The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey there, guys. I was muted. Thank you for asking. That was weird. I didn't even know I was muted. Hope you're having a great Monday. Nice to see everybody. Thank you for telling me I was muted. Holy cow, I didn't even know that. So I'm just adding some yellow on here, some— it's actually orange yellow. I just want to pop out some colors on this piece. I added some cobalt blue on here before. So this is one of the pieces I'm gonna— painting is gonna add a couple, actually a few layers to. This is layer number 2. And I guess what I consider layers is that when I— every time I come back to it and work on it more, I consider that a layer. So I'll probably let this dry and I'll come back another day and add some more Actually, I'll do a couple more things on here. Hope you guys are having an awesome, awesome day. It's looking pretty cool. Hey, Timberley, how are you? Yay, you can hear me. I appreciate that. So sorry I was on mute, guys. I think I muted on Sunday morning because I just wanted some quiet Monday, uh, Sunday morning time. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm so tired. It's been a long day, but I love painting, I love drawing, I love sketching, so I had to get my time in tonight. I don't feel complete unless I do something. Now that I got you blasted. Yes! Good thing I wasn't singing. That would have been horrible. You don't want to hear me singing when your volume is blasted. That would not be fun. That would not be fun. Alright, cool. Actually, like, this is my scrap paper. I like the way it's looking. It's kind of acting as a scrap palette to put some colors down and play around with them. So I'm going to put some sepia on here and brush some sepia on my painting. Cool. I think it's looking pretty good. I don't know if I'm going to do any more on this right now. Let it dry. I think the next thing I'll add will be some Graphite— some Watercolor Stick or Graphite. Not Graphite. Yeah, Watercolor Stick or Graphite. I think that's I'll add— actually, I'm going to add a little bit right now while I'm talking about it. Awesome. I think by adding some of the black on here, it's really starting to make things pop. Like the window areas, I'm trying to get— look, have a little recessed kind of look to them. So just by adding the black to kind of one side and around the top, it's helping to create shadows and depth. In it. So I do, I'm going to, I do want to work on the steeple spires here at some point in time. But I think this is looking good for now. So I'm going to put this aside and I'm going to do a quick sketch of something. See how it's going. Put these over here so it's cool. What am I looking for? Okay, there we go. Hey, Linda and Chris, good to see you guys. Hope everything's going great tonight. So I'm just doing a little sketch here for a few minutes, a few ticks of the clock as they say. Alrighty, I was lost in the zone, the inking zone. Sorry about that. So I got a little lost. Yes, I'm creating a little scene here. I'm still playing around with illustrations and ideas for the book I'm working on, so I'm just practicing. This is a, I don't know, imagining some kind of a shipwreck pirate type of scene. Hey, Siri just came on. Hello, Siri. Siri always likes to keep me company. I'm good, Siri, thank you. So that's what I'm working on. Brainstorming ideas. Oh, that's cool, you used it for a card to send to Karen and Coco. That's cool, Becky, awesome. "It's awesome, paying it forward with creativity." That's— I love to hear that. I don't know why Siri always comes on at the weirdest times. That's awesome, yeah, pay it forward with creativity, I love that. "Thank you, it's intriguing." I appreciate that. Hey Dolores, good to see you. Awesome. Something pirate-ish. Yeah, it definitely has a pirate-ish kind of feel to it. I agree with you. That's kind of what I was going for, so I'm glad you picked up on that. Hey, Karen, how are you? Good to see you. You guys are awesome. You guys are all saying hi out there to each other. I love it. That's so fun. So add a little bit of sepia just for the background, just to pull out the shapes around it. So it's a pretty small-scale sketch. I'm going to try to add a little bit of Zoom down a little bit if I can. That's not too bad. I'm actually going to switch from my Sharpie. So I was using a Sharpie to start with, and I'm going to switch to my Uni-ball, which is a finer point, so I get a little more detail if I want to on here. I love using the Sharpie because it won't, um, if I don't want it to bleed when I add the sepia, that's why I use the Sharpie. But let me use the Uni-ball here and see if I can add— I'm gonna zoom down a little bit or focus down a little bit here. I think— there we go. I'm just gonna mess around with this for a smidge. I might get lost a little bit in the details here. I'm thinking I would add a little bay window on here somewhere. Maybe. I don't know, we'll see. I'm trying to force it, so we'll see what happens. I just want things to happen kind of on the