The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey everybody, hope you're having an awesome Friday night. Good to see you. You may have watched— you're probably watching me in contemplation mode. I'm trying to figure out what— I kind of know what I want to sketch, but I don't know what I want to use. Um, hope you're having a great Friday night. Let me know if you're in the chat, say hello. I'd love to know who's watching. Hope you're having a great, great night. And we're going to change the tunes a little bit, switch up. There we go. Yes, hope you're doing well. I'm going to sketch, um, I think I want to do a little city perspective with a Christmas tree. It's a scene I've done before. I did it last year. Um, let's see if I can pull it on screen here. So this, I believe I did this last year. I want to do a sketch tonight, not copying this, but similar vibe to it. So I kind of have a, an image out on my screen. Um, Let me just make this smaller. Actually, I'm going to turn it off, but you can kind of see what I want to do. Hey Linda! Yeah, this is the green tree. So Linda, I know you love the color green. You actually had a suggestion of me kind of maybe doing some more of these, so I listened to you and I'm going to do one tonight. We'll see how it goes. I haven't done one of these in a while, so I'm going to turn off the ref image. Um, because I don't want you guys to think I'm copying what's here. I'm— so let me turn it off. Not that there's anything wrong copying, but I want it to be a little different. Anyway, hope you're doing well. Let me know in the chat. Let me know if I sound like a broken record. Um, so let's do a little city perspective. I'm actually— let's use the Lamy. I'm gonna— my Lamy pen has blue ink in it. So, um, yeah, let's go for it. So I'm sketching some building edges here really quick, really loose. We'll see what happens. I kind of miss doing these. I've been doing a lot of bridges and I love the bridges, but I kind of wanted a little change. Just for tonight. And who knows, maybe a bridge will make its way into the sketch somehow. Never know. I'm going to use my aqua brush and just bleed some of this. So this is, this is blue Lamy ink. I ran out of black and I had a blue cartridge, and I actually love the way it bleeds. I'm going to zoom in so you guys can see some of the bleeding happening. I'm actually gonna tilt this up at an angle. Cool, there we go. Hey, Mickey's in the house! Mickey, I hope you're doing well. Uh, Mickey says, what weight of paper are you using? Yeah, this is 140-pound. Um, I'll show it to you. So it's Fabriano watercolor paper, 140-pound. I typically use a Canson watercolor pad, 140-pound, but when I went to go buy it at Michael's last time, I couldn't find it. I ended up maybe getting this one off of Amazon, and I've done maybe 4 or 5 sketch paintings. I'm really liking the texture of this paper. What's really cool, guys— I should get some water, it's drying here— but Look at this, how it's drying. I love this. It has like a greenish kind of tint here as it's drying. I gotta get some water. I'm sorry, this is totally unrehearsed, as you can tell. The guy is like drinking water, he's all over the place, but that's okay. That's what makes it fun. Kim Sheets is in the house. Kim, I hope you're doing well. It's great to see you. I haven't seen you in a while. Hope all is well. All right, so we have some building edges happening here, keeping it loose. We'll have, um, kind of our Christmas tree back here as a focal point. I'll just kind of, kind of rough it in a little bit. Maybe we have a tree happening back in here. Maybe it's doing something like this in the background. Cool. Let's kind of define our buildings a little more. Let's have a sidewalk happening. Maybe the tree is— what do we want the tree? Do we want it— sure, we could put it in the street. This is our scene, guys. We can do whatever we want. It's totally, totally imaginary. I was hoping to get into New York City this weekend to go check out all the trees and decorations, but I am too bogged down with work, schoolwork I gotta do. So hopefully next weekend I'll get in. I love going to New York City during the holidays. It's just, it's, it's really magical. It's kind of crazy with a lot of people, but that's just part of the energy of the place. But, uh, it's really magical. So we'll see if I can get out next weekend, maybe next Saturday or Sunday. I want to take a lot of photographs so I have some good reference stuff to come back and sketch. So imagine there's some buildings, maybe we have, uh, doors here. Maybe some kind of windows, quick, loose. I'm not drawing a lot of detail. Maybe we have some kind of overhangs on these buildings, awnings. And you'll notice I'll, I'll throw down some ink, I'll come back, just throw some water down. This is a sidewalk here and sidewalk over here as well. Let's see, that's kind of an upper story of this building. I like— some of you guys know I like to add clocks on my buildings. So, where are my sketches? Somewhere. Maybe we have a clock happening. Maybe there's a clock somewhere on this part of the building, some kind of clock going on. Sketching The idea of some windows happening here. Let's see, let's do Throw down some more water. I do have a color in mind for the tree. I'm gonna break out some green. I'll show you it in a second, in a minute or so. So you can kind of see kind of a cityscape coming together a little bit there. Linda says, I was in New York in 2008 at Christmas time. It was beautiful. Yeah, it is such a magical time in the city. That is so cool. Kim says, love to see the photos of NY all dolled up for Christmas. I will definitely post, uh, photos if I get in there. Dawn's in the house. Dawn, good to see you. Hope all's well. Let's just throw some—

there we go.

