The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey there, happy Friday! Friday, April something something, 20-something, I think. I don't even know what day it is. 22nd, 23rd, somewhere in there. Hope you guys are having a great, great day. Hope your Friday was special. Hope it's going amazingly well right now. And yeah, thanks for tuning in. I just popping on for a little bit, having a little bit of fun with color right now. Just putting down some Magic Solution, patent pending, and brushing it on this paper. Hopefully it will dry quick because I'd like to do some sketching or add some color on top of it. So I'm going to leave it at this for now and let it dry for a few minutes. I'll come back to it. So what are you guys up to on this beautiful Friday? It was beautiful here in New Jersey. 60 degrees, 80-degree weather coming next week. It was fall yesterday, we're going right into summer. Spring is kind of getting lost in the mix, but that's okay. Sunshine is good any time of the year, for sure. I'm just grabbing some more paper. I want this to kind of dry a little bit so I I put it off to the side. Hey Becky, hey Dawn, good to see you guys. Hope everything's going well with you. Thanks for popping in for a little bit, I appreciate it. It's always great to see you guys in here. So let's just do some loose Little loose warm-up thing. It always seems I like the way the warm-ups end up better than things I'm focusing on. It's really weird. It's kind of fun. Here's a piece. I did this a couple years ago. I was kind of doing an interpretation of the Mona Lisa, let's say. Kind of taking the Mona Lisa idea, face here. Throw some cool funky colors on it. I did this last year at some point in time. I just happened to see it in the sketchbook I pulled out. So that's what this piece was. Kind of cool. Oh, we did some castles on here the other night. I remember that. So let's, uh, let me find a clean sheet of paper here. I'm running low on my sketchbook stuff. Here we go. Here's a sheet, so we'll work with this one. So I have Mr. Sharpie's out here for some fun. He's gonna— did I just call my Sharpie Mr. Sharpie? Oh man, I'm personalizing my Sharpie pens. Is that scary? I don't know. Maybe. But it's fine, it's all in the name of fun. So today I did something really fun in class. Hey, Tamberly, how are you? I did something really fun in class today. Actually, do I have any with me? Let me see if I can find the sketches I did in class. I think I put them in my notebook. Here we are. So I'm just gonna pull this out. I'll show you guys what I did in school. Hey, do you guys want to see my homework I did today in school? I'm gonna show you. Let's put this— well, you can leave this here. So my Architecture 2 class, they're doing their year-end projects, and we've been talking about brainstorming. We've been watching some videos, some Disney Imagineering videos, and just trying to get their creative wheels turning. And they actually talked me into— they talked me into doing the project with them, which I think was brilliant. So they're allowed to each select their own individual projects. For example, one student's going to design a water park, and then they're going to focus on one specific, maybe, building or architectural feature. But his concept is a water park. Another student's He wants to design a hotel where he can— people can go and they can watch the Northern Lights. I have another student, she is going to design an equestrian center, and the focus is going to be for people with disabilities, which I think is brilliant. I mean, and these are their own individual ideas. I really want them to run wild and bring their own interests to the project. Another kid's doing an airport, another one's doing high-rise buildings. Trying to think. Another kid, another one is designing a house for a spy. So it's really cool stuff. So anyway, so today we did a brainstorming session and I just told them like, "Hey guys, grab some paper, pen or pencil, and for the next 20 minutes we're gonna sketch. We're gonna sketch whatever comes to our brain. Don't try to focus on anything specific. Just come up with whatever's in here." general concepts for your projects. Put some music on and you sketch for 20 minutes. So I was doing it along with him and I'll show you what I did. It's nothing amazing. It's not brilliant artwork, but it's just— it's thinking artwork. And for me, the thinking process is much more fun and engaging and rewarding and much more meaningful than the actual end results. At least what I do and what my class, my students to. So I was brainstorming, and these are really just quick brainstorming. So I ended up— time. I'm going to be doing something related to time and designing— I'm not sure if it's going to be an architectural time capsule or maybe an architectural monument that's dedicated to time. So I just started sketching things and a couple images. You guys might recognize my loose sketchy images. Some shapes, shadows, sun shadows, maybe the pattern of the sun down here is gonna work almost like a timepiece or a time clock, like a sundial. This is page 2, I think I'm on