fly here. It's gonna flow. If I start thinking too much about something, maybe that means I shouldn't do it. I know it sounds counterintuitive. But I'm trying to learn to let go and just let things happen sometimes. And for me, it seems like that always ends up being the best results, personally. I know we're all different, right? We all have different methods. But I think the more I do this, the more I just kind of let things happen. Are they always great? No, that's for sure. But that's okay. I'm just having fun and just trusting in it, what's going to happen. At least on these kinds of sketches. Hold it a little closer so you can see some more detail on there. Hey, hey Chris, thank you for asking. My hand is doing better, thank you. I appreciate it. I was having a really bad night the other night, just cramping up so bad. But thank you for asking. Tonight, tonight it's okay. You may have noticed before I was kind of a I'm practicing being ambidextrous with my artwork. I have this fear in my brain— not a fear, but yeah, I guess it's kind of a fear. This is inking out loud, so I'll share it. I have a fear that, you know, this hand gets really bad, my left hand. I have a fear that, you know, what if I can't use it one day? I hate to think that. So I've been practicing using my right hand as well, more and more. As a backup. I know that sounds kind of weird, but yeah, it gets really bad. Thank you for asking. So you'll notice, you might see me more and more in these Inking Out Louds, you might notice I start having things in my right hand or start using my right hand to even paint with or put some color down with or even some line work. So I'm trying to develop the use of my right hand a little bit more. Thank you. Hey, Peter Kuhl, how are you? Good to see you, Pete. Hope all is well with you. Hope all is well. Nice to see you on here. So this is kind of a little scene, you know, working on the houses and characters and sketches for a book I want to start working on this summer. So I'm imagining maybe some kind of a shipwreck happened here. This is the mast. One of the masts on the ship. You know, maybe this house can be some kind of a pirate type of character going on here. So that's kind of the thinking. "Doesn't sound weird, sounds practical in mind experiment." Hey, thank you, Dolores. I appreciate that. I love your positive attitude. That's a great way to look at it. Thank you so much. It's going to take a long time to, you know, keep developing. I don't know if it will ever be the same level that my left hand is, but that's okay. It's always fun to try. Yeah, so I think this is cool. So let me flip back through the sketchbook here and I'll show you some of the other characters I've been working on. They're not really— I should say they're character studies or they're kind of conceptual studies for the book. So this is a quick one I did tonight. You guys have seen some of these, I think. This was one I had done the other night as well. This is almost like a sage character, some wise old character maybe. This never really turned into a character, but this was a fun sketch the other night. It almost has a gothic look to it. This is probably, I think this is my favorite one I've done so far. Just to study two different buildings here having some kind of conversation with each other. I think this could end up being maybe the main character in the stories. That's where my gut is going right now. And this was kind of one of the first conceptual images of some kind of inky, wonky village. A setting that the story could possibly take place in. Some kind of seaside, I'm thinking maybe a seaside town, and that's why I have— was kind of messing around with this pirate here. So that's just a little insight into what I'm working on. Hope you guys think that's cool. Awesome! Alright, so I'm gonna put this aside, I'm gonna pull out the thing I started, and we're gonna wrap up. Not gonna be on too much longer. I am tired. It was a long, long day at school today. Hey! How intense, two conversations. Yeah, that's a cool image, that one. For sure. So this is drawing nicely. This is the spires. This was a Sunday morning. A little inspiring sketch. I like to call them sketch paintings. Thank you, love the village. Thank you, Becky, that's awesome. Appreciate it. You guys have great stuff going on as well. I don't want to just talk about me. I hate talking about me all the time. I'm not very good at it. Let's turn the spotlight on you guys. I'm seeing amazing, over-the-top, mind-blowing creativity in all the stuff you guys are showing. So keep sharing your creations. It's really amazing, beautiful. I can't— some of the things I see are incredible and so inspiring. So thank you guys for sharing your creativity as well out there in the Facebook world. And that's what I love Facebook for. I love being able to share these kinds of things. I don't gossip, I don't do politics. Facebook for me is a place for promoting positivity and creativity. Those are my two purposes for it. And I stay away from anything else. So thank