The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud
In this 2021 livestream titled “Inking Out Loud,” artist Jason Nicholas uses a casual, conversational style to unwind by sketching and painting live for his audience. He begins by greeting viewers, turning on comments, and sharing personal observations about weather, allergies, and daily life, creating a relaxed atmosphere. Jason then demonstrates a spontaneous color experiment, mixing Pyrrole Red watercolor ink with yellow to create a vibrant orange, and later adds fluorescent pink, cerulean blue, chartreuse, and other pigments, commenting on how the colors behave on camera versus in person. Throughout the session he engages with chat participants, responding to name suggestions, guessing games, and feedback on the evolving artwork. He offers concrete advice on developing a loose drawing style: work quickly, use a pen or pencil, and practice eye‑closed scribbling to build muscle memory and a “Zen” mindset. He emphasizes that there are no wrong ways in art, encouraging viewers to experiment, let colors “do their own thing,” and avoid over‑controlling the medium. Jason references his ongoing series— the “Inky Wonky Cottage” collection and a skyline series— and mentions plans to organize his works into themed groups. He reflects on the therapeutic value of art, the importance of community interaction, and his desire to eventually codify his process into guides. The video concludes with a wrap‑up, a reminder of Earth Day, and a heartfelt thank‑you to the audience, reinforcing the core message that creativity thrives on spontaneity, practice, and shared enthusiasm.
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Hey there, out there in virtual land. Hope you're having a great, great Wednesday. Thanks for stopping by and watching. Hope everything's going well. Just popping on for a little bit and just winding down from the day. This day has like just flown by, and I feel like I just need to reel it back a little bit. So sketching is one way that helps me just to unwind and get my brain kind of emptied out and ready for bed. I don't have my comments turned on, but I can change that so I can see who is watching and commenting. Hope you guys are doing great. I just realized I didn't have the comments turned on. Oops. Oh, that technology. Boom! It's on. There we are. I can see the words. Hey, Jeannie and Kim and Patty and Patties. Good to see you guys. Hope you're having a great, great day. So it's just time to unwind with some sketching. You know me, you should know me by now. I just kind of sketching something. I don't even know what I'm sketching. But that's what is fun. Just gonna lower some music. I got some music here, it's a little too loud. So I hope you had nice weather where you are today. I know it's been snowing in parts of the country. Crazy. There's been bad winds and rains. It's crazy. We had a short but wicked little thunderstorm come through this afternoon. So the weather is definitely interesting these days. I have some pen going here, a little bit of graphite I'm breaking out. Just going to grab some water. I'm just going to play around with a quick sketch. Snow in West Virginia? No way! I hope you didn't get too much snow. It's supposed to be springtime, right? What's up with the weather? I don't get it. I just don't get what's going on. It's crazy. Crazy crazy. But we needed the rain here, so it was good. Flowers are starting to bloom. Grass is turning green. I got some springtime allergies happening. I never used to get allergies until like the past like 4 or 5 years. Really weird. I guess your body changes over time, right? It's all good though. It's worth it to have some sniffles to see some beautiful flowers starting to bloom. I have some irises that are starting to grow nicely, and they're my favorite, favorite flowers. I love when they bloom. So I can't wait for that to happen. Cool. I don't know, I feel like playing with some color. Let's break out some color. Just messing around. Um. Brush we use. Use like a flat brush. 3/4 is too big to fit in the jar. I have this little one. Actually, I think I want to use the wider brush. So I just want to pour some of that in a little container. Um, actually, you know what, I can do this. I used this lid yesterday. Let's pour it in this little lid. This is red. This is Pyrrole Red, I think, watercolor ink. I just feel like breaking out something a little bit bright and vibrant on this piece, on this sketch. No snow, but crazy thunderstorms. I see that. Yeah, we had, uh, I thought we were gonna get worse thunderstorms. We had one that rolled through. I was expecting more today, but I'll take the one. We did lose power today very briefly, which is— I'm not sure what that was from. That was way before the storm even came through. I don't know, I didn't have any dinner, so I'm feeling like a little ketchup here, a little mustard color. I'm painting with my hungry stomach tonight. My stomach's picking up the colors. Thinking maybe a little barbecue or something. He had a— some ketchup colors, some mustard colors. It's all good, right? It's all fun. I gotta get a cloth. I have a cloth here for wiping my brush off. Um, I'm actually just gonna pour a little bit of yellow in the same lid I'm using for