Bleed this a little bit. I want to make these window openings a little bit darker. Kind of outline the clock I have over here so it pops out a little bit. So this is a very, very wonky perspective. You'll see nothing's measured. It's not to scale. It's really just about creating the idea of some kind of distance happening. And that's how I like to do these. I, I'm not one for measuring and making technical perspectives. I did a lot of that in college, and it takes time. It takes a lot of time to construct accurate perspectives. So I just kind of learned or figured out a way just to capture the idea but get it down quick. I love the way this is drying, guys. This is drying so awesomely. Is that a word, awesomely? Let me know, is it? So maybe we have tree back here, maybe we have some stairs, maybe stairs are back behind the tree going up to, uh, I don't know, we have some doorways back in here, some kind of building doorways happening. And this is all imaginary. This is not a real location. Real quick, simple way to create windows is just bleed the ink. Just kind of bleed your ink down. It's a great way to create openings.

Buildings.

Going to bleed this here, just show where the stairs might be coming up.

Cool.

So you can kind of see the idea of the street buildings taking shape. Just throw some windows in here. All right, let's— we'll let that dry. I'm gonna break out this green. Hey, Chip's in the house! Chip, good to see you. Great to see you, Chip. It was, uh, it was awesome, uh, connecting earlier today. I really appreciated it. Linus says awesomely is a word now thanks to you. Thank you. I didn't know if awesomely was a word. I make up a lot of words. I always say to my kids in my classes, um, yeah, they should be thankful I'm not a— I'm thankful I'm not a language arts teacher because I would do miserably at it. I'm always just making up words. All right, let's do the tree. Let's just add some green, some color in here. This ink, um, this is like liquid gold to me. This ink is probably from back in 2015. It came with— oh, where's my pen? Where is my Lambie pen?

Ooh.

