The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, good evening. Hey Susan and Karen, good to see you guys. Hope you're having a great, great night. Happy Wednesday. Which is always good. I see each day as a new day, new beginning. So middle of the week, end of the week, it's all good to me. New days, new beginnings, right? Hope you're having a great, great day. Um, so I'm gonna pop on for a little bit and just do some sketching. Don't know what's gonna happen, we'll find out. Let me put some music on here. There we go. We'll play some, uh, just some dramatic kind of movie type music to start off with. Hope you guys are doing really, really well. So, I'm just sketching on some watercolor paper. This is my favorite go-to pad, Canson XL 140 pounds. And I have a Lamy pen here, but I'm gonna— I think I'll start using this one right now. If you haven't seen me live before, it's called Inking Out Loud. And we just— I just kind of go with the flow. Sometimes things happen, sometimes they don't, but it's all about creative, the journey, the process. It's not really for me about getting to point Z. I don't have a specific end goal. It's just enjoying the journey of creating and sketching and painting and chatting with you guys. You're awesome. Hey, D-Ray, good to see you. Welcome. I know I'm talking too much. Let's do some sketching. So I'm just kind of letting the ink bleed a little bit, letting it work its magic. Um, so that's why I like to use the Lamy pen because the ink can bleed. But I'm actually going to switch. Let me get a little closer for you guys. There we go. That might be better. And I'm going to switch and actually use a Pilot Precise pen. So I'm going to do some sketching in red. I love sketching with ink. It's my favorite go-to medium. This is bleeding pretty nicely, this red pen, which is neat. I just— why I love pens is they're just so convenient, easy to carry around. You know, carry a sketchbook and a pen, and I am golden. I am like, I am so happy. I often say to people that if I can only have a couple of possessions in my life, it would be a sketchbook and a pen. Because I could, you know, I could travel anywhere I want by sketching. It's just, for me, it's just so magical just to be able to, just to create with lines and color. And not always color either. Sometimes I just like using a black pen. Hey, D-Ray, teacher's got the red out. Yes, that's right, D-Ray. I'm grading papers today. You know what it means when the red pen is out. So actually, that's a good point. In architecture, we do what are called red lines. So after a set of drawings is printed out, we'll take a red pen or a red marker, and we'll do red lines. We'll go through the drawings and we'll just mark them up with our red pen. You know, look for errors, look for omissions, and we just mark it up with the red pen. So in college, that's where I learned about redlining. And when I had employees working for me, I would redline their drawings, and I do it for myself as well. It's just a good way to check, it's right, make sure I have the right information on the drawings. Now it's really important when I learn in architecture, when I— it's only me creating and I don't have anybody else reviewing my drawings, I really need to take the time to step back and take a look through everything very slowly and mark up the drawings for corrections. I had an experience where I learned the hard way about something information I was given at the beginning of a project and I forgot to include it on my final drawings. Um, it's a learning experience. I had dimensions for— we were doing expansion on someone's house, we were expanding their garage, and I knew the dimensions of the cars after the thing was constructed. The garage was 1 foot too short. They could not park in their garage. It was a nightmare of an experience for me, but it was probably one of the most educational learning experiences I've had in the architectural profession. I have learned the importance of insurance, but more importantly, I've learned the importance of double-checking work. So, you know, used to be for me just kind of cranking out the work quantity, but I'm now about the quality. I do a lot less architectural work these days because I'd rather deliver quality products and not quantity.

Cool.

Hey, so you can see a little kind of cityscape kind of appearing here. Skylines and cityscapes. Are my go-to. I always end up somehow creating them, even while listening to this Ghost Ship music. Interesting. I love this piece of music. Let me zoom in a little bit so you guys can see what's kind of happening. So you can kind of see some buildings forming here, very abstract, very loose. But I love the combination of just the black, the red, and You're getting some grays. The ink is getting purple in some places as well. It's pretty, pretty cool color combination. Hope you guys can see that at home. Sometimes the light washes out the images on screen a little bit. I'm gonna sketch some really tiny people down here. I love this music.

Oi oi!

