The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, hope you're having a good Wednesday afternoon. It's like 4:27. Just popping on, doing some sketching. Wanted to come on a little bit earlier tonight. I'll be back probably later at 7:45 or so, but just felt like doing some sketching instead of napping. I tend to want to take naps this time of day and I don't want to do it. So I'm changing my state of mind and going from sleep mode into creative mode. So that's why I'm on kind of a really random time. Anyway, hope everything's going well. I'm just doing a loose, quick sketch. Not sure what it's gonna be, if anything. It's just always fun to break out the pen. Sharpie, let me sharpen the focus, speaking of Sharpies. Cool. If you're watching, please say hello. Give me a thumbs up so I know you're out there. I always like to greet everybody. I don't know if my comments are working here. I have to go on Facebook and see. Yeah, let me know if you have any questions or thoughts or comments or just say hello. It's always great checking in with you guys and seeing what's going on. And yes, I was on before eating banana bread on camera. That was me. That was me. I confess. I was just talking about how creativity can be inspired by so many things. As artists, creatives, we tend to focus on visual, but embrace your other senses. Your sense of sound and smell and taste and touch. So I was kind of relating banana bread, baking banana bread to that experience. I'm not really good at analogies, in case you were watching. But I hope you get the point of it. But yeah, I hope everything is well in your neck of the woods out there. Let's see. I am just looking online here. Where's my page? I just want to open up my page. Here we go. Just wanna make sure it was playing. It is playing. Good. Looks like we're up and running somewhere. So I'm just using some graphite right now. I have my Sharpie and my graphite stick, and I'm just playing around, maybe some kind of perspective type of scene here. Just trying to be kind of quick and loose with it. Maybe just some kind of— this is some kind of a wall or fenced area on the right-hand side. You see a building in the background here. So I broke out some red acrylic ink here, and I'm just going to add some on. I'm picturing this to be some kind of a some kind of a wall or maybe some kind of old metal wall. I love this red color. It has a very orangey kind of— I want to make it kind of a rusty look so I could add some other colors to it as well. This is a water brush, an aqua brush, and I like it because you can put the water right in here, which is cool, so I don't have to worry about dipping it into a— I don't have one here— a container with water. I can just use the water that's in here. So everything's going well. If you're watching, give me a shout out, say hello. Don't be shy. I'm a nice guy, I think. I think I'm nice. Maybe not. Ah, there we go. Cool. All right, so that was some red ink. I'm going to break out some cerulean blue, one of my go-tos. Hey, I see your heart right there, so thank you for the heart. Always appreciated. So I'm going to mix some blue, cerulean blue, I'm going to mix it with this red. And I like to, um, has kind of an aged patina, grayed out look. When I mix it together. Some places I'll let the blue just kind of pop out. So I am going to put some yellow on that building in the background because I want to to really pop out. Um, I think I want to find a clean brush to use for that. This one looks like it should be okay. So you go— so there's kind of a yellow building in the background, the grid, yellow grid you can see going on. I like the yellow, how it's popping out against the rest of the sketch here, sketch painting. —and I'm gonna pop some of the yellow just on this fence area in the front. I'm adding some graphite. I want to indicate maybe some kind of paved street or something going on here, a paved surface. So I just put some graphite down and I'm gonna take a 3/4-inch brush, just wet it. You cover this up. I'm notorious for spilling my ink. Not good. So I'm just putting some water on this brush and just want to kind of brush, brush it over the graphite I laid down just to spread it out. So hope you're all having a great, great afternoon. I'm going to break out a black watercolor crayon or watercolor stick and just run it over some areas on here. I like the texture it adds and the— I just like the texture and the darkness it adds. In some areas. I'm not gonna do everything because it would be overpowering. Do you want to kind of trace the bottom of maybe where this, this wall meets the pavement down here, just so that kind of pops and reads a little bit? I'm gonna add something in the back here, almost like a sky. Um, I think I'm gonna use sepia to do that. So I have a