So I bought this set maybe in 2015. I got this Lamy pen and it came with this cool ink. I think it was called Electric Lime or something like that. Lamy no longer makes this color ink. I can't find it anywhere. So the only— I have, fortunately, I have a good amount in here, but once this runs out, it's gone. And I love this color so much. I don't think I have any in my Lamy pen, so I'm just gonna dip a paintbrush right into the ink itself and we'll paint with it. So let's use some of this Electric Ink, or Electric Lime. I've been trying to find my receipt from when I bought this so I could see the exact name, but I haven't been able to find it. All right, so we're going to use a brush. I have some dirty water here. I did say dirty. I like to use dirty water, um, with these cityscapes, especially if I'm doing like a grimy, gritty industrial scene. And when you can see, I'll put some on here. This is, this is my, the dirty water. It comes out, it's like a brownish color. So let's do that. And let's just, let's throw some of this green on the tree and you'll see kind of how it pops. It's interesting because the blue ink will bleed into it and that's okay. We're just keeping it loose and fun. And we'll see where it goes. We'll let it do its own thing. But, ah, this color, I love this color. It is so amazing. And I want to look— make like a reflection kind of happening, so I'm going to kind of wet this and pull it down. One of the ways I like to— that's one of the ways I like to make reflections is I'll kind of put ink over here. And I'm just gonna get a wet brush and I'm just gonna, I'm gonna kind of pull it down a little bit. So you can kind of see that tree. I like the pop of color. This is the only place you're going to see the green on here is only the tree. I feel like it's going to really help with that depth idea, the perception, the perspective perception, something like that, but kind of draw your eye back towards where that tree is. And I think, I actually think that's enough. I'm not going to add any more on there. I will come back in after this all dries with either the Lamy or I might break out my Sharpie and sketch on some details. Cool. Hey, so good to see some of you guys out there. I appreciate you tuning in. This is so fun. Linda says, yeah, green time. Yeah, you got it. It isn't easy being green. Kim says, how do you make the dirty water? Kim, really, really good question. I have this— I hope if you have a pen or pencil, it's really, really technical. It might take me about an hour to go through it, but I'll go through the process. I basically take, you know, while I'm sketching painting. I basically just take my dirty brush and dip it in here, um, and that's it. So I'm being a little— I'm being, uh, silly here. That's literally all it is. It's just me cleaning the brush off, and whatever colors are mixing in here are what's in here. I'll leave this sit around for a week, 2 weeks, 3, until something starts growing in the bottom. Once something starts growing in the bottom, I'll dump it out. So I like to keep some dirty water around. So yeah, that's, that's literally all it is. I'm actually digging, dipping into the dirty water. I'm going to throw some down on here, and I'll zoom in so you can see what it's doing. Here you go. So here's the water. I love this music. Next time I'll have a holiday playlist, I think. Cool. And look, I'm just kind of tapping it down. And you can see I like the combination of this kind of brown and blue. Kind of mixing in a little bit. And I think actually I want to do a wash. I'm going to do a wash of this dirty water kind of behind the tree. Cool. I like the way that's looking so far. Chip says, fascinating color, love the contrast. Ooh, thank you, Chip. Yeah, that's so cool. Vicky says, hey Linda! Um, hey, Cameron's in the house! Cameron, good to see you, how are you doing, sir? Hope all's going well. Cameron says, um, using color only in one spot is great, it brings importance to the tree. He likes it, guys, this is officially Cameron approved. Wait, which Cameron is it? Thank you, Cameron. Means a lot. Means a lot coming from Cameron. Appreciate that so much. Um, Linda says, I don't have dirty water, but Mr. Schlichting— Schleiting— Linda, you know, I've known you for how long, I still don't know how to say your last name. Schlichting? Schleiting? We'll say Mr. Linda. Mr. Linda waited out into the fridge late Lake Superior filled in two water bottles for you. Cool! You paint with Lake Superior water. That is— there is nothing more superior than that. That is awesome. I don't think I'm going to add any more different colors on this. Um, you may, you may see black on here. When I add detail after it starts drying. I'll definitely add detail on the tree with some black just to give it some tree-like stuff happening. I do want to pull a tree trunk out of here, but it's a little too wet, so I gotta wait till that dries. So let's see, I'm just gonna kind of play around some spots over here and where it's drying, do some sketching if I can on top of things.

Cool.

I think I'm going to leave a lot of this unfinished. I'm kind of liking it. I feel like if I start adding a lot of detail, it's going to become too fussy. I like it very loose, although I do want to indicate some kind of building material, material or texture. I feel like on this facade here, so I might lightly just draw some lines to indicate maybe stonework or brickwork on here. But I don't think I want to use my Lamy because I don't want that to bleed so much. So I'm eyeing up my Sharpie. Hopefully it's dry enough. Sharpies do not work well on wet surfaces. So let's see if I can get some lines on here. I may have to wait. But they would be really very, very light. Yeah, it's, it's a little too wet, but you can kind of see the— you can see the lines happening here. Not that I want them to be dark, actually. I like it. We'll go with it. So it's just adding a little texture to the facade. Maybe there's a parapet up here peeking off the top of the roof. I— this is actually really cool. I just noticed something. This, to me, almost looks like the spire of an Empire State Building or Chrysler Building right here. In the background. So if I darken this roof edge so it pops closer, all the way in the background is this spire. So it kind of adds to the city vibe, right? What's happening in the distance. So that, that's like a happy accident. So as our friend Bob Ross would say, it's just a happy, happy little accident, which I love. That's what's so fun about bleeding ink for me. Just a happy, happy little accidents that happen. All these weird and fun and wonderful surprises. It's so cool. I kind of geek out on this stuff. I want to define these windows a little bit more, so I'm going to take my Sharpie and just kind of pull out maybe some window pains happening here. I kind of lost the edge of this building a little bit, so I'm going to pull that out a little bit more. I like this awning, this overhang. I kind of wanted it to have a curvy shape. It didn't really happen, and part of that is the spine on this journal. I really like this paper. This— I think I complain about this all the time when I use it. This spine drives me berserk, being left— especially being left-handed. I guess I could flip the paper upside down, but my palm gets caught on the spine, and when I do quick loose sketching, I just can't flow. So that's kind of what happened here. I let the spine— I guess it's called the spine, right? The binding— kind of get in the way from my flow. I could have turned this over and I didn't. I was being too fast. But I— it's kind of like a double-edged sword. I love spiral bindings because it's great to lay your sheets flat, but sometimes they just kind of get in my way, so something, you know, right? This is an art show, so I'm sure we all have our own kind of things that irritate us a little bit. So I just want to put that out there if anybody else has that issue as well. I mean, I could tear the paper out of the book. I kind of— there's something for me about sketching things in a journal or sketchbook that I really like. So as I'm adding these, just line work, just adding some little bit of detail. We did lose our clock a little bit. You can kind of pull that back. Do kind of some, some tick marks here. Still a little too wet here. I can't really draw on the tree. I want to kind of pull the sidewalk edge out a little bit.

