The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey out there, if you're watching, hope you're having a great Sunday night. Thanks for tuning in. Welcome to Inking Out Loud. I'm just kind of inking out loud and just creating off my imagination here with some ink, some watercolor marker right now. I have a sepia brush pen I was using as well. Yeah, so thanks for watching. Feel free to leave some comments, say hello. This is unrehearsed, as you can tell. I just feel like this is a great way just to wind down for the day. It's been a busy day. Didn't get to all the stuff on my to-do list, but I always try to make time to at least do, uh, something with sketching, even if it's just for 5 minutes, 10 minutes a day. It's just what I love doing. Hey Patty, good to see you. Hope all is well. I'm sketching too, finishing up my Strada challenge.

Ooh.

So not so many comments, but that's okay. Hey, that's— oh, no worries. Thank you for watching. I always love to see what you're posting, Patty. So I'm looking forward to, uh, your Strada challenge today. What, what is your subject? What are you painting today? Let me know. So I'm just playing around with the Sepia brush pen tonight. I haven't used it in a while. Just felt like trying something a little different. I do love— I do love Sepia brush pens, how you can get really fine details and really broad details as well. I just kind of drag my brush really lightly across, real fine line. If I push down, I get darker lines. So it's really cool, something that takes the— takes a while to hang up. I'm a little out of practice with it. So maybe— I'm not sure if this is about old— some kind of wonky cottage we have going here. If you guys remember the wonky cottage series, we actually did a workshop on it last year. That was fun. So we have our little wonky cottage going on here, just keeping it loose and fun. I love wonky because there are no real straight lines. I'm not trying to make anything symmetrical. A lot of space for creativity. So, Patty and any other Inklings that signed up for the workshop in February, I did. You should have gotten an email an email from me tonight just talking a little bit about the course. I also— actually, you should have gotten 2 emails. One was a link to the Join Our Exclusive Community page, and the other was an email with 2 video links just about the workshop, just an overview. So hopefully you got those and all the links work. If not, just send me an email and let me know. I'm so excited to be sketching with you guys in February. Sketching architecture inspired by Disney, by Disney architecture. It'll be fun. And the link is up on the screen if anybody still wants to join. There is time to sign up for it. I have, I think, 10 more spaces left in the workshop available.

Where did I put that?

Losing my brain. I'm looking— I lost my yellow marker. I'm just using What the heck? It's probably under here. Nope. That's how you know it's been a long day when you can't find a marker you were just using. Holy cow, I'm losing my mind. Anybody sees a yellow marker on my desk, let me know. Did I put it behind my ear? Sometimes I'll put my markers or Pens behind my ear. I am stumped. We'll move on. Wow. It's got to be here somewhere. All right, let's add a little more. Let's add some little details maybe to this. We'll do a bit of a bracket. Little brackie here underneath the roof overhang happening. I'm gonna draw some— let's do some wonky wood siding or something on this part of the building. Has a stone base. I like to mix up materials on cottages to have nice stone bases, some wonky wood siding. Sometimes we'll do thatched roofing on them as well. So the sepia ink does dry. After it dries, you really can't push it around too much anymore. So if you do want to bleed it, you got to kind of do it right after you lay it down. That's so funny, I don't know where that yellow watercolor marker went, so I'm just going to dip into some yellow watercolor paint I have right here. There you go, that's fine, that works. And let's do, uh, let's do a blue background on here. Maybe my watercolor marker. Let's use our cerulean blue watercolor marker. So I'm just throwing some down in the palette here, and then I'll pick it off the palette. We'll just do kind of quick— some water on here. So this is just a blue Winsor Newton watercolor marker. I'm using to throw down in the background. It's going to help to pop the building out a little bit more just by adding the blue. Hey, Linda's in the house! What's up, Linda? Good to see you. Hope all is well. Hope all's going well with you. It's been a while, Linda. You should have gotten an invite to the workshop community page. I sent those out earlier today or tonight, so you should have got a link for the community page. Just let me know if— just let me know during the week if you had see if we're not— that would be cool. There we go. Patty's sketching a blue glass bottle with lights in it and a twine holder wrapped around the neck. It sits on the counter and just called out to me tonight, sketch me please. Awesome, that's cool. I can't wait to see your final sketch. Linda's doing much better. Oh, that's so good. I'm glad to hear that. She says, I will look for that. Very, very cool. Yeah, take a look. That'd be cool. It's always great to see you. I love seeing all you guys pop up on here. It's so fun. So I have just an announcement. I am starting in February, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna have a regularly scheduled Wednesday night Inking Out Loud starting at 9 o'clock. PM. So I've been wanting to do just one time a week, something that's regularly scheduled so people can find me, which is cool because people have been asking. So we'll do Wednesday nights at 9 o'clock PM, we'll be inking out loud. And it's gonna be just like I do now, I'm not gonna really pre-plan anything and just come on and sketch, paint, talk. I keep a real loose kind of format to it. That's been one of my biggest fears about scheduling these is that I don't want to really pre-plan these too much. I might give a little thought to them, but really I just love coming on here just doing whatever pops into my brain. I think it's a really great way just to kind of improv and practice your creativity. Creativity. Just create, create on the fly, basically. We'll see where it goes. There we go. This is cool. I like the blue. I don't know how it's showing up on camera. It's looking pretty cool in person here. I'm gonna let it dry before I add another layer to it. This is just a fun little wonky cottage sketch. D-Ray's in the house! Hey, D-Ray, good to see you. Hope all is well with you. I love you guys popping on.

