Inking Out Loud - Sketching and Painting - 01-07-2022

Hey, hello out there if you're watching. Hope all is good. Uh, my internet, I don't know what happened. I started before and my internet just said I give up. That was really weird. Hey Sue, good to see you. D-Ray, awesome to see you guys in the house. That was weird. I started and the internet just I guess it decided it needed a break. It was only on for like a minute. I hope you guys are doing well. Becky is in the house. Thank you guys for tuning back in. So great to see everybody. Hope you're having an awesome day or evening. Um, yeah, it is Friday here. We had a snow day, so I didn't have to go to school, which was awesome. Sometimes I think I'm like one of the school kids, right? One of the students. I love snow days just as much as they do, so it's great to be home today. Kim's like, "I thought I got kicked off the island." Nope, you are good. If anybody gets kicked off the island, it would be me. This is like Inkling Survivor. We're gonna see who can stay on the creative island the longest. You guys are awesome. Thanks for popping in on this Friday night. I love seeing all of you so, so much. Sue, I hope all is well with you. I haven't seen you in a while. I miss our Inkling workshops with all of you guys. I would love to do a workshop in the very near future and I'd love to start Zooming with you guys. It would be so much fun. So, I am just throwing down some graphite here. I don't know what I'm sketching, but I'm kind of creating, no clues. But you know what? That's the point of inking out loud, just to break out graphite, the pens, the watercolors, the markers, the paper, just see what happens. Right? It's about the fun. Let me know if I'm yelling, guys. I feel like I'm talking really loud. I have my music on super loud because I'm using it to keep me pumped up. "Ooh yeah, all the snow photos. One day Sue hopes to get to see snow in person." Yeah, you know, it's, uh, the first snowfall of the season is quite magical. Everything looks beautiful, fresh, clean. It was gorgeous outside today looking at the snow, the newly fallen snow. And then you get about, you know, 2, 3, 4, 5 snowfalls. You gotta keep shoveling. Um, beauty can lose its wonder a little bit, but it's all how you see things, right? I love this. I love snow. I love the snowfall. It's good stuff. And it would be awesome if we could, uh, ship some snow out to Sue in Australia. Why don't we do that, guys? How cool would that be? Hey, Peter Kuhl! What's up, Pete? Happy birthday! I know you had a birthday recently. Happy belated birthday. Hope all is going well with you. Long time no see. Pete and I go way back, way back to the high school days, the good old days when, um, I used to be able to run without getting out of breath. Um, had more hair. It was a lot thinner. Do you ever notice how the camera is focusing up on my face? I never show from the neck down. Gotta love technology. Um, oh no, Pete, you're fighting COVID or the flu. Hang in there, man. Uh, hang in there. I have heard so many stories about COVID It's crazy. Um, hang in there, man. Feel better. It's insane, this COVID stuff that's going around. COVID/flu. It's been really impacting our school situation. There's a shortage of staff and bus drivers. I'm not going to get into it all. But yeah, it's just been nuts. So I guess I'm sketching. I don't know, this is maybe the rooftop of a building. Got the roof here, maybe some kind of tower coming out of the top of the roof. We have some spires, maybe that's in the background. Again, I'm just having fun, see whatever happens. I do have something planned I'm gonna show you in a few minutes. Something I'm going to be working on. I'll just show it to you guys. Let's just kind of loosen up a little bit here. I'm going to throw down some color here. Linda's in the house! Good to see you, Linda. Patty, awesome! 2 hours of shoveling and now you're relaxing. Wow, 2 hours, a lot of shoveling time. That's just crazy. Fortunately, I was only out there an hour and a half today, had the help of a snowblower. We only got about 3.5 inches here, so I'm not going to complain. But let's just say if I do have any ice cream tonight, I Maybe I earned it getting that exercise. I'm just throwing in some blue for maybe his background for a sky. I'm gonna throw out some red ink on here also. It looks like— so this is a Pilot Precise. I'm just throwing down red ink and I'm going to let it bleed. So maybe we have like a, some kind of red metal roof happening here. Notice I'm using a 3/4-inch flat brush. So I'm using the 3/4-inch flat brush because I'm not thinking about detail. I just want to throw down some graphite, throw throw some color here. If I start using this brush, I'll start thinking a little more detail, so it's cool. I don't mind if the red's bleeding with the graphite, it's all cool. Yeah, let's throw some red on here. I'm just thinking, uh, what do I want to do? Let's see. Now I'm just gonna switch to my aqua brush, just throwing down some purple. I wanna maybe define some kind of windows or something that are happening here. So I'm just gonna throw down a little bit of purple ink. Again, right, this is pretty quick. It's very loose, but hopefully you can get the sense that maybe this is some kind of a building. I'm just making this up. It's out of my brain, so I'm not trying to draw anything realistic. So these Varsity pens do not like to write on wet surfaces. So if you do use the, the Pilot Varsity pens, just be aware that you really want to throw them down on the dry paper before you bleed it. Because it's like wet here and I can't really throw it down. I'm gonna be able to tap it. I could tap it and add it, but I can't really draw with it. Uh, gotta love the cardio. Yeah, shoveling is awesome for the cardio. My cardiologist probably doesn't want me out shoveling, but Patty, uh, Patty, that's amazing out there shoveling. Patty painted snow in her backyard today. Ooh, what color did you go out and paint the snow? Did you use spray paint on it? Did you watercolor your snow? It's pretty interesting. I've never actually seen anybody paint snow. I could imagine going out there with a can of spray paint in the backyard and just kind of throwing down some colors on top of the snow. Let me know how you did that. Kim, I tried to sketch paint as loose as you do today, struggled some, wondering if the trick is being left-handed. Kim, Kim, Kim, interesting. You know what? So maybe here's a suggestion, maybe try doing it with your opposite hand. So if you are right-handed, Just try drawing or sketching something with your opposite hand. That way you have a lot less control of where the lines are going down. I'll put together— I'll try to think of some good tips to sketch loose. That's so cool that you tried it. I love that. There we go, so this is just some kind of rooftop quick, quick sketch. Linda, I had your— oh, Izzy was over. Say hello to Izzy, hope she's doing well. Glad you had a lot of fun. Grand loves are the best. Ooh, you guys are so cool. I have a ways to go before that happens. You have some photos of flowers painted in the snow with "Awesome! Food coloring is a— I've never used food coloring to paint stuff, but that sounds really cool." Alright, this was a fun loose sketch. I'm not nutty about it. Nutty? I'm not nuts about it. It was fun just to throw down the graphite. I still like— this is how the one dried from last night, the cityscape. Pete says you could be the new Bob Ross. Always positive, of course. Happy mistakes. I make tons of happy mistakes. Am I always happy about them? That's another question. I wish I could be the next Bob Ross. That would be so cool. Uh, he's iconic for sure. Patty has grand dogs. Awesome. So let me show you guys the next project I want to work on. I don't know if I'm going to start it on Inking Out Loud. Maybe.