this. I'm not going to get too fussy. I do want to put that here in case, in case I get too close to it. I don't want to knock it over. It's turning out to be a kind of a real nice orangey color with the red and yellow mixing together. I'm gonna add a little bit more yellow on here, I think. Just wanna do like some thin stripes of yellow. See, see what this does. So we got some thin stripes of yellow, maybe not so thin. It's bleeding in there, that's good. The colors do what they want to do, right? Okay, they got to have fun too. We don't want to control them too much. Let them— let the colors be who they want to be or what they want to be. They're as much— what am I trying to say? They're as much a part of the team as I am. Teamwork. Cool. That's looking fun. I'm going to let that dry for a second and I'll come back and do some more marker or ink on top. Some Sharpie on top maybe. Usually I have my water on the left side. That's weird. I was grabbing across— reaching across. Usually it's on this side. Cool. Let that dry. I'll check in. So guys, hope you're doing well. That was just a quick little warm-up with color. Gonna let it dry for a sec. I'm gonna make it maybe a little more in focus. Awesome, we are focused. Jeannie, did several little pencil sketches today, but I can't get loose to be my style. We had a freeze here in Texas last night. Ooh, freezing. Really? That's crazy. "You can't get loose to be your style." So loose is something that does take practice. It takes work. I know I make it look easy because I do it really fast, but I've been doing it for 20 years or so, maybe not quite that long. If I was to give you one tip right now to be really loose, My tip would be to be fast. Take a pen— excuse me, a pen or a pencil. I'm gonna get a drink of water, gotta drive through. Take a pen or a pencil and just be really, really fast with it. Sorry, I had to get a drink. So let's get a sheet of paper. I have some scrap here. And you know what else I would do actually also is To be loose, sometimes a good exercise is just to close your eyes because if we're looking at the piece of paper, we're trying to picture everything we want to do on it. You know, you might have a vision in your brain of a dog or a house or whatever, but just close your eyes, put your pen down, and just sketch. Just go really quick and all over the place. Don't look at it. You know, if you have music on, I love music, it always helps me to be loose, relaxed. You could do it really fast like that. So I mean, I just scribbled, right? It's basically scribbling. But by scribbling is you kind of develop the loose style subconsciously. Well, and physically too, because it's like a hand-brain coordination type of thing. I don't know the technical stuff, guys. If anybody knows the technical terms, let me know. It's like a coordination or a connection that happens. But if you just sit there, even just close your eyes and doodling— I don't like to look because if I'm looking, you know, I might try to intentionally create stuff. But if you're just starting out to be loose and trying to develop a style, I would just practice every day. Even 2 to 5 minutes, just scribble. You know, you could do it slow if you want, but sometimes if you're drawing slow, you know, if I'm going to slow down the pace, my eyes are still closed, right? You know, if I'm going to do it slow, I'm thinking about where I want to place my pen on a sheet of paper. I have too much time going on. You know, I'm like, "Oh, did I draw a line here?" or "Is it blank over here? Maybe I should connect here." There's too much time for me to think. That's why I just kind of like to do it kind of rapid-fire. It's a good way to loosen up. There are other exercises you can do to get like in a Zen state. State of mind, a creative state of mind as well. We can cover those, you know, at another time. But that's my tip for tonight. Hope that helps. Hey Becky, good to see you. Heather, good evening, good to see you. Hey, I'm glad you joined in, that's awesome. Thanks for tuning in. Nice salmon color. Oh, let's bring that back. Yeah, there you go. That is kind of a cool salmony color. Is salmony a word? Um, hey Dawn, good to see you too. Becky, curious to see how it dries. Yeah, me too. It's, it's drying out. Probably it's still wet here. Give another few minutes or so, it should be dried up. It's drying lighter for sure. Hey, you and Rameke, it looks so easy. You know, it's just we've been doing what we do for a long time. He's amazing. He is so gifted and he can whip roosters out. I cannot draw a rooster for my life, right? So we all have our skills and strengths and things we've been working on for sure. So thank you. Yeah, so it does look easy, but it's not always easy. I'm actually cleaning my finger off in there. Looks like I have blood on it, but it's It's paint. Heather, I like doing that and then pick out a picture. Yeah, right, so when you do the sketching stuff, sometimes it's cool to go back and look to see if you can find an image or a picture in it. We did that the other day with, well, I do that with a lot of my things, as you guys know. I always try to pull stuff out. But we did that kind of with this piece the other night. Just started off kind of loose and sketchy, and we pulled out