So cool. Cool.

All right, there we go. So we have our wonky cottage sketch, just a little warm-up, some Fun going on. I want to pull out what I've been working on to show you guys. You guys have seen me work on this the past 3 days, which is rare because I usually don't work on something that much. I want to take it out and show you how it's looking. Lindo, nice. Yeah, I'm home from working with the littles by 7:30. Oh, that would be cool. Yeah, so, yeah, so starting in February, Wednesday nights, 10 o'clock— not 10 o'clock, 9 o'clock PM, I will be doing a regularly scheduled Inking Out Loud show once a week. That is cool. Alright, let me pull out the other one I wanted to show you guys. I'm not gonna have too much longer tonight. I have school tomorrow. I wish, I wish I had a long weekend. Not that I don't love teaching, but there's so much more this weekend I didn't get to do. Guys ever do that? Just run out of time to do the things you want to do? That's me today. That's me most days. Uh, so this is the piece I've been working on for the past— it's just the third day. So I think what I want to do is I want to put a background, and I was— I wanted to put yellow, I think, on the background. Either yellow or cerulean blue. I don't know where I put that marker. I lost it. Oh my gosh. It's driving me crazy. I'm looking in my— let's see, I'm going to look through here. Let's play Where's Waldo. Where is Waldo hiding in my bin of goodies here? My jars of goodies. If anybody sees a yellow watercolor marker, let me know. Did it roll underneath here? It's, it's, it left. So anyway, I'm thinking about a yellow background here to make the building pop. I was thinking blue, but I feel like I want something a little more vibrant and bright. Love the blue with sepia floor. D-Raise, is it on the floor? Yeah, you know, I thought maybe I dropped it. It's not on my floor. So as you can tell, this show is not pre-planned. I was literally using it and it went bye-bye. Anyway, so this is a pretty cool sketch. This is actually one of my favorites I've worked on recently. Linda's saying blue with sepia. So your— Linda's vote is for using the blue background. Unless that was with this, so that would— this is kind of what it would look like. This is the blue on here. I'll probably do another layer on top of it. But what's— I think this is pretty much done. I'll add some more ink details. I'll zoom in so you guys can see me sketching. I don't want to add too much more to it. Linda said no, that was the last one. That's what I was thinking. Yeah, I think this one, I'm going to go with yellow on this one if I can find that marker. I do have the chartreuse. I could use this chartreuse color. So this is a possibility for the background here. This one, not sure. So I just want to do a little bit sketching over here on this side piece. I'm just using my Pilot Precise Pen here. So I'm picturing this being a building that was made from salvaged pieces of this and that, maybe some metal here and there. It's kind of what my brain's seeing this as. So I just want to do some like cross bracing here, maybe create like a little metal frame kind of structure. There's actually another— there's a bracket here I want to darken. It's not really showing too well. Just outline this, add some water, and it'll— should pop out a little bit better when I do that.

