Inking Out Loud - Sketching & Ink wash. 11-19-2021

Hey everybody, happy Friday evening. It's 9:35 here in New Jersey. Hope you're having a great night. I see Heather is in the chat. Hey Heather, good to see you. Hope all is well. So I broke out some green ink tonight instead of black. I actually found my other Lamy pen, which was hiding for, I don't know, a while, and it has green ink in it. Eh, I might have to clean it, but let's play around with the green ink for a little bit. I might have to clean this pen, it's been sitting for a while. That's all right, it's all good. Hope you all had an awesome week. I am looking forward to the weekend for sure. Yeah, yeah, let me see if I can Clean this pen out a little bit here. See if it has some ink in it, that would help. Yeah, it looks like there's ink in there. Hey Jeannie, good to see you. Hope all is going well. Great music. Ah, glad you like the music. Going to the Highlands a little bit with this music. So this is an interesting color ink. I don't know if it's showing up too well. Let me zoom in for everybody here. It's kind of an olive, I would say olive green maybe. Here, the pen, I think the pen has to be cleaned out. It's been sitting for a long time. Or maybe the ink just has to start flowing again. And I'm just bleeding it with my aqua brush here. Very interesting color or ink. Yeah, it's, uh, I think it's green. I don't know the name of it. It's Lamy ink. I've had this, I don't know, 3, 4, or 5 years maybe sitting around. So I don't know the name of the color. But I found it in my drawer with my closet with all my ink stuff. Oops, I just picked up the black. That's all right, we'll do some black on here. I should have put the green ink in the green pen. How smart would that be? And the black in the black. I have them reversed. So I'm tricking my brain up, tricking my brain a little bit. I could easily just do this too. Let's see, let's switch them. I'm gonna put the green in the green and the black in the black. So I think when I bought this Lamy pen, I got this ink with it. All right, let's switch that. Let's put the black one in here. So now I'll pick up the right color.

Cool.

All right, so now we have the green and the green. That works.

I still have to clean it up.

Yeah, you see how the black is coming out nice here? So I have to, I think, soak the nib maybe in a— I'm not sure what to soak it in. Maybe some kind of rubbing alcohol or something? I'll have to— or maybe just soak it in some warm water and soap. I think I'll try that first. So if you guys are doing great, let me know what you've been up to this week. Hopefully you made some time to do something fun and enjoyable, spend some time doing something creative. Even if you block out just a few minutes a day, that's always— for me, that's always helpful. That's kind of why I like to do inking out loud, just keeps keeps me on my game and my creative brain is always running all day long but especially at night for some reason. It runs even more. So I've learned to embrace it and just work with it. I mean, we're doing some kind of trees here, I'm not sure. I'm just messing around. I'm just Inking around, inking out loud. So now I'm using the black ink. I like to take the caps off my— these Lamy pens. I find when I have the caps on, I tend to rotate the pen a lot in my hand, and the cap kind of hinders that, especially with the clip. So you'll notice me, I like to work with the caps off of them. I can spin it around more freely. Alright, so we got some kind of woodsy thing happening here.

I'm not sure.

There's a path coming down from the house. So we got a house up on a hill here. I like to do contour lines just to give an idea that there's some kind of a hill or slope going on. So I call these— well, I didn't invent it, but these are contour lines just to give some shape. The idea of kind of a hill going up. And then I like to take my brush and kind of bleed it a little bit. It just gives an idea of the shape of what the landscape's doing. A little bit of depth there. Hopefully that got that. Jeannie says, "Very interesting color of ink." Yeah, yeah, it is. I love— I'm loving this green color. I just got to get the nib cleaned on this pen. Maybe I'll do that while we're talking here. Just soaking in some water. Thinking of doing some cornucopias and some turkeys tomorrow. Ooh, beautiful weather here. I'm so enjoying some outside activities. Jeannie, that's awesome. Yeah, Thanksgiving's coming up. I love the theme, cornucopias and turkeys. What are some of the things you guys are grateful for? So in my sketchbook assignment for my students this past week, all my classes are doing sketchbooks, the architect students and the CAD students. I believe sketching and creativity go hand in hand and it's helping them with their design skills and spatial recognition and brainstorming, particularly brainstorming. That's huge in my class, something I'm always stressing. But, uh, their past week, their assignment was to sketch something they were grateful for. So I think that was a good prompt for their weekly assignment. And I got responses. I saw sketches ranging from family pets to family members to cell phones to video games, sports. Some students are athletes, so I saw some footballs and soccer balls. It was really interesting just to see, you know, what are people grateful for? I always want to know. I'm always trying to connect with my students on their level. So I really want to know what they're thankful for. Their lives are different than mine and, you know, everybody has different priorities. So it was really cool to see. So if you haven't done it yet, sketch something, paint something you're thankful for. I'm just giving you guys a prompt. I don't think I've really done that on Inking Out Loud. Throwing a challenge your way. Sketch something you're thankful for, and I'd love for you to post it on my Facebook page. And if you want, I'll put the link in the chat here if you're not a member. It's free. I'd love to see what you guys are sketching. Yeah, right now I'd be thankful for a nib that was clean. Darn. Alright, so I think the green ink's gonna not cooperate right now. That's alright. I will clean it out later and soak it. But I got some ink out of it. Ah, let's see, I actually broke out the brush pens as well. I have a sepia brush pen, so let's throw this down on here. Again, inking out loud is just about having fun with creativity, sketching, doing some ink washes, maybe sometimes some acrylic painting. I'm never really trying to create anything in particular. I'm not looking at any reference pictures. It's just really inking out loud, just spur of the moment, off the cuff fun. So this is a Sepia brush pen. Just trying to see if I can bleed it a little bit. Yeah, so this bleeds as well. This is a Pentel Sepia brush. I don't know the name of it. I believe Pentel— here's the cap. Pentel makes it. And you can get different colors. So this is sepia. I have a black one. I have a— this is actually a silver one or gray. So they're kind of fun to play with because you can get different tip sizes and brush sizes. So if I want a really fine line, I'll just kind of drag it lightly. I want to do something really detailed, or if I want to do something thicker, I can just kind of do that all with the same pen. So they're, they're fun to play with. They take practice. Gotta get used to putting different pressures on things to accomplish different brush strokes. But you can always start off just light, and if you want to darken there, you can come back over and push a little bit harder. So if you haven't tried a brush pen, they're really fun. There's a refillable cartridge in here that you can buy and replace right in here. And you can drop it like I just dropped it. Oh, over the river and through the woods to Grandma's house we go. Yeah, awesome. Yeah, definitely go to, uh, I love that, going to Grandma's house. Thanksgiving, right? It's about, for me, it's about family. And we used to go to my aunt's house every year, um, and it was so much fun. She lived down in South Jersey, down the shore. Couple-hour car drive. It was just something magical about getting the whole family together. That hasn't happened for years, but such— I had such great memories looking back then. Hey, our friend Rue is in the house. Rue, thank you for joining us. Hope everything's well with you. You're awesome. All you guys, they're all awesome. Yeah, so this is the brush pen, so just kind of messing around with it. "House on a Hill." What I like about these brush pens is they bleed pretty nicely. So I just take my Aqua Brush and we can bleed it a little bit. Um, you have to kind of catch them when you first lay them down because they do dry and they don't bleed as much. So if I want to do something really crazy, I want to throw the ink down and kind of get the Aqua Brush on it quick just so I can spread it around faster. That's cool. So, um, yeah, so this is just a quick little scene. Again, I gotta figure out how to clean this brush— not this brush, this pen here, the Lamy with the nice green ink. It's been sitting around for years, so sometimes when things sit around, they get clogged up, just like our brains. If we sit around too much, our brains can get clogged up if we're not keeping them active and doing stuff. Same thing with our pens, right? Heather says, "Loving it." Awesome! Awesome. Hey, thank you for checking it out. So what I'd like to do, I'm just gonna go— we're gonna change the music up. You guys know I like to switch the music. It really influences what I'm doing. So we're gonna kick it up a notch and I'm gonna do some quick loose sketching like I normally start off with. But I have some show and tell. I have some show and tell. Let me break this out for you. Give me a sec. I know I've showed this before, but I kind of— this is one of my very, very first sketchbooks from back in college. 1997 right there. Actually, this was— yeah, this was in college. My first job was working in Hoboken, New Jersey. I'm just thinking about this because we've been talking about skyscrapers in architecture class in school. This was one of the first sketches I did working in Hoboken. I was a young kid, you know, maybe 19 or 20. Just had a view of the Hudson, went out for lunch, went for a walk, had my sketchbook. And I love this loose sketch. This image, and also this is actually even more special to me because I was able to capture the World Trade Center that day. I get goosebumps when I look at this and think about it. Sketching for me is really, it's about capturing a feeling, capturing a moment in time. I wasn't trying to draw every detail of the buildings here. It was quick, loose. Architecture is about the forms and shapes. Iconic buildings are all about the shapes, right? So here you have the World Trade Center right there. Which I can still remember sitting there to this day. It was kind of a rainy, cloudy day. Young architect, not knowing where my life was going. Sketchbook was kind of one of my best friends. I could confide in it. I can express myself in it without any criticism or judgment from anybody. So sketching was really a voice for me, and it still is a voice for me. I'm not really good at talking out loud. So, I thought that would be cool just to show you guys that, you know, these sketches aren't beautiful. They're quick thumbnail ideas, things from my brain pouring out on paper, some design ideas, brainstorming. Sketchbooks are awesome for brainstorming. So, you know, this was a house design I was working on in college for an architect. He gave me a project. I was trying to do a quick concept. Idea. Nothing fancy, right? Not a lot of detail, but you can see the shape of the house. Trying to get some kind of bump-out windows on there. But what I love most sketching details are really small sketches. Here's my thumb, right? Look how small these little sketches are. There are some really, really small sketches in the in here, see if I can find any. So this was a project we had to design a museum in college called the Bass Museum. So some of my favorite sketches are in here from, uh, still to this day, right here on this page. These are really small sketches. I was trying to figure out the interior design of this museum. So I was trying to figure out a staircase and how the staircase would kind of look. So really quick sketches. Now here's some more. So that's why you guys see me doing really quick sketches a lot. I just started back in college to capture ideas. If I wanted to talk to a professor, I had to get things out quick. Otherwise, they'd go on to the next student. So let's change the music up and play something. Play something a little more peppy. You— I like peppy. Actually, you know, we're gonna— I call this the Hero Track playlist. It has kind of dramatic movie music type of themes. So let's play some songs on this and we'll just do some sketching because I am talking a lot. And I did switch my green into the green green pen, so I'll use my black pen here. Ru says, "Love that you keep notebooks. They're part of your story and history." Oh, thanks, Ru. Yeah, I appreciate that. Hey, Chris, good to see you. Thanks for popping on. Chris, I will be mailing something out to you tomorrow afternoon, if not Monday. So thank you so much. You guys are awesome. All right, let's switch the tune up. You know, inking out loud, my brain's all over the place. I usually have 3 3 or 4 things going on. I hope you're keeping up. I hope you're having fun. Let me know if you have questions or comments.