you guys for showing your positivity and creativity on Facebook as well. It's so cool. So this one is getting in the homestretch. I think I wanna add one more thing on it tonight before I call it a night. And I was gonna break out some either graphite or watercolor stick. I'm not sure which one. I have them both here ready to go. This is a chisel-tipped aquabrush. Actually, I just got it at Michaels over the weekend. They were pretty cheap actually, and I could tell why. They're not the best quality, but I always wanted a chisel-tipped one and I figured I'd try it out. There you go. I always like to work with the 3/4 brushes, but this is a very nice scaled-down version. Typically I would use my round medium tip or brush. So I'm liking using this one, so maybe we'll use that. These do— let me see, is it this one? Yeah. So if anybody has any of these, this is the Pentel. I love the Pentel brand. I think the quality is a little bit better. They are more expensive than this. This is a totally different brand. What is this one? Niji. This is the Niji brand. I know you guys have heard of that. They're very different. But one of the cool things about art supplies is you can get so many different manufacturers make similar ma-tools. I just combined materials and tools and called it ma-tools. So It's just buying things and trying them out and see what you like better. I like that word, "matoos." It sounds Irish, doesn't it? "Matoos, I'm matoos to artis—" I can't do Irish accents, I'm not even going to try. You know it's been a long day when you start combining words. Actually, I do that all the time. I guess it doesn't matter what time of day it is, or what kind of day it is. I will combine words in school all the time. Kids are like, "What? What did you say? What are you talking about?" Alright, so I just want to— I'm going to use this black watercolor stick and I just want to pull out some areas on here, add some texture. One of the things I've been working on with my sketch paintings is adding texture to them. Trying to convey a sense of place or a feeling. So if you guys could put in the comments for me, when you look at this sketch painting, do any feelings or words come to mind when you see this? Just put in the comments or in the chat what words come to mind when you see this painting. I'm just curious. If anything. And there are no wrong answers, so don't feel like you have to hold back. I'm always open to comments as well and critiques. As artists, we need to be able to, you know, take some critiques. What tools? Oh my gosh. Do I have any students out there watching tonight? Any students online? I gotta start getting them to watch. Maybe if I give them extra credit. I'm just lightly dragging this watercolor stick across the page because I want the texture of the paper to read through. And I find the best way for me to do that is to drag it lightly on the paper. Cool. So I am actually, I don't know if you noticed, but I am trying to use my right hand a little bit here. Cool. Alright, I have some cold hot chocolate I'm going to drink here while we're looking. Gothic, Gothic, love it all, Gothic. Middle Ages church. Old world like church. I think it's great. Also like that red painting you did. Chris. Oh, the red painting. Yeah, I'll pull it out. I think I know the one you're talking about. Thank you. Co is very interesting. Like the effect. Barcelona type architecture. Ooh, in a medieval time frame. P, I love that you said Barcelona. That is awesome that you said that because I had Antonio Gaudí in my brain when I was working on this. If you guys know Antonio Gaudí, real, real famous architect, um, he is known for La Família Sagrada, the cathedral that is still under construction after how many years? 100 and something years. So Pete, that's so cool that you picked up on that because I definitely had Gaudí in my brain on this in Barcelona. "Deep Set Arches kind of reminds me of night metal helmets or some dark villainous Tolkien characters." Ooh, blue background's cheery though. Ooh, yeah, I like the contrast. Blue cheery background, ominous building. Tolkien characters, that's pretty cool. I like that, Becky. I could see maybe all the spiky points on there kind of having that villainous kind of feel to it. "I like your more realistic but whimsical work you have been doing lately." Hey, thank you, Peter. I appreciate that. So if you guys don't know Pete, Pete and I go way back to our school days. We were talking about this one. So I think Chris was talking about this. This was a really fun piece. This— what was really cool about this is it started out, this was in my sketchbook, it was just blue and red on the paper. I was playing around with ink one day. There were no buildings, no white on here, no camels. Yes, that is a camel. That's my attempt at a camel. I should have put a giraffe on there too. But anyway, it started off as just a test piece of paper I had in my sketchbook, and then I pulled it out one day and I'm like, "Let's see what we can do with it." I just started sketching over the