Maybe.

We'll see what you guys think. I love this song. I'm going to have to go back and do some more sketching to it. Alright. This is the one I did the other night. I don't know if you guys saw this dried and finished. This was that sketch. I used a reference photo from Disney Springs when we were down there, and I just kind of put my spin and twist on the sketch. Um, this is the Gideon's Bakehouse storefront here. There's a store here as well. I thought it'd be fun just to kind of do a real quick loose perspective of the storefront. I think it came out kind of cool. Yeah, it's the bakery. Kim got it. It's the bakery building. So, I think it came out really nice. It's very loose and wonky. I'm gonna do another version and actually I wanna send them— I wanna send them an actual sketch that I did. I think it'd be really cool. Pardon me, I got an itchy nose. It's dry in my room. But I wanna send them a sketch. I think it'd be really a fun thing to do. Cool. Alright, let me show you guys what I have up my sleeve. Well, I don't have sleeves, I have short sleeves on. I have this really— actually, let me pan down and show you this cool shirt I have. So this is a shirt I got at Disney. It's pretty cool. Look over here, it has the Disney castle and it says "Home" in Somali. So I want to treat myself to a t-shirt while we're away. I really love the graphic and the colors. Red, black, and white, and I love the silhouette of the Disney Castle. It's a pretty cool t-shirt. That was the modeling fashion segment for tonight's show. I hope you enjoyed it. We just were missing the fancy runway music. We'll save the fashion show for another time. Yeah, that would be fun if you sent them one of your sketches, right? It's a great way It's a great way to connect to people, you know, and just show them you appreciate them. And who knows where it'll lead to. But if I could put a smile on her face, that would be so cool. Alright, so here's what I'm thinking of doing next. Something a little different for me. You may have noticed, you actually may not have noticed, it's off camera. I actually have a pencil and a triangle out. Tools you rarely see me use on Inking Out Loud. Here is what I am concocting. It's what I'm thinking. I have a reference picture I took when I was away. Bring up the image. So here, this is a reference image. This is the part of the the Disney Polynesian Resort. We actually stayed here at the Polynesian. Beautiful. Look at that, such a beautiful place there.

Like, um, love it.

Let me actually make it bigger, see more detail. So I took— I probably took about 500 photographs when I was away. I'm a photography I just love photography. Something I don't really talk that much about on here. I love photographing architecture and buildings and landscapes. So I took— I was going through my pictures today. I saw this one. I'm like, you know what? I might want to try to paint this. So what I did is I actually have this photo. I'll show you the process. And I said, okay, I want to maybe do a more of an accurate architectural type of painting. Maybe. I'm not 100% sure yet. So I kind of— let me close the photo a little bit here. I took a piece of tracing paper, I laid it over the photo, and I kind of marked up some of the main lines on it. So you can see on the back I added graphite on this trace paper and I did a rubbing. Which I'll show you here. It's very light because it's the only pencil on watercolor paper. So my intention with this one is to— I'm not sure if I want to do an accurate precise architectural type of watercolor painting or mixed media, it would probably be ink, watercolor, maybe some colored pencil on it as well. Or if I just want to use this for tonight and just have fun and just be really loosey-goosey, my typical style, just think out loud and see what happens. That's kind of where I'm headed. I want to teach a workshop in February. I'm going to call it Sketching Disney Architecture. We'll use reference photos I took and we'll sketch a few of— sketch maybe ink wash or watercolor some of the buildings I took pictures of. So if you're interested, let me know. If you think sketching Disney architecture is a cool idea, let me know and I'll put a workshop out there. Hey Pete, it was so good seeing you. I hope you feel better. Hang in there, man. I always love to see you pop in and yeah, just one day at a time. Feel better. Yeah, for the workshop, Linda says. That is so cool. So, you know what I might do? I think I'm just gonna mess around with what I laid down here and I'm not gonna do an accurate architectural illustration. That'll take hours and days, days to do. Let's just ink out loud with my typical like a loose style, and I'll use this as a base. We'll see what happens. Hopefully you guys are up for that.

If not, I'm gonna do it anyway.

