The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey there, if you're watching, hope you're having an awesome Tuesday night. It's always good to see you guys in the chat. Just gotta turn my volume down, my Facebook page was open over here. Hope you're doing good. I am on for a little bit, just doing some inking out loud, some sketching, trying to wind down for the day. It's been kind of a crazy day. All good, just a lot of different things going on. I want to just do some sketching just to wind down for the night, have some fun, listen to this fun music. So, hope you're having a great, great day. So I'm just using a black ink today, black and red ink, on this kind of quick loose cityscape sketch. I'm picturing some buildings, maybe a bridge structure happening here, also maybe some shipping containers or something. Maybe it's a, uh, some kind of a port area. Your shipping containers being stacked here. So we'll see. That's kind of what I'm picturing in my brain right now as I'm sketching this. I'm breaking out some water-soluble graphite. I like the way it feels on the paper, the texture. Um, and I like the fact that if I want to, I can add some water and I can kind of sketch paint with it also, or I can just leave it kind of rough in the— kind of its raw state, just pick up the texture of the paper.

Cool.

Uh, let's see. So maybe this is some water happening down here. Hey, Linda, Laura, good to see you. Hope all is well. Laura, I saw you on before. I got— my internet said I need a break, so it kicked me off. Good to see you back. Hope you guys are having an awesome Tuesday. Thanks for tuning in. So I'm sketching what I'm imagining to be some kind of harbor scene, some kind of shipyard, dockyard, maybe some shipping containers, very industrial. It's kind of what's up here and, uh, didn't start off that way, but as I was working on it, that's what I started seeing in my brain. I'm just trying to get that out of my brain and onto paper now. Anyway, enough about me. Hope you guys are having a great day. Let me know what you're up to. Let me know. Love to hear what is going on. So I'm just going to be doing some inking out loud, not for too long. I will definitely be logging off by probably 10 o'clock, if not a little before.

I am beat.