All right.

So I'm just— you'll see me kind of move my hands. This is kind of how I just loosen up to get into it. Before I even put the pen down, I'm kind of just thinking, getting ready. Alright, here we go. Love that tune. Let me zoom in a little bit down here. This camera's a little far away. Sorry about that. The camera on me is purposely far away. I didn't do my hair, so that's why a little small circle in the corner. This is what I want you guys to see right here. Hey, I see Becky's in the house! Good to see you. You guys are awesome. Thank you so much for popping in tonight. Linda's in the house. Wow, the party, you guys, just growing and growing out there. It's a creative party. I hope someone brought the creative Doritos or the chips and salsa. I love this piece of music. So I love this ink as it's drying and getting some really cool bleeding effects going on. This Lamy ink is cool. You get some grays, you get some purples out of it. If you go back over it again, you get some nice purple tints. See here. I'm seeing some kind of spires back in here in the distance, maybe. Awesome. Sorry, sometimes I get into the music so much I get lost. It takes me to a different world. That's what I love about sketching, right? We're creating our own worlds. We can escape for a little bit. This is one of my other favorite pieces to sketch too. But if you look at the different— look at the Lambie, like down here, I just got some nice purples going on. Same ink, different tones, which is really fun to do. That's some people happening down here just to give a scale of the city. I'm not drawing every window, right? I'm just giving hints and ideas, just quick line strokes. There's some windows happening. Not with this pen. This is the pen that is not working. Let's grab this one. I'm used to grabbing my green pen.