sepia brush, watercolor brush marker I like to use. Just right here. Actually, we'll let it dry just for a second. It's a little wet. I hope you're having a great day today, Wednesday. Any big Thursday plans for anybody? Let me know, put it in the comments. And if you're lurking at work, don't worry, I won't tell anybody, I promise. It's all good with me. Let's see, here we go. So just by adding that sepia, it kind of pulls out the building a little bit more in the background. I'm actually gonna brush some sepia on the windows here also. I have to let this dry for a little bit before I can add any more to it. So I really like the colors. I like what's happening here. This color, I like this, what's happening in here. I like what's happening back in here as well. I kind of like what's happening here. There's almost— there's a yellow, kind of yellow streak in there. Dry, paper dry! You need to have patience when you're doing these kinds of sketches, especially if you're going to add layers and layers. You do want it to dry between layers because, first of all, the paper is getting saturated. It's buckling like crazy. You could also risk tearing the paper if it gets too wet. And also everything could turn a mud, which is sometimes cool if you want a muddy aesthetic. You can let everything kind of bleed together. But in this case, I kind of want it to dry a little bit before I add some more onto it. I really do like— I love the way this is drying. As it dries, it's changing. It has a really cool color effect there. Pretty cool. Awesome. If you have any questions, let me know. Put it in chat. Say hello. Let me know. I am gonna check— I got some music going here. Let me see. Just putting some other music on. Oops, I actually just turned it off by mistake. What am I doing? I'm going crazy. 4:55. All right, so I have about 10 minutes, then I have to get my pizza going. I made some homemade pizza tonight. The dough is rising as we speak, and I'm gonna get it into the oven. Around 5:30. Yeah, let's hit the play button. Here we go. Cool. Awesome, awesome. Thanks for watching. I'm staying on. I might— if I get disconnected for a second, bear with me. I'm having wonky internet issues on my end here. Darn that tech. Darn it. Let's see. Alright, just put my iPad here. Here we go. Just want to throw some more yellow on there in some places. I'm just trying to create some, some shadows where these windows are, just to kind of pop them in or recess them in a little bit. So I have some sepia on my brush. First I put down some blue, and I'm going over with sepia. Creates a nice kind of gray color. and just giving the idea of these windows being pushed back a little bit. Cool, there we go. I think it works okay. Hey, Donna, how are you? Mm, a little red maybe on the yellow. Yeah, that's not a bad idea on the building. Sure, could do that. Definitely add some red on there just to tone it down a little bit. And now, by popular request, let's put some red on the yellow. So it has a nice orangey kind of color to it. Heck, I'm gonna even put some in the window area, leaving on the edge. There you go. I think that's cool. I don't want to overdo it with the yellow— I mean, uh, the red on the yellow. Cool idea, thank you Donna. Appreciate that. There we go, we got some red on there. Look, I think it looks like a Japanese building with walls leading from it and flowers draping down. Ooh, I like that. That's a cool, I like that you're getting that out of this. Painting. Awesome. Reflections of flowers on a wet street. Awesome. I love how you're seeing this. It's an awesome way to visualize things, right? I like how you're seeing it. Very cool. Cool. I think I'm gonna let it dry for a while. I think, I think so. I like the way it's looking. I like the colors. On here. It's an interesting perspective. You know, I'm picturing something almost that— for me, it almost has an abandoned kind of feeling to it. I'm really working, trying to practice adding atmosphere and feeling to my paintings and sketches. You know, I love doing buildings and sketching buildings, but I'm really working hard to add another layer where you're feeling a little something when you're looking at these paintings. So that's kind of an exercise I was doing right now. My intent for this piece is just to work on that idea of conveying a feeling. So Donna, I love that you're picking up some vibes to it. This is really awesome. Very cool. Alright guys, with that I think I am gonna wrap. 'cause I have to go make some pizza for dinner. I am super, super duper excited. Love making pizza. Alright guys, thank you for watching. I will be on later tonight, probably around 7:45 or 8 o'clock-ish. And I'll probably just work on this for not too long, maybe 15 minutes or 20 minutes. Thanks a lot, see you later.