But I couldn't resist doing some sketching tonight. I just had to. Just had to. It was in my system. I got to chill out, wind down for the evening. This was— this is my favorite way to do it, although sometimes it has the opposite effect and fires me up. It's all good. Let me zoom out a little bit. Hey guys, you guys can see that, I think. Yeah, I don't know, it's maybe a dockyard. Maybe there's some kind of crane structure across the top. All that fun stuff. Um, you were totally focused on seismic updates today. Oh, I actually came back up here to do some slow stitching. Oh Lord, do tell about the seismic updates. I, I sometimes live in a bubble with, uh, the world around me. I hate to say it, so I'm, I am not sure what seismic updates were happening. So please do tell. I tend to— I don't really listen or watch the news at all, so kind of oblivious to some things. Well, I am glad that it sounds like everything's well and you're slow stitching. That sounds fun, sounds relaxing. Linda got home from bell choir and now we have Fida watching you. Well, I am honored. I, you know, some people say I have bats in my belfry, but bell choir sounds really cool. I love that. That's when you ring the bells, right? I'm guessing. That sounds really fun. So, I'd love to see if you have any video performances you could share. I'd love to see the bell choir in action. I just need to go with whatever the flow. Yeah, you gotta go with the flow sometimes, and that's what Inking Out Loud— that's what this show is about, going with the flow, the creative flow, the mindset flow, just letting things happen with, uh, ink and pen and watercolors and paper, colored pencils, markers, whatever I have on hand. Linda's been doing that— Laura's been doing that for years now here. Yeah, go with the flow, love that. This is kind of a fun piece. There's a lot happening here, a lot of movement and a lot of energy here. At least that's kind of what I'm feeling as I'm looking at it. I'm going to break out— see, I'm using the graphite stick here for a little bit, I think. Uh, yes, Ring the Bells, you're in A, you're in A-flat. I am a flat. A, B-flat, and B. I am a flat. A, B-flat, and B. That sounds so cool. I, uh, I love music. Motivates me, inspires me, relaxes me, uh, helps bring out the creativity in me. So I love anything that has to do with music. That sounds so awesome. I couldn't tell the difference between an A, a B-flat, and a B. I have no idea what notes sound like, and I should. I have a guitar I picked up about 12 years ago. It sits around. I've picked it up, I don't know, 10 times in the past 12 years. I've been itching, itching to learn how to play. I just don't make the time. So anybody that plays a musical instrument or sings in the chorus, that is so awesome. It's just a talent, a skill I haven't— I have not worked on. So cool. Wow, those are your notes. Awesome. If you want to come on camera, Linda, and do a demo, I can invite you on. We can bring you on the live stream. Just saying, putting out there for you. Your, uh, update seismic activities both globally and around the US, focus on usual events and higher magnitudes. It's just something I felt people needed to know what is going on around them that the evening news never mentions. Oh, Laura, that is so cool. Wow, you update seismic activities both globally and around— that is, that is really wild. That is— I've never heard of anybody that did that before. Very, very, very cool. I'm wondering if you have, uh, Laura, if you like— do you have like seismic instruments? See, we're talking about instruments, music. Right? But do you have any like seismic instruments that you— do you record your own seismic activity or is this data you find from around the web? Hey, welcome Loreen, how are you? Good to see you. Aloha, good to see you. I haven't sketched in a long time, need to get back to it this year. Oh, that would be so awesome. So Loreen Kane, correct me if I'm wrong, but I know you through The Urbanist, right? I think I recognize your name. Aloha, welcome, welcome to Inking Out Loud. So nice to have you on board, that's so cool. Linda, you should play more when you are sitting down, put the guitar in your hands and noodle. Yeah, you know, I even bought a ukulele as a Christmas gift to myself like 3 years ago now. Or 2 years ago. I pick it up, uh, and I actually, you know, I even downloaded videos, and I just gotta make the time. I really would love to learn to play, play the uke. Loreen says yes. Hey guys, let's welcome Loreen. Loreen, welcome to the Inklings. Here we have Linda and Laura in the house. They are awesome. They're artists, creatives, positive people. This is a real fun, positive community. Sølarene, what I like to do on this, I call this inking out loud, where I just kind of go off the cuff, use whatever I have on hand. Typically it's a Lamy fountain pen with Lamy ink in it, Pilot Precise pen, different colors. I have a red one, Sharpies, watercolors. It's kind of a lot of mixed media here, and I just kind of go with it and see what happens. Usually I'll end up creating some kind of abstract cityscapes, but I do other things as well. And actually, I'm going to work on a piece that I've been— that I have started on, and I have some show and tell for you guys if you stick around. Uh, so Lori independently monitors official seismic websites. That is really cool. That is cool. So Loreen, I believe, is in Hawaii, so she— I'm sure she— Loreen, you're very familiar with seismic activity, right? So cool. That's what I love about this, is I get to get to know you guys and the things you do and you're interested in. Linda, I am always fascinated by the bell choirs, and my only real experience is hearing bell choirs during the holiday performances. There's just something magical about the ringing of the bells. It's something very beautiful about it. Yeah, this is looking kind of cool. I'm liking this abstract scene. So I'm using the water-soluble— it's a watercolor stick. Daniel Smith. Oh, all right, I gotta do show and tell. I know Linda— Linda, you may have been one of the people that told me about this. Let me bring out the show and tell. Anyway, let me just— I'm excited. I'm sorry, guys, I'm all over the place. I'm just so excited. I just want to throw down some watercolor stick on here, pull out some of these buildings a little bit. All right, cool. I am going to let this one dry and we'll come back and work on it a little bit later. Uh, yes, yes, it's fun to ring. I'm sure, I am sure the bell is fun to ring. That is so cool. Uh, when I hear— think of bells, the ice cream man truck, the ice cream truck comes into my brain. Remember as a little kid growing up in the summertime, I would listen for those bells to ring on the ice cream truck. I hate to say it, I still listen for those bells all these years later. Um, all right, cool. So let me do a quick show and tell, a couple of things. First, I want to just—