Cool.

There we go. There's some lines on the sidewalk. Here's a cool trick for getting depth or the illusion of perspective. If you have sidewalks on your sketches, if you're doing city scenes, we'll zoom in. Um, as this cracks or the separations in the sidewalk are happening. The further you go back, the closer those separations will kind of happen. I really over-exaggerated, but I think you can kind of see what I'm talking about. The lines are getting closer in the back, so that gives the illusion of depth. So that's a good trick. Sometimes I'll do the same thing with, um, if it's like a cobblestone street, you can kind of make the cobblestones bigger in the foreground. And as you go in the back, they'll get smaller. Maybe this is a reflecting pool in the water here. So we have some kind of water. Who says our tree can't be somehow propped up? In the water, right? So I'm down— I'm imagining this being a reflecting pool. So maybe I'll bring in a little bit of that Lambie Blue ink and we'll bleed it across here. Hope you guys are liking this scene. This is drying really nicely. I like the colors happening. We'll let it dry for a second, see if there's any cues for me. Stephanie is in the house. I don't know if I said hello. Hey Stephanie, good to see you. Oh, Linda gave me a pronunciation. Schlichting. Hey Linda, thank you. Schlichting. Now I know. Karen says, I'm rather vexed. There is a tree and then a reflection pool. Yeah, yeah, there's a tree and a reflection pool. You— camera, that's what I'm showing. Again, this is imaginary, right? From here. So what I'm sketching doesn't have to make 100% logical sense. So what I'm feeling, it's what I'm sketching in the moment. It's imaginary. There could be a tree coming out of the reflecting pool. So that's, that's kind of my vision for this. So hopefully that kind of makes sense. I'm gonna actually add some of the blue ink, will bleed some of this across. Where's my brush? Um, we'll use this brush, I think. Maybe not. That's weird. That's strange. The ink didn't bleed like I thought it would. Happy accidents are great. They are. Um, I have one journal that you can remove the page, then reinsert it on the spine. That's cool. That's an interesting concept. I'll have to check that out, see if you— Donna, is that like watercolor paper? That's a really cool idea. I think I'm running out of blue ink in my Lamy pen. Oh, Karen said you didn't know if there's a reflection pool or not. Yeah, so it looks like grass because I haven't added the blue ink into it yet. So Cameron, hopefully that answers your question. I think I'm running out of the blue ink, so I just kind of took it out of my pen. No, there's nothing. Oh, well, that worked. We're gonna, we're gonna blot some of that out, but at least I got the blue to come out. Yeah, we're going to definitely pull some of that back. That was, that was good. Womp womp womp. It's all good. We'll make it work. I have confidence it'll work out okay. You know, imagine this being a gray wintry day. We don't have bright blue sparkling water. Cool. So I'm just— I'm literally dipping my brush into this Lamy ink cartridge. I think it's almost out, so I'm kind of trying to take some of it out of the container, and I'm just going back in. I wanted to put kinda darken some of these areas. Not that much. Silly man. It's okay. What I like about this, you put it down, you can blot it off if you get to it pretty quickly. So I'm gonna leave it there for a second, I'm gonna blot it so some of it stays behind. Kinda pull these openings, make these a little bit darker. This I'm gonna blot because it's Too wet. Let's do that. Let's do this. Cool. So I'm just adding some drama to these buildings. I really want to pull them out, make them feel a little bit closer. So I'm just throwing down the ink a little bit heavy here. Gotta be careful not to overdo it, which is very easy for me to do. Actually, I kinda wanna blot out some of this here, I think. Pull that back a little bit. There we go, I kinda like that. Cool. That's kind of what it's looking like, guys. A rainy day. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Mickey. This could definitely be a rainy day scene. I was picturing kind of dark and gray skies, so exactly. And I like the green down here because it's kind of trying to pick up on the reflection of the tree color. Uh, Grumbacher Mixes Media Hidden Wire Sketchbook with In and Out Pages is the name of the sketchbook. It is on Amazon. Ooh, awesome. I got a— I have a Michaels gift card. I'll have a look and see if it's on Michaels. That would be awesome if I could find it there. Thank you, Don, I appreciate that. Mixed media. I should, I should step away from the keyboard because I'm struggling. Yeah, I, I know, like I'm struggling with my speech. I get it. Um, I like the way this is drying, guys. It's looking pretty cool. I feel like I don't want to add any more ink color. When it dries, I will definitely come back and pop out some of the details on here, and I'm going to leave the white that you see white. It'll stay that way, and we'll kind of do some scribbly on the tree. To make it look more tree-like. I actually lied. I think I want to pop a little bit of, a little bit of more, um, just a touch, a little touch in here. All right, there we go. I just want to pull those window panes out a little bit more. That is it. So I think we could put that cartridge— how much is in here? Let me see. Yeah, there's not much in there, so I'll leave it out of the pen. Where did I put the cap? Here it is. I'll clean this, wash this out. I have to restock on my Lamy cartridges. Let's see if there's any questions and then we'll wrap up in a few minutes. Kim says it almost looks like a very wet street. Yeah. Um, love that you said that. So it could definitely be a wet street with a reflection. It could be a pool, it could be a street, and that's why I like to keep these things kind of loose and open for interpretation. So I love that you're seeing something different, which is so cool. That's awesome. Linda says, I stepped away to take a phone call and look how much has changed. Oh, I'm so glad you could see the changes. That's so fun. Mickey says, like the way this project is turning out, I'm going to try this concept with an old western town. Yeah, I love that you said that. So if you guys know my whistling cowboy sketches, right, you could see the— you could see a very similar concept. So this is— I haven't done a whistling cowboy. I will end with a whistling cowboy tonight. The Whistling Cowboy, you know, was inspired by kind of Western scenes. So I've had practice, you know, kind of doing these perspectives, quick, loose. Oops, that was a window thing we were talking about. There's a bridge. So if I hold these next to each other, you can just see the similar concept. I'm really applying the same perspective idea whether it's a real, real, real quick sketch like the Whistling Cowboy sketches or more, a little more detail. It's the same basic principles. I really like this piece of music. Whenever I hear it, it just does something to me. I don't know why. Right? But look at the similarities. You can see the awning here. You can see the sidewalk. So there's like a blueprint for loose, quick, loose one-point perspective that you can apply to develop other scenes with. And if I— I'm trying to get that perspective and nail it down to a something I could easily produce and put out there for you guys, like on a PDF or something. Yeah, so there you go, right? So here you go, very similar concepts. Same thing here, you can see I kind of have the lines for the road or whatever, the ground here, and it gets closer in the background. So cool, I'm so glad you said that, Mickey, that was awesome. Curtis says it looks like the tree is glowing. That's cool, that's cool, because it's going to be a Christmas tree. That looks— when I do some sketches, we'll do a little look at— look like I have lights on it. So I like that it's glowing. I mean, I could, I could also add some glowing— hmm, I could add some green ink. How would it look if I threw some green ink on these buildings? What do you guys think? What if I threw some of that green ink just on the edge of this building, maybe to pull it out a little bit? I might try that. Yes! Awesome! Um, I'm amusing myself. Uh, my retro cup has helped get me through this Darn flu. Oh, thank you, Retro. Linda, that's so sweet. Retro. Yeah, if you guys don't— some of you guys might not know who Retro is. Retro is the Whistling Cowboy's companion, his dog companion. I love that. That made my day. That was so cool. So Retro always makes an appearance in these sketches. Awesome, awesome. Go green! Green in reflections. Yeah, you know what, you guys know me, you know me. I just like— I'll just— I like to throw stuff down. Let's do it. I'm not going to get cray cray. I feel like I just want a soft edge on here. So here's what we're going to do. I'm going to take a photograph of this. The way it is right now before I throw more green on it. So here's a pro tip, guys. Don't— take pictures of your sketches, your paintings in different stages. That way I could always come back to at least a photograph of the way it looked previously. So let me just put my camera on here. I know the teacher has his cell phone out in class, I'm so sorry. I want to take a picture. Actually, I'm going to get a little closer.

Here we go.