Alright, Sue says yes to Disney Workshop. Linda, alright, awesome guys, let's do it. I could actually— let me share my screen. I'm gonna show you guys some other photos I took. On my trip. If you want to see some stuff— I can't speak. I need to have a script and cue cards. If you want to see some show and tell, let me know in the comments and I'll show you some of the photos I took on vacation from Disneyland. Sue says, hope you feel better soon, Peter. Ah, Sue, that's so nice of you. Pete is a nice guy. Like I said, I've known Pete since high school. And it's really cool, our sons are the same age and in the same school together. They play on the same soccer team together. So it's kind of fun to reconnect with someone from high school.

Awesome.

So let me, I'm gonna share my screen. Let me see if I could do this. Let me see, I wanna prep here a little bit.

I don't know.

I'm just opening my photos here. I'm not going to show you all 500, but I'll scroll through some of them. Yeah, I'll scroll through some, I think. You don't want to see— you don't want to see the selfies of me. Alright, so if you guys want to see them, I see thumbs up, yes, thumbs up, hearts. So you guys want to see some pictures, awesome. Alright, let's try to figure out the best way I can show you these. I have to move this file down here, move this over here. I have lost half my desktop screen here, so I want to clean it, clear it so I can make sure you see the pictures the best. Alright, I'll make this bigger. Pardon me, guys, I'm just trying to find— ah, there we go, got it. That's way back. Those are pictures from a long, long time ago. All right, just trying to find the knee stuff. You like this narrating? Sorry, I'm not sketching or painting right now, just doing the prep work. All right, here we are.

Cool.

All right, I'll start right here. So I'm going to share my screen, guys. Let me know if you can see my screen okay, and I'll do just a quick show and tell. Let me know if— update audio system. No, I don't need to update my system audio. It's got a pop-up. Let me know if you guys can see my screen okay.

Awesome.

So these are pictures of Epcot, the Spaceship Earth geodesic dome. Disney did something really cool I think the end of last year is they added all these cool LED lights to Spaceship Earth and it is really, really cool how it lights up at night. It changes colors. I think I have a picture here. Yeah, you can see they have a zoom in on it if I can. I can click here. Just trying to make the image bigger. There you go. Hope you guys can see that. So this is Spaceship Earth, and what they did, you know, this is one of the scenarios. It's a globe.

Let me see if I can change the picture.

If I do that, I can go to the next one.

Go.

So I'll just go through and show you a few of them. It's really beautiful. Check this out. Look at the color. Actually, next one's better. Check out the colors of this. I thought this was beautiful. I love Spaceship Earth and the bright colors we have here. And I thought the trees against the background look really cool, very sculptural. I actually almost feel like sketching something like this. But we'll see. So that I think is awesome. There's a close-up. It's a very exciting picture of the— yeah, the colors are stunning, right, Sue? I totally agree. I'm looking at the photos and I noticed there's one— looking closely here, there's actually one that's the wrong color. I don't know if you guys see like the random— you can't see my cursor, or maybe you can. I don't know if you can see my cursor moving around. There's one here in the— this pink row, there's a blue one. A little tech glitch, I guess, on Disney's end. Can I ask for a refund? Hey Disney, can I have a refund? One of your LED lights was the wrong color. Just saying. All right, let me— I'm gonna skip some of these because I have a lot of Spaceship Earth. Here are some of my sketch journal pictures. Here's a page of some of the sketch journal stuff I was working on while I was there. Pretty cool. Please let me zip ahead. Um, I took, alone, I took 150 pictures, I think, of this, the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotels. I love these buildings. They're totally Disney because they're so kind of cheesy looking, but in a a good way. Disney is, you know, has fun amusement-type architecture, cheesy architecture. So this fits right in. I love this building. I'll show you some photos of it. I could spend, I could spend an hour, 2 hours easily just talking about these buildings. And I think we will be doing this building in our workshop for sure. I'm not sure what view. I love this view actually. I love the reflection on the water. Looks pretty cool, right? I have so many of these. I'm going to skip ahead a little bit. Here's just another cool view. This is actually the Dolphin Hotel. There's a big dolphin fish, big sculpture on top. I just love the graphics on the wall. But it was there in 2008. Ooh, awesome! That is so cool you were there. Yeah, there's been a lot of changes at Disney since 2008, for sure. Sip out of that. This is a new hotel that they just built. I think it's— I don't know exactly what it's called. It's right by the Dolphin and Swan Hotels. I should know the name, but I don't know. It's fairly new. Very, very modern looking building. All right, let me see. I'm going to skip ahead. So you guys that are— have been in the workshops, you know, we talk about perspectives. Let me show you a couple examples. Here's a, here's a good one-point perspective looking down this causeway area, right? We have our focal point and you can see how everything's kind of coming back to this point here in the middle. So that's a really cool example of a perspective. This I love. I love taking pictures of windows or openings that frame views. So, I love how this opening framed a view of the building behind here. I mean, almost this building almost looks like a photograph or a painting, right? If I'm going too fast, let me know. I am just— I get so excited when I see this stuff. I was there during sunset. I took some sunset pictures. This is another great example of one-point perspective.

Who wants—

anybody want a homework assignment? If anybody wants a homework assignment, let me know. You could sketch this right here. Yeah, the view through the opening would be great to sketch and paint. Yeah, I think, um, this one here, right? Yes, Sue, I agree. I love, I love this frame. Yeah, guys at home, feel free to take screenshots if you want to take a screenshot. You're more than welcome to. But yeah, this— maybe we'll do this one in the workshop. Yeah, this would even be fun to do on Inking Out Loud. Pretty cool. Let's see, I'm going to fast forward a little bit here. Um, zip through. Got some animals and stuff. Uh, I'll show you, this is something fun I'll show you. This was a show they did at Animal Kingdom on the water. These are big giant kites that are being pulled by, uh, jet skis. Let me see if I have a picture to show you. I don't know if I have any action pictures.