page 3. I was looking up clocks, I Googled clocks online. Digital flip clocks, tube clocks. Again, these are crude sketches. It's just, it's brainstorming. I love and I've always been fascinated by the brainstorming process. This is just how I was doing it. I took some screenshots. I have to do my presentation on Monday to them, so wish me luck. Talk to them about my ideas. And I just sketched another image. You know, I started taking some of the ideas, the clock idea, the flip clocks, tube clocks, and I started sketching maybe some kind of a building form. And if it doesn't make sense to you guys, that's perfect because it doesn't have to make sense. It's, you know, it's just getting ideas out on the paper. Nothing is wrong. And I might not use any of this, but if it's all stuck in here, right, all stuck up in your brain, it just gets cluttered. My brain gets cluttered if I keep everything up here and file it up here. So I have— I like to file things out here on paper. So that's one of the things I love about doing quick, loose style sketching and brainstorming. It's a whole area that I want to get into more and practice and talk to you guys more about as well. So I thought that'd be fun just to show you. And it's even more fun that they said, hey— they call me Mr. Nick— they're like, hey, Mr. Nick, you should do the project with us. Like, how could I say no to that? I'm an architect, I'm their teacher, of course I'm gonna do it. So that was a really cool thing that happened in school today. So I'll keep you guys up to date on my projects, and maybe when they're done with their stuff, with their permission, I will see if I can share some of their images they come up with, some of their designs. How cool would that be? Anyway, enough chitchat from me. Um, Becky, thank you, Becky, I appreciate that. So let me go back to my warm-up and then I'll go back to the other sepia. I know Mr. Ruh is on at 8:57, so I will make sure to end early so you guys can get over there. I might get over there for a little bit as well, but I appreciate you kind of watching me Maybe we could talk Ru into letting me be his warm-up act. Someone mentioned that yesterday, I thought that was pretty funny. He doesn't need a warm-up, man. He's awesome. I can only aspire to be as amazing as he is one day. In my own special way. Alright, cool, so just sketching some lines here. I have that clock thing on my brain now because I was talking about time and clocks. I've always had a fascination with clocks and time ever since I was a little kid. I even did my last major architecture school project about time. It's a topic that's always timely. Haha, you get it? Guys, you're amazing. Hey, Julie, how are you? If you guys are here, say hello in the chat. Give me thumbs up. Let me know you're watching. This is the unofficial something inking out loud session. Unofficial? Oh, maybe I did announce tonight. I think I did. Alright, it's official. I think I said I was gonna be on tonight. You guys are awesome. So I got the warm-up piece going, tick-tock. I got maybe some kind of little clock thing going. I don't know, I'm not trying to draw a clock, but I have time on my brain. There's always time for Time. I'm not gonna make any more time puns. I promise. It's just fun though. And then after I do this sketch, I'll go back to the first thing I started. Hopefully it feels like it's drying over there and I can do some more stuff on that piece. The warm-up one. This is actually— they're kind of all warm-ups, I guess. Hey, if you guys have any comments or questions for me, let me know. I'd love to maybe answer some questions tonight. I always love answering questions. I like asking questions more than answering them. I have a secret dream job. I don't know if that's the right word, dream job, but A secret job that I've always wanted to do was to have a talk show and be like Johnny Carson, Tonight Show, a talk show. Not the new stuff. I don't really like the new format stuff, but Johnny Carson was amazing. I've often, I know this is weird, but I've often imagined sitting there, being at his desk, interviewing people, and not even famous people. People, everyday people, we're all interesting in our own unique ways. I'm really good at asking questions and having other people talk about themselves, but I am not great at talking about me. Cool, this is kind of cool. I'm sketching maybe a little, some kind of little cove pieces or trim pieces on here. Getting a little architectural down here. Again, keeping it loose. Now I have the Tonight Show theme song in my head. Mm-hmm. I try to watch clips of the— I call it the Johnny Carson Show. I know it's The Tonight Show. I always try to watch clips of that almost every night before I go to bed. It's just some amazing, amazing television moments there, let me tell you. Amazing celebrities, just amazing interviews, just watching Johnny Carson bomb his monologues and his quick wits, quick wit, pretty amazing stuff. Just doing a little bit of scroll work up here. So maybe, you know, maybe this is turning out to be some kind of a clock or timepiece. Maybe— hope you guys can see it. Kind of