I'm actually—

now I'm actually seeing a cathedral back here. I don't know if you guys see this. I'm seeing a cathedral right in this area. So, I'm gonna try to pull it out a little bit. I'll start off by drawing some kind of crosses at the top. I'm seeing an archway, big archway happening here where the white space is, or as Ru says, holidays, right? We've got some holidays happening here. Thank you, Ru, for coining that term. I love it. So I'm just kind of working the shapes I'm seeing out with the pen here. Is it amazing? Is it a highly detailed detailed note. So you kind of see right here, you know, these old cathedrals have these buttresses that kind of come off the building to give it support. If you look for Notre Dame, you'll see the buttresses on the side. So we have a little structural element here going on. Hope you guys are doing well. Let me check in with the chat. Very organic shapes, could be bamboo. Bamboo. Wait, Jeannie says it's ice cream time. No way, you had to say that. Now my mind's going right to my Ben Jerry's, man. Why'd you do that to me? I love that. Have some ice cream for me. I wish I was having some right now. "Love the sound of the pen on the paper." Hey, Heather, that's awesome. I'm glad you said that. Creating art, especially, you know, our visual art, sketching and painting, isn't about just what we're seeing, but creating art is about the sounds we're making as well. It's about what we're hearing. So even about what we're smelling. I don't know if we're really tasting our art, but if we're eating something good and delicious, It could inspire us and motivate us and transfer out onto the paper. So it's all part of being in the moment, the experience, right? For me, it's not about the final result. It's about the journey. It's getting from A to Z. Sometimes we never get to Z. And for me, that's okay. I'm just enjoying each step of the way, taking in The music, the conversation, right? That's inspiring. Pen on the paper, the sound of it, the ink. There's a smell to the ink right now. Creativity involves all of our senses, and just using those to inspire or infuse our art is really useful. It's all about seeing the world differently and experiencing it differently. We live in these fast, fast times, but slow down and just savor the moment. That's what excites me, is the moment. If this ends up looking cool, awesome, that's a bonus for me. If not, it was creating it that I just love the act of, you know, creating. By the way, how many times I just said creating in the last minute? If I said it more than 10 times. I should be giving you guys like, we should be given like a prize every time I say the word creative or creativity. We should keep a count. Or if I reach 100, we'll do a bonus or something. So this is an interesting— what I'm seeing this develop as is kind of a modern city, maybe modern here. We got some old stuff going on back in this area. Um, here's a tip: if I want an area to be really dark with bleeding, I will just lay down more ink and I'll just bleed that ink. I'll get that really kind of nice purple tone happening there. You know, maybe this cathedral is this whole section over here. Keep picking up my green pen. Just throwing out Arches are really great, and they're associated with cathedrals and Gothic buildings, so it's a great form or shape to throw down if you're trying to create something like that. I'm gonna sketch just the hint of some stonework going on here. Maybe this cathedral is raised up on a platform of steps that come down to this lower level, kind of happening down there. The Lamy does not like to write on wet paper. That's okay, I'm gonna switch to— let's, uh, switch to the watercolor stick. I haven't used one of these in a while. So I'm going to just throw down some water and I'll break up the watercolor stick. Yeah, that's a great piece of music too. So actually what I'm doing here is I'm bleeding a lot of water out. And it's creating really cool purple hues on the side. It creates a little more depth in these quick sketches. I do want to leave a lot of white, but here's the Watercolor Stick. This is great for creating nice bold lines, and I love the way the Watercolor Stick bleeds. Um, cool. So this really melts when it touches the water. You see what just happened here? It really melts on the page. And I kind of, I kind of like that look. It's kind of a I think of old sketches, like old-time sketches from years ago when I'm doing these. The word Piranesi comes to mind, but I think he was more very— more detailed and architectural. But maybe he had some really quick loose sketches of the Guglum. I don't know why Piranesi is popping into my brain. I'm not comparing myself to Piranesi by any means. But look at this, the texture of the watercolor stick is a lot of fun. Sometimes I call this grunge-ifying. I like to grunge-ify these sketches, make them look a little kind of old. Maybe we'll break out the sepia, add that too. So, I'll I'll even sometimes just dip my watercolor stick in water and kind of sketch with it this way. You want to be careful not to overdo it. You don't want this watercolor stick everywhere. It'll be a little, uh, too much. So, let me zoom in. You can see kind of how it's bleeding over. I really like what's happening over here. You know, this is one of those pieces where I'll break out some little frames. I have these mini frames here and I'll try to find maybe just one part of the sketch that pops out more than others. You know, if I was just kind of mat— frame this one section. That could be a really nice piece right there. So, don't be afraid to make your scenes bigger than you want them to be because you can always crop them out. You know, if I wanna just do a horizontal with maybe the spires, that's a cool sketch there. If I want to put it down here, kind of capture— maybe this is an old city, right? You see the people down here, a ruin back here, some modern buildings. Buildings. So it's always fun. I even have cutouts that are even like an inch or two by two. I want to just look at little squares. I have a— well, this is actually just— it came with a frame, triangular shape, right? Who says we have to have things that are square, right? We can frame things as triangles or different shapes. So yeah, so if you have paper around, cut out some little openings like this. You can frame your artwork, get different views of it. Sometimes I'll scan these in, I'll print them out, watercolor, thin watercolor paper, cardstock, and you can make really many pieces of art out of one art. Yes, so yeah, Chris says the journeys are the best part even when you don't know where it's going. Yeah, absolutely. Rue, love the little people, such an architect skill. Oh, thanks Rue. Yeah, I mean they're quick, loose people. You guys may have even noticed Retro made an appearance. Got a little Retro down there. And, uh, it's not art unless what? I always say it's not art and what? Unless you wear it. Boom! I am wearing my art tonight, guys. I got ink all over my hands, so it is officially artwork now. Yeah, these people are very quick, small, loose. I love throwing people in sketches like this because it gives a sense of scale, you know, of what's happening in the scene. Are these buildings an inch tall or are they 200 feet tall? Feet tall, right? So people help to give a scale of what's happening in the drawing. So I learned that. I definitely learned that in architecture school for sure. How it comes together is so fascinating. Hey, thanks, Linda. It's quick, loose, and keeping it quick and loose allows for you guys, the viewers, to kind of see different things in here. Use your imaginations. You become part of the story of this. So that's why I love just to do these really kind of abstract building scenes or cityscapes. I think it helps to engage the viewer more in the scene. "Your buildings always look big and chunky and clunky. I like the look of the Gothic skinny style." Ooh, thank you, Chris. "Becky made her son laugh while you were sketching yesterday. He heard me talking to yourself." Oh, I like where this is going. That's awesome, Becky. Becky is really cranking out really awesome artwork. The Flatiron Building, Becky, your Flatiron Building sketches are really awesome. I love them. They're fun, they're whimsical, you have little storylines going on with the people and the cars. So, it's It's really interesting in the architecture workshop how many of you guys are actually using the Flatiron Building this week. So we'll have a fun show and tell. And I need to talk to everybody in the workshop tomorrow night. I'm wondering if I can start a little later tomorrow at 9 or 9:15 PM instead of 8. I was invited to go to a school play. They're performing a play called Almost Maine. One of my students is a behind-the-scenes crew guy. He's moving stuff on and off stage, and he asked me if I'd be able to go watch, and I just can't say no, right? I love seeing— creativity isn't just painting, sketching. It's acting. It's cooking, baking. It's working behind the sets of plays. There is so much work that goes on. To put together a 2-hour drama. These kids have been working tirelessly for weeks. It's just really, really sometimes underappreciated what goes on behind the scenes. I know my wife acts, so I've seen her prep. When I did improv, I had hours and hours of practice time all for just a short performance. So you got to really love your craft and to put your heart into it. Sepia Lin says, "Yep, sepia. I will break out some sepia." Absolutely. "I've learned a lot of new artist words this year." Oh, that's awesome, Chris. What are some of the new artist words you've learned? "You Like What People Puts You in the Mind of an Older Bombed-Out WWI or II Black and White Picture." Ooh, that is— yeah, I could see almost like a scene of kind of some destruction or something happening here, or it happened in the past. So what kind of story can you guys come up with? What happened in this city? Is this now a tourist location, or is it— these people are here looking at— figuring out how to rebuild the city, right? Um, is your grunge level tonight urban decay or patina of antiquity? Becky, those are awesome words. Yeah, I'm gonna say yes. It's a snarky yes. Yes, maybe both. So I'm gonna just move on to a different one in a second, but let this dry a little bit. Yeah, I'm wearing— yep, wear. You got it, Heather. This is cool with me. Watch the kids. The time— oh, 9 is fine. Okay, cool. I'm gonna make a post on our workshop shop to get your feedback, guys. So, do you think I should throw some sepia on the background? Let me know. You should go with the play. I can drink caffeine for class. You guys are so understanding. I appreciate it. I could even move it to Sunday too at an earlier time if that would work. I love you guys. Thank you so much.