Hey guys, is it National Dog Day today? We got quality. Jason gained quality in his learning. Hey, D-Ray, that's right. Thank you. Let me, guys, let me know if, if today's National Dog Day. I could be totally off. I thought I saw a post somewhere about National Dog Day. If so, hey Patty, good to see you. Hope all is well in Patty land. Patty's— I know Patty, you've been inspired by your trip. You've been doing some really cool— sharing some really cool art stuff and stories. So awesome. Oh, Karen says tomorrow is National Dog Day. Thanks, Karen. Appreciate that. You know what? I think we're gonna have a surprise. I think I'm gonna bring out Retro. So I showed Retro maybe last week or so for the very first time. You guys know how I am with animals. I am really bad at sketching animals. Yes, we can all maybe remember back to that amazing giraffe I sketched. Not so much. Patty Land, yes, Patty Land. Patty, you deserve your own land. So the giraffe was not that great, but you're right, you got to keep practicing. So I brought Retro out. He's a— well, we're talking about him. Let's bring out Retro. We'll do a Retro sketch tonight. Let me see if I can pull him out of my drawer here. I have a magic drawer. Here he is. So this is Retro. This is a sketch I did like in 2018. Never really showed it to anybody until last week. I pulled him out of the drawer here. So I call him Retro. He kind of has like a retro kind of vibe to him, the style. Patty says, "That was a great giraffe." Yes, Patty is sticking her neck out for me by claiming the giraffe was good. So thank you. I appreciate that. You're awesome. So this is a retro, maybe we'll do a retro sketch tonight, I'm not sure. Maybe we'll wait till tomorrow since tomorrow is National Dog Day. Break out retro. So I was trying to develop like a stylized kind of sketching with animals because I don't want to do realistic portraits. Some of you guys are incredible at realism. It blows my mind. I don't have that skill. Um, so I was trying to make a stylized version, so I was kind of going with these angles and stuff. So that is retro.

Maybe—

actually, I think I'll leave retro for tomorrow, National Dog Day. So I like the way this piece is coming together. This little sketch here. I love dogs. I had a— growing up I had a few different dogs. We had a Siberian Husky, we had a Husky, then we had a couple Husky-German Shepherd mixes. So I had grown up with dogs. Now we have Red Bull. Red Bull the cat is pretty cool. One day, one day in my future. I do see, uh, I do see having an amazing pup in my life. I feel really connected to dogs for some reason. Whenever I see them out, when we're taking walks, there's just something about them that I find magical. I don't know, I can't explain it. I just really, really love them. Giraffe puns, yes. National Dog Day, Duree's got the hearts out. Retro looks like he could— yeah, he could be the Jetsons, right? Astro is the Jetsons dog. There you go. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. "After watching, I'm trying to learn how to use Aqua Brush. You make it look easy, but it's difficult." Oh, hey Karen, that's cool. Let me see if I can give you some pointers as I'm doing this. Guys, always feel free to ask questions. It's always awesome. I'll try to explain what I'm doing. Sometimes I just kind of sketch without saying what I'm doing. So let me start on a— well, let's do all the work on this drawing. So here's a quick scoop, the quick scoop on some aqua brushes. I have some different sizes. These are Pentel Aqua Brushes. The one here is, I don't know the technical term, but it's a bigger point. I don't know if there's a certain size on it or not, but if you look at the two, there's a, this one is wider, and this is a medium one. So I tend to go to the medium brushes. I feel for me they're really versatile for all— for what I'm doing. So also this, this one's kind of shedding a little bit. I have to clean it up. And also the, the wider one sometimes lets out too much water, so that's why I like to go with the medium size. I find it a little bit easier easier to control the water. It's really about feeling, right? So the harder you squeeze the body of the water aquabrush— actually, let's do it on a sheet of paper here. Let me show you. I'm just looking for some scrap paper, which I know I have. I always have scrap somewhere. Part of my arms are kind of in the way. Here we go.

That's okay.

Cool, I have a little piece of paper here. We'll use this. Let me zoom in and I'll kind of show you a little bit. So I like to use Aqua brushes with either with watercolor, watercolor ink, acrylic ink, or even ink just regular ink that bleeds. So let's take a look at this Lamy pen since we have it out. And let me just sketch. You know, I'm gonna sketch retro here. I'm just gonna copy what I have retro over there. So I'm looking at my retro sketch, kind of. Retro sketch sounds like, like a, all right. So we'll do something like that. I'm gonna throw down some red just for fun too. I'm just being abstract here. I think it's Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer. So basically, the harder you squeeze the body of the aquabrush, more water is gonna come out. So right now I'm just gonna go over this I'm not even gonna squeeze the brush, I'm just gonna kind of drag it over. The tip is a little wet, so I'm not even squeezing the body and you can see how it's kind of bleeding, right? Now what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna come right down in this area where this kind of nose is. I'm gonna squeeze the brush really hard. Actually, I'm gonna squeeze it really hard so you can see the water kind of coming out. So you see the water totally just— look, I have droplets on here, so that's how hard I was squeezing it. So for me, I guess the kind of secret of using an aquabrush is just developing a feel of how much water you need. You know, if you want to blend things or bleed things a lot, squeeze the brush harder. If you don't want things to bleed a lot, barely squeeze the brush. It just, it takes practice and just developing a feel for it. I hope that makes sense what I'm saying. Alright, so Retro is now turning into, I don't know what it's turning into. This is no longer Retro. I'm just playing around here. It's great, let's break out some watercolor. I'll show you how it works with the watercolors. Here's some watercolors. I'm just gonna throw down some orange, I guess. So here's some orange. I'm not even gonna clean my brush off. I'm just gonna grab some— it's gonna show up on camera well. Let me grab some yellow. So I'm going to squeeze the brush because I want to blend these together and I want there to be some water here. So I'm going to squeeze it, just kind of touch it, and you can see kind of how the colors ran together. Grab some— I gotta refill some of these pans in here. The reason I like AquaBrushes is they're really convenient to take on the road. I don't have to worry about having a separate container of water. Make sure I fill them up before I leave. This one's actually almost empty. Anyway, this is a quick AquaBrush. I'll try to give more tips as I'm using it. And maybe as you see me using it, you'll kind of see where I'm headed with it. Hey Donna, good to see you. DB is in the house. D-Ray, been painting hummingbirds with the aqua brush. Awesome. Patty has 3 different sizes too. Yeah, awesome. I also have this aqua brush. This is a personal opinion. This brand I bought, I got what I paid for. I think. I don't really like it. It was very cheap, but I was looking for a flat tip aqua brush, and it's kind of split, which is cool if you want certain effects, but it's split here. I find the water leaks a little bit out of it as well. So just be careful. I know Pentel for me makes good ones. There are other brands. If you guys want to share other aqua brush brands, let me know. I can't think of any off the top of my head. Hey, you guys are amazing.