There we go.

Just looking kind of cool there.

Uh, let's see.

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna add any more color except for the background. Let's work on the background. I'm gonna take one more look for that yellow marker. If you guys have any questions let me know. Hope you guys are looking forward to Monday and you have a great week planned ahead, or at least you have built in some time for yourself. Maybe even, like I said, for a couple of minutes just to— whether it's painting, sketching, drawing, cooking, baking, reading, napping, whatever you like to do, just to take a break and escape for a few minutes. Eating, eating the babies, for me, is not the best way to escape. That's for sure. Alright, one more look. I really want to use that yellow. We need some— let me see if I have any good music to look for something. What's good looking music? I have no idea. All right, the name of this song is called Inspector Scrutiny. It's in my playlist. Don't know what it sounds like, but the name sounds like inspector scrutiny, like, hey, I'm looking carefully at something or for something, like a pen. If I had someone in the studio with me, you could actually follow me around the room here looking. Maybe it fell back here. Alright.

Thank you. Thank you.

And if you stuck with me for the duration of that song, I appreciate it. While I was looking around and no luck, I do have my Chartreuse marker, so I'm going to hold off on this because I really want to use that Ambrose Yellow. So, on that note, let's do another sketch. That'll turn up somewhere. That's kind of crazy, isn't it? You know, I'm gonna throw down some— I'm gonna play with some colored pencil on this. I haven't used colored pencil in a while. Let's see, it helps if there's a point on there. I'm gonna pop in some of this cool color, magenta. So we got some mixed media going here. We got the colored pencils. I love Prismacolor colored pencils. They go on so smooth. Go on like butter, go on like butter. Let's see, let's use this color.

Cool.

Prismacolor pencils really, um, do blend together nicely also. This is my favorite Prismacolor colored pencil right here, Light Aqua. Never, never leave home without it. Well, I mean, it's not true. I have left home without it, but it is my fave. Looks really, really awesome with the sepia. Just blotting that up, it's a little wet there.

There we go.

That's a fun peppy tune. So I'm going to use every single color that's here in my hand somewhere on this sketch. That was a looking around song. Yes, it was. We were looking for the yellow. No luck. Alright, let's see. Got some White, we'll throw down somewhere. All right, I've already used, uh, this is not light aqua, this is aquamarine.

I think this is orange. Let's see.

Oh, that's like a red-orange. One of my other favorite colored pencil colors right here, Chartreuse. Alright, this is fun. I'm just using all the colors on here. In my hand, I should say. Rouge. Like cinnamon red. Oh, crimson red. Not cinnamon red, this is crimson red. Yeah, it's a nice, nice punch of red here. Sienna, sienna brown.

Jason Nicholas. So kind of, what is this, purple?

Violet. Cream. I love the cream color pencil. We have some gray. This is a cool gray. It is very cool. It's a cool gray. We don't want to use an uncool gray. It's got to be cool, right? There it is, Carmine Red. This is Grass Green. Grass Green. It is definitely a green color. Let's draw some grass coming off this roof. Maybe, maybe it's a thatched kind of roof we have going on here. So we'll do some, some thatching.

Cool.

And the last color I have left to use, I've already used, it's light aqua, but we'll use it again somewhere else. And we'll just, we'll do a little bit of some kind of water or something down here with the light aqua. Just drag it lightly across the paper because I want the texture to show through. There you go. So we just used all the colored pencils that were in my hand. Hey, Laura, good to see you. Is this a fishing village?