some shapes. And I think I just got acrylic paint on my fingers. Guys, it's not art unless what? What's the quote? It's not art unless you wear it. Voilà, it is now art. This is actually looking really cool in here. I'm loving it, this color right in this area. Try to hold it still so you can see it. So I'm gonna just put some more ink on here or some graphite. We'll just add some more line work over the color and see what happens. Keep it loose. Hey, you're welcome, of course. Yeah, glad I could help. Let me know if that works for you, Jeannie. I'd be interested to know. So for about 2 to 3 years, somewhere in there, every morning I would wake up and I did sketches like this. I called them Inklings. So I would do these Inkling sketches as soon as I got up. The first thing I did, right next to my bed, I usually had this or even my iPad and just sketch something. So I did that for a long time and then I created some of them, I created like little scenes or humorous scenes in them and stuff. But some I just left as scribbles. But I think that kind of helped to reinforce this idea. Alright, let's see if we can add— it's still drying but let's play around with it. And then we'll do— I'm gonna do one more sketch or something after this, we'll see. After this piece. I'm gonna break out I'm trying to think of something. Actually, I think I'm gonna add more color. I think I'm gonna put some blue. I have a blue watercolor marker. Here it is. So I have a cerulean blue watercolor marker. I think I'm gonna throw some blue on here. I've been doing schoolwork all day and my brain just— is a total change of gears. So this— actually, I like the color the water is looking. A little washed out on screen, but this has a really cool kind of a peach color going on. Alright, so let's just throw some blue down on here. Actually, you know what, I'm just going to put it on here and we'll brush it. So this is watercolor marker. There is some graphite on here as well, so the blue is mixing with some of the graphite. As you can see, the blue is really mixing. It's kind of losing its, its intensity, which is fine. Cool. I think what I'm going to do is break out some blue— I'm going to break out some blue acrylic ink. It's a little more Intense, because I really want a pop of blue on here. Again, I don't know if this will even turn into anything or not. Just messing around. That's my disclaimer in case you haven't noticed. I always say that, but it's true. I'm just going to throw it right on here. Ooh, it's almost empty. There we go. Grab a different brush, one that's a little more clean. See, this has a nice pop to it. That's kind of what I was going for, wanted to go for before. Although I like the rusty color. Everybody, you guys know that my One of my favorite color palettes is a rusty kind of color palette that's happening in here, which I really liked. This is kind of very loose, abstract. I'm just dragging the brush lightly down the sheet of paper. You can see it's leaving this kind of a, a mark. The brush is spreading apart. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't, but in this case I'm liking the way it's looking. And I'm just kind of using that to add a little bit of texture or interest to the the paint strokes. I think after I do this, I'm gonna— I feel like doing a, um, maybe a building, maybe a cottage type of sketch. I really like the contrast of the blue with the orange here. I think that has a nice kind of balance. There's some diagonal lines going this way. We have some vertical lines to kind of balance that out as well. So the color is kind of balancing the way the lines are going, are balancing each other. Alright, now I'm gonna get crazy. Do I want to throw? I think I do want to throw it on there. Alright guys, I'm gonna get really crazy. Crazy. So, so crazy. You guys ready for some craziness? Hope so. Hope you're ready for some crazy, crazy craziness. I am going to get totally crazy. Who can guess? Alright, I have a color. I'm holding a color in my hands. Hope you can't see it. Can anybody guess what color I'm going to throw down on here? I'm going to throw a color down. I'm going to put it in my pocket so no one can see it. Um, yeah. Ooh, your secret recipe color. Good guess, good guess, but it's not that one. Becky says magenta. Another excellent, excellent guess, but it's wrong. Wrong. You're close, getting close. Green. Um, not green, but I could see all those colors on here you guys are saying. I am totally going way off the deep end with this one. I am breaking it out. Don't hold it against me, guys. Don't turn me into the color police. Gold! Good guess. Gold would look great on this too. Purple! No, it starts with a P though. It does start with a P. Not purple. Big reveal. The moment you've been waiting for. You have waited all day. For this moment. I know it. I can sense it. I can sense your excitement. Alright, you ready for the big reveal? 