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You know, I'm going to throw down some sepia on here. So I like to use the watercolor brush. So I've got my sepia brush here. Yes, love sepia. So here's a trick. Here's something I love to do with sepia. These watercolor pens are awesome, but sometimes they're really intense. If I throw this right on the paper, it sometimes will just stain where I throw it down. So I like to take the sepia brush here. I'm having a camera— I need to hire someone to do my camera stuff. I'm like moving the camera. I'm a nervous— I'm a nervous camera guy. Alright, so I like to throw it on the sepia kind of on my board here. You'll see I will kind of stuff going on. This is just— this is actually an artboard I have underneath here. So I'll throw that down and I like to use a 3/4-inch brush. So I have a nice 3/4-inch brush here and I'm just gonna dip it in some water, pick up some of the sepia here. I'm just gonna lay it down. I'm actually gonna change the tunes a little bit. Let's go, uh, I don't know, let's see. Let's put on some of the epic choir music. I love listening to this music. Let's play it. I call it epic choir. Can choir music be epic? I don't know. I think throwing the sepia down adds a little more atmosphere to the sketch. One of the things I'm always working on is I want to create moods or atmosphere in my sketch. I call these sketch paintings. I'm not really sure if I'm sketching or painting, so I just kind of call sketch paintings. I always want to create some kind of a mood or atmosphere happening happening. It just adds to the scene. And it's okay, I'm not trying to stay in the lines here. I don't care if it overlaps the buildings here. I'm gonna throw it down in other places, make it darker. This is all very wet. I tend to do vertical brushstrokes for this. I'm doing vertical because I— because the buildings are tall. If I go horizontal, I'm gonna make the ink bleed too much. That's down. So that's why I'm kind of going vertical, just to stay a little bit in between the buildings here. Oh, this is cool. Oh man, look what happened. Happened here. Let me show you. Let me just throw this down. Let me zoom in on this area. I hope you guys can see this on camera. I— this is the kind of stuff that is— this is magic for me. I love, I love what's happening right in here. This almost looks— in person, this almost looks like a flame shape. Here, you know, can I use that? Maybe I can incorporate that. When I see flames, I always think Statue of Liberty. You guys know I love to sketch that. That's really cool, and I love just the bleeding. I love what's happening just in this area, the way the ink is bleeding with the sepia. Sometimes the camera lighting doesn't always pick that up so well. I'm gonna throw down even more sepia because I want to darken it up. So usually when I hear this music, I always end up sketching a cathedral or church, but we already have that on here. My brush is a little drier now because I just want this to go down a little heavier, so I'm not diluting it so much. So you can really see it coming out now. Jade and sepia go nice together, just saying. Yeah, I wish I could get this— the pen is clogged. I'm really having issues getting that green color out of it. Oh, who says I need to use that? Duh. I'm like so fixated. See, you gotta be open-minded, open for ideas. I can just take the ink right out of here and put it on the paper. I don't need to use a Lamy. Let's try it, guys. I'm up for it. Let's throw some Jade down at the bottom. Let's kinda anchor this. Maybe we have some grassy area. Maybe there's a grass area, maybe there's a park area in the front. I'm just dipping my aqua brush right in this Lamy container. I know, I know it's crazy sometimes.

I know.

Just gotta go for it. Oh man, this color is intense. Holy cow. Wow. Oh man. I, I, maybe this is chartreuse. I don't know what to call this color. There's no label on it anywhere. All I know is it's pretty. This is a pretty awesome color, right? It's kind of helping anchor the scene. And I'm actually, I like to add color if I have it in one place place on a scene, I like to add it in other places as well, just to tie things together. So I'm going to throw a little bit of this on some of these buildings in the background here. Wow, this is— you guys know I'm a color geek. I get excited at this, this stuff. I was always afraid to add color on, on sketches and paintings. Well, I should say sketches. I was black and white for many, many years. Just afraid. You know, I thought once I threw color down, I was going to make a mistake. It was all going to be a waste. This is playtime. This is the time to try things out. I have to say, thank you for encouragement in the chat there. This— ah, this is looking really awesome. Even Retro is gonna be green. I just made a green dog. In my world, we have green dogs and hot dogs.

No.

This bleeding up here is really awesome. I mean, there's like a glow coming from here. Part of the cathedral have a cross, so I'm going to emphasize the cross and throw down some more ink on it. You know, that's one of the beautiful fun things and magic that happens. You start bleeding inks and colors and we have this glow effect. Wow, this is fun. This is a fun piece. This building lost a little of its shape down here, so I'm just going to sketch an edge to it. We all need an edge, right? So you have to be careful. I don't want to get carried away and have too much of that color, so I think I have enough. On there. I'll just read what's on there. Um, oh, no worries. No worries on this Sunday. We'll figure it out. So we'll definitely do Saturday. Um, you honestly thought the Chrysler Building or Empire State would have been more popular than Flatiron with our class? Yeah, the Flatiron has taken center stage, which is, which has been really awesome. The Flatiron Building is an intriguing building, especially since it was, you know, designed after cast iron, or not cast iron, but in iron. That's why it's called the Flatiron Building. We'll talk more about that. Looks like green gold. It does have a green gold kind of hue to it. Hue, tint. I don't ever remember my art terms too well. I actually never really, I never had any. Our classes in high school or college. So we'll just call it color. What's in the term anyway, right? Okay. Green is your all-time fave. This is gorgeous. Ah, thanks, Linda. Jeannie says awesome color. Green Dog, a good name for an album. Well, we do have Green Day, right? Green Dog could be an album maybe that Green Day puts out. That would be fun. Here you can see where my knuckle from my pinky pressed down on the paper, so it kind of lifted some of the ink off, but I like it. It almost looks like some kind of double moon or something happening there. So cool. Uh, greens and yellows are great contrast to blacks and grays. Yeah, it adds another layer of depth and interest, I think. Maybe the buildings are moldy. I don't know. Or maybe this was a wealthy ancient city, you know, built with gold buildings. Over the years it's been raided and people have been taking gold from it. I don't know. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Love the evening. God be with you and blessings. You're good at what you do. Rue, thank you so much. I'm honored you watch. You are awesome. You are a true guru to all of us in here. Thank you for all you do, man. Really appreciate you so much. You are the best. And thank you for your time. I know you're a busy dude. I'm saving up my money so I can fly out and visit you one day. We'll get together. That would be so much fun. So guys, let's hear it for Roo. Let's give Roo a shout of thanks for joining us tonight. He's just awesome. You have inspired all of us in so many different ways. Thank you so much. Yes, we will definitely see you Saturday, for sure. I will— I am more punny on Roo's show than I am on my own show, which is so much fun. Hope you guys aren't tired of my puns yet. Yet. I haven't been banned. So once Roo bans me, I know I've gone too far with too many puns. Thank you guys, yeah, give Ru a shout out. I am seeing a face in here. Is anybody else seeing like a face? I am seeing almost a face of like the Tin Woodsman, my favorite character from Wizard of Oz. Some kind of Tin Woodsman-y face here, or robotic kind of face. Here's his eye, got a nose, got the mouth. The shape of his head, kind of that funnel shape for his hat. That's really funny. I'm actually seeing that right in this area. Let me know if you guys see robotic face or the Tin Woodsman or something happening there. Sleep well, Roo. No biscuits before bedtime. No biscuits before bedtime. They don't play nice in your stomach at night. Awesome stuff. All right, let's switch tunes. We're going to switch up to, I don't know, let's do something a little jazzy, maybe. I call it the jazzy tunes. Might move on to another piece and we'll end up with the Whistling Cowboys sketch. Let's just take a look at this. Zoom out. I don't think I want to do anything else to this one right now. I think it's time to step away. "Maybe I'll come back and add some more details on it when the ink dries," he says as he keeps sketching on it. I'm gonna figure out what to do with this piece and pull this out somehow. I'm really intrigued at what's happening here. Just lifting some of this green, gold green up here. I gotta find out what color this is just in case I want more of it.

Cool.

All right. I think this one's a wrap on this piece. Looks like someone's standing there. It looks to me like there's someone standing like down here in the corner. Some kind of figure in this area. Uh, there is a round face in the middle that has eyes, nose, mouth already there. Face in the middle with eyes, nose, and mouth. It's now time for Where's Waldo? The Where's Waldo portion of Inking Out Loud. Uh, the face in the middle. I'm trying to see that. It'll hit me. Sometimes I gotta look away and come back. I'm loving that you guys are seeing things happening on here. For me, that means I'm doing something because you're actually looking, you're engaged in it, so that's perfect. I gotta get a drink here. With open mouth, maybe shouting. Yeah, I gotta find that face in the middle. I will find that one. I'm not tired of puns. I live with Mr. Linda Schlichting. I hope I'm saying your last name right. Is it Schlichting? Schlichting? Schleiting? I apologize if I'm butchering your last name. Awesome. So there you go. So I don't have nothing to fear. So you are used to the puns. Long live the king. Right below the hat that you pointed to.