I do.

I don't know if you can see it. Um, it's hard to see, but yeah, this these giant kites are being pulled. There's a jet ski here, it's attached to it, and these kites are just being pulled by the jet ski. It's really— it was a neat show to watch, very whimsical. Let's see, again, I'm skipping through a lot of this stuff. This is Disney's Galaxy's Edge. Their Star Wars land. I could spend hours and hours talking about this. Beautiful. Amazingly well done. I was trying to capture light and shadow when I was there. I love the architecture. So if you notice a lot of these pictures, I was just trying to see how the light and shadows were playing on the building facades. So you can see this building right here. It's a good example. Hey, welcome! Glad I could take you. Becky will want— yes, Becky will definitely want to see the animals. I don't have any horses, but Becky is rocking those horses. Let's hear it for Becky in the comments. Uh, her horse paintings have been incredible. I'm astonished. I, I'm actually jealous. I I wish I could do animals. I can't do them, not yet. But yeah, shout out to Becky for her amazing, amazing horses. Alice here, here's some more light and shadow. I have the Ponysha photo anyway. Anyone else? Becky's in Hellendale rocking the horse. Oh, I love that. She's definitely rocking the horse. Did I say rocking the horse? If I said that, I didn't even realize it. Here's another cool picture just showing some light and shadow on here. Let me know if you guys are liking this. If I'm boring you with all these photos, just, you can also tell me. I want to— I could spend hours looking at these. I love this picture. This is a really great dramatic picture with light and shadow. You can see it, you know, you can see it definitely at play here. I tried to get early to this park, early so I could get pictures before it got too crowded. Patty was there, hasn't been there since '73. Epcot wasn't built. Oh, that's so cool. The three of you spent the day at Disney after graduation. What a nice memory. So that's one of the really cool things about places like Disney is that it brings back memories for people. You know, if I show you guys a picture of Cinderella's Castle, I showed it to my students at school and a few of them were like, they saw that castle and it just triggered, you know, memories of when they were there, which was, you know, I'm trying to teach them architecture and buildings. Architecture can really trigger memories of places, of events. You can't really separate, it's hard to separate a building from a memory. I, I am in love with the architecture at Galaxy's Edge. This is— Galaxy's Edge is located at Disney's Hollywood Studios. It's one of the lands they have there. There's a Toy Story Land as well. Um, this Galaxy's Edge is a sketching creative mecca for me personally. I just love the details here of the oni, the canopy, the stairs. It was wet or they washed things down in the morning. You see kind of the water on the stairs. This is one of the places I did some interior— some sketching on location. I was in here sketching this View, and I think I told the story, one of the guys that works there, he came up to me and he's like, I think he said something like, "Are you drawing?" So I'm sitting here drawing, oh yeah, the guy's like, "Are you drawing?" I'm like, "Yeah," and then he left. I thought maybe he'd want to talk about something or look at what I was doing, but he's just like, "Are you drawing?" and he was gone. It's pretty funny. But this, look at this, is so rich with character and detail and texture. I saw Sue wrote something down about the texture of buildings. There is so much texture here. Look at the lighting hanging. I mean, that's— look at that, that's a great detail. But look at the texture of the stonework on the walls, on the floor. On these ladies' pants right here. Got some texture going on. Yeah, these light fixtures are incredible. This was probably one of my most favorite views here and I didn't do it— well, I did an on-location sketch which is I enjoy doing. I want to come back and do more sketches. Where else can I skip to? Ah, check out the light and shadow in these pictures. Sometimes when I'm going to a place with my camera and sketchbook, sometimes Sometimes I'll go with a certain intention and my intention when I was sketching here was really to focus on light and shadow. So, that's why I took a lot of extra pictures of light and shadow examples. Or, you know, sometimes I'll go to a place and I'll say, "Okay, I wanna focus on the smallest of details." Or, I just wanna look at the I just want to focus on the color palette. Or maybe I just want to focus on the overall shapes I'm looking at. So sometimes it's good to go with that creative mindset when you're visiting places. That way it kind of forces you to see things, experience things in a different way. That's my tip of the day.

Alright.

What else do I want to show you guys? I know— yeah, here you go, here's a picture of one of the sketches I was doing while I was there. Here's a picture of an entry into that area I was standing and sketching. Here's the entryway. Pretty cool. Alright, I'm gonna skip out of Star Wars Land here. Ah, here's a couple pictures of Toy Story Land. I have to say, I love the Toy Story movies. I was not blown away by Toy Story Land. I really wasn't. I can't explain why. Maybe because it was so crowded. But that crowds don't usually bother me. I don't know. I thought it was going to be a little— it was going to be different. I can't explain it. I'll have to think about it. It was still cool, but I feel like Disney ran out of money when they were doing this. Toy Story Land. It could have been so much more than it is right now. And that's just me speaking as an architect and designer person. There's a kind of a wide view. All right guys, let me skip ahead. I'm going to jump way ahead to somewhere here. Here we go, let's show you some.