Cool.

So just a little bit more on this kind of skyline sketch.

Zoom out a little bit.

So if you can see at the bottom here, I did add some people. I'm starting to add people more and more to my sketches. 'cause I think it helps to give a sense of scale, right? If you look at this skyline or city scene, let's down a little bit. Now look at how big the people are down here and look at the buildings. So you really get a good sense of how tall and majestic these buildings really are. You know, if I did something like this on this sheet of paper, Alright, just sketch this. It's kind of a little house or something here. Um, if I put a person on here. So you get a sense of the scale, right? The relationship of the person to the size of the house. Now, what if I sketch this? Here, let's do another little house or something. What if I drew the person like this? Right? So look at these two things. So the one on the left, look at the scale of the person in the house. And if you look at the one on the right, look at the scale, the house and the person, the scale. So, you know, this based on the sketch on the right, this could be a two-story house. Here's the person. So if we figure a door, maybe about this tall.

Right?

We have a window here, and we can have a whole second floor up here with windows. Whereas this house on the left, I put some windows in here. I mean, it's really a one-story house. So I'm just learning, and even in architectural drawings, what we call renderings, you know, drawings we're going to show to clients, design ideas, it's always a good idea to have people in there so they get a sense of the scale, the size of buildings, the size of the rooms. So let me just color the person red so you can see them. Oops, I just dropped my watercolor set on the floor. So, yeah, so adding people really helps to give a sense of scale. And they're not detailed, right? I mean, look, it's just a figure, it's just a shape. So I'm just pulling out the aqua brush and I'm just kind of playing around just a little bit. I like this music. I feel like it's like an Indiana Jones movie or something.

There you go.

Actually, you know what, I'm just looking at this, I mean, what could be kind of cool. I'm almost picturing a kite or something flying up here. I don't know why. I'm just looking at what's on screen, so maybe there's some kind of like a kite or something flying here. I mean, we have someone here. It's our cowboy friend is out here. He's like flying a kite. Some red ribbons on the kite. I mean, some kind of a pattern in here. Oh, it just knocked my camera down. There we go. Cool. Karen, what color is missing? Hmm. DBA says— DBA says, what color is missing? Missing? DB, I know where you're going with that. I know. What color is missing? Anybody want to guess? DB, you remind me, I'm going to check in my magic drawer right now to see if I do have that missing color in my drawer. Look at that. So that's a cool little scene. Maybe someone flying a kite. Couple houses there. Patty likes your people. Thanks, Patty. That's cool. Hey, Becky, good to see you. DB, we put hummingbird feeder on my art room's window today. We had 3 little ones. Ooh, hummingbirds are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful birds. I love, I love watching slow motion videos of hummingbirds in flight. They're fascinating. I am jealous. So cool. Susan says— our Karen says yellow. Susan says blue. Hmm. DB, DB, I'm thinking DB was going for another color.

I could be wrong.

Let me check my drawer, see if I have that color in here. Let's see. I'm gonna do a little show and tell if you guys want to look at my top— this is the top drawer with all my colors. I'm gonna move my camera. Pardon me if you see my bare feet or anything, because I am standing here in bare feet. I'm gonna zoom out a little bit.

Let's see.