Oh.

So, let me zoom in. Let's figure this out. Let's all look at this together.

Let me—

I'm gonna break out sketch paper. This is what I'm seeing. Let's see if we're seeing the same thing here. So, let's break out trace paper. So, this is kind of the image I'm seeing. I'm seeing an eye. This is kind of a— I see like a nose shape, some kind of a mouth kind of happening. This comes up. I was seeing kind of like a hat here for the Tin Woodsman or something. Kind of a profile like this. So, that's what I was seeing in there. Is that what you guys are seeing also? Where's my frame? I could frame it out. So— just through the stream. So that's kind of what I was seeing. Um, that's hard. The pun is awesome. Finding face in random places is called facial— oh, Rue, you're gonna make me say that word. I have— all right, let's give it a try. Facial pareidolia. Facial pareidolia. That's awesome. I had no idea. So it is such a thing. I think maybe because our brains and our— we're just wired to see faces and recognize faces, right? Every day we're seeing faces that we're wired to see faces where they don't exist. Does that make sense? Um, that's really interesting. So let's try it. Let's all say it together on a count of 3. I want you guys at home to say it with me. We're going to put the quote up so we can see See, add to broadcast. Here we go. Count of 3, let's all say facial pareidolia. I don't even know if I'm saying it right. I'm gonna say, I'm half Italian, so I'm gonna say it like it's an Italian word. Also, I'm hungry. 1, 2, 3. Facial pareidolia. Yeah, it's a facial pareidolia. I love that. That is so cool. And now I want some lasagna. My mom's side of the family is Italian, so I'm half Italian. I grew up, I had the honor and pleasure of living with my grandmother for, I don't know, 20-something years. It was just great growing up in a house with, you know, learning about the Italian, you Italian culture and the food. My grandmother was really awesome at making meatballs. That was like her specialty. So just seeing that word now, I'm thinking back to, you know, some good memories growing up with my grandmother and, you know, my family. My mother was also— she was an amazing baker. She would make amazing cookies every year. And she would, she was known for her cream puffs. My mother could not go anywhere without making or bringing cream puffs to whatever events. Sometimes, I don't know what else they're called, maybe eclairs. Just these pastries with, you know, this kind of custard inside and the chocolate on top. She could've, If she was still with us today, she could probably have had some kind of a business, online business selling these delicious cream puffs. And I do, I know the recipe is in a book for a church that she had donated the recipe to. So the recipe is out there. I have the book somewhere. I've never tried making them. I wouldn't be able to do them justice. But wow. Guys, with the Inklings, it always goes back to food somehow. I'm not sure how, but it always goes back to food, and that's a good thing. Cool. All right, so let's go. I'm gonna actually switch to— we're gonna switch and do one last sketch. I think this one's good for now, and I have one more sheet. Oh no, that was the last sheet in my sketchbook. So this is my Canson XL watercolor sketchbook, 140-pound, my go-to. So, let's do what I like to do when I get to the last sheet, let's just do a quick trip down memory lane and look at some of the sketches in here. So, if you guys are up for a trip down memory lane, let me know in the comments, say, "Yes, memory lane." We'll just do a quick flip through and see what we created together on Inking Out Loud in our sketchbook here. More paper somewhere for sure. Hooray for your Nonna. Yes, she was awesome. I learned so much. She lived with us. She actually had her own little kind of apartment attached to our house over the garage. I loved watching TV with my grandmother. She, one of her favorite shows was Murder, She Wrote. Did you guys ever see Murder, She Wrote? I would watch that show and Jessica Fletcher and it took place in Maine where my heart is. Maybe that's where my love for Maine started, was watching Murder, She Wrote. My grandmother was awesome. She was a hoot. She was a hoot for sure. I make eclairs. Oh, awesome, Patty. That's so cool. Welcome, Patty. Good to see you in the house. Never seen a facial pareidolia in a cream puff, but I'm out of here. Loved it. Thank you, Rue. Take care. That's awesome. Rue, you just, you gotta, Look more creatively, that's all. Be more open-minded when you're eating cream puffs. Maybe you'll see a face in it, who knows? Maybe you'll see a spaceship, right? Being creative, we need to have open minds and look at the world differently. That's awesome. Yes, Becky says, "We love to eat." Memory lane, let's do memory lane. Let's do a little sketchbook tour. These are fun. Oh, hey, look, the first page is blank. So I do something weird in my sketchbooks, guys. I always leave the first page blank. I don't know why. I think one time I wrote a note on the COVID to someone. I'm like, "If you find this sketchbook and it's lost, please like create your own artwork or something." And I left the front page blank. I think I've just always done that. So we do have paper, but I'm going to leave it blank just in case someone finds the sketchbook and they want to add to it and keep it. As long as it's bringing joy, it's cool. I don't know, this is good memory lane. I feel like this is not really memory lane music. I don't know if I have any. We've got the quirky fun playlist, epic choir. We got the international World playlist, Hero Tracks, the Café de Paris playlist, Whistling Cowboy. Oh boy, I'm not even sure. We have the metal music playlist, the scary. I have a scary playlist. Maybe that would be good for memory. Let's listen to this.

Cool.

All right, we'll go through this album. I'm not going to talk about every one. I'm even make some comments. Here again, you can just see, you know, this is a very— this had a lot of white space. I didn't add sepia. Have some palm trees in the foreground. We have Retro and the Whistling Cowboy somewhere on their journey. I really— this— what I liked about this piece, I really liked this interesting shape, kind of modern-looking building in the background. Maybe it's a building you'd see like in Dubai or something like that. So this was a cool piece. This is a— I was doing something kind of angelic on here. I like to do these angel types of figures, so I was messing around with that one day. You can see sepia, you can see the watercolor stick. I like this little temple structure in the background. Here we broke out some yellow. So I'm seeing some common things. I'm seeing another building kind of in a ruinous state. Some stonework, right? I have quick, loose stonework on here. I didn't try to draw every little stone, but you can probably get a sense that there's some stones happening on this building. What I liked about this, now it's coming back to me, I really loved what was happening in this area with this ink wash, sepia tone, the watercolor stick. There was something for me really magical about what was happening in this area here especially. So that was fun. This I was talking about our architecture, Aldo Rossi, I showed you his sketchbook. Well, not his sketchbook, but I wish I had his sketchbook, it would be priceless. Aldo Rossi was a favorite architect of mine in college. He's no longer with us, his buildings are. His sketching totally has influenced my sketching today, so I was trying to kind of emulate his style. We looked at his Alessi teapot that he designed that you can now buy for like $300 online. It's expensive. I think I gave you guys assignments. Some of you guys sketched the teapot. Look at this book. I just love Aldo Rossi, an internationally famous architect. These are his sketches for his ideas. Right? Quick, loose. It's got some color on it. Looks like he has some kind of statues or something happening in the plaza space. And the Italian flag, he was an Italian architect. I mean, look at this. This one is a really cool scene. We have the Colosseum in the background. You know, Aldo Rossi would take his buildings he designed and kind of collage them into one scene. Well, he didn't do the Colosseum, but you know, this is one of his buildings he designed and included a historic landmark in the background to give it a sense of place. He even has a light wash on the sky. I really love this piece. My heart is with ink and washes, ink wash style. These are more architectural, these are more— these are detailed, these are Not quick and loose. He's trying to be more architectural, more technical. This is a perspective. It's a section— cut— sections where you cut through the building and you can see inside of it. So it's a section and perspective. My next workshop, we're gonna be doing technical architectural drawings. We're getting away from freehand. We are breaking out these things: rulers, pencils, erasers. I want to switch gears with our mindset, with mine and with yours, and go from loose to technical just so you can see and feel the difference of it. They are two totally separate entities, but they're linked by one common element, and that's creativity. You need creativity when you're creating technical drawings. I'll just show you one more. I'm sorry, I'm probably off on a tangent, but I— My blood is like— my heart is beating fast because I really love this stuff. I am so into it. I love this. Look at the colors. You guys see me using a lot of pink, right? You see me using pink in my art a lot. I didn't even remember Eldorossi had pink, but he's got pink on this. He has an aerial view. Get closer. So, I have to give credit I think to the sketch— sketching of Aldo Rossi as being a major influence on where my sketching has gone over the past— man, I graduated college in '94. So, I probably learned about Aldo Rossi in 1990, '91. So, ever since then, this His style has really influenced where I am today. Cool. So that's what's fun about keeping sketchbooks, just looking through them. You know, this is probably from last maybe month, month, maybe two.