let's—

I want to show you this piece I worked had worked on the past few days. I was— some of you guys saw me working online doing it. So I think this one's almost done, but I wanted to add a yellow background. So if you were watching the other night, I was using this amazing, amazing watercolor marker on a different project. I put it down And then I went to work on this piece and I couldn't find the marker. It was driving me insane. I have it, found it. So I kind of want to throw some yellow background on this, uh, this piece here. So I thought I would do that for a few minutes. But before I do that, as you could tell, I am unplanned, just winging it here. Um, Linda, while we have Linda in the house, so in our Inspired Life sketching workshops we have been having, I know these came up in one of our conversations. I don't— I think maybe it was either Sue or it was you, Linda. Uh, I went ahead, used a gift card I had from Amazon, and I purchased these Daniel Smith watercolor sheets that have dots of watercolor on them. So there are 238 colors to try. I just got these today. I am uber excited to play around and give these colors a try. I know Daniel Smith is probably one of of the top brand of watercolor products in the world. Um, so yeah, I'm really excited to play with these colors. Yes, dot cards! Thank you, Linda. They're called dot cards. So I have these really cool dot cards. Um, some of these colors— I'm going to just hold them up. Are beautiful. I love— I was eyeing up this one right here. It's called Duochrome Arctic Fire. It actually looks more pink in person than it does on, on camera. Beautiful color. Um, I thought we'd play around, just throw some of these colors down and see what they look like. So there's a, like I said, 238 colors. On the other side of these dot cards, it has talks about some of their Daniel Smith products, which is cool. So I can learn about their product line. Now I know Daniel Smith is not a cheap brand, but you, you're paying for quality. All kinds of cool things. So this is the other side. Really interesting facts. The only Daniel Smith product I have ever used are these watercolor sticks here, which I really love. So let's play around with just a couple of these colors. And I have a piece of paper. This is actually new paper that I just got today with my Amazon gift card as well. It's Arches watercolor paper. The stuff's not cheap, so I cut it into small pieces just to play around with it. Arches is really top-notch, expensive watercolor paper, 140-pound, and I wanted to get it and play with it because Arches has a really beautiful texture on it, and I love watercolor paper that's rough. So I thought we would just play around and throw some of these colors on this piece of paper. Um, Lorraine, yes, but luckily you haven't felt it lately. Oh, I'm so good. I'm so good. I'm so glad that you haven't felt any, uh, seismic activity. Um, so, oh, so really, so the, uh Activity is largely on the Big Island. Interesting. I love this. I love this that we have some seismic talking going on. That's awesome. I always learn so much from you guys, so thank you. Yeah, those colors are cool. Linda says the granulation with Daniel Smith is just amazing. So granulation, if I'm correct, is kind of a pattern that the watercolor leaves leaves. It almost sparkles, dissolves, and has a metallic look to it. But I am chatting a lot, which is cool. But let's turn on some color as I'm talking here. So I'm going to play around with this sheet here. I think I want to try that Arctic Fire color. It's calling my name. And, um, this Aquamarine looks good, and this Cable Blue. They all look beautiful, actually. I don't know where to start. So I just dipped my brush in some water. I'm gonna pull up some of this color. I'll leave it here so you can see it. And I'm not trying to paint any scenes, I just want to throw some color down on here. So let's try this Duo Chrome Artifire. I do want to get a clean brush because this has yellow and orange paint on it. We're actually— you know what, I'm actually gonna break out a new aqua brush and we'll play around with this one.

Okay, cool.

