The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, D-Ray and Jethro and Becky and Heather. Hey, you guys are awesome. Hope all's going well on your Wednesday night. Thanks for tuning in. Let me know if I'm shouting. I have music on loud in my ears. If I'm yelling into the microphone, please let me know. Happy Wednesday, February 2nd, Groundhog Day. I don't even know what the groundhog did today. If anybody knows, what did Punxsutawney Phil do? Did he see his shadow? Is there more winter ahead or are we headed to an early spring?

I like this music.

Reminds me of The Incredibles a little bit. Any Pixar fans out there? Any Incredibles fans? Love Incredibles movies. I love the kind of retro style in those movies. The architecture is so cool. I love, uh, Edna's headquarters, or house, I guess, slash headquarters. I love the house that they lived in, and I think the second Incredibles movie, Incredibles 2, uh, really cool, like, modern retro style house. So I'm just sketching with my Lambie pen right now. I'll zoom in, you can see a little bit closer. Just throwing down some freestyle lines and seeing what's happening. Hey, Patty's in the house. No worries, Patty. Good luck to you. Thanks for tuning in and watching simultaneously. That's not an easy word to say. I'm so glad you're here. I see Laura's in the house. Hey, Laura. Hope all's well with you. "Came back upstairs, catching live." Hey, I love that you're catching us live. That's so cool. Um, I know I'm not exciting to watch, but if I wasn't live, it probably would be a much quieter show and less drawing going on. So I'm glad to be here and live. Hey, Kim's in the house. Good to see you, Kim. And Linda. Holy moly, this is incredible. Look at you guys piling This is so cool. I really appreciate it. So I have a kind of a real loose style cityscape happening here, just letting the ink bleed with some water. You might see some brown tones in here. I'm actually using my dirty water that I have been using for like 2 weeks. Am I lazy? Maybe. Maybe. Do we have any lazy— lazy— I'm not sure if we have ladies. Do we have any lazy artists out there that don't clean their water as much as they should? I like to keep it dirty, to be honest with you. I like the look of it. You can see here, right? It just has this nice brown seepy kind of color, and that's just from the dirty water. I mean, obviously, if you don't want that dirty look, use clean water. So I can see all kinds of silhouettes and shapes happening. I'm almost picturing a modern contemporary type of cityscape kind of happening over in this area, but we'll see what turns out. Work on this for a few more minutes or so. Let's see, do I want to use some red? Actually, you know what we're going to do? I'm gonna break out one of these Pilot Varsity Pens. So Pilot Varsity Pens, they're a disposable fountain pen. I like the way the ink bleeds. So which color should we use? Uh, let's see. I'm not sure. Let's go with the— I think we'll throw down some blue on this one just for fun. Uh, would it be Memorex if it weren't live? Is it live or is it Memorex? Yeah, yeah, were those the commercials with the, like, the guy sitting in the lounge chair? And I think he had, I don't know if he had like aviator glasses on and the scarf, and there was a dog sitting by him. I don't know if that's the right ad for Memorex commercials, but that just popped into my brain. One thing you'll notice, I like to take the caps off of my pens when I'm sketching. I just find that I like to spin and rotate my pens and be loose with them, and the cap just kind of gets in the way, so I take the caps off. Heather says it was awesome. I I got that. So cool. Isn't it amazing how just like certain images stay in your mind? You know, when was that ad out? Was that an '80s thing? I'm guessing this is '80s, '90s. Gosh, I'm trying to remember when cassette tapes were. When did we make the transition from 8-tracks to cassette tapes, I guess. And then was it cassette tapes to CDs? And then CDs to digital? I'm trying to— I know phonographs are in there and grunting is in there and using rocks as instruments, but— or recording— I don't know what I'm talking about anymore. The sound technician, I am not. It's an interesting thing about the history of recording, you know, sound and music, right? Just like the history of recording drawings, right? Think of the— all those ancient cave drawings. Now we have all this really cool tech. We can draw on computer screens with Apple Pencils and other devices. But has the technology improved our art? Have the tools improved our art? Or it just gave us a different way to express, right? I think tools provide a different way just to express. Our art. Um, I love the way these Varsity pens bleed, by the way. You can see the blue and how it's just kind of bleeding in the background here. One of the things I'm doing with my CAD students, my high school kids, is we started off the year using tech, computer software, computer apps to design and draw things, and we're just wrapping up hand drafting the old school way, pencils and triangles and T-squares. I just think it's so fun to introduce them to, you know, the old-school way of doing things. Sometimes you take tech for granted, and there are pros and cons, and they're gonna have an assignment where they have to kind of reflect and come up with a list of some pros and cons of hand— hand sketching, hand drafting versus computer creating. This is cool.