So this is my drawer. I have lots of colors in here. You're only looking at a third of it. Not even. Get closer. So I'm gonna see if I have that missing color in here. I love acrylic paint, so I have a lot of acrylic paints. I haven't done pure acrylic painting in a while, but I do a lot of mixed media with acrylics and inks. Do I have it? Ooh, could this be it? I have some American Journey paints here. That's not it. That's not it though. DB, DB. I'm looking in my drawer here. You know what, just for fun, let's see. Maybe we'll keep playing around with this little piece I was working on with those houses. See what happens. I'm not seeing the color. See what else I have in the drawer here. There you go. I'm looking in this magic drawer of goodness. I have so many things in here. This happens when you stockpile for years, right? You accumulate a lot of stuff. Um, I don't see it, DB. I don't have the color. Does anybody want to come and alphabetize my paints for me? I have Mars Black. This is Mars Black. I wonder what that looks like. Interesting. You know what, let's break out some acrylics. We'll do a little mixed media since we have the drawer open. I'm gonna grab— this is one of my favorite acrylic colors, Yellow Green. Play around with some yellow-green. What else do we want to break out of here? I'm just gonna grab— what is this one? I like some cadmium red, maybe. I don't want to think too much. I'm gonna go for this purplish color. Violet.

Cool.

Payne's Gray. I don't have any Payne's Gray in the house. I am remiss of the Payne's Gray. I am ashamed to say it, DB. It pains me, pains me to say that I don't have any Payne's Gray. All right, we're gonna switch up the music. We're gonna put on some A little bit more fun. We're gonna go to this. Let's go to this one. Oh no, we have to get YouTube. I know, I don't have any. I'm so sorry. Shocking. I love this pic. That's cool. Yeah, so Karen, we're gonna— I'm gonna play around with this sketch a little bit. This is a little scrap, but we're having fun. So, um, just kind of focusing on this part of it. That's how I brought up— broke out some acrylics. Let's throw some acrylic on here. I don't know if I'll use the lamp. The Mars Black. Let's throw out some of this yellow-green. Liquid Tex is my go-to for acrylic colors. I love Liquid Tex products and their paint. And let's see, I typically I really like to work with a 3/4-inch flat brush when I'm doing acrylics. I like the flat brush, the wider brush, because I don't think so much about detail. This isn't about detail work, it's just about throwing down color and having fun. So the wider the brush, the less detail I'm thinking about. So I'm just gonna grab some water over here. I have some pseudo pseudo-clean water. And let's put this aside here. And what I do when I work with acrylic paints is, if I don't have a palette or something nearby, I'll just use a scrap piece of paper like this one. Oh, there's a perspective. Very plain. And I'll just throw down some paint on here. Alright, not too much. I don't want to use too much of it. Alright, cool, there we go.

Boom.

Let's just throw down some color and have fun. So acrylic paint, you could put it on really thick if you want it more opaque. Or you can water it down a little bit, which I'm doing if you want a little bit more translucent. So I'm adding some water and let's just throw down some of that green on here. There we go.

That looks cool.

One of the things I like about this acrylic is you can have textures. So if you look here, I have texture on there. It almost looks like blades of grass. I threw down the paint a little bit thicker in those areas so you can see the texture happening. Awesome. I feel like we need some blue in the background. I saw some, someone, or some people put blue in the chat. Um, my go-to for skies and blue is cerulean blue. Since we're using acrylics, I'll break out some cerulean. Man, all these colors, you think I'd have cerulean Cerulean blue. That's okay.

You know what?

I have, uh, we're gonna use some— I have cerulean blue watercolor brush here. Just use this watercolor brush and throw down some blue. When I use watercolor brushes, I like to put them down on a palette or a board and then kind of lift them off and add them to the painting. If I put them right onto paper, sometimes it kind of stains and it's hard to control it. I guess you could put water down first. Let's just throw down some color on here. Again, I'm using the Aqua Brush, so I am squeezing it because I want it to be a light wash, so I want a lot of water kind of in the background here. And sometimes I'll actually take the watercolor brush and I will after it's— the paper's wet, I might go on top of it in places, just touch it down, let it bleed.

I want to brush it a little bit.

I could go for a baguette. No, no, no, no. I can go for a— what's a good French pastry? Anybody know any good French pastries? Éclair? I could go for a chocolate éclair.

I think they're French.

I hope they are. So this is kind of a fun little scene happening there. Becky, or is that turquoise? Oh, oh, I'm not sure. Did you guys see the color I pulled out? I did pull this out. This is light blue permanent acrylic ink, acrylic paint. So I was thinking about maybe using some of that. We get crazy. We got acrylic ink out, acrylic paints, watercolor markers. You know, let's use this Aqua Brush, the one I was complaining about before. Not complaining, it's just—

complaining.

Cool, here we go. I'm just kind of swirling the paint around. I want to create kind kind of a movement in the sky so it's not so static looking. Static-y? I should have left some white on there for clouds, which I didn't do.

Oops.

I'm bad. I'm a bad person. I didn't do that. I have some permanent, or cadmium red I'm gonna throw down too. Maybe we'll get a little purplish stuff happening. Or maybe not. We'll see what happens. Oh no, that's a horrible color. It's like a black color. It's okay, we can turn it into some kind of clouds. I don't like that color at all. Womp womp womp. We got stormy clouds happening in the scene. Oh, so that's, that's a good point. So one of the things you want to be careful with working with either watercolors or acrylics is things can start turning muddy on you. You start mixing things without letting them dry in between layers. So if you want a muddy look, you could do that. It's actually not a bad color.