Hopefully you guys can see this on camera. I don't know, might not show that well. I should pick a brighter color for— yeah, let me pick out a brighter color so you guys can see it on camera. That one's too light. I'm gonna go with Iridescent Electric Blue. Just touching a little bit here on my brush, and I'm gonna just throw some down on here. I know Linda and a lot of people like to do swatching of colors. We take a color, test it different ways and you make notes about it. But I'm not going to swatch right now, I'm just going to have some playtime. Let me zoom in closer. All right, um, I'll let it dry, we'll look at it after it dries. Just throw a little bit down. Let's try another color. I'm just going to go with the one above it called Scarab Red. Scarab Red. So I'm going to take some of this right here. This is a really cool way just to test different colors out. I always thought it would be cool to have a job where you get to name colors. If you've ever gone to buy watercolors or even like house paint The color names are pretty amazing. Cool. And I'll just throw a little bit down here. Maybe I'll pull some of this down, mix it. Again, I'm not really trying to create anything, I'm just going to play with colors. Let's throw it on this purple or mauve, Duochrome Mauve. Oops, I gotta really load on the brush. Yeah, let's see, let's play with this one. I love copper stuff, so this is Iridescent Copper. And let's try a green. Let's do, um, Duochrome Emerald. So these duochrome paints have a metallic look to them when they dry. I'll hold it up in the camera closer, you might be able to see the kind of shimmer. The dry brush is kind of down here a little bit, so it picks up the texture of the paper. One more, one more, let's do Hibiscus. These are very transparent colors, that's why they're not so intense. Uh, some of the other colors here, I'll I'll pull out one here. Let's do Opera Pink. Opera Pink? No, actually let's do an opaque color. What's an opaque one here? Let's see, I have some opaque ones on here. So let's do this Green Oxide color. So you can see this is an opaque color, so it's much more intense when I throw it down. And let's throw down some Mayan Orange, which is Semi-transparent. All right, cool. So there you go, there's just some colors I want to play around with, throw them on there. They are cool colors, the dot cards are cool. Oh, so they're actual paint swatches. So these are physical colors that you lift off. They're actual dots of color. You just lift the water on, you take them off, and you brush them on your paper. Um, oh, Linda loves Arches. Get it on sale. Yeah, great idea. Look for on sale prices. Yeah, these are pretty cool colors. Lorraine likes the hibiscus color. Yeah, that has a nice pink color to it. Liking the copper and green. I'll hold it closer. You can see them, how they're drying. So this is a great example of granulation. If you look at the first one here, you can see the specks of the darker color, the flecks. That's granulation, right? You can see the grains of the material. They have a metallic shimmer to them, which is really cool. Awesome. So again, this looks like a really cool way to try different colors out. I forgot, I think it was $20, I forgot, $23 or $24 for these sheets, um, and I had a gift card, so it was worth trying. So I'll be playing around with these in future episodes as well. But now that we have this out, let's do some inking out loud. I'm going to change the music up a little bit. We'll just play around on this scrap piece of paper. I'm going to try the ink, uh, inking on this. That's such a really nice texture. If you guys have any questions, let me know. Thank you for watching. Thank you for your comments. I really appreciate them so much. Let's change the tunes. We're going to click on— I have a playlist I call World. World music. Let's see what happens. I just kind of randomly put some music in there. So when you guys see me draw a box like this, it usually means I'm gonna be blocking out some kind of perspective sketch. So I'm really curious to see how the ink works on this Arches paper. Put this up here.

There we go.

Let's do some sketching. Cool. All right, now we have some ink on. Let's see how it bleeds. Awesome, I'm liking the way the ink's bleeding on here. I love the rough texture underneath. It's looking pretty cool. I like this music. Let's try some acrylic ink on here, see how that looks. Alright, so that was pink acrylic ink. Now I'm going to try some watercolor. That's a fun piece of music. I love that, a lot of energy. Something else to go on your shopping list. Yes, of course. Looks like a man at the end walking. Maybe, maybe we have a man walking at the end. Interesting. I love when you guys see different things in these loose sketches. That's one of the fun things about creating them for me. They're not very detailed, they're a lot of white space, a lot of incomplete things where you guys can use your imaginations to kind of fill in the blanks and see things. So I'm going to try the watercolor stick. Yeah, I love the texture. Let me zoom in, I'll show you guys what I'm just playing around with this paper tonight, just trying to get the feel of it. So I love the texture of the watercolor stick, how that looks on this rough paper. Has a really cool feeling about it. Let's try a graphite. So I use a water-soluble graphite stick, sketch some— I'm going to sketch on here a little bit with it. Cool. So maybe these are some kind of— it's a curved roof, or what's called a barrel vault ceiling. There's some kind of glass skylight panels in this tunnel or corridor. I'm sketching just some lines on here, give a little bit of structure. So these kind of look like panels, maybe like, uh, skylight panels. This paper is, uh, it's buckling. It's fairly wet, so it's starting to buckle. Which is normal. I don't have it taped down. If I had it taped down, it would help prevent some of the buckling. It's okay, when it dries, it should dry fairly flat, not very— not perfectly flat. Sometimes these perspective sketches, I just like to add kind of color around here where they're— just to kind of frame in the view a little bit. Uh, let me try a highlighter, yellow highlighter on here. See what the highlighter looks like. Cool. I almost dipped my highlighter in the water.

Fun.

