The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, hope you're having a great Wednesday night. It's 7:52 PM Eastern Standard Time. Or is it Eastern Daylight Time? I never know how to say it. Maybe it's both. Hope you're having a great day. If you're out in there in the chat, say hello. I'm just setting up some windows on my computer here so I can actually see if there's any comments or chat going on. I have no idea. Anyway, hope you're having a great, great night. So I don't know what I'm going to do tonight. I actually have my triangle out. I'm going to do something a little different to start with. I think I'm going to start with using a triangle and drawing some straight lines. Just a change of pace from my wonky, loose style. Just want to mix it up a little bit for a couple minutes. Let's see what happens. Ah, let me straighten this out a little bit so it doesn't look so crooked on— So again, I'm not doing anything in particular. I'm just using a triangle, just doing some straight lines. The ink might smear a little bit. That's okay. I definitely want to get back into doing mechanical drawing with triangles and T-squares and things. It's on my list for the summer. I miss the art of technical drawing by hand. So I'd like to do that and combine that with my loose style sketching. So it'll be fun just to break out a triangle and just mess around for a little bit. And then we'll go crazy. So, have a great night out there. Alright, so I laid down some straight lines. I'm gonna— Let me stress more. And then I think I'm going to just take my pen and kind of let the ink bleed and see what happens, see what it looks like. Maybe there's some kind of porch or something happening here. Let's bring this across like that. Maybe we have the ground in here or something. I'm just going to make it Wavy. Cool. All right, that's cool. So I'm going to throw down some straight lines. I'm going to go over it with a pen and play around, kind of loosen it up a little bit. Hey Chris, hope you're having a great day. Good to see you. Good to see you. I'm just messing around with some straight edges. I'm going to do some inky wonky edges. Let's see what it looks like. Hmm, what do I want to use? Hey Chris, I'm glad it's going good. That's awesome. Beautiful stuff I saw posted today. I love your artwork. So So imaginative, so creative, just oh so talented. Keep up the awesome stuff, I love it. So inspiring. You're welcome, Chris. I appreciate it. Chris, I forgot to mention, I really like that castle sketch. That was really cool. Thanks for mentioning me in that. I appreciate it so much. Really came out really awesome. Maybe I don't know if I said sketch, I meant painting. Good, thank you. I love seeing it, it was really awesome. Oops, I just colored the door yellow. That's okay, we have a yellow door now. I'm just playing, I just want to play around with some straight lines and throw some color on it. Just messing around. It's always good to try and different things and play around, right? That's what creativity is about. Don't be afraid to try new things and just mess around. Hey, Deborah, good to see you. Welcome. Courtyard firing squad place. Yeah, I could see that totally. All right. So that's like a— I just use a triangle. I just wanted to draw some straight lines on there and play around. Let's do something loose. Or maybe not. Actually, I'm gonna throw some color on this. And then I wanna come back and revisit a piece I started earlier today. Hey Chris, are you drawing more to bright colors? Uh, that's a really good question. I think it depends on the day or the mood I'm in. It varies. Um, you know, I'm working hard to recreate rusty kind of looking things which are not so bright, and then this has some, obviously some pink I'm popping on here. So I think it really depends on the mood I'm in or in the You know, kind of the moment. Good question. So I am open to bright colors and not— I guess not bright. What's the opposite of not bright? Dull? Dull colors, I guess. Great question. What I like to do with bright colors is I like to put them in scenes or subjects where you typically wouldn't expect to find them. So, you know, when I'm doing my abstract city skylines like this one, you know, that's, that's kind of where I love to add bright colors. Places you wouldn't find them. I think it just, it's kind of a surprise when you're looking at it. So that's one of my motives for adding color onto pieces. You know, mix colors up, you know, change things. You know, we always think, you know, grass is green, right? But heck, why, alright, why can't I make the grass pink in this house sketch I'm doing, right? If I want to get crazy, maybe I have pink grass. I don't know. You know, I'm not trying to recreate a realistic house. This isn't a project for a client. It's just me having fun playing around. So if I want to make, you know, pink grass, I could definitely do that. So if I had