I like the blue in the background here. Usually I don't use blue.

This is like, uh, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs music. '80s and early '90s. All right, awesome. Hey Sue, good to see you. Sue popped in to say hi. Awesome. So Sue's working from home. Sue, I'm so glad you popped in. Thank you for popping in while you're working. That is so cool. I'm sure it's, uh, you have some nice heat wave going on down there. Keep it nice and warm. We had a heat wave here in New Jersey. It hit, I think, 50 degrees, which is warm for this time of year. I really like the way this is kind of drying here, this area. Zoom in close. Couple things. I love what's happening here with this blue. It's gonna have a nice hard edge when it dries. I love this hard edge happening right here in this white space. And then I really also like what's happening here. This is just the Lamy ink with that dirty water. Really interesting, uh, kind of colors happening in this area. Yeah, Heather says it makes you appreciate the tech. It does, it makes you appreciate the tech. So here's a really great example of something that happened today. Students went to draw something on a computer using AutoCAD and couldn't log into AutoCAD. There was a license issue. Issue and my tech department, we— they figured it out. They're awesome, shout out to them. But, uh, they couldn't get into AutoCAD. We were stuck. Well, well, they thought they were getting out of doing work today, but I turned it into a lesson. I'm like, so guys, what is it? What is an advantage of hand drafting versus using AutoCAD, right? We don't have to log in to hand drafting. We just pull the paper out get our pencils out, we're good to go. So that was— that's definitely a plus. No logging in, you don't have to buy the software. You do have to buy pencils and pens. So that was a good lesson learned today. Another thing with computers and some software, you always have to keep saving what you're working on so you don't lose your work, which some of us have learned the hard way this year. Hand drawing, you don't have to hit the save button. I had some kids that thought they were being really funny and they actually did their hand drafting and they kind of sketched like a key with the letter S on it. So they put this on their drawing, their hand drawing, and said, "Mr. Nick, there's our save button right there." So they put their own save button on their drawing, which is pretty fun. So I'm just popping in some details, just throwing some windows down in here. Uh, Becky says, "Blue ink is so pretty." Yeah, Becky, I really like this, the blue, the way it's bleeding. And it just gives another layer to this quick sketch, right? It has a little more depth to it, I think, by adding this blue against the black. Hey Gemma, good to see you. What kind of paper do you prefer for your ink drawings? "Also, what size Lamy nib do you like?" Hey, awesome questions. So for sketching, my go-to 9 times out of 10 is right here. And my go-to for sketching is Canson XL watercolor paper. It's 140 pounds. And this is a 7x10 spiral-bound book. And I like the spiral-bound because oftentimes I'll just keep my drawings and sketches in here. I love this. This came out really cool, by the way, yesterday. But I love the spiral-bound because I could just flip it over like this. So Canson's my go-to. My Lamy nib is a really That's a really great question. This is a medium tip. I don't know the point size on it. I'm trying to read it. I'll have to get my reading glasses out. I believe this is a medium-sized tip. I don't like to use fine point tips. When I have a fine line on here, I start thinking I really need to draw detail work. That's why I like to stick with the medium-sized nib on here. Fine tips, my brain says, "All right, you got a real small point. You gotta make really small detailed lines in there." And which is cool if you want to do that. But if I want to stay quick and loose, I just like to stay with the medium nib. Hope that helps. "I think it's good to know both." Yeah, Linda worked at an engineering firm Conveyor belts for rock crushing. That is so cool. CAD had just come out. That's so awesome. I'd love to see drawings for, uh, the conveyor belts. I'm a nerd, and when it comes to tech drawings, I love looking at technical plans. Linda says she's showing her age. No, no, you're showing your wisdom. Wisdom. So I'm actually teaching— I probably have said this— I'm teaching in the same classroom where I learned how to do technical drawing back in 1988, '89. It's where I drew my first ever house with a drafting board and pencils. I'm teaching like the modern version, teaching CAD in that classroom, and I also teach architecture in that classroom. What are the odds? And I never set out to be a teacher, so it's really kind of weird how things circle around. It's kind of the circle of life. If anybody wants to hum the Lion King song, the circle of life, go for it. I just got goosebumps. Every time I think about that, I get goosebumps. It's just So ironic. I'm just so lucky to be teaching some of the things I love to do where I first kind of learned how to do them. Very thankful for that. Just gonna throw down some more lines on this sketch, see where it takes us. Alright, I think Linda can predict what I'm gonna be sketching right up here. Let's see if Linda can guess what I'm gonna sketch up in this area.