Awesome. I'm gonna let this dry. We'll see how it dries. Let me zoom in. So there you go. I just wanted to play around with this Arches watercolor paper. It's— I haven't really I haven't really used arches that much. I think I gotta zoom in this way. It'll be interesting to see how this dries. I like— actually, this looks cool the way the colors are blending. The pink and the blue are making a really nice purple color happening there. I'm really loving the texture of the paper, so it's totally winning me over. Uh, the pink adds a lot, beautiful. Oh, thank you, Loreen, I appreciate that. So pink, pink is one of my signature colors I'm trying to put in at least somewhere on the artwork I do. But I think I love that you said that. Laura watched the movie about a while back about an artist opening a perspective painting that I sat and tried to sketch out. I got stuck on some of the wall fixtures and haven't gone back to it. Oh, Laura, I'd love to see the painting you're talking about. If you ever want to post it, feel free to post it on the Inkling page. You can post your artwork on there. Uh, Laureen, you as well. I have a Facebook group. It's a public group. If you want to ever post sketches or artwork on there, you're more than welcome to do that— artwork that you've made— so we can give each other feedback and comments and just keep encouraging each other just to put something out there. This is not a masterpiece. This is not going to win awards. I don't even think I could sell this, but that's okay. My My goal is— I say this all the time— my goal, for me, it's about the journey. You know, sometimes we focus on going from A to Z. We worry about Z, the finish line. What is this going to look like when it's finished? For me, it's about the journey in between A to Z, embracing and just having fun with the creative process. That's what's fun about Inking Out Loud and just creating stuff that I want to create. I'm not doing this for a client like my architecture work. I know that's usually for a client when I'm designing buildings or houses. I have some freedom of design but not as much as I had hoped. This allows total creative freedom for me and that's what I love about it. I just have fun throwing color down and textures. Playing, guys. So this is really— this is awesome. I think this is drying really, really nicely. I love watercolors when they have the hard edges. Hard edges are where it's drying. Here you can see the hard edges around here as well. You know, part of the act of creating Hey Tiffany, one of the things I really enjoyed about using this paper tonight, this is gonna sound weird, but I love the sound of the pen as it's playing on the paper, scratching. I love the feel of the pen as it's dragging on here and even to feel the texture in my hands. So painting and sketching is Obviously, very— it's a visual thing, but we can use all of our senses to enjoy and experience what we're creating. Although I don't think I would taste the paint, so maybe not all of our senses, but it has a smell. The music I hear, I hear the sound of the pen. Um, so don't be afraid to use your senses when you're creating paintings and sketching. Cool. Hey Sally Ann Smith, good to see you. Welcome, hope you're having a great, great night. Isn't that pink a fugitive color that will fade? Fugitive color, that's funny you said fugitive colors. I was just reading about that in Daniel Smith. So fugitive colors are not proven to be fade resistant. Really good question. So this, this is Amsterdam acrylic ink. I don't know the answer. I would have to read about it. I'm assuming you're probably correct. I don't know. So that's a really good question. I'll let you know. I'll come back and look at it in a year, a couple years, and see what happens. That's a really good point. If you're creating artwork to sell or give away, you might want to use archival quality inks and colors that'll last, and they're fade-resistant. I don't know if anything is fade-proof, but they are fade-resistant, and you might get a little fading. Different colors have different ratings as far as their fade resistance goes. That's a really good question. I don't know, I don't know about the properties of this acrylic ink enough, so That's where we go to Google. Yeah, Laura, yeah, it's tactile. Exactly, the feel of it. It's another sense we use is this feel, and not even the physical feeling, but also the emotional and spiritual feelings that when you're creating. It's very pretty. Yeah, I love that color. You guys are awesome. All right, let's go and see how the first sketch is drying that we started tonight. All right, quick cityscape we were playing around with. Put this aside to dry here. So here's the cityscape. I like the way it's drying, it's pretty cool. I'm sensing