I want to show you—

I have a lot of pictures. Let's see, let's look at— this is a wedding pavilion at the Grand Floridian. Aridien Resort, so you can get married in this building. I can only imagine how much it would cost, but it's a beautiful, beautiful structure. This would be a fun one to maybe do in our class. Beautiful kind of Victorian-style architecture. These are Buildings at the Grand Floridian. Beautiful architecture here. I think it was designed by Robert A.M. Stern. I think he's a, uh, an iconic architect. Beautiful details. Um, what else? Uh, I'm fascinated by the Disney monorail. Well, let's show you some nature. Let's show you guys some animals. Here we go. So I saw this cool bird here hanging out. Not sure, is this an e— Who are my bird fans? Is this an ibis? An egret? None of the above? I'm not sure what kind of bird it is. A crane? But check that out, it's a pretty cool bird. Here's a close-up. "Did you sketch those light fixtures?" I thought I— yeah, so there were light fixtures in Disney I sketched, and I also sketched light fixtures in the Polynesian Main Lodge. I'm going to show you a picture of this. Donna, is that DB in the house? She saw someone write Donna. Egret, did I get it? It was an egret. Awesome. Hello Donna. I love the monorail. I'm fascinated with the Disney monorail system. I think it's so So just so cool. I won't show you my 50 pictures of the monorail, not today at least. It is really hard for me to pick favorites out. There are so many cool things. This is, uh, inside the Magic Kingdom— well, I'm sorry, outside Magic Kingdom as you're going into it. This is the iconic, uh, train station building at Magic Kingdom. Beautiful structure. Structure. Very, very magical. I have a lot of pictures of Main Street. So, you know, in our work Disney sketching Disney buildings workshop— I need a more magical name than that— you know, you might see this building. I'm not sure, but it is a cool building. There's a t-shirt, a shirt I want to see if my son liked. All right, here's some cool pictures of the castle, different colors. Let me show you these, then I'll wrap up with the light fixtures at the Polynesian. Yeah, Lynn says it's a beautiful train station. It is beautiful. You can see the castle is lit up different colors. Oh, we got creepy music coming on.

Uh-oh.

Put some nice music on. We don't want creepy music.

Let's see.

That's more fun. There we go. I am not always— oh, that's actually a video I took. That's why it's so blurry. That's a short video. This is a really cool shot. I love the castle, the green castle. All right, ah, there are some really cool nighttime shots. Let me show you. Let's check this one out. Check out this nighttime shot. This is just my iPhone. It came out really cool. I know I didn't Photoshop this. It's straight from the iPhone. Yeah, the Green Castle is cool. The sky is gorgeous in these pictures. I'm trying to think what time it was. It looks like it was just after 6 o'clock, I think. Look at the clock here. Here's a really cool picture. This is the backside of the train station as you're leaving the Magic Kingdom to go out and exit. This is that. Look at the beautiful Christmas lights. This is a great, great picture.

And we got the Christmas tree.

I did want to show you the Polynesian lights. Oh, here we are. All right, we're going to end with this, guys. So this is the, um, this is inside the Polynesian Resort. This is the main Lodge building. I did do some sketches inside here. Beautiful place. These are the light fixtures. I did— you may have seen a sketch of these I did. I have some better pictures of it.

Here we go, here's a close-up.

Um, the night lights on buildings are cool. Yeah, Patty said they had the monorail in '73 and Nautilus from— oh yeah, yeah, so the Contemporary Resort Hotel and monorail were Yep, they were in, I think it's 1970, '71. Yeah, they had a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride. I remember that. Thanks for posting the video link, I'll definitely check it out. Cool, and here's the lights, guys. Beautiful, really cool. And I think we'll end with that. Stop sharing my screen.

Let's see.

And I think we're back to the drawing board. You can see the drawing board. So I hope you guys enjoyed that quick, or not so quick, kind of just some photographs from my trip. Give you a sense of some of the possibilities of things we could sketch in a workshop in February. So it seems like there's enough interest where I'll put together a workshop. That would be so cool. And we'll do it like we did the other ones. We'll have our Facebook— not our Facebook, we'll do our Zoom meets, our show and tells, and I'll I like giving sketching prompts or painting prompts. We'll do it that way. There's a Disney picture in the top left of your screen. Yeah, that is— that was my reference photo of the Polynesian.

Thank you.

I'm glad you enjoyed the photos, guys. So you know what, we're gonna end up— I'm not gonna work on this piece tonight. I just want to talk to you guys about what I was thinking of doing here and just to show you that sometimes I'm gonna do things differently too. I'm gonna get a little more technical and formal with this painting. So I'll show it to you guys as I progress on. Let's just wrap up with thinking out loud loose sketch and listen to some music. You guys are awesome, thank you for watching. I always appreciate you in the house, your positivity, your comments, your love for each other keeps me going, so keep it up.

Alright, let's just do a one-tap.

Oh, oh yeah, yeah, Patty, that was a reference photo. Yeah, so that reference photo, I'm actually going— you can see, maybe you tuned in a little bit later, I blocked out in pencil the scene and I'm going to use that reference photo to do a painting. So that's a That's a project that'll take me a while to do for sure. I might document it, I might video it as I'm working on it. Alright guys, I'm gonna switch music up, we're gonna do thinking out loud, a quick sketch of something. I'm just trying to find my music, I can't find where it went. I think I closed the music window. I could sing. Let's say Windows sound effects.

Where is it? There it is. Got it. I found it.

Perfect. Alright, let's just do some sketching here. Just clearing my brain out. I don't want to go Disney. We'll see. Uh, it's Penelope.

Great. I had to break the pink out on this one.