1, 2, 3! Oh! Kim! Kim said it before I did it. Patty said it too. We are going for it. Not any kind of pink, but fluorescent pink. Good guess, guys. Why? My answer to that is, why not? We're just playing around. Let's throw some pink on here. Holy cow, a little scared, a little scared to do this. Nah, it's just, we're just having fun. If I can get the lid off If I get the cap off, I'll use it. I'm gonna be even more bold and just take it right out of the eyedropper right on here. I gotta put some adventurous music on, let's see. Mm-hmm. I was listening to Batman soundtrack. Let's go for— I don't know, I could be really brave and put it on random. I don't know, I'm just gonna— whatever plays, plays. I'm gonna put on random. K, here we go. And the Rolling Stones have made an appearance. The Rolling Stones are in the house. So I know the camera's washing it out. Actually, let me turn this light off, maybe it'll be better. I think you can see it a little bit better. It is definitely fluorescent here on my side. It's getting washed out on camera. I'm actually going to leave the brush strokes there. I like the way that looks. I'm going to let it dry that way. I wish this color was coming out better on camera for you guys. This is actually looking really beautiful here. I'll try to hold it up at a different angle. Maybe it'll look better. I'm pleasantly surprised. Let me see if I can put this angle at an angle where you can maybe see it better. Um, I might be able to change the light. Let me play with the light for a sec. I really want you guys to see how vibrant this is. There is a really amazing and beautiful color that's happening right in this area, but it is not showing on camera. Let me see if I could— if it goes dark, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of the dark. I just want to play with this light fixture and see if changing the colors will change the way the— change the light, I want to see if it changes the way the color looks. It's a little better. Hmm. No. I think this is going to be the best I get it. I'll try to capture it in a photograph. But it is really a beautiful color happening there. This is actually really nice too. I like what's happening with the pink on top of the blue. Man, this is so hard to capture on screen. It stinks. That might be the best I can get it. I'm sorry. It's beautiful though there. Actually, is there a light on here? Maybe if I turn it off. Would that help? Nah. Yeah, but you gotta trust me, guys, it looks really cool. I'm gonna put a little bit more pink on here. I don't know, maybe there's some kind of a, uh, sun rays or something coming down this way. I'm going to work on the background. There is some buildings. What else would they be? What else would I draw? Maybe some kind of buildings back here, some kind of a sunbeam coming down. Maybe. I'm going to add some more blue on here. Cool. Alright, I'm going to put this one aside and let it dry. Um, ooh, play something from Pink Floyd. Yeah, Kim, there you go. Pink Floyd would go great with pink. Maybe even the Pink Panther theme. We could do that too. Or something from Pink. Right? I love that. Not in a million years would I have picked pink, but I love it. Yeah, Kim, I was, uh, I'm with you. I just wanted to play around. I felt like I needed something really bright and vibrant. Vibrant. It's a shame it's not really translating on camera as well as it could. Um, like the purpley magenta where pink mixed with blue. Yeah, there's still some left. I know I covered some up, but there's some back here and some over here. What am I— what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna mix— when the blue dries, I'm gonna create little windows in the building, and I'm probably— I'm gonna use the pink to make those windows. Or Pretty in Pink. Yeah, we can listen to Pretty in Pink, the song, right? The Psychedelic Furs, I think they sang that, Pretty in Pink. Watch the movie. Cool, guys. So I'm gonna let this dry for a minute. I'm gonna just move on to something more tame, a little more calm and peaceful. Put this here. Might bring the lights back up a little bit. So I have a smaller sheet of paper, a 6x6 square. I wanna do a cottage. I feel like I'm a cottage sketch. Let's see, what should we use? Actually, I'm going to try— I'm going to use the sepia. Try the sepia brush. I haven't used it in a day or so. I know, it's been so long. I've been a whole day without my sepia pen. I also have this Staedtler Pigment Liner. Sepia color pen as well. Maybe play around with these. Let's move this so I don't knock it over. All right, allergies are kicking in, kicking in. Alright, let's do a little cottage sketch. Sharpen this up. I'm gonna bring this down a little closer if I can for you. I mean, how the lighting looks too. I might have to adjust. Actually, I might have to put the big light on. Yeah, I'm gonna throw the big light on them, see if that's better. So I'm going to start off using this Staedtler Pigment Liner. It's a 0.5, very thin point marker. Feeling kind of fairy tale castle-ish going on right now. Little fairy tale castle kind of vibe going. So I'm feeling kind of like almost fairytale castle-ish going on here. Some big pointy roof turrets or Yeah, kind of turret tower roof lines coming up. Some very exaggerated proportions, you know, kind of narrow and tall over here. You guys think I should break out some pink on this one? Hey Chris, how are you? Good to see you. Psychedelic Furs, I got it. Ding ding ding ding, 10 points. 