Right there. There's a brush.

I have Just do a little, uh, so you can see what I'm working with here. Zoom out a little bit. My desk is a mess. I have pens over here, dirty water. So I just don't find what I'm looking for right away.

I have the video.

So we get a close-up. I'm going to work down here on the bottom. Right there is cool. Um, can you compare CAD and hand drafting to Photoshop and painting? Just wondering. Can you compare CAD and hand drafting to Photoshop and painting? Yeah, it's, you know, so Photoshop and painting, um It's a really good question. So Photoshop, I don't— haven't used too much, you know. I know the basics, basics of cropping and all that stuff. Hand painting, I, I know an artist who does commissioned work for like Marvel Comics, and he does— he's awesome, he's an amazing guy. And what he does, it's really interesting, is he'll combine freehand sketching with his digital work as well. So he's been doing some really amazing digital painting on his iPad with an app that's called Procreate. I have to say, this digital painting is absolutely mind-blowing. So I, I have to say that I'm I mean, he's painting on the iPad and it's awesome. I know I talked to him earlier in the year and there's a mindset thing. I think he was not feeling as comfortable. If you're watching, Dave, say, pop on. But not as comfortable with the mindset, just being kind of free, you know, freehand painting, more liberating, and feeling the computer was— iPad was more rigid. But I think once the mindset shifts and change, you know, you can use the tech and create what you want to create, get the results you want to get. I don't know if that answered your question, but— you know, Photoshop, I think, is for, in my view, just for enhancing photos, maybe touching things up, brightening colors. Cropping areas out. You could do preset filters. I use— I like to use Adobe Lightroom to bring photographs in and kind of edit them. But I'm not using Photoshop to create artwork. It's more for me to edit artwork.

All right, hold me out.

We're going to sketch it here. Here.

Let's do it.

I got some of that dirty water. I might pull out some walnut ink that I used the other night—

last night, I think.

Let me just sketch a little sky bridge thing happening. I think I'm gonna change the tunes up in a sec. I love the questions, guys. Keep asking. Throw down some more blue in here.

Maybe we'll pop some—

let's see, I'll throw some blue over maybe in here somewhere.

Cool, there we go.

This paper is really getting saturated, starting to buckle a little bit here. Uh, you're welcome. Uh, it's got a nice match to the blue bleed. Yeah, I like that. This is so cool, you're teaching away. Yeah, teaching in the classroom that I went to school in. It's pretty awesome. That's so cool about your path and teach. Thank you guys, love that. Bridge. Yes, got the bridge on there. Got to put skybridge in. Maybe we have a couple. This could possibly be a skybridge kind of area too. One day I'll pull out my— some tech— technical drawings I've done. Old school way. Some pencil-drawn architectural plans. Be fun to show you guys.

Cool.

I like the way this is headed. I'm not going to add any other colors. I think there's more than enough happening. Again, this was really just created with these two pens. Just Lamy black ink, the blue Varsity pen, and the Dirty Water. Sketch some people. I want to show some scale. Let's see, I think I'll sketch the people in with— sketch them with a Sharpie because I don't want it to bleed in case I get my water on here. So we'll zoom in. Yeah, you can see down here, this is actually the way this is drying. This is the blue mixed with some of the black, some of the dirty water and the black mixing here. So let's throw down some people here. Well, not throw them down, let's draw some people. Oh boy, um, awesome cityscape abstract, so much to look at. Yeah, I think— yeah, thanks Becky. I love what's fun The fun about these is you're right, there's always something. Every time you look at it, there's something different you can see in these cityscapes. I think that's part of the fun. So I'm drawing a really— I mean, this is a really small person on here. So small, I need a magnifying glass. A couple of people kind of hanging there, chilling. Maybe this is some kind of an entryway or doorway. These are columns here. I'm not sure what's happening here. I'm almost getting some kind of industrial vibe with this piece over here on the left. I don't know if there's kind of smokestacks rising here, maybe. I'm gonna throw down a Sharpie just to define some of the edges. Ooh, you know what I just saw?

What am I seeing?