We can work with it.

You know, in watercolor, I'll typically let, you know, layers dry and add layers and layers. Acrylic paint's the same thing. I'll let them dry and come back and add more.

There we go.

Maybe we'll turn into some kind of sunset sky or something happening. Some reds. Or we could always do this too. Just kind of blot it and bleed it together. Actually, I really like what's happening here. Let me zoom in on this color. I really like this color that's happening in this part of the sky. Something kind of cool. Hold it up there, I think you see it better. Hey, amazing, the scientific name for blue jay is cyan— oh, I gotta say scientific names. Let's see, scientific name for a blue jay is Cyanocitta cristata. Cyanocitta cristata. So it has the word cyan in it. Love that. Very cool. So cyan blue. I see that. Kristada sounds to me like some kind of fried food. So it's like blue— if I was to translate sayonara, sayonara, kristada, I would translate it into blue fried food. That's, that's That's what it would be to me. Yeah, I know, I know, I am not good with scientific names, especially when plants. No way. I wish I could remember those things. I can't. Going for awesome lesson in patience, letting the paint dry. I have a hard time with that. Yeah, Becky. Yeah, D-Ray Paints. I have little patience sometimes as well. Acrylic paints tend to dry quick, which is good. But patience sometimes does pay off, and that's one of my techniques is I will work on more than one thing at a time, more than one art piece, so I can work on one, let it dry, do something else, come back to it. So you'll see I multitask a lot with paintings and creativity and sketching, and it's not art unless one Guys, unless you wear it, acrylic ink— acrylic, I keep saying ink, it's not ink, acrylic paint and I are best friends. We're always, always wearing it somehow. I don't know, do you guys like this scene? It's kind of a fun little scene. I don't really mind the color of those clouds, to be honest. Just trying to get the camera to a good point here.

I'm fussy, I know. There we go.

Cool, there you go.

And I'm just going to add a little bit more green here in places.

Just add a little texture. I'm putting it on thick, just dabbing it on here. You should be able to see the texture on camera there. That's one of the things I love with acrylic paints is playing with the texture. You know, drawings, paintings can be tactile, right? They're very— obviously they're visual, but why not make them tactile, right, where you can touch them? I know there are people that do braille paintings which are incredible. Maybe braille is not the right word. It's tactile painting. So people, you know, they're visually challenged, kind of feel the artwork, feel the paintings. Maybe, you know, maybe calm parts of the drawing feel smooth. I'm just imagining this in my brain with my eyes closed. Maybe the calm parts of the drawing, drawings are smooth to the touch. You know, maybe things are getting a little, maybe energy to them or emotion, maybe a little bit. I was gonna say anger, but the emotion, right? It's maybe energy, it feels a little more rough, the texture of it. Maybe the brush strokes go in different directions. So drawings can be very tactile as well. I actually really like this little scene. I'm going to cut this off just as you see on screen. I like the way these colors are drying here.

Cool.

Very, very cool. Happy little accidents. Let them happen, right? Speaking of which, I think— correct me if I'm wrong, maybe it's to my— I think tomorrow. The Bob Ross documentary on Netflix airs tomorrow, right? I think, Patty, you mentioned— you had mentioned that. So if you have Netflix, be sure to check it out. I'm hoping it's not a tabloid take on Bob Ross where they're gonna smear him with whatever they want to. I'm hoping it's a very positive documentary on It shows how he, you know, shared his talents and he actually, you know, learned to paint from another artist and took their traditions and carried them and made them his own. But anyway, hope you can watch the documentary. I'm definitely gonna check it out. Hey, Patty Likes Racine, thank you. Lobster has texture. I used kosher salt and it didn't dissolve. That's awesome. So it's a crusty feeling. Oh, I love that. "Van Gogh, a different energy showed in his brush strokes." Yeah, Becky, great example. I love that. You guys are on top of it. You guys are amazing. Amazing. I don't know if that game show is still on, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? But if it is and I ever need some phone-a-friends, I know who to call. Definitely give you guys a shout. I kind of like the scene where it is right now. I think I'm going to leave it. This is just a fun little quick sketch we did. So one last time, I'll just kind of show you, I'll zoom in, you can see the texture a little bit better down here. And I like, I like the texture for the grass. I think it's kind of fun. Becky likes your crusty lobster. Yeah, that's awesome. I I've been seeing some really cool artwork you guys are posting. Awesome stuff, guys. Keep sharing your amazing work.

Good, good stuff.