background, and this is what ended up. I've gotten a lot of really awesome feedback about this, which is so cool. Yeah, it's just one of those things that came together. I was pretty lucky, I have to say. This is the one. Yeah, Chris said this is the one. This is cool. Yeah, thanks Pete. And as I was working on it, you know, I was kind of seeing a contrast of some kind of old structure here, ruinous. In a ruined state, maybe, maybe in a desert area somewhere. We have some palm trees. And then contrasting that with kind of a more, you know, urban, more modern type of city happening here. So kind of like Becky pointed out contrast here, ominous with a bright background, contrast. This kind of has contrast with old and new as well. And the colors really happen to work out on this. So That's why I was saying like earlier before, sometimes I'm just trying to— older and more I do this is I'm trying just to let— I hate this. I don't hate the expression, it's overused, but let go with the flow. Just let flow happen. It's not easy to do it. It's a mindset. But for me, when I can do that, I think things turn out better. And not just with creativity and artwork, in a lot of things in general. So it's just something I'm always practicing more and more. But cool, I'm so glad. Thank you guys for the positive feedback on this. This one, this one might have to hit the, the gallery for sale page one day. I've been having a lot of interest in this piece and I would like to make prints of it maybe. So I always appreciate your feedback, guys. Very different than this piece, right? Different colors, different vibe. Same, you know, same things with inks, graphite, watercolor stick, same basic, you know, materials, just different colors. So yeah, Old California, that's like an old mission. Yeah, like an old California mission type of thing. That's cool. It all works. Chris says it all works. It all works. Somehow it all works. And if it doesn't work, that's okay. You learn something in the process of doing it. So therefore it worked. It does all work. Cool, guys. So maybe I have a couple more minutes. I mean, 9:15, I'm gonna wrap up. I'm tired. But I'm going to actually— I want to add some pen work. I haven't put any pen on here yet. So I'm at a point where I think I'm going to start adding some pen details or Sharpie. Sharpie does not always work well for me on top of the watercolor stick and stuff, so I might use my Uni-ball pen as well. Call it a day. It's very dramatic. Looks like a sunset-washed city, part in the shadows. And part awash. I'm gonna read that again. Let's see. It's very dramatic. Looks like a sunset washed city, part in shadows, a part awash in a late dusty red sky glow. Peter, you have a way with words, man. That's a cool description. Yeah, I like the way you're describing that. Awesome. You guys are amazing. Alright, let's see. I have my pen out. I'm just going to start adding some hatching, some shadow lines. Just add a little layers of detail, things I really can't capture with paint. The watercolor sticks are hard to use when you want to do fine details because they have such a wide point on them, and that's cool because I like that. It keeps me very loose. If I want to get into detail work, I'll switch to my pens. This is my Uni-ball— oops— Vision Elite. This and my Pilot Precise are my two go-to pens for just regular sketchbook sketching and details. So I like to use these two. Chris, you'd be happy to know that I have Mr. Tom Petty is now playing in my ear. One of my favorite Tom Petty songs is called Time to Move On. I love it. I want to pull out these kind of lines on here, so I'm gonna just sketch some pen lines on here, keeping it loose. I like the way these windows came out on here. I was trying to make almost a— oh, I didn't put any yellow on this one. Um, almost like a stained glass type of look in the windows. I'm gonna pop some yellow on there. I just realized I didn't put any on there. It's easy to do. So I'm using a yellow-orange This is acrylic ink. Just gonna dip it right in there. And I'm just gonna, just kind of dabbing it on here. And I don't mean like the whole, you know, the dab. How do you do that dab dance thing? I'm not even gonna try. I'm not even gonna try to do it. Looks like I'm swatting flies. The dab. Do people still do the dab? If my son was here, he would be very embarrassed. There we go. So I'm just popping some yellow on here. I'm gonna touch it down in some other places while I have it on the brush. Cool, there you go. All right, so that was some yellow orange. Cool. There we go. So I'm just adding some lines on here. I know it might be hard to see. I'm sorry. Let's hold it closer. You can see in here I'm just adding some pen lines on top, kind of in here, added some here. Some in here. A bunch of places. Just to add some more detail to it. "Love this brush ink, the color." Thank you. Hey, Linda. Oh, you're probably talking about the red one, right? Hey, Chris, good seeing you. Have a great night. Hey, Linda, you're planting tomatoes in the garden. Awesome. Here