a clock here. I'm just doing like some scroll work like you might see on a mantel clock here. Picture this almost being like a crown molding you might see around the ceiling or some kind of trim or molding you'd see around the mantel on a fireplace. Again, very loose interpretation of it. Just trying to make these quick loose lines maybe into something a little more architectural, more designy, design-ish. I had a student today in class and she kept adding "thingy" after everything she said. I thought it was awesome. So I started doing it and she took it as a form of compliment and flattering. It was kind of cool actually to connect. Hello, Siri. That's okay Siri, I wasn't asking you. Siri is talking to me, I didn't ask anything. Weird. I love finding different ways to engage with people, to talk to them, and to listen to them. I think listening is an often underappreciated skill. You know, just stop and just listen. Really, really listen to people, to the sounds around you. Sometimes we take our senses for granted, right? I know I'm going a little deep here, but it's inking out loud and I am just inking out loud. Hope you guys are awesome. Hey, am I listening to jazz? Lion seemed jazzy. Ooh, that's interesting. So, good question, Becky. So, I have on shuffle, I was listening to some— John Mellencamp was playing before, some Batman theme music, some Collective Soul was playing as well. What else was going on in the background there? Before I came on, I had some Metallica playing. I do, I really like jazz music and I really love actually doing schoolwork with some jazz slash like jazz electronica type music. I find it, I can really focus well when I listen to that music. That's so cool you said that. I like how you're relating music to drawing and line styles and that happens all the time. I really gotta start playing music so you guys can hear it. I say that every time I'm on. I think it would really change the dynamic of what I'm doing a little bit and give you more of an insight of what I'm hearing and how I'm reacting to it. So I'm gonna work on that. If you guys think that's a cool idea, let me know. Just give me a thumbs up or something if you think it'd be cool to hear music while I'm doing this. Or if you'd like to hear me talk less, give me a thumbs up. Thumbs up to talking less or thumbs up to more music? Wait, I won't know what the thumbs up is for. Either put in the chat, put more music or yes music, less talk, something like that. I always want to know what you guys are thinking. Since you're always watching, I kind of want to respond to what you guys like as well, you know? If I'm too chatty, say, "Hey, you're too chatty. I just wanna do art stuff. Tell me more about art stuff." I don't care about listening more. I don't care about what you're saying, Mr. Nick. I'm just kidding. Cool. Yeah, this is— I like this sketch. It's turned out to be pretty fun. I'm gonna add some— you know how I like to add some background colors to pop things? So let's add some color. I already have my magic solution open, so we're gonna just brush on some magic solution here. I have to say, it's really smelling bad, this magic solution. I wonder if this stuff has a shelf life. Whew, it's pretty nasty. 8:15, we're doing okay on time, so I'll wrap up 8:45 at the latest tonight, so you can all bug out and Click on Roo's link. Make sure you watch him tonight. Tell him I sent you. I'm just kidding. I've already committed to not spending any money tonight if pieces are being sold. So just by adding this Magic Solution background, you can see this silhouette's popping out a little bit. Here we go. Right, I think just adding that kind of really makes it pop out a little bit more. Here we go. I think that looks pretty good for now. We'll just leave that. A little bit. Let me see. That looks better. I just turned the light off. I think it looks better now. So cool. Yeah, so we have this kind of quick sketch warm-up. I was talking about time, clocks, so maybe some kind of a timepiece here, right? We'll let our imaginations kind of see what's happening. I'll let them Imagine. That's for imaginations too, right? So I'm going to put this aside and bring back the other one I painted up before. I'm going to let this dry. Here we go. So this is the one I put the color on before. It's still a little damp. Sharpie doesn't always work well on damp paper. I'll try it. If it doesn't work— actually, you know what, I'm going to break up— no, no, no, no. Oh, I know what I want to do. I'm changing up my gears a little bit. Opening my drawer with acrylic paint. I'm going to break out some acrylic color that I want to use. Maybe we'll use this. George Harrison's playing. This is good stuff. Alright, let's go with this. Don't think too much about it. So I'm gonna pull out some— this is light blue permanent, it's called. It's acrylic paint. And we're gonna throw some acrylic paint on this background. Gonna just use the paint right out of the tube. Let me get a 3/4-inch brush. I have one here. And we're just gonna do some quick, some Let's count how many times I say quick tonight. Let's play the quick game. I