10 points. I don't know. I'll keep the pink close by. It might make another appearance. We'll see. Yeah, the '80s, oh my gosh, the '80s. Amazing soundtracks or songs. Weird Science just popped into my brain from the '80s. Some Danny Elfman, or, uh, yeah, right, Oingo Boingo, Weird Science. Yeah, the '80s was great, great for music, especially the movies. So I'm just sketching some kind of indication of roofing material. Maybe it's some kind of roofing tiles. Do want to pull this roof out a little bit darker. So I'm just starting to add some texture. I have kind of the overall shapes on here. So my next step is I want to add some details. So doors, I consider doors to be details, and some windows. When I do castle structures, I like to do kind of long slotted windows. When I think castle, I think windows that kind of look like that. I'll bring it up closer. You can kind of see. You can tell I'm being a little more careful. I'm not in rapid-fire sketch mode. I am thinking a little bit about what I'm sketching tonight on this, on this sketch here. But I'm making the line work intentional. So if you see here, Or I should say exaggerated. I'm exaggerating the lines. Look at the intersection here. Like, the lines don't meet at a clean point. They kind of extend past. That's one of the things I like to do to keep it sketchy looking. Sketchy in a good way, not a bad sketchy. So I'll continue line work out. And I won't meet it at a clean point. I won't do this. I'll draw a box. I'll do two different boxes to show you what I'm talking about. Alright, this will be the sketchy box. This will be the architectural or technical box. So if you guys see the two different boxes I made, right? This is more of the technical architectural drawing, more clean type of box. This is my exaggerated lines. It adds just another dimension of sketchiness to it. It just sounds so sketchy. So that's another one of my tricks I like to do when I'm sketching. To get, you know, my style, my vocabulary, to do something like that at the corners versus this. Big X, big X. And this isn't wrong. I mean, this is another way to do things, right? There are no wrong— there are no wrong answers in your artwork. It's all what you wanna do and what you're trying to convey. So when I do some technical drawings for you guys, I'm gonna do some architectural demonstrations using rulers and triangles. At least one demonstration, just so you can see those kinds of drawings. And they're a whole different type of art form and communication form. So let's come back to this piece. I feel like I want a arched window up here, maybe. I'm just— I want to do a little balcony, maybe over here, some kind of balcony that kind of hangs off the building. So I have like a little balcony structure sticking out here. I just felt like it needed a little more detail on that. Um, I like this pen. So it's Staedtler Pigment Liner. Um, very similar, if you guys know the Micron pens, similar to the Micron pens. I am missing a flag. I always like to put flags on my castles. So I got a little flag going up there. Sometimes I'll do more than one. I'd like to do maybe 3 flags on this one. There we go. So we got some flags going on up there. Shade these windows in dark so they pop out a little. I'm gonna do— I'm just gonna do some hatching just to maybe get a little bit of a shadow underneath the roof overhangs. And I'll hold this up again close so you guys can see it. Definitely want to show some kind of stonework going on here. I like stone at the base of buildings because it helps to anchor it to the landscape. Sometimes I like buildings to look like they're growing out of the landscape. By the way, tomorrow's Earth Day, you guys, so happy Earth Day. Do something nice for our planet tomorrow. I should come on tomorrow night and do some kind of Earth Day sketch. That would be fun. So you can see a close-up of it. Should we take a vote for the pink? Who votes yes for pink? Should we be brave and put some pink on here? I'm actually contemplating doing a pink background on here. So let me know what you guys think. Do you think pink? Or am I just really— have I really lost it today? I want to exaggerate this roof a little more. I want to make it look almost like a— it's like a wizard's hat kind of hanging out up here. There we go. That's cool. I'm going over some line work here just to pull it out, make it darker. There we go. So I'm just making the edges a little more jaggedy. Some of them are too straight and clean. And add some more character to it by making the walls zig and zag here and there. And everywhere. Upwards and downwards and sideways and backways and frontways. Over and under. This is turning out to be a cool little sketch. Cool. I like it, I like it. Yes, go pink! Chartreuse. I almost didn't know how to say that. Chartreuse. Do you want— should we break— you want to break out the chartreuse? How did you know? Kim, did you know I had the chartreuse right here? Have you been paying attention? How did you know I had chartreuse here? Interesting combination, huh? Maybe chartreuse roofs or background, or pink background or pink roofs. Hmm. I think my guts tell me I want to do pink in the background, so let's Let's do pink in the background. So I'm just for something to pour the paint in. Yeah, put some in here. I have to get some more Pringles. I'm running out of my, uh, Pringles containers for my paint. Alright, got some pink