I think when this dries, I'm gonna add some colored pencil stuff on. But we'll put this aside for now. I'm gonna wrap up I'm going to have a short night tonight. I have a very busy day tomorrow. I am packing up a laser cutter in my classroom. We're shipping it out to hopefully get repaired. So I've got to go to school tomorrow. School does not officially start until the 7th for our kids, or the 8th I think. I've been going in here and there over the past couple weeks He's just setting up the room. He's got a busy morning tomorrow. This is all good stuff. Alright, cool. So, um, this is kind of cool. Maybe we'll do something with this. This is the scrap piece of paper I have sitting out here. It's been hanging out. You can see I'm using it as a palette and stuff. Put this over here so it dries. This is the first thing we worked on, the city. I like the cityscape. It's not done. Definitely want to come back and add more to it.

Actually, you know what?

We're going to add some more to it right now. We're going to come back on this piece. We'll save this for another day. Just wipe off my brush here. So I use a cloth too. I don't know if you guys use paper towels. I use a cloth to kind of wipe off my brushes here. You can see it's got a bunch of colors and stuff on it. I found I was going through a lot of paper towels like crazy. Alright, I never use that Mars Black. Let's put these away. So that's just a quick little show and tell with some acrylic paints. Definitely, I'd love to show you some of the larger acrylic pieces I've done at some point in time. That would be fun. If you've seen the Statue of Liberty piece I did, that was acrylic ink and acrylic paint. Yeah, let's go back. We're going to work on the cityscape for a few more minutes. You know what, I'm actually going to change the music up a little bit. Let's see, what should we do tonight? I have this playlist, it's just called quirky, quirky music. Let's play the quirky music. We called it the quirky fun playlist.

Right, cool.

There's some kind of a bridge or something— excuse me— happening in the distance here. What I like about this skyline is way back in here, there's really faint gray colors happening. It's almost like buildings really far in the distance, which is kind of an interesting effect. Alright, sketching. Maybe there's some kind of a marquee or something, a sign happening. Maybe this is a theater. People are standing here in front of a theater area, getting ready to go see some— getting ready to go see Inklings on Broadway. Inklings: The Musical. Inklings the Musical. What songs would they have in Inklings the Musical? Um, I don't know, it's, uh, I don't know, Inklings the Musical. I'm trying to think of some good music. Uh, how about pen lines over the moonlight? I'm not a good singer, guys. I will not subject you to me singing. This is our intrigue. I like this music. Kind of reminds me like the kind of the Pink Panther a little bit. He's got to be red. We gotta have some red. Let me zoom in and show you guys what I'm talking about.

Down here.

He's a little marquee, but I want some red down here, maybe some red lights. I kind of just like these colors. I don't know if I will add, um, anything in the background on this one. So I'm just touching down some red here.

Yeah, Inklings the musical. I'm thinking.

Got some columns or something on this building here. This is kind of an overhang area in front of this building. People are standing here, getting ready to go into Inklings the Musical. Broadway's newest sensation. Move over, Hamilton! We got inkling. That is pretty cool. Or Inklings, I should say. Who needs Hamilton when you have Inklings? Hey, look at it! Look at that! So we got Inklings the Musical happening right there. Get your tickets now for Broadway's newest sensation, Inklings the Musical. This is a fun piece of music, guys. If you notice my kind of sketch, I'm hinting at some door— doors, but I'm not actually drawing like full rectangles. If you look over here where my pen is, You see what I'm doing? I'm just kind of sketching like that. Let's see if we can zoom in a little bit closer. So, look at these, right? So, I wanna suggest some kind of doorway, so I'll just throw ink down like that. I'm just gonna bleed it a little bit with the aqua brush and also pull it down. It just creates the idea of some kind of openings or doorways happening. They're not perfect rectangles, and that's awesome because I don't want them to be. I want to keep this energetic and loose, fun vibe to it. Just let the ink and the water be playful, do their thing.

I'm not going to fight it.

Woo! That's a fun piece of music. I hope you guys like that one. Because you're gonna hear it again! I'm just kidding. Let's see, bum bum bum bum. I see some comments here. I may have missed you guys. Hey, if you're just joining, thank you for watching. I always appreciate you guys. I know some people watch, don't leave comments. That's awesome too. I just appreciate your time. I know time is valuable, so thank you guys so much for spending a little bit of time with me. DB says, "Use cloth diapers." Ooh, awesome. That's a great tip instead of paper towels. Very cool. Whistling Cowboys Dancing in Formation Like the Rockettes. Yes, that could happen in Inklings: The Musical. It's Not Easy Being Green. I love that. Blue Moon. You guys are awesome. Look at these colorful song titles. Instead of Funkytown, Wonky Town. Yes. Rainbow Connection. You guys are on a roll. You've Got a Friend or You've Got a Friend in Me. Oh, awesome. Good suggestions for Inkling the Musical, guys. Love it.

Thank you.

You guys make this so much fun. I always appreciate your, your, uh, your wisdom and your wit. Your wisdom and your wit. It was when I first started doing stuff online, I would— I had a tagline. It was warmth, wisdom, warmth, wisdom, and wit. Warmth, wisdom, and wit. It's kind of a— just a tagline to kind of describe, you know, what I do. A little branding type thing. I like this bridge in the background too. It's kind of fun. Oh, you can't see that because I zoomed in way too close. There we go.