I love the Guggenheim Museum in New York City by Frank Lloyd Wright. Such a cool building. This is not the Guggenheim here, but kind of reminds me of the Guggenheim, has very horizontal elements to it. It has a rounded kind of piece on it here. I don't have my Lego model ready to show you guys, it's at school. This is the really zenful part for me where I could just sit here and just keep adding kind of little bits and bobs here. Things happen. I want a clock here. I want a little clock. I like clock towers and clock faces in cities. So we sketch in the little clock here. I don't know, what time is it?

Let's make up a time.

There we go. So you got me, you have a clock kind of happening here. There we go.

Cool. So you can see the clock.

Don't ask me what time it is because I can't read it. Can't read analog. This is a Sharpie ultra fine point pen. I love sketching with Sharpies. I also have a bigger size one here, which I'm not, not gonna use right now. This is a fine point, and this is ultra fine. Here's the difference. You can see them there, right? So I'm using this one that's more thin, the ultra fine one. Yes, I'm hearing this music now. I want to put a cathedral or something. You know what, I think in our city, I think this is our— I think this building on the right is going to be our church. We're gonna have this kind of cathedral or fire happening here.

So let's just convert that—

this into a church. So sometimes music will trigger things in my brain that I want to get out onto paper. So, I heard this kind of choral music pop on. This is a cool little archway happening. Looks like 6:05. Yes, it is 6:05 on the clock. You got it. Awesome. You like the two loopy lines? Yeah, you saw the loopy lines on there. It's so cool that you saw those when I was first starting this earlier. I If you go back and watch, you'll see I just kind of did some loops on there. That's interesting movement, maybe to the cityscape, right? Sometimes we have lines or do vertical, horizontal lines, throwing in some zigzags or loops like that, and add some movement. I'm almost picturing this to be a ferry boat. I'm actually So this is what's popping into my brain. I'm almost picturing this to be a ferry boat here. And this is like the ferry boat station. Is that what they call it? So we got people waiting here to get on this ferry boat. I'm sure I could pull it out a little bit more with ink. And I almost see like the front of the boat kind of happening here or something. I don't want to be— I don't want to make it too literal. Do you guys kind of see what I'm seeing? Do you see what I'm seeing? It's almost like a ferry boat, like a steamboat. It had the, um, what do you call them, the smokestacks coming up. It's like an old-school ferry steamboat or something. Throw down some more blue. Let's create a little bit of water. Happening here. I'm gonna throw down the blue and we'll just add some water to it, bleed it. Lots of times I like to tilt my drawings up so the water kind of runs down a little bit with gravity. Gravity is a tool, right? Just like our pens are. Let gravity be one of your creative tools in your arsenal of tools. So there you go. So I'm just throwing the blue down just to create the idea maybe there's some water happening here. You can see how when I put the Farsi pen down on the water, it just starts bleeding.

I kind of like that.

There we go. So we have kind of a water edge there. Um, AM or PM? Good question. Let's say it's PM. They're on their way home from a busy day working in the city. Or is it 10 after 6? Wait, now I'm confused. Wait, the shorthand, the long shorthand points to the hour. Wait, so that would be like 6:05. Um, big difference between fine and ultra fine Sharpie points. Wonder if they will add more increments like micron.

Yeah, Microns has, you know, whatever, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

I don't know the exact increments. Um, I don't know if Sharpies will do that. I, I don't see them doing that for some reason. It'd be cool if they did. I haven't used Microns since college. I used to use Microns a lot. I still have some hanging around. We used to actually do technical drawings with Microns and our straight edges. That's a really good question, Becky. Looks like birds on top of those smokestack things. I love it. You guys are talking my lingo now. We got kind of wonky things happening, smokestacky things. It's the land of cityscape things. Things happening. People-ish kind of dudes hanging out there. Um, yeah, looks like there are some kind of birds up there. That's so funny. I love when you guys see different things. Yes, I love the fairy boat appearing almost out of the mist. Ooh, soon.

Yeah, look at that.

I like that. This kind of spooky Tim Burton movie-ish, Danny Elfman-ish soundtrack going on here. I really like this one. This is cool. I don't know how much more. I might actually leave it at this for now.

I think it—

I think we'll step away from this one for a smidge. This is a very cool area up here. I'm just trying to imagine, trying to think, do I want to put a background color on this?

I don't think so.

I think I'm going to leave it like this. I do want to throw down some Just some kind of windows on these buildings in the distance. Just add a little layer detail back here. My brain's getting a little too fussy. I'm starting to think way too much about what I want to add on here. That's usually a sign that I should kind of stop working on it because I don't want to be too fiddly with it.