So there you go. So now I kind of have it captured on here if I need to come back to it. I have kind of a reference right there. And if I, you know, if I want to put a printout maybe on my Jason Fine Art site of this, I have a good image I could use. I'm going to adjust the lighting a little bit, but cool. Let's get to scrap paper here and keep that out. I think I want to— I think I'm gonna add just some water in here. I'm thinking I want to tilt. I like to tilt my book up at an angle when I'm working. You think after all these years I would have made a little stand or something? I just throw whatever is around here. I have a watercolor palette. All right, just really want to just kind of throw it really lightly on there, and I'm going to pull it back a little bit. We'll zoom in so you can see it better. So I just pulled a little. I don't think it's— I don't think it's competing with this. I actually don't mind it. If anything, it might be helping. Now I'm being— I'm being too careful. Let's throw— I do want to throw some more green on this. Just to kind of— so it's not so monotone. Just take some ink out of the cap here. Alright, let's— I want to throw some in this clock. Alright, I think that's cool. I'm gonna be so sad when that ink runs out. Alright, cool. Here we go. That's it, it's enough. I like it, I like the pop of green here on the clock. I like it here. I kind of like it here. And I, I did put some down here to kind of wish I left a little more white space in this. You should try the Adobe Snap Scan app. Yeah, Cameron, I love that app. Jason Nicholas Nicholas, we made pistachio ice cream for Thanksgiving. It was good. Nice, nice. Was it this color green? I have to say, I don't— I'm not a pistachio fan. I love my ice cream, but, um, not a pistachio fan. Maybe I just haven't had it enough. Right, cool. All right guys, let me know what you think of this one. I think it's done for now. I'll zoom way out. Uh, love the green placement. Oh good, Linda, I'm glad you like it. I zoomed way out so you guys can kind of see what the green's doing from a distance. Uh, it does look good. Thank you, Mickey. What's the name of the green ink? Perhaps we can locate somewhere else. Yeah, Chip, so I'm trying to think way, way back, 2015. I want to say it was like neon. I think it was like Electric Lime. Electric Lime. That pops into my head, and it's, it's Lamy. I did order— well, let me show you guys. I have this, I think it's in here. I went on Lamy's website, I think last year, or maybe earlier this year, and I did order this color. So, and this was called— what was this called? Dang it, I can't remember the name. The color is not on here, the name of it. I did order this from the Lamy website, let's say last year or sometime. It is not— it's not the same color as what's in the bottle. They look like they would match, but they don't. But it's close, it's close. Um, with the green on the buildings, it makes it look like the tree is glowing brightly, like it is on hyperdrive. Cool, Cameron, I like that. That's cool. Uh, Lady has a neon— Lady has a neon green ink. The Lady, Lambie, I think. Do you mean— I think, Dawn, I'm wondering if you meant Lambie. Yeah, maybe this is a neon green. This might be the color I ordered last year. I'm sure a lady somewhere also has neon green ink. I'm just saying. Um, Dawn, I love that you're here. It's so great. It's so great to see you. I have missed you in our, uh, Workshops. Yeah, it might— this might be the color I ordered. I could look back on my receipts. It is different than the lime color. Good grief, Lammy. I wasn't gonna say anything about the Lamu. Sounds like it's some kind of college. L-A-M-U. Los Angeles Music University. I just graduated from L-A-M-U. Maybe it is a real place. I have no idea. You guys are fun. All right, I think this one's— I want to put it aside and let it dry, guys, before I do anything else. I hope you like that. I hope you got some takeaways from this. Um, yeah, it's looking pretty cool. All right, let's, let's do a little recap. I'll show you what's in the sketchbook. What did we last work on here? Oh yeah, here's the bridge. This was a quick one. This was more— I just wanted to play with the colors. This is how it dried if you had, uh, were watching last time. Now I'm actually going to do a bridge sketch now, guys. If you want to stay around for 10 or 15 minutes, I'm going to do a quick— I didn't do my daily bridge sketch yet today, so I'm going to do that next. You could see some of those sketches I've done, some of the bridges. What else? This one I really like here. All right, cool. Let's let this dry. Let's break out, um, start a bridge sketch here maybe. I'm not very consistent with my sketchbooks. I have a few different ones and I don't do all my bridges in one. Like, they're not grouped by subject. I just kind of grouped by grab and go. I just kind of grab and go with it. Let's see. Here's another bridge sketch in here. I really got to date these. Alright, let's do a sketch. So for some of these bridges, I have been using reference photos. I'm gonna pull some up I have on my computer here. I've been working off a lot of these sketches from— that my friend had sent me. Chip sent me one. Linda, I think you sent some bridge pictures as well. So, I'll definitely— I'll get to your sketches at some point. So, I appreciate you guys for doing that. Thank you so much for all the reference images. I'm just looking on my computer. I feel like I've sketched this one a few times. Let me sketch this one. I know you guys can't see the reference but— all right, cool. I'm gonna grab a drink of water. Let me know if you have any questions. I'll see if Rue can hunt down the color. Ah, thanks Chip, that would be so cool. This lady wants neon green ink. Yeah, yeah. Hey, do you guys want me to sketch? Who wants me to sketch with this ink? Let's do a bridge sketch in this Lamy neon green ink and maybe Maybe I've been wrong and the ink matches closer than I thought it did. Let's try it. Oh, just gotta take this out. I have a really cool color in here, it's called Apple Snail. Um, unfortunately I don't have time to go rinse this out and come back, so we're gonna see some apple snail and probably lime green mixed together a little bit. So let's put the cartridge in. This will be fun. Hey Jennifer, hello from Arizona! Jennifer, good to see you. Good to see you, Jennifer. I hope you're feeling well, and I responded to your message earlier, so Make sure you check your messages. So this— what's misleading, right? Here's kind of the color on the outside, but here's what's inside. Let's put it in and see what happens, because I honestly don't remember. Jennifer, thanks for joining us. Cool, love bridges, covered bridges in Ohio and Iowa. Yeah, colored bridges or covered bridges are amazing. I haven't sketched any, and I would love to. Alright, so I just put that ink in here. It might take a few minutes to bleed out, so just bear with me. This is just a scrap pad I have here. Here's that Apple Snail ink, which I love. Actually, let's play around. Let's just draw a little Cityscape, just to kind of get that ink out. I'm just kind of turning this scrap piece of paper into a cityscape just to clean out the Apple Snell ink. I should put a sink in my studio here. That would be cool. Where's the green? Where's the green? Come on, green. I don't know how long, guys, it's going to take to bleed this ink out of here, but that's okay. I'm enjoying this color. So we know what we're going to do. We're going to sketch. We'll just start sketching a bridge and we'll— whatever happens, happens.