think I've said it maybe 20 times. We'll have the quick game going on. Hey, most people listen to react unfortunately, not to understand. Becky, that's really wise. Yeah, you're right. People listen to react. Do you ever have a conversation with somebody? Be honest. You're sitting there. Listening to them, but you're not listening to them. You're thinking about what you're going to say back to them right away, right? Without just letting it process. Let it process. Let people talk. Just process what they're saying. You'll have your chance to speak. If there's something really important you want to say, just jot a note down while they're talking to you so you don't forget. So that's a really good point. Use rice term paper, says Thelonious Monk. That is awesome. Very cool. I used to say the loniest monk, the loniest monk. I never made it into one word. I would always separate it. Yes, looks good. Hey, thank you. Good evening. Heather and Dre are in the house. So look, here we go. We've run out of blue. I'm just gonna make a little, some abstract lines on here. I love the color combination of the blue, the browns, the rusty colors. This will probably turn out to be some background maybe for a grunge or an urban kind of sketch, architectural sketch. So you can get a kind of get an insight into just This is how I create some of the backgrounds I do before I sketch on them. I'm just taking— I'm just putting the paint right on the brush right from the tube. Hey, if you're just joining me, hello! I see some people popping in the house. It's always good to see you guys popping in. I love it. I love it, I love it. Doesn't matter if I love it, I want you guys to have fun. Well, I guess I gotta have fun too, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it, right? Let your enthusiasm be infectious, right? Just put it out there. Show that you love what you're doing. Show it. Especially if it's something good and positive. Don't be afraid to show it. Let people see you having fun. Yeah, it's looking fun. So it's not— the color is looking kind of wonky on screen. It looks like it's washed out. The Cranberries just came on the radio here. Should paint something with cranberry color. I just want to lay down some more intense blue on here, make some areas pop out more. That's good. I'm just putting some water on my brush and just thinning out the paint in some areas. I don't know if you just saw what happened. There was a wet spot of Magic Solution there, and I brushed over it and pulled off the wet spot. And it just left a white spot behind. Yeah, these colors are looking really washed out on screen. I'm sorry about that. That's not cool. Alright, I'm gonna let this dry. I got some acrylic on there. Let's just do a nice little building sketch. I always have a few things going at the same time. It's just how my brain works. So let's just, I wanna do it on I just want to do a nice little building, maybe a little cottage or something tonight. Hey, thank you, good, nice color combination. Yeah, I love that color combination. We'll definitely come back to it. All right, got a little 6x6 sheet of paper. Focus a little bit. It should be better. Uh, let's do a little something maybe cottagey or so. We'll see what happens. Hopefully you guys can see that okay. Looks good. Just thinking, let my hand kind of warm up. Alright, let's just draw. Let's see what happens. Ooh, Queen just came on. How cool is that? Okay, I kind of got— So I'm lightly just gonna— not lightly, I'm just gonna put some loose lines here. Thinking of drawing some kind of cantilevered piece. Cantilever is a part of the building that hangs out past the part below it. Picturing maybe some kind of Jacobean type of building. Sometimes they call them black and white timber buildings. Some kind of a stone base down here. There we go. So we have some kind of like stone base going on at the bottom. Maybe there's some smaller type of windows down here. Maybe some kind of a slate roof, maybe up here. I like to draw little finials on the roof peaks here. Just a little detail. Bring this roof down a little bit more. I kind of want it to sweep a little at the end just to add some character to it. You know, trying to create not perfect straight lines, adding some curves, some wonkiness to it makes it more playful. Some timbers going on in here, maybe some are cross bracing, that's diagonal pieces for diagonal bracing. There's gonna be some kind of shadow under here, so I'll just do some hatch lines just to show this piece is maybe projecting out a little bit. It's not a perfect perspective. It's just the idea that some pieces are protruding out in front of the others. Give it some depth. Some Johnny depth. That's what we used to say. One of my jobs, we were trying to give depth to buildings. We always— somehow Johnny Depp always worked into that conversation. So I'll hold it up so you can kind of see a little bit of close detail. Hey Kim! Craftsman style. Yeah, it's— Arts and crafts style, kind of. This is an older, more medieval style, Jacobean style. England, very popular type of architecture. Tudor, Tudor style's another way to think of