It's probably a month.

I love playing and trying to practice, get reflections on here. You guys are awesome. Awesome. Yes, and this was before drones, Patty says. Yes. Um, so, Elian Smith, welcome! Good to see you. You're awesome. I appreciate you joining us. Let me know, guys, if you like this journey down memory lane. Let me know. Or if I'm rambling too much, say rambling. Um, I'll go do some sketching. Ooh, that's right, I got wet stuff on there. Um, this is just a quick I said it was gonna be quick, but I'm kind of— you know, this inking out loud, it's part of the process. You know, going back and reflecting on the work you've created, taking away— I have a thing in life that's really important to me. No matter who I meet, I actually told my classes today, no matter who I meet, whether even if it's a total stranger, I always try to take away something positive from that person or some kind of lesson from that person. It's a learning experience, right? I do the same thing when I'm looking through sketchbooks and reflecting. I'm going back and I'm trying to take away something that I learned or something I liked about each piece. So, I might not like the overall composition or sketch, but I might find something I like. So going back and reflecting, I think, is a really important part of the creative process. It's— create— the act of creating is beautiful, and that's so much fun. But I think reflecting is really good for, you know, for us to learn from what we're doing and to grow or change or reinvent or recreate something. Alright, who's playing the game out there? Who's counting how many times I said create or creativity? We gotta be around like 70. If someone wants to go back and watch the replay and count, I will send you a sketch. I'll send you a sketch of something. If you wanna go back and watch the replay and count, Let me know the total. I'll reward you for your efforts. This was inspired, I think, by a photograph from Becky. I had to add my kind of colors and make it a little more whimsical. It was a cool picture, I remember. Here I was getting to coppers and silvers and golds, and I love rust colors. Colored things. Rust is an aesthetic I'm always trying to practice with my artwork. And I love blimps. I just love blimps. I love Blimpies too. They make good— are they still open? Is Blimpies still around? Do they still make sandwiches? I used to go there before Subway. Um, I know I'm rambling. I'm sorry, guys. Let's see, maybe your face Biscuit, that would be so funny. I think Roo does see faces on his biscuits. I think he does. I think so. Um, yes, Linda, you are in on the class. I know. Me too. You guys, yes, you guys are in the class. I always take away something too. Oh, Chris, that's awesome. You love that barn? Oh, Becky, that's cool. Glad you love that barn. All right, this was a fun scene. I was trying to do something different with the background, make it a little more bright instead of doing like a gray or sepia and just left the buildings in this state. I really like this piece. One of my takeaways from looking at this is I just love seeing the creative thinking process. So, if you're accounting, creative, right there. I sketched a box when I started this here, you can see this kind of box. I was gonna keep a small little drawing, but it just grew. And I'm cool with that. It just is a reminder, "Hey, when I was creating this, this is kind of where I started." There's nothing— for me, there's nothing wrong with seeing the lines of creating, the construction lines of your sketches. This is one of my favorites. There's just something about this piece It's simplistic. There's no backgrounds on it. A lot of, a lot of white space and a lot of window shapes. This is the one I would love to— if I could ever get a cover on New Yorker magazine or something, I would love to do something in this style.

That would be so fun.

Here I was thinking bridges, I think. Thinking out loud, just ended up being a bridge. Was this around Halloween time? I don't know. I'm not always good at putting dates on my sketches, I have to admit that. I should date them. This is kind of a spooky pathway going up to maybe a log cabin in the woods somewhere. This may have been around Halloween time. I could go back and watch the video to find the timeline. This was cool. This was all done with watercolor stick and— oh, watercolor stick and I believe some graphite stick, my other favorite medium. This has a lot of texture. That's one of the things I I like about the watercolor stick. I love the texture and I love how the texture of the paper shows through when you use a watercolor stick. Yeah, I said it already, watercolor stick, watercolor crayon. So, there's something— I like this, maybe it's a park, you're in a park looking at the city in the background. The choir music must have came on when I sketched this part. That's usually when I kind of try to add a church. This was a quick, you know, perspective idea. Maybe looking down some sort of alleyway to some structure, maybe a bridge structure in the background. Now that I'm looking at this, all right. So, I'm never afraid to go back and add things. I kind of want to pop this edge out. I want to give a little— more edge to this, so I'm gonna take my watercolor stick and do a— pop out the edge of this building. It's okay if there's yellow on there, I don't mind. It's actually that green color. So I just wanna kinda pull this out a little bit. And just by kinda pulling the edge out much darker, maybe I'll pull out— is this part of the bridge? Maybe that's part of the bridge. So, let's pull out— I'll use my graphite stick. I'm gonna use the watercolor stick, it's all good. So maybe I'll just kind of pull this edge out a little bit here. So just by adding dark darkening those up, those edges, it kind of gave it a little more depth and perspective because I really wanted this piece to be in the background. So that's one way if you're trying to create depth on your artwork, your sketches, you know, just bold up some of the line work.

There we go. I'm not going to narrate.

I won't give a narration on everything I created. It was definitely Halloween time because this was a homage to The Addams Family. This is one of my absolute favorite, favorite pieces in this sketchbook that I've seen so far. I love the red oxide acrylic ink on here. The quick, loose sketch lines, the heavy— I like the heavy, bold lines on the outside of this mixed with some smaller, finer lines. Cerulean blue, red oxide, magical, and the black, magical color combination. This to me has a real— this has an old world feel to it, and that's kind of what I was going for. I love this piece. Here I was getting colorful. We have a colorful cityscape. This was a fun piece. I really like what's happening with the water down here, just picking up some of the colors of the buildings. I like to do a lot of waterfront types of scenes. It's just a nice way to create a base in your sketches or paintings.

I find it a good way to anchor your scene.