Cool.

All right, here we go. I'm gonna bleed some of this ink in a second or so here. I hear a helicopter outside. That's weird. I don't usually hear helicopters this time of day. Okay, cool. All right, so let's just bleed some of this and play around with it. So I think the, I think the green color is starting to come out a little bit, but it's mostly the apple snail we're seeing. Let's use my aqua brush and bleed it. You guys, there you go. Cool. Chip says, what about a footbridge only humans can cross? No cars. Suspended bridge. Ooh, footbridges are awesome. That's a— that's actually a really cool idea also. Whenever I think of footbridges, I think of, um, there's a scene in, in one of the Indiana Jones movies, I don't remember which one, where they're crossing, uh, you know, a suspension bridge. Um, there's a whole— there's that scene always comes into my brain. I love that, Chip. Oh cool, so as I'm bleeding this, you can see that color. That lid's not working for me. Let's put this under here. All right, I'm gonna make something to prop this up. So I'm bleeding this, you can see that yellow, I mean that green coming through. That's interesting. Let's see, we have some kind of landscape, mountains back here in the background. So we have a landmass kind of happening in here. I really want to make that dark. Let's just do this, do some vertical lines back here. Guys, I'm sorry, I always, I always move my sketchbook a lot when I'm sketching. It's just kind of how I work. I will always shifting things and repositioning it. So hopefully I'm not making you seasick out there. It's hard for me to keep it in one position. I just get into it, so I'm kind of just flowing. There we go, it's looking cool. This is cool. I like the way this is actually looking. It's kind of misty looking, has a mystic, mystic quality. Misting quality to it. We lost some of the lines, but that's okay. I like the effect. Well, I'm gonna pop some in here and there, pull it back a little bit. This is the base where the kind of the pylon sits in the water to anchor the bridge structure. We have some water happening in here. Yeah, now the yellow ink is I say yellow, it looks like a yellow highlighter to me, the color. So that's starting to come through, less of the apple, uh, snail color. Dip that in there. That's— I just dipped that in dirty water. That's cool. I want to bleed this. I want to create more reflection, so I'm trying to bleed this. It's too wet. I have to wait for it to dry. All right, that's cool. That's kind of a cool, very loose sketch of a bridge. I, I'm liking it. What do you guys think? Do it! Yes, more green. We have two covered bridges near our house. Your grand loves call them magic. Ooh, Linda, I love that. That is so awesome, so sweet. Mickey says, "Linda, there are magical weather in a car or horse-drawn carriage." That is so true. "Now that happy mistake is cool, two different inks, going to try that." Hey, there you go, awesome. I'm glad you got that takeaway. All right guys, I'm gonna wrap in 5 minutes or so. I'm fading away a little bit. It's been a long day. I was— I think I was at school 10 hours today. It's all good, not complaining. It's all good. All right, cool. There you go. I like this. I might let it dry and come back with this this and just, just pull out some of the edges. Maybe a little, just a little bit on the bottom of the bridge. Kind of lost it when we added water, but we can just pull it back in or add it back in. Very cool. So that was the Lamy, well, 5 Lamy T10. 10. I don't know if that's a color number. I don't see the color name on the box anywhere unless it's here. Unless this is the color name, but it's like— what, what, like, is that German? I don't even know what language that is. Un— let's see, does anybody speak German? If this is German, I have to type it in. "Anverbinderlich präsent vom Hof Lang." "Anverbinderlich präsent vom Hof Lang." I don't know what that translates to. But that is the only info. I'd have to go look at my receipt. Oh, it says "Made in Germany." Alright, so that was German. Cool, nice effect. I'm so glad, Mickey, you like that. Very, very cool. All right, guys, let me know if you want me to end with the Whistling Cowboy sketch. Put yes cowboy in the chat and we'll end with the Whistling Cowboy. If not, that's cool too. Whatever you guys would like to see. I'm gonna— Mickey, you know what I'm gonna do? Mickey, here's what we're gonna do. I still have some of that cool Apple Snail ink in here. I'm gonna live on the edge right now. Living on the edge.

