood chapel. Love this music. All right, cool. Oh, I could use the— could use my pencil here too. What was I thinking? Awesome. So there you go. That's kind of the concept. That's the structure I was imagining happening on this piece right here. Do a little side by side.
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So that's what popped into my brain. Interesting, right? I love creating on the fly, not like on the insect fly, but creating spur of the moment, on the fly, spur of the moment. It's always fun to see what happens. It's fun to make mistakes on air. It's fun to chat and be inspired by you guys. And again, it's always, it's about the journey for me and not the end result. The The end result comes out cool, that's a huge bonus, but it's pretty dang fun just creating, and that's what I love doing. All right guys, if you want to hear the Whistling Cowboy outro, let me know. Give me some thumbs ups, give me some hearts, put in the chat Whistling Cowboy, and we'll wrap up with the Whistling Cowboy. This could turn out to be a little cool sketch too. Come back back and do more on it.
Excuse me.
So this is how it's looking as it's drying. I'm just kind of organizing a little bit. I don't know, I am going to keep my dirty water because I love the color. I'm going to definitely wash my brushes out tonight, so I'm going to put them here. Let's put a lid on the paint here. It is cool, love your birds. Hello everyone, Deborah, good to see you. Thank you for the hearts. Whistling Cowboy, please. Janice, Janice has brought her manners to the house. Janice says please. Janice, you are awesome. You are awesome. Thumbs up for the whistling cowboy. All right, you guys, let's do it. So put a number in from 1 to 15, and that'll be the whistling cowboy outro piece for tonight. We will be looking at this again in the near future after it dries and I do more to it.
Cool.
All right, so let's break out the Whistling Cowboy sketchbook.
Dun dun dun.
15! Janice says 15. Awesome, Janice, we'll do it. 15 will be the music piece we play. So when we last left the Whistling Cowboy, he was in graphite. Graphite Town. This was a tribute to DB and DB wanted to break out just the Blackwing pencil, play around with it. So thank you, DB, for always inspiring us with your amazing pencil, pencil skills, pencil creativity.
Love it.
So 15 it is. Let's go to 15. Let's get a new page open. You guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. Have an amazing Wednesday tomorrow. We had some flurries here in town today, a little bit of covering on the trees. Looked beautiful out, but I would love a snow day tomorrow. Can anybody make that happen? Can anybody get me a snow day tomorrow? Do you have anything in Roy Rogers music? Ooh, I don't have anything Roy Rogers. I have the music I listen to is from a thing called Epidemic Sound. I have to pay to use the music so I can play on the air. So, I wouldn't be able to find anything by Roy Rogers to play on the air. It's probably copyrighted and Facebook would cut my sound out. They've done that a couple years ago. I didn't realize, I didn't understand about the sound stuff and they shut down some of my sound when I was, you know, innocently playing music in the background. They didn't really like that. But I would, I'm gonna go to Spotify and just listen to some Roy Rogers music. That would be fun. All right, number 15 is, the name of this piece is Boots of Glory. Boots of Glory. Dollar for sound? That's okay. Yeah, I understand people are artists, right? Musicians are artists and they should be entitled to money when people use their stuff. Thank you guys. I appreciate you all. Have an awesome Wednesday. Peace. Live creatively. It is cowboy time. Awesome. There we go. Whistling Cowboy for tonight. Thank you guys so much. Appreciate you all. Have an awesome Wednesday. Thank you. It's great seeing so many of you in the house. Thank you for sharing this and spreading the word and liking this. I love it. Take care, guys. Peace and live creatively. See you soon. I have to end. Where's the finish button? I got it. Got the finish button. I got it. Good night, guys.