Here's the Sydney Opera House from our workshop that we did. You guys, you guys Jason Nicholas blew me away with your Sydney Opera House paintings and sketches. Wow. Incredible. Uh, 100 times better than mine, but you know what? When you're creating your artwork, don't compare yourself to other artists. Compare yourself to you. Develop your own skills. Try to be better tomorrow than you were yesterday. Wait. What day is it? Try to be better today than you were yesterday. Something like that. Just work on your self-improvement. If you get caught in the artist comparison trap, you're just gonna get stuck. You're gonna not get anywhere. I feel like you'll have just creative block. You can look to other artists for inspiration and ideas, but don't compare yourself and say, "Oh man, I could never paint I don't know, whatever, Renoir or someone. Just compare yourself to yourself. That's something I still do sometimes and it holds me back, but I'm learning to just kind of shatter that. I love this one too. This is one of my other favorite pieces in here. I still need to write something on this movie marquee. I didn't write anything on there yet. And you can see this, I started off with my perspective box, so I start my perspective sketches. I like breaking the kind of quote-unquote the fourth wall, you know, breaking out of that box. You guys are enjoying this. Here's kind of that fairy tale scene you guys have seen this. I had to pop the roof pink. I like that little pop of color. This was inspired by one of, uh, one of Patty's photographs from our workshop. I just went a little nuts and made it kind of beachy. My homage to SpongeBob. Pineapple is Pineapple Under the Sea. All right, we're almost to the end, guys. Thanks for watching this. Hope you're cool with it. This actually, I can come back and do something like like this. Then we have this, one of the last pieces I did. I really like this piece too. I don't— not crazy about what's happening back here, but I do like what's happening in this area. Cool. Hey, you guys are awesome. I could keep going for a little bit longer. Let me know if you want to see one more sketch. Or if you'd rather see the whistling cowboy, let me know. So put in the comments, sketch or whistling cowboy. I'll let you guys decide my fate. Let me look at the comments. Your creativity could not be contained by that little box. Yeah, Becky, yeah, always, you know, if I'm sketching a box, you know, say I wanted to do a little sketch in a box like this. I am, yeah, I will, 9 times out of 10, I will be going outside of that box and making something for sure. Uh, your desk image hasn't changed or even your hand hasn't moved. Uh-oh, are you guys seeing me okay? Am I moving? Can you guys see my screen all right? Sally and Smith, I don't know if it's— I don't know if you're having tech issues or maybe me. Let me know if I froze up. It's possible. It is possible. It's been a tech— weird tech day. Our internet at school went out for like 3 hours, or at least 3 class periods. We had no internet last half of the day. Patty can see me fine. Well, Well, thank you, Patty. I feel sorry that you can see me fine, 'cause I just am rough and gruff and tired and my hair is a mess. But thank you, I'm glad you can see me fine. Chris, hey, it was good seeing you. Thanks for popping in. I always appreciate it. Oh wow, the pink house. Yeah, I was at pink house. Awesome. Ooh, Patty.

Sketch, sketch.

All right, I'm gonna do a sketch. Patty, I have some show and tell. I have a piece of artwork that arrived that I had ordered from Patty's shop. So if you don't mind me showing it. Patty took a photograph of a building I really love, so I went and ordered this photograph printed on a block of wood, which is really cool. I'm loving this, this piece. So I think it was 8 by 8 inches, which I remember. Yeah. So it's an 8 by 8 square on, I don't know if it's, they put it on birch plywood. I'm guessing it's probably done on birch plywood. You can see it's laminated. So some kind of plywood. If Rue was on, he'd probably tell me, Bill, help me identify the wood species. I'm gonna guess birch or maple, but this came out really cool on a block of wood. It almost has a painting or watercolor quality to it. Take a look at that. So, Patty, yeah, it looks awesome. Thank you. I love this photograph. Cool stuff. So I'm debating if I want to keep it here or bring it to school. Hmm, I'll have to figure that one out. This would look really awesome up on the wall.

Somewhere.

Um, "It's okay now." Yay, Sally Ann Smith, I'm so glad it's okay. Awesome. So, oh, it's 11 o'clock. I'm gonna do another sketch, I'm up for it. Ah, the curse of HGTV for news reporters. On HDTV. Yes, yes, yes. Oh my gosh, it does look cool. It's awesome. Are there lines in the image? Ooh, let me check.

Let me bring it back.

There's lines that are the grain of— so you can see the grains of the wood. This is the wood grain showing through in the background. So, which is cool. I actually like the look. It adds like a rustic kind of feel to it. So there are lines on there, it's due to the graining of the wood.

Excuse me.

Alright, let's do one more sketch, guys. Thank you for watching and participating. You're all amazing. Thank you for the thumbs up and the hearts. Yeah, the wood print's cool. I've done a wood print before on some of my art pieces.

Where's—

do I have the one here? I think it's in the other room. I just like the look of it. Yeah, I don't have it here. It's in my other room. I don't know. I'm gonna just mess around on this sheet of paper. Some kind of sketching or something on here. Alright, we're going to change the tunes up. Excellent, you're wearing your retro t-shirt for class tomorrow night. So awesome. I will put my retro shirt on. Thank you guys for buying retro t-shirts. I hope— I am so honored and flattered, but Most importantly, I hope you really do enjoy Retro. He's a character I'm like in development and I have some other ideas for Retro. So thank you guys so, so much for doing that. Alright, if you guys can bear with me, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna put on some kind of rocking music right now. I'm gonna rock, do some a little heavier kind of music. So, if you want to lower your volumes, awesome. If you want to turn it up, awesome. If you want to mute me, welcome to my classroom because you're not alone. I'm sure I have students that would like to put me on mute. How do you get in the class? Ooh. Oh, Sally Ann Smith, you're asking me how to get in the class. That's a cool question. So, This is a workshop that we started. I think we have our third Zoom meeting tomorrow. So we— oh man, what am I thinking? Yeah, so the workshop, I'm going to be doing a new workshop. I'd like to do one in December, but I think people are pretty cray cray in December with a lot of stuff going on. So I might wait till January to do the next workshop. And I can definitely let you know and post about it for sure. I'd love if you're interested, you know, maybe you want to pop in for a little sneak peek. We can maybe figure out something as well. So we meet on Zoom on Saturday nights. So it's a paid workshop. We meet on Zoom on Saturday nights for a— we do some kind of sketch or drawing exercise together. We have a lot of fun and we do— the most fun part is a show and tell where everybody shows their assignments for the week and we kind of show and tell and kind of give each other some positive feedback. So it's a lot of fun. But I can definitely, if you're interested, I can send you an email with more information about the course. If you go to Jason— sorry guys for the commercial here— if you go to Jason Fine Art— no, no, no, that's the wrong website. Go to theinkspiredlife.com. You can sign up to get on like a mailing list where I can notify you about the next class. Sorry guys, I don't usually— I'm not really good at plugging myself. I'll put it in the chat. My website is theinkspiredlife.com. If you go to the website, you can sign up for my mailing list and I'll let you know about the next workshops coming up.

Cool.

All right, I'm gonna put on a little heavier type of music and do some fun stuff on here. Maybe I'll break out some color. I warned you. Don't say I didn't warn you.

This is kind of fun, actually.

It's not really heavy. I thought this was heavy. Alright, got some color coming out here.

Oops.