in Jersey, we are known for our Jersey tomatoes. "Do people in other states plant Jersey tomatoes?" That would be, that's a good question. Do other people plant Jersey tomatoes? Um, awesome. "Definitely feeling the sunny Spain vibes now." Cool, I like that. "I like the sort of buried red tone in the top of some of the alcoves." "Very red tone on top of some of the alcoves." I'm not sure if you're talking about the church spires or if you're talking about this one. It might be this one. This has the red tones. Cool. Yeah, so I don't know. I do want to grunge-ify this a little bit. Another thing I've I'm trying to work on as well. I don't think I'm going to do that tonight. I think I'm going to wrap up. We'll do our little final wrap session for the night. I'm going to leave this like this for now. Where's our cloth to wipe this off? We got this going. I'm going to wash this out. Cool. Yeah, so I'm gonna add some more stuff on it. Not today, I'll work on it throughout the week. Uh, the church spires one. Oh cool, gotcha. Thank you. You have piqued my interest on Jersey tomatoes. May have to grow and paint. There you go. Awesome. Uh, yeah, we're known for our Jersey tomatoes here for sure. I'm not a huge tomato fan, but I do like eating them right off the vine and in salads. And I guess I like tomatoes. I love pizza and tomato sauce. Cool, yeah, let me know how your garden, how it grows in there. Awesome stuff. Alright guys, so I'm going to wrap tonight. It's been a busy day, so I wanted to get on and You have Jersey cows. Awesome. The Garden State. Yeah, we are the Garden State. Jersey cows. That's so funny. I wonder if Jersey cows are from New Jersey. That's a cool— I don't know. Interesting. Or are they from England? That's so awesome. What else is Jersey— We're also famous for our teleram. I don't know if anybody has Taylor ham where you're living. Jersey is known for— one of the products we have here is Taylor's— is it Taylor's ham or Taylor ham? I should know. England. England cows. If you don't know what Taylor ham is, Google it up. It is a staple here in Jersey, especially in the delis. Taylor ham sandwiches. People like Taylor ham with egg and cheese, but I just like, tail her ham, fry it up and eat it that way. It's good stuff. I'm getting hungry, guys. You're awesome. Yeah, so I'm going to come back and grungify this. I'll add onto it during the week. This is actually using— this is fluid watercolor paper. It's a block, which is nice. So it's glued down on two sides and the top and bottom are loose. Loose. Actually, the side is starting to peel off a little bit here. But I like how it helps to hold it down, keep it flat while you're painting on it. Hey guys, thank you! Taylor Ham spicy pork roll. There you go, Mr. Peter Says. Yeah, good. I haven't had Taylor Ham in a long time. Might have to buy some. The Isle of Jersey, English Channel Islands. Ah, see? I guess New Jersey is named after the Isle of Jersey. That is so cool to know. Who knew? Who knew on Inking Out Loud we'd not only talk about art, creativity, we get into history, we talk about Taylor Hamm and cows and England. It's awesome. You guys are amazing. Never a dull moment. Guys, thank you so much for watching. I always appreciate your time, your positivity, your creativity. Your comments are awesome. Feel free to leave hearts and thumbs up. Share this with your friends. I'd love to have more people tuning in and having more fun with us. Um, I will be on my scheduled time Wednesday night, 7:45, and Friday night around 7:45 as well. Oh no, Wednesday. I am not gonna be on this Wednesday. I have to skip this Wednesday. I have an anniversary we're celebrating. So I will not be on Wednesday night, which is awesome 'cause you gotta cherish the moment, as they say, right? So you guys are awesome. Thank you so much. Always pay it forward with your creativity. I see you guys doing that. You're making cards. I saw some things in the comments about that. Awesome stuff. You love pork roll. Awesome. That's cool, Dolores. I'm glad you love it. It's good stuff. Guys, have a great, great night. Enjoy your Tuesday and your Wednesday. I may pop on tomorrow night for a little bit. We'll see how the day goes. Uh, peace and live creatively. Take care. Good seeing everybody. Pete, thank you for joining us. Come on back. Join the Inklings. They're a great bunch in here. Awesome, awesome people. Such positivity and fun. Take care, guys. Thank you so much, Linda. I appreciate it. Yeah, the big 20. This is the big 20. Big 20 this year. I can't forget, right? I'd be in trouble. Big 2-0. Gotta love it. And we'll be actually celebrating in December when we— we're headed out to Disney in December this year for a celebration, which will be great. But be time to get out and about and see something other than my house and school and occasionally Target. You guys are awesome. We're just puppies. Yes, we are just puppies. I love that. We're all, we could all be playful like puppies, right? Guys, take care. You're awesome. Have a great night. Thank you so much.