Got it.

All right, let's back away from this for now. We can always add stuff later if we want. So I think that's good. I'm gonna leave this at this for now. Cool. Hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you. I'm so glad you're watching. Let's do another sketch. Put this aside to dry. This came out really cool. I love— I want to show you guys how this dried. If you were watching yesterday, you can see how this one ended up drying, what it looks like. This is probably one of my favorite ones to date. This came out really awesome. I really love the way this all dried, especially here, some nice rich walnut colors happening. So that's really a fun one. Will he break out the pink? I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it, and actually I was gonna think about doing it on the people. Should I, guys, let me know. Put in the comments or give me thumbs up or hearts. Should I put pink down here on the people so they pop a little bit? Becky, you're so funny that you— it's so funny you said that. I was thinking about doing it right down here just to pop them out a little bit. I love that building with the walnut ink. Oh yeah, thank you. I know I'm flipping back and forth, but yeah, this is really awesome. I'll leave it on screen for a sec so you guys can take a look at it. Let me zoom in. See how it dried. Again, right, this is quick, loose, it's wonky. I think I'm gonna change my middle name or add another middle name. Maybe I'll put wonky in there somewhere. I just love wonky sketches. The buildings from last night look like they are huddled together. Together in deep conversation. Hmm, what could they possibly be talking about? Interesting, right? Buildings can take on personalities and become characters, you know. Um, absolutely, that's so cool that you said that. Reminds me of a sketch I posted The other day that I did a while ago, people refer to it like as Don Quixote's house. It has that also, that kind of engagement with buildings being characters talking to each other. I love that you said that.

Thanks, Becky.

"They have facial expressions on them." Yeah, well, Becky, I remember you did some really cool castle sketches during Halloween that had some pretty awesome foot bases on them as well.

Alright, cool.

I'm gonna put this aside and try to— ooh, go back to the pink one. I think I got it. I have this 6x6 sheet. I think it's a Strathmore. I think this is a Strathmore Artist Tile. I was doing a wonky bird sketch one day. Actually, I was looking at a sketch of Big Bird that Jim Henson did. I love Jim Henson. And he has a— he did a sketch of Big Bird, and I was kind of riffing off that when I was doing that. Just fooling around, and I was practicing some line work here. Well, let's do some— let's just do something on the backside. It's a little smoother. Let's do something different. I've been using pens a lot. What should I use? Thinking out loud here.

What do I want to break out?

Just looking over here in my, uh, art cart. What do we want to use here?

You know what I'm going to do?

I also have this scrap here too.

Thinking too much.

Thinking too much. Let's just grab and go. We're going to just grab and go. Uh, you know what I haven't broke out in a while? I have some acrylic paint here. I'm just gonna pull out some acrylic paint. This is the part of the show where it gets really crazy and just does whatever. That's actually the whole show. I have some acrylic paint here. So, I haven't used it in a while. Let's just try it. Let's play around with it. For this I will actually use different water. So you see, I just pulled out some Liquitex tubes, some colors here. You guys haven't seen me do acrylic too much. I used to do it all the time. Just looking for a lid.

Here we go.

Put some water in here. Thought it would be fun just to play around with this and see what happens. I'm very messy with acrylic paint, and I'm not even going to mix it. I'm just going to put it right on the brush. So I like to use these brushes here, 3/4-inch brush. I'll dilute it, dilute it with a little bit of water to spread it out. Again, I'm just gonna be quick and loose like I do with sketching and not really try to sketch or not make anything specific here. I'm just throwing down color. And what often happens with these is they'll just become backgrounds. I'll come back later and do sketches on top of with ink.

I love this fluorescent pink color.

I am wetting the brush just to spread the Pull the paint around a little bit. stick. Sometimes what I like to do with acrylic paint is— I usually have a skewer here— I like to scratch the paint off, actually, draw with it. So I have this tool, it's kind of a— has a rubber tip on it, and I can kind of scratch and remove some of the paint, kind of draw with it. So let's do that. Let's just use this as a background and we'll just scratch through it. We'll kind of draw with Draw by removing. I'm gonna change up the tunes a little bit. What's cool is you can see the color underneath coming through.

Cool, that was fun.

I just wanted to throw down some colors, some acrylic ink. After this dries, this will be a cool background. I'll come back and I'll do some sketching on top of it with ink. Um, yeah, so that's just a fun way just to create some backgrounds for, for ink drawings. So this will take a while to dry.