This is a fun piece of music. It's kind of— I like it. It's very upbeat. So let's see, I'm not sure where this one's headed, but again, it's about the journey. I just love throwing down these pink colors. All right, now we're getting a little, uh, Little heavy-ish here. And what do I love with this color? I love breaking out the Aqua color pencils, light aqua. So I'm picturing these small kind of houses, maybe surrounded by these industrial factory type of buildings. Or maybe this is an industrial factory scene. These are kind of the warehouse buildings. Not sure. Let's make this into something industrial-ish. It's always fun adding -ish to things. Why? It's a way— it's kind of like loose sketching by adding -ish. To things, it keeps it loose and open for interpretation. You don't have to be precise when you ish things. Welcome to Ishing Out Loud. We should change the name of the show, Ishing Out Loud. Yeah, this is cool. I like where this is going. Heck, I'm gonna break out the sepia brush pen. Where the heck is it? Alright, now we're gonna get fun. We're gonna get really fun here. I see some cool factory shapes happening back in here. Some industrial chimneys going on. Yeah, there we go. It's got a smokestack or something happening. I like the way the sepia looks with the pink ink. Yeah, I made a rhyme. I like the way the sepia looks with the pink ink. Yeah, all right, so we got a little kind of industrial thing happening, maybe. Maybe some of those big buildings in the background here. kind of rain, rain or something coming down. So I like to show rain by these vertical lines, show a little bit of movement. So when this dries, I'm gonna come back and add some ink on top of it, pull out some details. It's a little too wet right now. I'm just gonna tap this down and just create some kind of dots happening with the graphite bleed. So this is kind of grunge— grungish aesthetic going on. Ooh, I just put my wrong brush in the water. Throw some sepia in here as well, in the background a little bit. It's a factory, so maybe we got some kind of smoke coming out. Some smoke coming out over the scene. Boom! Woo! That piece kind of charged me up a little bit. Yeah, Patty, thank you. We always have a great time. "Not usually a pink fan, but it always looks cool in your sketches." Ah, thanks. Yeah, Linda, I don't know why I started using pink. I think I just wanted something really vibrant and bright. I love using it now. So thank you. I actually do like this. It'll be cooler when I add more detail to it. When it dries, I'm going to go over some areas with my light aqua watercolor— this isn't watercolor. Oh my gosh, my brain is going cuckoo. Prismacolor colored pencil. Whew, that was a mouthful. Alright, it's cool down time. We're going to do some cool down sketching, and then we're gonna head off and do Whistling Cowboy. You guys are awesome. Thank you for your comments, your feedback, your, your friendship. You guys are amazing. So, Patty, I don't know if you were here, but I was mentioning I was wondering if I'd be able to start class tomorrow night around 9 o'clock, between 9 and 9:15. I was asked to go to see our school play tomorrow night, which starts at 7:00. One of the— what do you call the people that work behind stage? Crew? I guess one of the crew members, one of my students, asked me if I was going to go see the play and sold me some tickets. So I said, "Sure, I will go to the play." The play is called "Almost Maine." I don't know if you guys know the story. I am not familiar with it. I'm looking forward to it. I guess it's a play with a series of vignettes or short stories. Cool, Patty said that's okay. Awesome. I'll put it out to everybody else in the group. I'll make an announcement. Start around 9:00. I could give someone else the sign-on if someone wanted to log in earlier. You guys are more than welcome to meet beforehand. Talk creativity and food because those are two things we always talk about. So let me know if someone would like to do that. I'll give you the sign-on code and— or let you be like a co-admin for the Zoom session. More than happy to do that. Thank you guys. Cool. All right, so let's put on some cool down music and wrap up for the night. You guys are awesome as always. I appreciate you all. Yeah, it's called Almost Maine. Almost Maine. Apparently it takes place in a town called Almost Maine. I don't think it's a real place. I think it's a fictional story. No, I didn't see questions about photos. Let me see. I have some photos I want to share tomorrow night to go along with my homework. Should I put them in show and tell or washed eggs. Excuse me. I would put your photos in the show and tell. Put them in like the homework section. So what is it, week 3? Put them in the week 3 homework section. I think that would be fine. Awesome. Too much pink, add purple. Sally Ann Smith wants some purple on here. Sally Ann Smith, since you've been so awesome tonight, sticking through some creative— not creative, some tech issues. I'm gonna throw down some purple on here for you, and I'm gonna use— I'm gonna use one of my water-soluble crayons. I'm gonna use the purple one from here. So let's break out— got some purple right here, look at that. A small piece right here. Just break out this small purple water-soluble crayon stick. We'll throw down some purple for you. That'll be our cool-down sketching. Great idea, so thank you. I know, yeah, NYC photos, yeah, post them, Patty, absolutely. I would love to see them. So yeah, tomorrow we're gonna look at your homework, look at your New York City buildings. We'll do a sketch-along tomorrow night as well. I don't have a tutorial we're gonna follow. We're gonna Tomorrow's exercise— well, I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you what it is. It'll be a surprise. All right, guys, let's put on the— I'm going to go back to the choir music. I like cooling down with this. We'll add some purple and we'll head off to the cowboy stuff. That is not choir music. That is quirky fun playlist. Let's try this again, guys. Here we go, epic choir music, take 2, after I get a drink. Awesome. The right pink side looks like your cowboy. Hahaha, you saw that. Look at this, right? I could turn that into the Whistling Cowboy if I wanted to. That's so funny. I also see a face happening in here. See that little face happening? Like right in this area. I forget what Rayce— Rayce, I forget what Rue called it when you see faces in things. Facial— some Italian word sounded— facial para— I don't remember what it was called. Paradolia. Paradolia. I made it up. Alright guys, let's put on the music. I'm talking a lot because I'm hyper and I'm just having so much fun. Fun. So much fun. If I miss Roo in the morning, it's because I stayed up too late creating stuff. So if someone wants to give me a wake-up alarm so I don't miss Roo, let me— that would be awesome.

I don't even want to add purple to that.

Actually, well, just some buildings in the background of purple. This is water, actually. Well, the choir's music is on, right? I always like to do a church. I'll just get my Aqua brush here. Alright, cool. Awesome! So the ink was drying a little bit so I could add some, uh, start adding color, not colored pencil, uh, whoa, my brain is tired. So the acrylic ink was drying a little bit so I could add some black ink on top of it. Awesome. Um, that's, uh, Patty, purple's perfect, thank you. Sally Ann Smith is liking the purple, awesome! Yeah, I like the purple. I just want to just throw maybe some in the background a little bit. I think you're right, I think it helps to balance the colors out a little bit. I like this piece, I'm going to add more to it after it dries, I'll put some more details. I like the industrial vibe it has to it. Oh, I went the wrong way. Let me zoom in a little closer. You know, I'm trying to create kind of industrial type buildings. I have some steel bracing going on in here. These are little factory type of, or warehouse buildings going on. I started sketching in maybe some brickwork over here. So it's, I think it's just a fun little piece. Alright, you guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. I'm gonna go ahead and do the Whistling Cowboy. We're heading out of here. So let's do the Whistling Cowboy sketch. So if you guys wanna give me a number from 1 to 15, The first number I see is the whistling cowboy song we'll use for tonight. So just give me a number from 1 to 15 as I get my desk all cleaned and organized. Well, as clean and organized as I can get it. Cool. Number 12. All right, Patty, I see number 12 first. We're going to do number 12. All right. Let's put this aside, we'll break out the Cowboy Sketchbook. You guys are awesome as always, I appreciate your time and your creativity and, who's counting the word? Creativity. And your just being here, you're so positive. Thank you so much. This was the last one we did. Bum ba ba bum, here we go. Let's find song number 12. To some sketching. Thank you guys for watching. You're awesome. I appreciate you all so, so much. Keep paying it forward with creativity and peace and live creatively. Let's find song number 12 and we're out of here as we sketch our way out into the sun. Well, I was gonna say sunset. It already set here. As we sketch ourselves towards a new sunrise tomorrow. Number 12. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. This is called Duel of Destiny. Duel, D-U-E-L. Duel, as they say in French. Duel of Destiny. Thank you guys so much. Catch you on the flippity flip. Have an awesome, awesome night. Here we go. Good night, guys. Peace. Live creatively. See you real soon.