My bad.

Sometimes in the city we need some horizontal lines too, so you'll see me sketching horizontal lines on buildings. It just helps to create a sense of scale within the buildings themselves. Break them down into little pieces. I like how loose and abstract this really is happening here. I'm not— I don't even want to play around with anything. This one might almost be done. I like this having a lot of white on it. And I'm not feeling a background color. What do you guys think? Should I do a background color on this? What would you do? Backgrounds, yes or no? Just thinking if I was to do a background, what color would I do? So if I'm thinking too much, that means I Sometimes I find if I think, if I'm thinking too much, maybe it's time to step away from it. My first gut reaction was yellow in the background. Hey guys, I'm thinking if this Inklings the Musical was really a Broadway hit, there should be more people online. What do you think? Unless, wait, maybe they're all inside and these are the people that are just hoping to get in if there's any extra seats. Inside is packed and these guys are kind of like, what do they call it? A waitlist. Waiting to maybe get in if some seats are empty. We'll do that. I do, I'm feeling yellow, yellow in here.

Orange.

Yeah, Patty, you know, I keep saying yellow and what I'm thinking is if I threw down yellow, it would mix with some of that red and I can get some oranges in there as well. So we're kind of on the same wavelength. I would use yellow as a base and then tie in some of that red to get orange in places. There's something— this kind of looks to me like something you might see, um, and guys, I'm not even close to this level of being with my artwork, but I feel like this could be something maybe in a New Yorker magazine or something like that. Just kind of an illustration here. Again, I'm not— I am not magazine worthy by any means. But it's just the vibe I'm getting. It could be something that would be in a, maybe a magazine. I just, I really like it. I think I'm gonna leave it without yellow, take a picture of it, or actually maybe I'll scan it in to my computer and I'll print it out and then maybe I'll try adding color on the printed copy. The only thing when I print it out, I can't use watercolor paper doesn't work in my printer, so I just print on thin paper, maybe cardstock.

Cool.

My t-shirt color. Yeah, you like this, like this orange color. This is my robotics team t-shirt from school. Yeah, it would look cool actually. Very New Yorker-ish as is. Thank you, Becky. Yeah, that's cool. That's the vibe I'm getting. Hey, you guys are amazing. Um, I think we're gonna get ready to head to our whistling cowboy outro. So I'm going to wrap up. I'm going to call this a take on this piece for now. So let's take an overview of it. You can see my nice orange shirt down there. This is like Jason Nicholas song. All right. And then this is the other fun little piece we did. Ooh, it's still a little wet. This actually, I'm going to cut this whole I'm thinking about it. Alright, I'm gonna give you guys an X-Acto knife cutting lesson if you want one. I had to practice because one of the first things we're doing in school this year is we're gonna do some— go over some safety procedures for using X-Acto knives and hot glue guns and 3D printers and laser cutters, protective eyewear and all that fun stuff. So let me go into my drawer here. I like to use a metal— I like to cut using a metal ruler or a metal straight edge, so I have one here. This has like another mystery, Sunday Night Mystery movie feel to it, this song. Um, whenever you're using a knife, an Exacto— I love using Exactos. That this has paint on it. Make sure the blade is sharp. You don't want to be cutting with dull blades. There are more injuries with a dull blade than a sharp blade. Dull blades don't cut well. You have to force yourself with a lot of pressure. Blades will snap. So make sure you're always using a sharp blade. This should be pretty good. I changed it recently. And I'm gonna cut this because I kind of wanna— if you look below the ruler here, I'll do something with this piece here. I'm gonna cut it like right around here. So let me move this blade down. I am just eyeing this, how straight it is. I do I do have a cutting mat I could use for it. Like, I have one of those chop cutting things for paper cutters. It's just a mess. So I have this, um, this is actually a cool metal ruler. It has cork on the back, so the cork helps to prevent the ruler from sliding. Kind of keeps it down in place as you're using it. I got a little bit of pressure down. It's kind of spy music. I like this music. Put a little pressure down so the ruler doesn't move, and I'm just gonna slowly just drag across. Go through. Usually I'll do 2 passes. That came off. Boom! There we go, so I just cut that piece like that and I'll keep this for scrap. It's the Dating Game music.

The English Dating Game.

Which color would you go have dinner with tonight? There you go. So that's a quick little X-Acto knife usage thing. I love model building, I just haven't had time to do it. I would love to do like model building, horse or class in the future. That would probably be in 2022 though.

Cool.

All right, it's cowboy time, guys. Off with your heads.

Yikes.