like a lot of energy here happening, a little industrial vibe going on. I think I'm going to throw some sepia color on here, so let me do that. So I like to grunge-ify some of these industrial-type cityscapes, and to grunge-ify it, I like to throw sepia down a lot in the background. So I typically use a sepia watercolor marker, my Aqua Brush. By the way, you see this paper on the left? This is watercolor paper I threw down and I use it to kind of clean my brush off on, to mix some paints as well. And eventually this watercolor paper is gonna become an artwork. I'm gonna do some ink line sketching on top of the colors. So the colors serve as like the background. Or I'll probably cut this big sheet up into different pieces. So stay tuned, that'll be fun, fun project. Alright, let's throw some sepia on down here, then we'll wrap up with our whistling cowboy outro. Thank you guys for watching, I always appreciate you tuning in. I'm excited, in February we have a new workshop. Loose style sketching, loose style ink sketching, or it could be pencil or whatever, using architecture, actually using Disney architecture as kind of the inspiration for the workshop. We'll be doing some sketching, some Disney buildings and maybe some attractions, so that'll be fun. So I am just Picking up some of that sepia. I'm going to throw it on here in the background. This is fun music tonight, guys. I'm liking this playlist. So you can see how adding the sepia is just creating kind of an atmosphere to the scene. This isn't supposed to be a pristine-looking cityscape here. I want it to be kind of grungy, industrial. This is a working— this is a working city. Again, I'm imagining a harbor, maybe a dockyard. I'm just going to blot a little bit of this out in here just to soften it a smidge. Maybe down here will soften it. Cool. Sometimes I like to tilt my sketchbook up at an angle, just let the paint run down or the ink drip down a little bit. Loreen says, "Ah, I love Disney!" Yeah, Disney is— I love Disney also. My dream career, other career, would have been to have been a Disney Imagineer designing the theme parks, the rides, the architecture. Does the music relate to your sketches? Oh, Laureen, that's a great, great question. Love, love that question. Yeah, I have to say it relates to my sketches on a couple different levels. One is I can consciously select a certain type of style of music and use that to kind of inform the painting. So for example, if I put on Neil Diamond, who I actually— I love Neil Diamond, the little Sweet Caroline. If I listen to Neil Diamond, my sketch or painting is going to look very different than if I start out listening to Metallica. Two very different types of music, right? So sometimes I'll consciously put pick a music because I— maybe I had a rough day and I want to get my frustrations out, so I'll put on some hard rock or heavy metal and I'll create with it. Maybe I want some peaceful zen, I want to chill out, so I'll put something mellow on. So yeah, so it affects it that way. I can consciously pick the music, and also the music affects me subconsciously. If you watch Inking Out Loud, I have a playlist that I go through, and sometimes when different music comes on and it's random, I'll start sketching or painting differently. Some of the scenes I have done have been sketches, and maybe some tropical or Mediterranean music came on. The scene or building would transform from what it was into something more Mediterranean looking. You know, so music can subconsciously definitely affect. And also, you know, sometimes you get lost in the music and it affects just how your brush strokes are or how you're putting down pen. So music absolutely has an effect, and I think of music as another creative tool that we have as artists to use. I love that question. Thank you for asking that one. I could talk about that one for hours, but I won't, I won't get into it tonight. All right, so I'm gonna throw down some more, just using some sepia I've left on this paper. Cool. Hope you guys like this industrial scene. There's a good chance after it dries I might come back and add some more ink. Details. For example, whoa, I will knock my camera over. Um, let me just show you how I'm going to add some windows. So I'll probably just break out my Pilot Precise Pen here. Let's just throw some windows like on these buildings in the background. Pretty easy. I'm not going to draw rectangles, I'm just going to Throw down some lines just to create the illusion that this is a building. So just by throwing those lines down, it's adding a little more, just a little more detail. This is the part I could do. For hours. I could just get lost starting to add little line strokes here and there just to add a little texture to what's going on.