So getting back to Kim, uh, see what Kim I was trying to sketch loose today and having some trouble with it. Excuse me. Sometimes I think if we are trying to pre-plan what we're going to do, it's hard to stay loose. So what I'm doing right now is I'm just kind of listening to the music and I'm not pre-planning where I'm putting lines down, where I'm putting the colors down.

Just—

it's gonna sound kind of snarky, I don't know what the word is, but I just, just doing it, just throwing down the lines, throwing down the color, and not pre-planning it. That's one way to stay kind of loose and just practice. So I'm not sure what you're trying to create create Kim, but maybe just come to a blank sheet of paper with an intention of not thinking too much. Does that make sense? Just set an intention, I'm going to be open, and just do it. Even if you close your eyes sometimes and just put your pen down or your ink or colors Don't worry about, you know, "Oh, I gotta put a line here, and I want it to be perfect so it comes across like this. Maybe I'll put a dot here." Sometimes when you're pre-planning, it's hard to stay loose. For me, that's why I love inking out loud. I'm just up here just creating and Just having fun with it. Now, that's just a way to get yourself in the habit, the practice of being loose. Once you develop that, you can definitely then be intentional about what you're creating, but do it in a loose style. I don't know if that makes sense.

Let me know if that makes sense.

But just to get in the kind of loose mindset, just kind of show up. With your, uh, your pens, your pencils, your colors, your paints.

Just break 'em out.

Again, this is really not looking like anything, which is okay with me. I'm just playing around. Like, I just love just watching the water and the pink and the black bleeding together here. Let's move around a little bit on the page.

There we go. Cool.

catch is I do start to see some things, like, in my brain. Like, I'm like thinking this could be some kind of a stair case that's now going up, kind of fading away, maybe going in the distance. So sometimes you will see things happen when you're just being loose. So, just bring out the watercolor stick. I just want to add just some texture on here with it. Uh, we are aching all out. Yes, we are. Makes sense. Good. Do you have an end in mind before you start? Good question. I don't. When I'm doing this, these type of— I call them sketch paintings. When I do these sketch paintings, I don't have an end in mind. And I think that's what also helps to keep loose, because if I knew I would say I wanted to create, you know, a specific scene or building, that would be— I'd be pre-planning what I wanted to end up with. So I don't have anything in mind when I'm doing these type of sketches. You know, something like this, obviously this I have an endgame, an end image in mind for this one here. But inking out loud, I typically don't have anything in mind. Good question. Becky's practicing a lot with reference photos. Yes. Hope it'll load my brain with horse mechanics. Yeah, so yeah, definitely. If you're doing, you know, things like animals or people or even buildings, if you want to become really adept at it, you want to study, especially anatomy, right? You definitely want to study the anatomy of animals, of people, to nail it, to get that right. So I love how Becky, you're studying that and it's showing. With the work you're doing. It's definitely paying off for sure. So that's awesome. Eventually you'll do more from imagination and more abstract horse forms. That's cool. Yeah, so it's kind of like me with architecture. Like I have in my brain, I have a library of, you know, building types, window types, door styles, colors, textures. Shapes of buildings kind of in my brain. So I can pull out of here, put it on paper, and that helps to create abstract things because I have that internal library. So as you're studying references, you're developing that internal— that kind of internal library. You know, I also have somewhere— I have reference sketches. You know, I would sketch doors, I would sketch windows. So I I have physical copies. I could pull out books if I wanted to. Here's my window library, here's my door library, here's my roof library. So if you can't keep it all in your brain, you can definitely have physical references to come back to. So I love what you're saying. That's so cool. But yeah, so my intentions with inking out loud is to just, like it says, inking out loud, just kind of going with it. It's very therapeutic, very meditative for me. Eventually you'll do— oh, Linda picked up— yeah, Linda's noticing my bridges. Bridges are becoming definitely a common theme in these cityscape, abstract cityscapes. So funny you picked up on that. That's what this is right here. Oh, my light went off.

That's for 10 o'clock.

I think I said it all the time, I have a light on a timer in here. It goes off at 10. I'm just going to lift off some of this Pink right here, just kind of throw it down in some places. I hope what I'm saying is making sense. It's kind of— it's sometimes hard for me to explain what's in my head about how I'm approaching things. I'm trying to get better at explaining it. It's something I want to be able to teach more effectively.

Uh oh, am I out of pink ink? No.

Yeah, these Varsity pens really don't— they're not really great to work on wet surfaces. Yeah, it's looking kind of cool. Must have like a little perspective scene and there's a bridge scene. Maybe it's like a montage or collage of different things happening. Might look a little busy. You'll notice how this is really incomplete over here. I didn't continue the bridge all the way across. I'm purposely leaving this unfinished. That way the viewer can— you guys can kind of fill in your imagination what's happening. I might add a little something something down here. But I think I'm going to let the bridge just kind of bleed off into nowhereness. Is that a thing? Nowhere? No awareness? Is that a word?

Ah, what do I wanna do?

So now I'm pre-planning. You can tell when I'm pre-planning because I'm doing this. Putting a brush here, wait, I'm pulling it off, I'm thinking, I'm grabbing a pencil or pen, I'm not doing anything but I'm thinking, I wanna do this but I don't. So that's how you can tell when I'm thinking. I'm thinking I wanted to do some kind of boat or something here. That's okay. Just choice. I'm doing the best I want to represent it. Let's do a little small. Just sketch a small— it's been a sail or something happening here. There's a song I want to put on. Magical boat ride. It's called the magical boat ride. I want you to put that pirate song on. The Ghost Pirate Ship. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta do that one. This is the Edward Scissorhands part of the song. Sounds just like— Is that Edward Scissorhands music? No, it's not. Sounds like it. Alright, luckily it's coming out. Um, what is hanging from the bridge? It is cool. I don't know. I have no idea what's hanging from the bridge. Let's see. Becky, I think you're Patty would like this article about George Stubbs. Ooh, painter of horses. That sounds awesome. Thanks for sharing the link in the chat. Patty is our go-to, um, we don't need Google when Patty's around. Patty is our Google. Actually Patty, you are better than Google. Google has nothing on you. Um, maybe a package that the ship is going to pick up.