Yes, yes, retro is gone. We are going to maybe do retro sketch tomorrow for National Dog Day. Horse in the sky. Becky says horse in the sky. Oh yeah, so that was retro. We were doing a little retro thingy just for fun. I was talking about how to use the Aqua Brush a little bit. So I, guys, I am fully reloaded. I have a new sketchbook to do the outro song, Whistling Song, with. Yippee-ki-yay, kay-yay. Because I have exhausted this one. I'm going to do a together a little video in the near future and we're gonna do like a video flip-through of the Whistling Cowboy sketchbook and we'll look at all the different images. So that'll be fun, so look for that in the near future. A lot of things I want to do in the near future. Herb Alpert, yes, Herb Alpert. Yes, Karen, I agree with you. It does have— it It does have that vibe to it.

Love it. Very cool. Awesome.

All right, so with that, guys, I'm going to switch over and we're going to do our last song, or, um, Quick little sketch here. We're gonna do our outro song. I'm gonna switch. Sometimes I like to leave the first page blank. I don't know why. So we're gonna do that. So this is a cool little sketchbook journal. It's 4 by 6. I like it 'cause it has a ring binder so I can open it and lay it flat. I can flip it over. Boom. This is thin paper. I don't know if there's a pound on here. Yeah, this is 65-pound paper. So it's really not gonna hold up well to, you know, a lot of water. You can do light, light washes on it. But it's great just for quick sketching. And actually there's perforations here if you wanna tear the sheet out. You can do that as well. And the brand is, the brand is ProArt. Awesome. So I actually have seen some of you guys have signed up for the September Sketchbook Journaling Workshop. Awesome. Thank you guys. I'm so looking forward to it. It's the first sketchbook journaling workshop I've ever done. So it'll be fun. What I think is going to be cool is giving out— giving everybody weekly topics. Prompts just for sketching ideas in your journals. You could use any journal you want, it doesn't matter. You can use a small sketchbook journal, you can use a big one, you could use— it's totally up to you. There are so many different types of sketchbook journals out there, it's, it's incredible. I'm probably going to be using this right here, my Canson. I like to— this is my go-to. I like the size of it. It's not, you know, easily portable if you're going to be carrying stuff around, you might want to go with a smaller size. But I just like these books, I'm very comfortable with them. And I just like the fact that I can do, add watercolour and stuff and not worry about the paper tearing.

Cool.

So yeah, I know I'm off on a tangent a little bit, so thank you guys. The workshop does start September 1st. I will be sending emails out. Share it with your friends if anybody else wants to join. If any of you guys want to join, if you questions, let me know. I'd love to have you in the workshop. And I'm looking forward to our Zoom show and tells weekly, where if you want to, you can go through your journal, maybe talk about your ideas or what— how you respond to the prompts to show us. We'll give feedback. It's— that's been a huge, huge success in the other workshops we've been doing, the show and tell. It's my favorite part of the workshops. We get to know each other, and it's just— it's a lot of fun. So thank you guys. Sorry, I wasn't trying to do a plug or commercial, but I just wanted to make mention of that. Awesome. All right, let's go to the cowboy music. You're like, this guy is marketing. I didn't come here to listen to marketing. I came here to, I don't know, to watch artwork and chat with people in the chat. It's all good. It's all good, right? Trust me, I am not one to market. I really hate promoting myself. I'm not good at it, but having an architecture business for all these years, I've had to learn to do it. Artwork is very hard for me to sell and to promote. But you know what? I want to keep buying supplies to keep painting and drawing, so that helps. Alright, I'm finding the music. So while I'm doing this, guys, thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate everybody so, so, so much. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I know time is valuable, so thank you for spending a little bit of time with me. I hope you had fun. I hope you got to chill out. I hope you had some snacks. Maybe you were napping. Maybe I put you to sleep. It's all good. Maybe you painted along or sketched something. If you did, share it. If you could share it and post it on my page or send it to me, I'd love to see what you guys are doing. You can also join the— our— guys, what's the name of the page we have? It's the Inkling— we have a page I can post. If you guys can join that Facebook page, you can post your stuff on there. I can't think of the name of it. I'm drawing a blank. Alright, here's the music. Thank you guys so much. Keep paying it forward with creativity. Positivity with creativity, you know? If we can make someone smile, Maybe forget their cares for a minute. That's all we can do. Thank you guys. I am blessed. I'm honored to be a part of this community with you guys. So peace and live creatively. It's Cowboy Music Whistling Time. Let's do it. Did I build it up enough? Here we go. Make sure you can see the book because one time I did it and half the sketchbook was like off the screen. Hopefully this will stay in here. Alright, thank you guys so much. I appreciate you all. Have a great, great rest of your night and week if I don't see you. I will see some of you guys, I guess, Friday night when we have Mr. Rude's auction. Make sure you tune in to watch it. It's gonna be incredible. And I have a few things, I think, coming up in that auction that you guys might like to see. Take care, guys. Good night, guys. Thank you so much. Peace and live creatively. See you really soon. I found the end button. I'm getting better at it. Thanks guys, take care.