one recommendation about color, Just put pops of color on in places you wouldn't expect to see it. Grass doesn't always have to be green, skies don't always have to be blue, right? Water doesn't always have to be blue. And I really didn't start getting into color until about 2 years ago maybe. I was always very black and white with my sketches. Right? So look at that, it just kind of makes it more whimsical, a little more fun. So I'm trying to create, without doing loosey-goosey sketch lines on this building, I'm still trying to create a whimsical look. So I'm doing that through color play. You know, maybe there's a pink column over here. So we got a pink chimney, maybe a pink column. I like the pink and the blue, it makes a cool purple. So I'm just kind of overlapping it here. This paper is buckling. This is really thin watercolor paper. I don't— I'm gonna say it's 140-pound, but it feels pretty thin, so it's buckling. And I almost feel like I'm going to tear through the paper over here if I make it any wetter than it is. It was just a sheet I found in my drawer and I pulled it out, so I'm not even sure what brand it is. We'll let it dry for a second. Sobriana, good night. If you're on, say hello. If you're lurking in the shadows, then you are a lurker, and that's cool too because I appreciate you watching. It's always good to see people tuning in. I appreciate it so much. Hopefully I can share something with you, even if I make you smile for a second or laugh at my cheesy puns, or if someone in the group in chat inspires you or makes you feel good or happy, I love it. It's all about paying it forward with creativity. So these Inking Out Loud sessions I do on Facebook are literally that, they're just inking out loud. I'm just kind of going through the wits of my brain and trying to share what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. Sometimes I don't know, I'm just doing it. I'm always fascinated by the creative process more so than the actual end results. So I just hope to share a little bit of my creative process with you. So I'm just trying to make grass in front of this house here, so I'm taking the edge of the brush, it's a 3/4-inch brush, And I'm just dragging the ink up. So this is acrylic ink I'm working with right now. And again, I'm just playing around, trying to make this maybe a little whimsical, kind of a whimsical feel to it. Heck, maybe we'll do some kind of pink tree trunks or something happening in the background, I don't know. I'm gonna let it dry for a minute because it's pretty, uh, it's pretty wet. Should have brought some water in. Oh, I did. Aha! I did bring my water in. I don't use anything under 140 lb unless it's just for sketching. Yeah, Chris, I don't blame you. It buckles, you could tear through pretty easily. Yes, this is really thin. I can't— I don't believe this is 140 lb. But that's a really good point. Pardon me while I get a drink. Man, I'm thirsty. So while this is drying, I'll share— this is a fun piece I was working on earlier today. Oops, it's a little blurry. Here we go. So this is a cool scene, just kind of whipped out of my imagination. I didn't look at anything, so it's not a real place. But here I was kind of playing around with textures, colors, trying to create mood, atmosphere in this little painting. So you can see a mix of colors happening. Yellow building in the background, gray. Sky. It's when a shadow is happening on the ground as well. Very different than that, right? Two very, very different kinds of feelings. So I'll come back to this. There's more stuff I want to do on it. I think this is 140-pound too, actually. I may have to start thinking about getting thicker paper. I'm going to start thinking, maybe try some thicker paper. Yep, that is, that's the one I was talking about. Oh, awesome, gotcha. This one here. Oh, cool. Oh, this is the courtyard firing squad place, this one. Interesting, I was not thinking that at all. Wow. I love how people are seeing different things. Someone said, uh, Maybe some kind of Japanese scene with flowers growing down the wall. Someone else said something else with a lawn, like laundry hanging. So I love how everybody's seeing different things, and that's fun. That's what I like about creating these kinds of pieces, is that the viewer can create their own story. I'm just kind of making a stage setting for the imagination. I like that. I'm gonna write that down. Hey, someone write that down for me. I'm talking like there's someone here. Creating a stage setting for the imagination. I like that. Actually, I'm gonna write it down. Why did Siri just stop? I tapped my AirPod twice and I think it paused it. Siri, you can play. There we go. Cool. Alright, so we'll let this dry for a sec. So yeah, this— thank you for your comments on this one, Chris. I always appreciate your feedback. I like the texture. I really do love the colors. Is it on this? I think it— you know, it's