Put it over here. Awesome. Just clean up the board.

I got paint everywhere on here. There we go. That was drying pretty nicely. I need to break out the Copic. Uh, let's do some sketching. I'm using this ultra fine pen here. Do some quick sketching with it. Um, speedy music, watch it. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, yay, fun new tool. Yeah, it's fun to mess around and play around things, right? Something's got to change up the tempo. Absolutely. Uh, speedy music. I love fast music. We used to do this in grammar school. Color crayons underneath, black crayon over the top. I used to make tulip gardens. Ooh, that is fun. Well, in my opinion, you won. I saw what you made your postcard Great work. Paddy, yeah, I hope you're doing well with your drawings in Strata Challenge. I'm not following all the posts. Hopefully that's going well for you. I did that as well. I love coloring, coloring black over top of it. I gotta try that, guys. It sounds fun. Awesome stuff. I'm gonna do one more sketch. Last night I did a quick sketch here. There were some lines on this. This is my Moleskine sketchbook. And I just messed around with a couple lines and made this scene happen. So let's just sketch on the opposite page. Just on the back of this flower thing. Did I just call this a flower thing? I did. I just got acrylic ink all over my elbow.

Oh boy.

That is a fun, fast piece of music. Oh, it's a full piece of music as well. Cool. Uh, yes, scratch art, that's what it's called. Scratch art is amazing. You can do all kinds of patterns and things. Um, last time I did one, it was actually of a dolphin, if I remember correctly. Scratch art is a lot of fun. I actually did a project in college, um, where the entire This drawing was done on a 24 by 36 inch piece of scratchboard. So I did my project using an X-Acto knife to carve, to draw the lines, to do the sketching.

It was really cool.

It was actually a concept for a farmer's market in the Miami area. I wish I still had it. I kept it for many years and I think I, I tossed it, sadly. This music's taking us all over the globe. It's so awesome.

There you go.

Cool. Quick, loose sketching going on there. Uh, I need to break out the beautiful green ink. Yes, I will definitely do that. I think I might have some here. Let's see. Let's try it. So I'm gonna sketch this for a few more minutes and we'll do the Whistling Cowboy song. I don't know if I might need a refill on the green.

Let's see.

So there's a little bit left in here. Sure, let's add some green on this and we'll end up on this sketch. Thank you guys for watching. I really appreciate y'all so much. You're having fun. Hope you guys are enjoying the chat, hanging out with each other. So this green ink doesn't want to start.

What the heck?

That's okay, we could do it the old-fashioned way. We can get the actual jar of ink, play with it, see if I get it started. I haven't used it in a This is a great color green. I hope I can find it again. I think I got it started. I hope I can find this green ink again. I don't know, I think it was a limited edition color like 5 or 6 years ago. Yo, what's going on, Sony Dreamable? Throw some up on this roof area. Good suggestion. Thank you, Linda, for mentioning it.

Just bleed some of it as well.

Yeah, and Linda, I love— you got— I love your green Lamy pen you got. So cool. So here's my green Lamy. I love the one you got. It's really awesome. You have a lot of fun with it? How could you not have fun with a new pen, right? Yeah, this is a cool color. I just like the way it's kind of— zoomed in a little too close. Let me back up a little bit. Kinda see the whole image. There we go. I don't know what this is looking like. This is looking to me like— I don't know, I, I want to say it's some kind of a, um, I don't know why a ship keeps popping into my brain. It's not really a ship, but it could be maybe some kind of building, some kind of ship made out Yeah, the screen's cooler. Um, I like the pop of kind of the brightness it's adding to this sketch. Gotta be careful, I don't want to overdo it.

That looks awesome.