This could be maybe some kind of bridge platform down here as well.

I'm looking at it. Candice is very loose, it's sketchy, it's wonky, which I love. Cool, there we go, there we go. So I just kind of add a little bridge down there. There's an overview of it. Music could definitely be new for us. Yeah, Laura, exactly. Thank you for the in-depth answer. I'll have to try listening to some rock music next time it's— Yeah, Laureen, put on the rock. Um, I will. I— you know what, so next time I'm on, that's a great idea. I'm gonna put on some heavy, heavy music and we'll just go crazy with it. Um, it'll be fun. All right guys, so I'm gonna get ready to wrap up. What I'd like you to do is give me a number from 1 to 20. The first number I see will be the song I'll play for the outro. So I like to end with what I call the Whistling Cowboy sketch. Some of you guys have been following the Whistling Cowboy's journey and his faithful companion Retro. So let me know. I hope you like this quick sketch. I think this looks cool. I'll do a little sketchbook flip through while you guys are picking out numbers. I'll show you what else is in this book. This is one I started last night. I'm not done with this piece yet. This I'm almost picturing I'm picturing canyon. I'm picturing some kind of city/canyonscape. I know that sounds weird. Laura, cool, number 8 sounds good, so we'll play 8. Let me, uh, that sounds fine, thank you. Uh, so yeah, this is kind of So you guys can see a little more of this. So I've been playing around with this one a little bit, see what happens to it. This one came out cool. This was fun. This, this, I just, I took my color pencils here, just went with them all. I wanted to use every single color on here. So this is sepia ink ink with colored pencils and some watercolor. I love this music. This was a fun kind of archway building. Here's another cityscape. This I love. This was the— you guys any of you have seen this one. This is for our friend Rue, who is an amazing, amazing creative maker. I dedicated this to her. It was a get well card. Hope you like this flip through. We'll talk about all these right now. You can see some common things between this one. We have the— I love bridges, so I tried to incorporate it. You know, here's a bridge, so you'll see bridges in these. I know, uh, Linda likes the sky bridges as much as I do, so I always— not always, but I'll try to put sky bridges in. Let's see, what else? This one I really love. This was a cool castle or city in the sky type of sketch painting. Alright, what else? Couple other things. Oh, I still need to talk to Linda about this one. So Linda, if you're still watching, let's talk. I know you really liked this one, so let me know if you still like this sketch painting here. All right, cool. All right guys, let's head to the Whistling Cowboy outro because I have to work. I have to go teach. No snow days tomorrow. I wish. But, uh, nope. We have our— so my high school kids right now, we are doing our quarterly exams and projects. One class is drawing elephants using the computer and AutoCAD. Two classes are drawing the same elephant hand drafting the old school way with triangles and parallel rules and T-squares. Uh, very— that's turning out to be an interesting project. My architecture classes are doing presentations on iconic buildings throughout history. I learned some really cool things about the Eiffel Tower today. Strange fact, I haven't Googled it. Well, they Googled it during the class. Apparently there is a lady who is married to the Eiffel Tower. Just Google it. I have to Google it and look into it more, but apparently there is a lady that is married to the Eiffel Tower. I don't know much more than that. Um, anyway, I'm learning so much from these kids, and, uh, it's great stuff. Some of them, we have to work on them manner a little bit. Anyway, all right guys, cool. So let's play song number 8 and 4. We're gonna do both songs. So Laura, we're gonna take your 8. Loreen, we're gonna take your 4. So 8 plus 4 is 12. I'm gonna play song number 12 on the list as our outro song. You guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. Um, this Thank you again, Laureen, for joining us. I hope you come back and hang out with us again here. Starting in February, I'm going to be doing Inking Out Loud livestreams on Wednesday nights at 9 o'clock PM Eastern time. That's my goal. Other than that, they're random. I pop on randomly at night, typically, usually after 9 o'clock or so. I'm gonna try to do at least one show a week that has a regular schedule. You guys are awesome. Here I go, I'm finding song number 12 in my whistling cowboy playlist. What do I teach? Yeah, so yeah, I teach high school. I teach— I have 6 classes. I teach 3 CAD classes. So if you guys don't know, CAD is CAD stands for Computer Assisted Design, or Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Drawing. So we look at different software to do 2D and 3D modeling. For example, as an architect, I use CAD software to draw my floor plans and my building plans. CAD is used by industrial designers and engineers to design and come up with plans. It's really cool stuff. Then I also teach two architecture 1 classes. Um, it's just a general overview of architecture. I talk about what I do as an architect, my career. We talk about history of architecture a little bit. Uh, we do a lot of projects. They're going to be doing the Ultimate Treehouse design project next marking period, so that'll be fun. And I have one class that's called CAD. And Architecture Studio. It's a brand new class this year, still trying to figure it out. Um, I think I know what I want to do next year. CAD and Architecture Studio is going to be more focused on designing specific buildings, house building, and maybe a public building or commercial building, whether using the computer to design it, hand drawing to design it, building models, coming up with plans for it. So thank you for asking, appreciate that. And I'm also a licensed architect. I've had my own business for 20-something years now. Don't do as much of it anymore now that I teach full-time. I learned AutoCAD when it first came out. Oh, Loreen, that's awesome. That is so cool. I'm so glad that you used AutoCAD. Love to know your thoughts about it. Yeah, so the replays are usually up if you can't make the live, no worries, you always enjoy the replays. And, uh, welcome to the Ink Wings. All right guys, song number 12 is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. So song number 12 is called Me and My Horse. Thank you guys for watching. Let's go to the whistling cowboy song and have an awesome, awesome rest of your day. And yeah, I'll see you guys real soon. Peace and Live creatively. Song number 12, here we go.

Me and my horse.

Oh, look, my pen actually— I need to make Have a good night, guys. Peace and live creatively. See you real soon.