it. Good question. Man, I'd love to just do like architecture, thinking out loud, like just talk architecture. That would be so cool. Maybe like sketch a building style. We'll talk about the buildings a little bit. About the history of it. How cool would that be? Would you guys be into something like that? You know, we could do like Italianate style, sketch Italianate building, Craftsman style. We will do French, I don't know, French châteaux, Swiss chalets, right? How cool would that be just to sketch architecture? Kind of like a more focused— like a more focused— I'm trying to say something more focused and I'm not even focused on focusing on what I'm saying. I'm not listening to myself. I don't like listening to myself talk. Cool, right? So just adding some details. It's not the entire building, it's just a part of it. Sometimes we think we have to sketch the entire building. But just sometimes doing little pieces is really cool. I love doing these little types of studies. You know, maybe this piece, I don't know, maybe this comes from a building. If I just do an outline here. I'm going to take my— this pen's a little darker. Maybe this comes from a building that looks like this. I don't know. Some kind of huge chimney is coming up in here. Maybe the piece we're talking about happens somewhere on the building, the detail we're sketching. Maybe there's some kind of roof dormers here. Boom, boom. Bring this across. Down. Maybe there's a crook here, or a crook, like a curved timber beam comes across the building here. Maybe this building actually, the roof continues down like this. I'm just kind of imagining maybe with this building, maybe with this, this shape It's coming maybe from a type of building that does something like this in form. Got some windows going on, pieces like this. Maybe this crook, maybe there's an arched doorway in here to go in the building. Again, this isn't to scale, I'm just imagining a form or a shape. You have some chimneys going on. Coming up here. There's a few of them. 1, 2, 3. Some stone across the bottom. Some windows. Some windows here. See the roof overhangs? The roof overhangs the kind of overhangs in here. It's dark. Our dormers are here. There's shadows coming from our roof dormers, kind of in that area. This is our main gable peak on our building. It's probably a very cool room up there. I could, I can imagine a really nice studio or space or reading space up there. Alright, so that's just a quick outline or form, so maybe this is part of this building. I don't know. Hi Siri. Siri's my friend. Pretty cool. Is it a craft supply? What is in that room? Hmm, yeah. What did you guys imagine to be in this room? Great. Great point, Linda. I love that question. I'd love to know what you guys think is happening in this space. What would you like to happen in this room? Put it in the chat. I would like to know what your, uh, what your brains are thinking on that one. I love how you're just letting your imaginations wander. That's one of the reasons I love doing this stuff. So I got like 10 minutes left. I'm gonna add some— I wanna add some, uh, I don't know, I wanna add some color. You know what, I'm gonna actually do something interesting. I'm gonna try something. Alright, you got the idea with the building. Maybe there's another window here. Some kind of beams across here. Alright, that's cool. Let me add some— I'm gonna break out, I wanna try some of this gold color and put it on here. So I got some gold watercolor ink. I'm gonna put it on here, just play around with it a little bit. Kim, you love the architectural theme sketching? Okay, that's cool. Becky, sounds cool to me, awesome. Julie, yes, yes, would love the architecture learning about it. Hey guys, that's awesome. Yeah, maybe inking out loud. Maybe if I'm on twice a week, one night will be just free flow. Whatever, like I always do, and maybe one other session will be more focused on architecture. That would be so cool. I'm totally game for that. That would be fun. I better start studying architecture, otherwise I'm in big trouble. Hey, and also, if anybody ever wants to come on while we're doing Inking Out Loud, you want to come on and kind of be a guest. I could bring you on camera. You could show your stuff. You could talk. I can do that. We can try it. I have a link I could send you. You can go on the link with your phone. You don't need to be on a computer. And I'll just— we kind of go wait in the green room and I'll bring you out like a talk show. I'll bring you out. We could do some chatting. If you're up— anybody's ever up for that, let me know. I'd love to Try it out. So I have a gold watercolor paint. I'm just putting it on here, maybe just selectively. Maybe I'm gonna use it just to pop out some areas. I'm not gonna do the entire piece. Mr. David Bowie is playing "We Can Be Heroes." I always love me some David Bowie. He was quite an amazing creative person. That is maybe an understatement. Cool, so we got some yellow going. I am going to break out some graphite on here. I want to gray up some areas. Oops, where's my water? It's on this side. Sorry, my arm's sticking out