Ooh, maybe. Maybe, maybe.

Are you talking about this right here? Are you talking about this? What's hanging from the bridge right here? Let me know if that's the spot. Alright, we're going to start winding down. I want to play— I'm looking for that funny, fun pirate ship, the Ghost Pirate song. Where is it? I don't know where the heck it is on my playlist. I used to love that song. You guys have heard it before. It's called "The Ghost Pirate Ship." Am I— let's see. Oh, it should be in here. Let's see. There it is. Let's play it. Is it a heart shape? Yes, was it 14? Was it song 14, the Ghost Pirate Ship? Maybe. I found it. It is a heart. Looks like a heart shape here, doesn't it?

Right here.

Yeah, this is looking cool. I like the colors. I like the pink. And the black. I think that's enough pink on there, so I'm gonna put a cap on it. I'm gonna add some more details down in this area, I think. Breaking out a pencil. DB would be so happy to see me using a pencil here. I just want it to be really, really light back here. There's something that really fascinates me, or I'm sorry, not fascinates me, there's something that really interests me about this, this piece. That's why I'm focusing on it. I don't know what it is. There's something really interesting to me about There's almost two scenes here, right? We almost have this, and then we have this piece here. There's something that really interests me about this area. I don't know what it is. That's why I'm kind of, kind of focusing on it right now. Being a little fussy with it. Fussy as in just kind of looking at it. Like, I don't know. I feel like something really cool could happen with this part. Such a small little kind of perspective view. So, I just want to mess with it a little bit.

Not sure what it is.

I think I want to pull this edge out a little bit here. Just using my Pilot pen ever so lightly. Here. D-Ray, I saw D-Ray use the Pilot pen for that really cool bird sketch you did. I love that bird sketch, it was so awesome. I saw that you used a Pilot, which was cool. D-Ray, how did you like using the Pilot pen? If you're still out there, I'm not even sure, I'm not sure who's still out there with me. Sorry I'm being kind of quiet, guys. I'm just kind of got caught up in this spot here. I don't know what I'm seeing here. It's fun to get lost in your scenes. I don't know, I might just leave that and come back to it. Is that, um, this is a cool— I kind of like this piece. Uh, love the people on the bridge. Oh yeah, you saw the people on the bridge. Yeah, I got some Peeps up here hanging out. Awesome. Swashbuckling Ghosties. That sounds like a great movie name. The Swashbuckling Ghosties. I like that. A channel or a statue? Could be.

Could be.

There could be a statue or something in the back background here. Fountain, maybe. Monument, maybe. Um, yeah, just right here, right? Could be a fountain statue. I'm not sure.

Not sure.

Loving the pinkish lavender color breaking out your ice cream Wild Berry. Lavender mascarpone. That's— whoa, that just sounds like an incredible combination. Wild berry lavender mascarpone. Who makes that? Who makes that? Is it, uh, Talente? Who makes that flavor? I'm trying to guess. Talente. Is it Gelato Fiasco? I wonder who makes that. Linda, I know, right? Linda's making me hungry too. Love the Pilot, use it for some time now. Ooh, I'm so glad, D-Ray, that you are loving that Pilot pen. I'm gonna come back to this. I am seeing something here, but I'm not sure what it is. I think this one might be done for now. Is artwork ever truly done? I say that about architectural projects. Are they ever truly done? Whenever I'm designing a house and drawing blueprints, there has to be a point where you just stop drawing because you need to deliver a product, right? But in reality, architecture architectural blueprints could keep going on and on and on, adding more details, adding more changes. It could just be a never-ending process. So at some point, you just gotta say you're done, move on. Especially in architecture, if you want to get paid, you gotta finish your drawings, right? I gotta finish my work, or I have nothing to to turn in to get paid for. Kroger Private Selection. Ooh, I don't have— we don't have any Krogers here. And Jay, you're never done, always more little details. Well, Linda, you are the master at little details. You have— here you are, your paintings are probably smaller than cap to my bottle here. So you are incredible with your details. Kudos to you for that. It's pretty amazing what you can do in such a small area. Awesome. Inspiring. Cool, guys. All right, I'm gonna put on the cooldown music on. We're gonna wind up with some choral music on. Is that the right word? Choral? Choir, chorus.

Yeah, this is interesting.

This is kind of framing. I like the way this bridge is framing something back here. So that's a cool device you can use in your artwork is you can create things to frame things. I just said things a couple times. Like, so I have a bridge just kind of framing something in the background, like that photograph I showed you and Sue mentioned it as well, the, um, Dolphin and Swan Hotel building, that one door opening I had that framed the building beyond, right? So it's a great device to use in your artwork, is to create frames within your scenes to frame other things. There's probably a technical word for it, I don't know what it is. But it's a cool device to use. Yes, it's cool down music time.

Let's do it, guys.

This has been a lot of fun. I appreciate spending Friday evening with you, or in Sue's case, I believe it's probably Saturday morning. Um, this is what we started with. This actually looks cool this way. Look at this vertically.