Yeah, that's a really awesome green color. Uh, this is very cool, like all the textures. Oh, thanks. This is just kind of me going wild. There was a lot of fast music, you can tell, so I was kind of scribbling and going really fast with the music. Just see what turned out. Um, you're always a winner making new friends. Yes, always a winner making making new friends is really such a great thing to do. That's one of the beautiful things about the internet, right? I've met all of you guys here through the internet, which has been so amazing and so, just so cool. I love the workshops that we all do together. It's just so awesome. And those, we have, you know, the workshops, our Zoom meetings, or supposed to go for like 2 hours and sometimes they go 3, 4 hours and it's just really cool just getting to talk to everybody and getting to know everybody better. So making friends is— I like that. Yeah, you're always a winner making new friends. So that's so true. Uh, now this building is a character for sure. Yeah, it is a character. Completely agree. Look at cool purple color that happened here. It is wonk— totally wonkified. I actually do, believe it or not, want to add more ink on top when it dries. Um, I want to pull out some details and I want to— actually, where's my Pilot? Let's use my Pilot Precise pen. We'll do that. Definitely want yellow-green, really complements purple. Yeah, it does. Those are really fun colors for sure. And JRS, and JRS's class talking about analogous colors. Ooh, awesome. These are analogous colors. Who would have thunk it? I love that. That is so cool. I'm not really hip on all the technical artistic terms. I know complementary colors and all that. I have to say, I kind of throw down colors just by sometimes luck. Lots of times it's just by gut instinct, just to see what happens, just to be playful. I feel sometimes if I get bored log down the terminology with artwork and techniques. Um, then I feel like I have to be really— it's weird, I think I have to be precise. I know it's awesome to have a baseline of techniques, but if I get too technical, I feel like my drawings start getting technical. So, you know, like this, the color names, I don't really remember color names. I just kind of go with it. Otherwise I got to be like, oh, I need my bright orange cherry blossom or my apple seed purple. I just kind of have them out and I look at them. I'm like, okay, take this one, take this one. That's just how I— my brain works. Now you can see I'm actually taking my Precise and adding just some details to this. That is so cool. Now I've actually learned a new term.

That's so fun.

I learn so much from you guys. Thank you, you're awesome. I'm gonna pull some detail out here.

I'm not sure what— I think I'm just gonna bracket.

I just want a roof bracket, so I'm just coming down like this. Cool, there we go. I think this one's done for now, guys. Um, keeping you free from playful— yeah, when you disturb the terminology. Yeah, there you go, D-Ray. Hey, D-Ray's in the house. I don't know if I said hello to D-Ray. Hey, D-Ray. I like this house. Would have a rooster. I feel like this house would have a rooster. Oh boy, I could totally see a rooster here, but I and live on stage. I can— I would never be able to do a rooster justice in your presence. You guys are—

yeah, I love the idea.

I could see a rooster hanging out here, but you know me and animals. It's one of my fears. Not a fear, but it's something I just need to work on and practice. The giraffe always pops into my brain, the giraffe sketch.

Yeah, this could be cool.

Maybe this is some kind of a— I don't know, I don't know what this is. I like it, it's just fun.

Cool.

There you go. So that was just a quick, fun sketch. Very wonky. If you guys wanna give me a number from 1 to 20, we'll wrap up with our Whistling Cowboy song. You guys are awesome. It's 10:19. I didn't realize how late it was, but it's all good. Just having fun. What I like about this piece This piece is, you can see the energy that went into it when I was listening to that really fast music. It has a lot of movement, I think, to it, which I think is fun. Now, is it a chicken coop?

Is it—

did someone salvage these buildings and put them together? I keep thinking boat, ship, ark. I have no idea why. Maybe it's the porthole window edge You know, maybe it's a— looking at a— just a narrow village, part of a village or something going on. That's what's fun about it. You can create whatever narrative you want with this piece. I'm still sketching. I said I was going to stop. I know I did that. Just creating a little detail around this window. I see some timber frame happening here. Some funky shingles going on. Still pipe coming out. Cool, I think we'll call this one done. I think it's sea captain's house. There you go, Sue. Boom! Sue nailed it. That's— I like that because it combines kind of what I'm thinking. It could be a sea captain's house.

I like that.

Very cool. And this could really go well with the other buildings we've been doing lately. I just say we, it's like third person, but I guess we, because you guys have been sketching along and joining along with me, right? It kind of goes with, I think, the same. This could be a really cool illustrated series, maybe. Maybe a cool book series. You can see the architecture talking to each other a little bit. Pippi Longstocking would love this. Love that. Pippi Longstocking. How cool is that? I love that. It's making you think of, uh, some characters. So actually, I actually broke out arches I was going to use. I forgot about that. We're going to save arches for another day. Forgot I had her sheet out before. Right, I'm gonna have to rip all these out or put them all together somehow where you can see all these in the same scene. The bayou buildings, as Linda was saying the other day. There's all kinds of things.

Cool.

Hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. If you want to give me a number from 1 to 20, let me know and we'll wrap up with a cowboy song. Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate this. Kind of my first regular scheduled Wednesday. I didn't really announce it. Um, I've been a I'll try doing these Wednesday from now on at 9 o'clock at night, if everything else permits. Just have one regular time. Maybe I'll still pop on randomly like I usually do. I just made a basket. I just threw that, that piece of paper and it went right in the trash can. Two points for me. Two points. Too bad we didn't get— we don't have the basketball cam in there. You could have saw me making that basket. It's the simple things that impress me. The simple things in life. Like making a basket across the room. That was cool. Wow.

Cool.

Actually, I have one show and tell before we wrap up. I have a book here I want to show you guys. A friend of mine actually gave this to me at school. He was cleaning out his in-law's house and brought in some books for me, which was really nice of him. So this is one of the books he brought in. It's called "A Year in Art: A Painting a Day." I haven't looked through it too much yet because I had just received it. So this is a cool book. It breaks It goes through, it's a calendar. So here you can see January 1st. It has, I guess, a quote with an apple. "I will astonish Paris." Paul Cézanne said that. And then it has a Cézanne painting here. So this is a really cool way to learn about different artists and paintings. I really don't know a lot about the fine artists and the masters. You know, I know Van Gogh and people like him. I'm drawing blanks. So this is a really great way, I think, for me to educate and just open my eyes up to artists.

Right?

We've got all kinds of things. We've got some architecture things. So this would be really cool actually. Let's see what's on my birthday.

I'm just curious.

So if you like fine art, here's a Monet.

Claude Monet.

Claude's My Garden is a most beautiful masterpiece.

Beautiful, guys.

So cool. Oh, we all know who this one is. I don't even say a name.

Let's go to my B-day.

Ooh, I like this one from the same for my birthday. It's a Monet. Now I really feel the landscape. I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink. It's enchanting. It's delicious. Claude Monet. There you go. This is called Cliffs Near—

oh boy—

Dieppe. Cliffs Near Dieppe, 1897. So this is a cool book.

I—

it's called A Year in Art.

I don't know when it was published.

Uh, this is the Second edition, 2007.

This is from 2007.

Wow, you should hold an art exhibit, Jason Nicholas Nicholas. I would love that soon. I would love to have an art exhibit. Um, I've been wanting to do just like a gallery showing here in my house. I have some easels and set paintings up and do a virtual kind of gallery show and show some work I've done and put things up for sale. Gotta clean house. Time to clean house. I'm looking for a paper towel. I can do that later. "Fabulous book." It is a cool book. Becky said she's aging herself with that reference. Oh, about Pippi Longstocking. No, no, it's all good. I know who Pippi Longstocking is. That's a good age reference. All right guys, so I'm gonna play the Whistling Cowboy. We're gonna head out for the night. First number I see from 1 to 20, I will play that song. I'm so glad you were all able to watch tonight, Sue. It's awesome having you here, and Becky and Patty and D-Ray. Linda was in the house. Who else? We had a bunch of people people earlier. Laura, I know, was here. Kim was in. Gemma was in.

Heather.

Jethro, I think. So thank you guys for watching. I appreciate you all so much. Um, P says, looks like my art history book's only easier to handle. There you go. That's all— there you go. It's a condensed version for sure. Hey, good timing, the music playlist just stopped playing. Alright, I'm gonna wrap up. Guys, thank you for watching. Everybody that's in the workshop, hopefully you have been able to get into our Circle community page. Let me know if you've had problems. I know some of you guys have posted in there as well. Our first Zoom is Saturday night at 8 o'clock PM Eastern time here in New Jersey. And we're gonna just do some fun stuff. Hopefully it's fun stuff. And we'll do some of this style sketching, get back into the things. We'll do a little kind of warm-up exercise. So we'll sketch something together. And then we'll do show and tell. That is my favorite part. Well, look at what you guys did. So remember the prompt this week? When I say Disney, what pops into your brain? It could be anything. Don't think it has to be architecture because that's the workshop. Just whatever Disney makes you think of. So I know Kat posted some stuff and Beck did as well. I love MC. So that's our sample for this week, guys. He'll lose my signal. Oh, got you. Thank you, guys. Sorry about that, guys. I'm sorry, there are interruptions. I'm having bad internet tonight. Thank you for telling me, I appreciate that. I happen to have bad internet today, so thank you for telling me. All right, we're gonna play this song here and wrap up. Thank you guys for watching. I appreciate you all so much. Have an awesome rest of your day. Have a fantastic Thursday. Peace and live creatively. And I'm gonna pick this one.