in front of the camera. I have to move my water on this side. Alright, a few more minutes. Guys, if I run over, I totally understand if you need to book, bug on out to head over to see Mr. Roo. No problemos. Go, he's awesome. Part of me is hesitating because I don't want to spend any money on it. I'd be so tempted. How could you not be with such cool, amazing artwork? So fun. It's just so fun. So I'm just trying to indicate some glass. On here, I'm just filling in some of the diamond pattern grills. I'm going to zoom down a little bit so you can see it better. Ah, there you go, that's a much better shot. Should have did that a while ago. Live and learn, live and learn. So I'm just creating some shadow lines in here. Oops, that's okay. I didn't really want to hit that area. Oops. I'm just gonna water it down a little bit, thin it out. Make it lighter. That's cool, that works. Just a light wash in the background. Right? We can always make things work for us in our artwork. There we go, just adds a little bit of background. It's not really picking up on camera. Cool, just gonna blot it a little bit. There we go, that's better. So I'm just darkening up some of the stones down here, give some more texture. Texture is another layer we can add to architectural paintings. It's visual texture, you know, surface materials, stones, you know, feel rough. You can do smooth smooth finishes. We can try to convey those things in our architectural illustrations. Buildings aren't just for looking at, but buildings are— architects were notorious for going and touching buildings. I'm not even kidding. We'll like feel the materials. There's a textural quality about buildings besides just being very visual. You know, so next time you're outside your house or apartment or wherever you live, give your building a little love and just touch it. Huh? I know it sounds weird, but I know architects, we do it. Maybe it's a professional thing, we can get away with it. Yeah, I'm liking this piece. It's turning out to be pretty fun. Cool. So what do you guys think? You guys liking this one tonight? You know, it still has the loose sketchy style that I like doing. It's not as loosey-goosey. This was just a conceptual idea. It's a little more refined, but it's still loose in nature. There isn't really a perfect line on here, and that's intentional. Keeps it fun, playful. Everything's not colored in. Just wanted to add some shadows, put some yellow on there, some highlights on there as well. One thing I'd like to do is add some more texture, and I like to add some stippling, like some stucco. So I'm just gonna take my pen and just— some stippling on here. Stippling is kind of just creating dots. Just— you can hear my pen. I'm gonna hold this up so you can see a little bit closer. Yes, I just put some stippling on the sky. That's okay. It's all good. Sky doesn't mind. Definitely gonna come back and darken up some lines with my pen. Just do it now. Gonna wonkify, gonna wonkify these timbers. Gonna wonkify them by making them a little more curvy in places. Totally wonk them up. I'm just gonna make up words the rest of the night, or borrow words. Gonna wonk, wonk that up, pull that out. I want this to read like it's a little darker overhang going on in here. Color that in. Cool. So I'll hold it up so you can see the stippling I have. I added these dots on there, just give some texture, like a stucco type of texture. Pointillism, yeah, that's a great word. Hey, Janice. Pointillism paintings are amazing. Holy cow. Yeah, check out the masters. Names are escaping me. I wanna say Seurat. Was Seurat a pointillist? Who's the other one, guys? I'm drawing a blank. I could picture his paintings. Oh my gosh, Monet. Did Monet do pointillism? Awesome, love it, awesome, great, thanks, you guys are awesome. You're a wall— yay, Janice is a wall toucher. Yes, any urbanist fans, we all know what wall touching is about. I love that. Husband's listening to Uriah Heep and your brushwork is matching to the music. That's so funny. I love that. Who knew? Art transforms many different mediums. Music, painting, sculpture, dancing, cooking, creating. Awesome. Hey guys, so that's this piece here. I think it's pretty good. I don't know if I really want to add any more to it. I think it looks nice the way it is. I will sign my name to it over here, and I'll put— so I know when I did it. I think we have another one that can go in the Inky Wonky Cottage book or calendar. Someone mentioned calendar yesterday. I thought that was a really cool idea. So maybe we'll have an Inky Wonky calendar available for the 20— 22-year. Cool. There you go, guys. Awesome, awesome. I'm going to stick around for a couple more minutes and work on this, and then I'm going to head on out to our friend. If anybody's watching, you want to go check out Roo, roodoodles.com. He'll be on Facebook at 8:57 tonight, and I will try to pop in there for sure. I do want to keep playing around for a few more minutes while my creative juices are flowing here. I want to throw some more blue on here. Seurat, there you go. Hey, did I get that right? Thank you, Julie, I appreciate