in there, lay down some pink. Let's change this music. Let's play some Huey Lewis and the News. Speaking of retro music. Alright, it's Pig Time! Break it out! I'm liking the pink, guys. Looking pretty, pretty nice here on my end. Yeah, it's a shame the camera— the light is really washing it out on screen. Cool, it looks really good. Let it dry for a second. I need scrap paper. I have some pink left, so while that's drying, I just want to have a— this old sketch here. Actually, this is a sketch I did listening to, I think, The Beatles. I don't know, a bunch of different songs. I was doing this kind of random thing one day when I was listening to music. So I have had it in my scrap paper drawer, so I'm just gonna put some pink on it. Why not? There we go. I just want to throw down some of the pink I had left in here. Didn't want it to go to waste. So it's always good to keep like scrap stuff around, play around with it. Cool. Doesn't pink sky mean snow? I didn't know that. I have heard that. Anyway, we had more snow tonight. Oh no, Linda. That stinks. Unless you like snow, then it's awesome. I like snow, um, until I have to shovel it. When I have to shovel it a lot, I don't like it so much. I love the first snowfall of the year, it always looks so beautiful. But yeah, so this kind of came out cool. I threw some pink down on here. I don't even know when I did this, I don't have a date on it. What's on the back side? What is this? I'm not even sure what this is. This is on the back side of that scrap paper. Looks like I was playing around with some gold metallic paint, maybe bronze. Never know what you're going to find in the scrap drawer. Cool. All right, let's go back to the first one we started tonight and we'll take a look and we'll get ready to wrap up. That does look cool, yeah, that could be a sunset or did someone say sunset, sunrise? Yeah, it could be a sunrise or sunset, Becky said on this. Oh, I just had a good shot on camera. Actually, maybe at this angle you can get a good sense You can get a better sense of how vibrant or fluorescent the pink is when I hold it like this. If you look especially down here, hold it there for a sec. When I lay it flat, it kind of loses it a little bit. Alright, so the first— this is the first piece we did. Actually, we try the same trick. If I hold this at an angle— still not really showing. This is really spectacular in person, what's happening right here. I'll try to capture it with my camera later. It's hard to show. Alright, so I'm going to come back here. I wanted to add some Pink for the windows. I should have kept some pink in here. I used it all. And we'll wrap up. I am digging Huey Lewis right now. Huey Lewis is one of my favorite, favorite bands growing up. Favorite of— one of my most favorite of all time. They still sound as good as ever. Well, this album. I don't think Huey Lewis sings anymore. Something with his hearing. I don't know if he— tinnitus or— I know he has some kind of something going on with his hearing. I don't think he's really singing. That much anymore. So it's a shame, he has such a distinct voice. So I'm just dabbing on some pink here. Yes, I like the way this is looking with the pink windows. We are out of the pink for now. Alright, so I'm gonna let this one dry up, I think. Um, yeah, so we added some pink over the cerulean blue. It's definitely hard to capture this, but you can get a good sense of it, I think, in here, what's going on. Um, I like in some places the pink is drying and it's turning into a magenta type of color, which is looking pretty nice. So it's just turned out to be a cool, fun little study with colors and some shapes on it. I'm thinking I do want to add something, maybe in here. I'm not sure what. I feel like I actually— I think I want to throw down some more yellow. I think I'm going to throw some yellow down in there. Yeah, so yeah, Twin Tower. Yeah, Vaki, I was actually, I was kind of thinking of the Twin Towers with these two. So cool that you picked up on that. Yeah, oh, angel, you're talking, you know what? Who said angel? Tamburly, yeah, you know, I think you're talking about this, right? Aye, you are correct. I believe, I do angel paintings and sketches every once in a while. I believe you're right. I think this was a study I was doing for an angel. So good call on that, Tamberly. You're absolutely right. That's what this is. It was a study for an angel. That's so awesome you picked up on that. I love that fact. Hey, that means maybe I did something right. Actually, it means you have awesome creative vision, so that's so cool. Yeah, Becky, this is New York City-ish. I like how you have the ish on there. 