definitely not bright. No, I'm pretty bright. I'm just kidding, I'm not bright. Hey, thank you to the people that just tuned in. How are you guys doing? Appreciate you watching. So this one's drying. I'm going to add a little more to this, and I think I'll do one quick sketch. I will just do a One of my, what do you call it, loosey-goosey quick sketchy thingies. That's the technical word. Loosey-goosey sketch thingy. I'm just looking, what other colors? I might throw some orange down. I'm gonna throw some Yellow Orange on this. If I can get the cap off. There we go. The colors all work together for sure. Thank you, I appreciate that. Cool. Yeah, this is fun. I think I'll try, uh, let it dry and I'll do something else quickly. And I'll wrap up. I think. I think. I keep working on this one. Alright, cool. So this is a, uh, some kind of a little lighthouse type of structure here. Kind of got lost in it for a little bit there, which is fun. Sometimes you get in the zone, the zone, right? So I was in that zone right there, having some Some creative fun. Doing this cool little lighthouse. Very loose. Very, very different than this one, right? Two very different pieces or, uh, sketches. Cool. Yeah, this is cool. That's a fun little piece. I like that. I like the proportions of it. It has that wonky kind of look to it. So this would be a good one for the Inky Wonky Cottage Calendar. This is, you know, the same style that I'm trying to do for that calendar. So I can definitely see it on there. Cool. I think that one looks good. I don't know if I want to do any more to it. No, I think— I'm looking at it on screen, I think it looks okay. Hope you're having a great night out there in Facebook land. Or as we like to say, Facebook land. If you're watching, say hello. Don't be afraid. If you know me. If you don't know me, don't be afraid. It's all good. I'm gonna do a little bit more on this. This is still pretty wet and it's very buckled. Actually, I'm gonna I'm gonna let it dry. I'm not gonna do anything to it. Awesome. So we have this sketch, we have that one, and it's 8:39, so I think I'm gonna wrap up at 8:45. So 6 more minutes, if I did the math right. I can't do math this late in the day. Well, I can do math this late in the day, I just— my brain's turned— my brain is turned off. Cool. You know, it would be fun. Let's see, let me move this down. If I continue the scene, can't really fit this all on screen, unfortunately. Oh, we'll do something like that, I guess. Jason Nicholas. So I'm just adding another little building on the scene. Sorry, the picture's crooked. We lost connection there. This is a hard one to fit on a camera because my camera is too It's not high enough. We'll just have to leave it like that for now. I know, cutting off the lighthouse over there on the left. Excuse me, allergies. All right, yeah, so I think this is good. I like this little lighthouse I think it came out kinda cool. Then I sketched a building down here as well, just a little fun— maybe a little place for kayaks or canoes or something down there as well. Trying to get it all in one shot, but it's just not working with me. Darn it. That's okay. And then we have this really interesting colored house here. Actually, it is kind of dry, so I'm going to go over it with some— just add some ink on here. Just adding some loose details on here. Cool. It's got a chimney on the side over here. Here's our door. Maybe we have some shingles, maybe we have, uh, wavy shingles up in the peak. I like wavy shingles, it has a real cool kind of cottage feel to it. Jason Nicholas, kind of shadow under here, so I'm just doing hatch— Hatch lines. Kind of horizontal siding here. Maybe there's shutters, maybe there's shutters on the side of these windows. Not really how you would see shutters. Usually there's a pair for each window, but that's okay. So I have one in the middle. Just trying to add some detail to this. Maybe there's flower boxes or something on the front here. Near the windows. Keep them loose. Some kind of— got some kind of molding over the windows, some kind of trim work. This is a trim board up here, cross there. So this is the mystery, this part here. Originally it was going to be an open porch. Maybe it's some kind of a nice— maybe there's a feature window here. Maybe there's a, some kind of a bay window here. It has a, uh, like a copper roof or something over it. There we go. Windows here on the side, roof area, kind of a little piece on the bottom to dress it up here. So I'm just combining straight lines with some sketchy lines, add some details to it. Cool, there we go. We got a fun little sketch, a little cottage sketch. Alright guys, that's a wrap for me. It's almost 9 o'clock. I hope you have a great, great Thursday tomorrow. Thanks for watching. I always appreciate it. Keep paying it forward with creativity. Peace and live creatively. I'll see you guys soon. Have a great night. Thanks.