it. I know Seurat, I can picture like his park paintings and people holding umbrellas and water. Closing my eyes and picturing it. Amazing, amazing pieces of art. Think about the time and labor and the love that goes into creating paintings out of just dots. Just dots. Dots of color. What an amazing art form. Thank you, Julie, for finding that for me. Appreciate it. Very familiar with brick and stone, working with your dad. Yeah, Becky, that's right. You know all about that. Brick, right? Brick and stone, it has its language all into its own. Dry laying, wet laying, cut stone, river stone, quarried stone. I presume it's incredible. I'm just mixing some ink and acrylic here, just creating a background maybe for an upcoming sketch. I like this, how it's dark in this area. I'm just really throwing it down heavy. I'm gonna let it dry that way. And I want to throw in maybe some more areas, just really throw it down, and we'll let it dry. This will be ready for tomorrow or another day if I want to come back to it, draw on it. I am actually kind of starting to see some forms take shape in here. So I'm just gonna keep working this a little bit. I talked about subtraction the other day. I'm kind of subtracting from the blue. I'm taking some of the blue out. Maybe carving out some shapes in it. Cool, right? This has to dry for sure. This will turn out to be a really nice background. I'll come over, uh, in the future with a Sharpie and work some magic on it. And then let's come back to this piece here. Juggling around, I got 3 things going on. So far my favorite thing tonight is this right here. I think this came out really cool. Simple. I don't mean simple as in to do, but simple as in not too crazy busy, right? There's nice form to it. Here's our little clock piece we did before. I feel like I wanna do something else with it. What do I wanna do? What do I wanna do? What do I wanna do? Ch-ch-ch. Alright. So I'm gonna talk and kinda wrap up while I'm sketching. Talk and wrap up. I'm gonna just— yeah. You know what I'm saying. You guys know what I'm saying. I hope someone does. You can tell me. I wanna add something to this. What am I thinking? What am I thinking? I'm just looking at my desk here. I'm thinking too much. What is this color? I don't know. I'm gonna break this out. I don't know if it's gonna be good or bad. This is a— I don't even know what color it is. Pink, rose? I can't read a color on it anywhere. Let's just break it out. Sketch— it's a Sketch Marker. Is it— let me see if I could paint on it. I don't know if I could dilute it with water. Ah, a little bit. Yeah, it's not really water-based. That's okay. If I put the water down and go on top of it, it dilutes it, which is kind of cool. There we go. I can put water down, put it on top, and it dilutes it a little bit. So I'm just coloring these little squares on our little architectural piece, maybe our timepiece. Just pulling those out. Maybe this is a building. Actually, you know what, maybe this is a building, part of a building. With a clock on top of it. Add some more water. Pull this out. I want to make this that color as well so that kind of pops. It'll be interesting to see how this dries, this marker. So that popped that out a little bit, right? Yeah, cran— hey, that's right, Beck, you got the cranberry on here. Maybe that's why I picked this up. I listened to the cranberries before. That's so funny. Negative space, yup. Thanks guys, take care. Yeah, have a great day. Julie, thanks for watching. Hey guys, if you wanna bug on out, Mr. Roo is on 857. Go check him out, he's awesome. I will catch you on the flip side of the tracks. I might keep working on this while engaging with you guys over there. Cool. You guys are awesome. So I like the idea of maybe we'll start doing some more focused once-a-week architectural type of more talk about a style of architecture and do a sketch of a building of that style. We'll keep them loose sketches. And I like that idea, I like it so much, maybe we'll incorporate that into the workshop. So now when we start the workshop up in May. So if you guys wanna sign up for the workshop, signups are still available. I'll have 'em up until like next Wednesday maybe or Thursday. Workshop starts May 1st. Wanna learn how to do some loose style sketching with architectural theme? I think you'd have a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it. Cool. Alright guys, I'm gonna head out. I appreciate y'all watching so much. Actually, you know what? No, I'm gonna head out. I gotta I'll keep working on this, but I'm going to bug out of here. You guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. I appreciate you all so, so much. Have a great, great night. Peace. Live creatively. I'll see you. I'll catch you on the flip side. Thanks a lot. I appreciate you all so much. Take care. I'll probably be on tomorrow night or Sunday night. I'm thinking Saturday night. So hopefully I'll see you on Saturday night, okay? TJIF, Janice. TGIF. F, I love that. So I'll try to be on tomorrow night. Hopefully I'll see you guys then as well, and we'll go a little bit longer. Peace, guys. Live creatively.