I—

it is now. I love that, Laura. That's so cool. You see a fishing village in here. Yeah, it could be, right? With the birds and the— could definitely be a fishing village. Love that. So that's what it looks like, guys. This is a zoomed-out view of it. These are all the different colored pencils right here. Let me zoom in close to show you some of the details. So we started off with a sepia brush pen right here, and then we used some aqua— some agua, some water to brush it around. And then we grabbed some colored pencils, just had fun with what was on hand, right? Sometimes just grab and go with what's within arm's reach and create with it. Just have fun. I like the colors of this. Zoom in so you can see some of the textures going on. Fun music. I appreciate you guys watching on a Sunday night at 10:30. That is so awesome. So I do have a post thing posted on there if anybody is interested in joining, signing up to be part of our workshop in February. We still have some spaces left. The site is posted right down there, the webpage. Feel free to check it out. And if you're in Inkling, let me know and you want to register because I will give you a 25% discount. As of this recording, I have to— in case someone watches a year from now, uh, I'm closing the workshop registration stuff on the date today. On Wednesday this week. Wednesday this week gives me time to send all the emails out to everybody I need to. This is cool. I have kind of a— I like to do these spiral suns. I haven't done any in a while. Just adds a touch of whimsy, I think, to this sky. So these spirals, if you look at some of my— a lot of my older sketches have that on there. I love this music. Yes, cool. Throw a little more of this light aqua down here. I think I just want to just create a little more water happening. Again, I'm letting the texture of the paper show through on here. You can see, just dragging my brush— it's not a brush, it's a pencil— my pencil lightly across here. Cool. I just want the texture to play through on that. And I'm going to punch in a little more of that cerulean blue. I know I keep zooming in and out. I'm sorry, trying to find the best zoom, zoom view for you guys. Let's leave it here. Let's throw some more Cerulean Blue on the sky, just darken some of it up. So I'm using that watercolor marker for that.

This is fun music.

That was fun. I like that music. That was awesome.

Yeah, I'm loving this.

This music is taking us all over the world tonight.

How cool is that?

I think I want to throw some cerulean blue down here. Actually, I'm gonna take my— no, I'll use this. I was gonna get my 3/4-inch brush, but that's okay. Let's take this and throw some of that blue on here as well. And I just prop this up at an angle because I want the water to run down. Break out the Severe Brush Pen again. Just pull out some of this line work a little bit that maybe got lost. Jason growies kind of happening here. I'm just flicking my wrist up.

There you go. Yeah, let's see. Cool.

So I hope you guys like this quick sketch here. I don't know how quick. I don't know if it was a quick sketch. Worked on it for a while, but it came out really cool. I like it. I think it's done. I can't think of anything else I want to add to it right now. I don't want to overwork it. So I'm going to say this one is finished. But we'll zoom in and we'll take a look at some of the details. You see, here's kind of the bottom. The ink's bleeding, still drying down there a little bit. This is fun. So I don't usually like to use too many different colors in the scene, in a sketch, but I thought it was a good challenge just to break out these colored pencils and throw them all down and see what happened. So it's pretty fun. Technicolor city, yeah, it is definitely Technicolor city. It's Technicolor Fishing Village City. Linda says, "I like it a lot." Thank you, Linda, I appreciate that. Pretty cool. It definitely has a wonky cottage-y kind of feel to it, which I'm glad. "This one complements the one you finished up the other night." D-Ray, "It came out great." Ah, thanks, D-Ray. Love your comments, guys. Yeah, actually, if you look at the color palettes, pull this one way out and see both these at the same time.

At the same time.