It's always fun to look at your artwork from different viewpoints.

Alright, let's switch the music and wrap up. I'm gonna do something different, guys. I think I'm gonna draw in pencil. I have a technical pencil. I've got this pencil here, a black one. We'll do something in pencil to wrap up with. Saturday, 2 PM, time for lunch. Sadly, don't have any ice cream in the house. Oh man, that stinks for you. I hope you have a nice lunch. Sue, what is your typical lunch? What do you like to eat for lunch? Alright guys, let's just do a sketch here using some pencils. Mr. Loose Guy wants to use a technical pencil, and I'm gonna stay within this frame, give myself a little area to work with. The camera's crooked, let me do this. Only the best for you guys. I want to make sure you're not looking at it this way. Get it perpendicular, parallel, close as I can. It'll probably move around because I'll move the paper. If you're being good, some sort of salad, some sari, a sari of salad. Don't be sorry, have solved. It's good for you. Exciting? Could be. All right, here we go. Let me sketch.

There's lead in my pencil.

By the way, I have loved this technical pencil. I've had this, I don't know, 17 years or or so, maybe. I still want to teach a technical drawing workshop. I think that would be fun. I'm talking, I'm not sketching. Points break off of this so easily.

Oh, where's my Sharpie?

Uh-oh, music's over. All right, cool. There we go. And your rapid presence, awesome. Church with angelic wind. Yeah, it's some kind of a church. I wanted to play around with the shape, kind of an organic roof shape here. I was almost picturing a thatched roof here on the structure. "Cool sketch, Jason. Love the variety of values you're getting from the various pencils." Yeah. I'm just using the technical pencil and the Blackwing. What's cool about this tech pencil, let me show you something. You could actually put different leads, right, different hardnesses of leads in here. I think right now it's probably an H. H is more on the harder side, so you get lighter lines, but you can change this to tell you what kind of lead you have in there. 2B were going to be very soft leads, B would be a very— H, B, very soft leads that draw dark. So it's kind of cool that it has that feature. There's also, well, this eraser is worn out, but there's an eraser built in here. I haven't used this in a long time. So it's a pretty nice pen, so, pencil. "Love the sketch with line work, fabulous shading, DB." Oh right, DB approved. That made my day. "Hey, you guys are awesome, we're gonna head to the whistling cowboy sketch." So please put your numbers in from 1 to 15. First number I see, but I'm gonna count backwards. I'm gonna go from the bottom of the list towards the top. Let me just do some more shading. Yes, it's fun. It's fun breaking out the pencils. I like these windows, kind of gothic. Style. I don't even know what— it's kind of a made-up style, but I kept it in the frame. Actually, I do want to just sketch the frame. I like it off-center here this way. I think I like it like this. Let me just sketch this before I take it off. Boom. I just want to mark where the frame was.

There we go.

So that's kind of the frame I had around there. Awesome. That was fun, guys. Number 12! We got number 12. Alright, let's play song number 12. "While I have a pack of general pencils, one of each hardness, easier to have them all in one." Yeah, there you go. Excellent. Well, so they're not, um, so I can't actually preload this with different leads. I can only put one type in at a time. But this just is a reminder of what the lead I have in there is. I wish I could turn this and have that lead feed out. But yeah, this is just an indicator. I got the last few times, so— Linda, you're being so nice. Oh, 7. I see number 7 first. I missed that. All right, let's do— we're gonna do 2 root sketch cowboy sketches. We're gonna do 7. And 12, and then we'll wrap up. Alright guys, thank you so much for watching. I appreciate you all so much. Let's get the Cowboy Sketchbook out. Fun piece. I actually would like to do a background. I think I'd want to do a— alright, here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna play Song Number 7, and I'm gonna— I want to add a sepia background to this. And then song number 12, we'll do the Cowboy song. If you guys can stick around, that's great. If not, I totally get it. But I wanted to add a— I feel like doing CP on this. So let's do— we're going to do song number 12 from the Cowboy list, and then we'll do number 7.

So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Here we are. Duel of Destiny. We'll add some sepia to this.

I'm gonna take my 3/4-inch brush.

I'm just gonna kind of wet this a little bit.

Cool.

All right, so we got some CP on here. Nice. Just pulling out Just pop in some more here and there. Just a little architectural rendering trick. Just gonna throw in some vertical lines and then we're gonna move on. Cool, we'll let it dry.

Awesome.

Just nice adding the sepia, I think just popped the graphite out a little bit more. That'll dry pretty nicely. Awesome. Awesome, awesome. Alright, cowboy time. And when we last left the cowboy, we— oh, it was a black and white. That's right. We just kept it black and white. And you know what? We can just use pencils again for this. Why the heck not? Stick with our pencil thing. Oh, I lied. This was the last one we did.

There we go.

Song number 12 coming up. Thank you guys, I appreciate you all so, so much. Wow, thank you for sticking with me on this crazy ride tonight, all over the place. Keep paying it forward with creativity. I love seeing your stuff so much.

And number 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

10, 11, 12. Home. It's called Home on the Prairie. Home on the Prairie.

Changing things up tonight.

There you go, guys. I appreciate y'all so, so much. Sue and Linda and D-Ray and Patty and Kim, Becky. If I missed you, I'm sorry, but I appreciate all you guys watching. As always, um, thank you, thank you so much. Have a great, great night. See you real soon, and hopefully I'll see you guys tomorrow morning in Rootland, if you're on. Have a great, great night. Take care. Peace and live creatively.