10 points for the ish. Yep, so this is definitely NYC-ish. I love that. Now your orange diagonals look like rays of sunshine. Hey, Patty. They do. They do. And I'm gonna add a little bit more yellow to kind of drama— drama to— what's the word? Dramatize? Is it dramatize? Dramaticize? I don't know what the word is. To add more drama to it. You guys are awesome. I always appreciate you watching and commenting and feedback. It's so much fun for me. I hope I'm delivering some fun to you guys on my end here. It's, uh, I'm trying, I'm trying. I hope it's working. What am I looking for? Oh, brush. Duh. I gotta get a drink of water. Yeah, so I'm gonna throw some yellow on here and then this will be a wrap and then we'll wrap up at 10. So 4 more minutes. Chamberly, you love angels. That is so cool. I'm trying to see if I— I'm going to see if I can grab one of my angel things to show you then. I always love to do show and tell. I have shown this before. I'll show it again. So I know I've shown this and I talked about the story once or twice. I dedicated this to my mother after she had passed away. Actually, I didn't dedicate it to her. I kind of feel like I didn't paint it. It's hard to explain. It was a very weird experience. This is the first painting I did after a long time after she had passed and I really didn't paint it. It just happened. But there are angels in here. They're hard to see, probably. There's angel figures in here. I know there's some bad glare, but there are angel figures in here as well. So I called this piece City of Angels. So that was a fun piece to— that happened. Yeah, I've done a lot of Underangel sketches. I'll pull them out sometime and I'll show you guys. Um, yeah, always fun to watch your creative— thank you, Becky. I appreciate that. Sometimes I feel like I'm all over the place, but I guess that's cool because that's who I am, so we just gotta be ourselves. So I appreciate you guys, you know, putting up with my— with me. It's awesome. I really respect and appreciate all of you guys and your artistic and creative abilities as well. I want you to know that. Throwing down this yellow, I just want to pull out these sun rays a little more. Actually, I'm going to turn it this way. I want to— it's just easier for me to do my brush stroke across this way. I'm going to bring some of the yellow out in front of the Twin Tower homage. Here. So I'm really exaggerating these rays by pulling these yellow out. Man, this is so— I love this right here. What a color. I would love to try to duplicate what's happening. I don't know if you guys can see it. I'd love to try to duplicate what's happening in here. It's just like a— it's like a half— like a quarter of an inch by a quarter of an inch. Maybe a little bit bigger. It's just really cool. Throw another one up top here, another yellow ray. What would be a good name for this piece? Any suggestions? What would you call this sketch painting? So you can see the yellow is really coming through now, right? So I'll just pull it back this way a little bit. I don't want to put too much over here because I like the color that's happening. I like how the yellow does continue across the building. It's kind of tying this all together. A little bit of movement, a little bit of energy happening. Cool. And I don't think I want to overdo it, actually. I think I'm going to leave the yellow at that. Ooh, rays of hope. Chris, I like that. Rays of hope. Hope. That's a cool name. Good one, good one, good one. Very cool. If I use it, I will definitely credit you with that. Let Your Love Shine Down Upon You. Wow, you guys are on fire with these names. I love that one too. I'm just trying to find the best angle to hold it. I think this way looks okay. A lot of energy in this one. Yeah, Linda, thank you. There is a lot of energy in this. I'll have to go back and watch the video. I don't even remember how did this one start. This started with It's weird, sometimes I get so lost in what I'm doing, like I'm in the moment that I don't even remember what I did. That sounds weird, right? Oh, you just saw my big belly here on camera. Um, let me see if I can get a close-up on this. Oh, there we go, that's a good shot, I think. Zip, let me focus. There we go. What did I start with on this one? I know I used graphite. Oh yeah, sketch with a pen, of course, a Sharpie. No, I think I used a Pilot. I'll go back and watch the video. But I don't think I remember. What did I do? Yeah, so this looks cool. I'm going to let it dry and then I don't know if I'm going to add any more to it. I like what's happening in here and I like how this is kind of busy, this kind of blank down here, so it's balancing. The vertical I think is balancing with the diagonal and the clean at the bottom. I think the colors are balancing. We have the bright, the pinks, we have the blues. We have some of the orange and yellow coming down here. We have some more orange and yellowish stuff over here. I think it's all working pretty well. Alright, it's time for the wrap up. Wrap up. So let me go back. Beautiful healing process. Thank you, Timberley. Yeah, it was a really good experience painting that piece. It's actually, it is still my most favorite piece that I have done to date. And I have to tell you guys, this, I'm thinking, if I remember, I'm thinking, magic solution, patent pending. I think This was a result of the process of that painting, the City of Angels painting. Which is interesting because it seems like this is— it's getting emptier but it seems like it stays, it never completely empties out and I use it a lot. Just saying. "Rays of Hope." So we like "Rays of Hope." I think that has a couple votes here. Nah, just Ben Jerry's. What's that about Ben Jerry's? I love Ben Jerry's. I missed something about Ben Jerry's, but that's okay. I saw Ben Jerry's, I'm happy. I wish I had some. Trying to think of like the light color city