These side by side, very, very similar colors, right? This has less colors, this definitely has more, but they're both, you know, wonky buildings. They both could be at the edge of a fishing village somewhere. Oh, because you couldn't find yellow. That's right, Patty. We went down this whole trail with colored pencils because I couldn't find, and I still can't find, my yellow watercolor marker. Blessing in disguise, right? It's just really bizarre because I had it right here, literally. But yeah, so, you know, that's a good lesson. Don't— if you don't have a certain color or a certain tool, certain material, don't let it hold you back. Sometimes we would use it as an excuse and be like, I'll talk to myself, I'll be like, oh yeah, I don't, I don't have those scissors, so I can't cut out that piece of paper, or I don't have that exact pen I need, so I just can't do anything. Don't let excuses like that hold you back from being creative and doing something, moving forward. Grab and go is what I like to say. Just grab and go. That's exactly what happened tonight. We just kind of grabbed and went. Grab and gone, whatever the correct tense of the verb is. We grabbed and went with it. I don't know. That's why I teach architecture and CAD and not English. But you get the idea. So grab and go. Don't make excuses to not create. Don't be afraid to tackle a blank sheet of paper. There's always something you can put down on there to get started. And that's something we'll talk about more in the workshops, and we'll talk about it more on Inking Out Loud on Wednesday nights when I do my scheduled sessions. All because you can find it— like these two sketches, Gary. Hey, thank you. They're really cool. I love— I really like them. I like this one a lot more on the right. This would look— I think this looks really awesome framed. Once I get the background color, when I find my yellow marker, this will look really cool. I think this will look really awesome. Time to start marketing, starting time to start putting these out for sale in the gallery. Gallery webpage. D-Rex says, "Check the dog." I would check the dog if I had one. But I have Retro the dog. Maybe Retro took it. That's where the marker went. Retro took it. Darn that Retro. Um, he's playing with my marker somewhere. I'll find it.

I'll find it.

I'll wake up at like 2 AM and find it. That's what's gonna happen. Hey, you guys are awesome. It's time for Whistling Cowboy. Give me a song, a number from 1 to 20, and we'll exit with the Whistling Cowboy song. I appreciate you tuning in on a Sunday evening. Once again, here's this piece. Sketch painting, mixed media piece. Yeah, I like this. This can end up in a book somewhere. I have all these buildings. I really gotta take them out and look at them all side by side and see what kind of storybook I can create with all these sketches I've been doing. This came out cool from last night as well. Slick Cowboy, yeah. I'm gonna go through all these, but there's some really cool sketches in here. It's really fun. I love the colors on this one. I gotta buy another sketchbook for the workshop. I am— maybe 3 sheets, 3 sheets left on here. Alright, and this will wrap up one day when I find the yellow marker.

There's a close-up.

I wish I had a snow day. I want to stay home tomorrow and create stuff. I have a house, I have a house project I have to design. For a client, which is exciting. It's actually a house that was going to be up in Maine. So I'm going to be working on a design of a house in Maine. Not for me though. I wish it was for me. Here's the Whistling Cowboy sketch. When we last left him, this is where we were. It almost looks like a UFO in the sky. Gotta find yellow. So the first number I see from 1 to 20, that'll be our whistling cowboy outro song. And how I got, how I got red pen on my arm, I have no idea.

That's really weird.

Number 12, Laura, you got it! All right, so Laura's pick number 12. Let's find song number 12, and that's our last song for the night. Hey, Heather's in for the wrap-up! Yeah, I'm so glad you popped in. Good to see you as always. Yes, but I got a fishing village vibe from that as well. Yeah, I love that. Um, check the dog. Just let me see if I missed any comments. I feel If I missed your comments, I'll go back and take a look through them. All right, guys, so where did we get— this was where we left off yesterday with the Whistling Cowboy. I like the rusty colors happening there. Actually, you know what, before we do our final outro song, I'm thinking out loud here, I want to break out my light aqua pencil and play around with the sketch for a little bit. I just think light aqua would go really cool with these colors. Here's our spiral sun we were talking about earlier. Actually, let me just bring this down, make this the roof of a building or something here. Alright, cool. I just want to add some aqua on there. Alright, so let's go to song number 12. Thank you guys so much, I appreciate you all. Have an awesome, awesome Monday. I really want to sketch. The music just drives me. I wanted to sketch to this song, but I am going to go to Whistling Cowboy. Song number 12. Alright. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. This is called The Shadow of a Gunman. Shadow of a Gunman.

That's here.

Hear it. Thank you guys so much. Have an awesome Monday. Appreciate you all. Peace. Live creatively. Here we go, last song. Let's use a CPU brush since that's what we used earlier. Thank you guys, have a great, great night. Peace. Live creatively. See you soon.