I'm gonna take some of that ink out.

Here we go. And I'm gonna bleed some of that in here Cool, there we go. There we go. I love— that looks awesome. I love that contrast there. I think that was— that ended up being a cool way to kind of finish the bottom of that bridge. Done. I am not adding anything more to this. This is finished. Finished.

Here we go.

Awesome. Yes, Cowboy! All right, we'll hit the Cowboy. All right guys, very, very cool. We'll let this dry and I'll post pictures of it. You can see what it looks like as I tap on some more of that color. All right, done, done, done, done. Put this over here. Here's how this one's drying. This one's drying really, really nicely. All right, cool. Put that there and that there. All right, let's do the Whistling Cowboy. I need a number from 1 to 20, and that'll be the number of the song we listen to. As we do our outro sketch. It's kind of a cool little fun scribble. Let's see, when we last left the Whistling Cowboy in retro, they were— where the heck were they? I haven't done one in a while. They were here somewhere, somewhere. Zoom in, make sure I get it. Um, and usually I just grab and go with what's out, so we'll see. Maybe we'll just use our Sharpie. We'll see how it goes. 15. All right, Mickey, we'll do 15. Thank you for picking a number. Thank you guys for watching. I appreciate you all. Thank you for sharing this video, liking it. Thank you for the positivity and in the chat over there. Um, thanks for interacting with me. It makes it more fun for me. Um, yeah, thank you guys so much. I appreciate you. Let me— I'm trying to find song number 15 on my playlist here. Here it is, Whistling Cowboy.

Number 15 is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Here we go. This song is called Boots of Glory. Linda says, "Thanks for the fun this evening." Thank you, Linda. Thank you.

Ink—

I was thinking of, Inklings, of doing a Zoom. Let me look at my calendar before I do the sketch. Um, next Saturday's the 17th. I was hoping to do a Zoom like during my winter break, um, one night with everybody, with all the Inklings from the past workshops and maybe some new people, just get together for an hour or something on Zoom and create something. So it would be the week, probably the week after Christmas. Um, so I'm just throwing it out there. I would like to— I think it'd be fun. As you can tell, I'm like, I'm fading away. All right, cool. Number 15, let's do it. Boots of Glory, here we go. 3, 2, 1. Well, it would help if I had a Sharpie that had ink in it. We're gonna go with it. There you go, it's coming out. Alright, cool, there you go with some cowboy quick sketch. Thank you guys, thank you Dawn, Linda, Mickey, Chip, uh, get-together would be fun, I agree. Jennifer, if you're still in the house, thank you for joining us. Cameron, good to see you as well. Kim was in the house. Seeing who else did I miss? Anybody? If you were on and I forgot your name, I apologize. Thank you guys, take care. Today's Friday night. I will— I'm gonna try to be on this weekend. Um, I may possibly be on Sunday morning around 11 AM, 11 or 12. So I've been wanting to do like a Sunday morning sketch thing, so I might, might hit it Sunday morning. All right guys, take care. Peace and live creatively. I really, really appreciate all of you so, so much. I'm honored. So thank you, guys.