towers, buildings, windows. Trying to think of like the light color city towers, buildings, windows. Windows. Chris, let your love shine down. Rays of hope. Being in your zone and amazing stuff happens. Thank you, Becky. Yeah, I was definitely in the zone. Cool. Alright guys, so the wrap-up tonight, always, you know, if you could leave one comment or— it is really a magic solution. It is. Oh, gotcha, Tamra. Yes, Ben, it was— that was my Ben Jerry's belly showing. On there. Absolutely. I think I put like 8 to 10 pounds on this winter. I don't know how the heck— well, I know how the heck I did it. I ate too much. Man, I gotta drop those pounds. Love it. So tonight, yeah, guys, just put up— if you could put a comment, maybe something you got out of tonight. As always, I appreciate you guys so much for tuning in and commenting and being positive and supportive, sharing your stuff, your ideas. I love sharing my stuff. Hopefully, you know, one day I'd like to maybe sit down and try to break out my creative process into steps or tips or guides or something for this type of stuff. So I'll have to think about doing that. But I hope— hopefully watching and me talking out loud— that's why I like to call this inking out loud because you're literally, you're just kind of hearing me working and scrambling and doing this and trying that and we're engaging with each other with conversations. So that's why I like to call it inking out loud. It's very spontaneous. So it's kind of hard to document the exact process of this stuff. Oh, 38 COVID lockdown pounds. Ouch. Yeah, that'll do it. That COVID. That darn COVID. Darn COVID. Fun watching. Great host and group. Yes, I will thank the host when I see him or her. If they're around, I'll make sure I thank them because they are awesome. Like that name. Awesome. Linda, which name is that? Let me know which name you're talking about. That would be so cool. So guys, I think, so if you leave with my takeaway, I always like to leave with at least one takeaway. You know, it's hard for me to always say goodbye. I ramble. I'm a rambler. Just thinking back to what we did, really, we did this and we did the castle. So we basically have these two pieces from tonight. See if we can see them on screen at the same time. There you go, that works. Cool. What happens if I turn this light off a little bit? Let's try this. Ooh, did that just help? I think I just helped a little bit by turning that light off. Maybe. It's looking a little more vibrant. So my takeaway tonight, guys, is— what am I thinking? What's my takeaway? Off the cuff, spur of the moment takeaway. I think it's, you know, I've said this one once or twice before, I think it comes down to color play. Just trying things. It's about experimenting, having fun, letting loose, you know. Throwing this paint down was It's a little scary, but it's just paper, some paint, it washes off. So don't be afraid to play with colors. I think I like the tip I gave about being loose, just kind of, if you're trying to develop a looser style, practice, close your eyes, just scribble, draw fast, and you'll develop a muscle memory, a creative memory. It takes practice for sure. What I like about these sessions, for me, a personal takeaway is sometimes I leave these sessions blown away by you guys and laughing because you're hilarious sometimes. You're always inspirational. But I always leave these sessions like looking at what I make And they're very different. They always seem like they're very different things I do, which is kind of— it's just interesting to see the process, you know, going from something like this to something like this, right? They're very different styles. So when you hear the word style, I mean, we all can— we all have more than one style. It's in us for sure. So don't feel like you have to be locked into a style. Okay? Just have fun and things will happen. Cool, man. This is gonna go with my Inky Wonky Cottage series for sure. I forget what number this is, maybe— this might be number 5. And then this is gonna go into my skyline. So, you know, I'm working on all these skyline paintings for a series of skyline stuff. So that'll be interesting this summer to put all my— I'm gonna start organizing my paintings and putting them into collections. We'll see how that happens and how that looks. Hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. I appreciate you. Karen likes the castle. Inking Out Loud. Yeah. Inking Out Loud. Thank you. Yep, that's the name. That's what I call these impromptu sessions. Inking Out Loud. Why'd you like that name? Cool. Just go with the flow of your artistic zone. Yep, Beck, you got it. Just go. Thanks, Chris. You're welcome. Have a great night, everybody. Keep on creating. Be awesome. I love Opera Pink with Gamboge Yellow or most yellows on the warm side. Yeah, those work really well together. That's so cool. Hey guys, have a great, great night. I gotta go get ready for sleep time and I got school tomorrow. Guys, have a great night. Happy Earth Day tomorrow. Peace and live creatively. I will see you soon. Take care. Keep on creating awesome stuff and share the fun. And I'm gonna click the button now, in case you're wondering. Good night. You are welcome. I need some kind of sign-off. Take care, guys. Take care.
