The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey Chris, how are you? Good to see you. I am sketching, good question. Started off as random lines, but I think I'm turning it into some kind of a, I don't know, maybe a scene with water and some kind of grasses, reeds, something growing out of it. Hope you're having a great, great day. We'll see where it goes.

Yep.

So I'm using the pen, I'm using watercolor markers right now, and a Sharpie. Hey Janice, how are you? Good to see you. Add a frog, that's a great idea. So Chris is watching. Chris is like the master at frogs. Cattails, I love that too. Chris, I wish you were here. You could put a really awesome frog on here. Your frog, your frogs are incredible. I love what you've been doing. Janice, hope you're having a great day. You know, when I'm sketching, there's always a chance this could turn into something architectural, right? I don't know, we'll see. I'm not sure about this one, but I just wanted to play around with some colors. I want to put some yellow, maybe a nice kind of background going on here. You know, I'm going to turn it into a little— something a little abstract or wonky. See if you guys can see it. There you go. Cool. So we'll see where this ends up going. Janice, that's awesome. Glad you're having a great day. How about a short pier? Boy, you guys are just full of ideas. I love it. I needed you in school today. Where were you during 7th period? We needed some ideas during 7th period today. You guys would have been perfect. I always love the suggestions. You guys are awesome. So we'll see. We'll just keep adding. Yeah, the pier is a cool idea. They're all cool ideas so far, guys. I love them. We'll see, uh, sometimes I like to think about ideas and let them go in here and We'll see what comes out. Good stuff. Keep throwing ideas at me. But don't be offended if I don't pick any. We'll see. We'll see where we go. I gotta get a drink. Hey Linda, how are you? Good to see you. Chris, your school days are over. Mine are just beginning, by choice though. I can't complain. Sorry, I just need to get a drink, my throat's kind of dry. That's so funny. You guys are awesome. Actually, Chris, I have to disagree. You know what? Every day is like a school day, right? We're always learning something new. So we can, we could reframe our thinking to something like that. Every day we're learning something new. Not that you have to always learn in school, but it's kind of, life is kind of like school. We're always learning.

Mm-hmm.

So I just, just using my water brush with some sepia watercolor marker right now. Just kind of— just want to dilute these colors a little bit, make them a little softer. I'll pop some down here. I do like the idea about a frog. I am— Janice, I am so not good at animals, I would have to, I would have to practice first, but I think a frog would be really cool somewhere down in here. But maybe we can do some kind of lily pads or something. Oops, it's a little too wet for me to use the Sharpie on. Hmm, just thinking, thinking, thinking. Hey, how are you, Dre, Tamara Lee? You guys are always popping in today. What's going on? Feeling better, I see from your last painting. Chris is feeling better, I think. Chris, I know you're doing well. Keep getting better and better. Janice, I lost you somehow. Did anybody else lose me? Let me know if you lost me. If you did, I don't know how. I hope you didn't lose me. Sometimes I lose myself. I don't even know what this marker is. I just kind of pulled it out. Permanent marker? No, I don't want to use the permanent. I guess I'll play around with the, uh, this watercolor marker. Maybe there's some growies, lily pad thingies or something going on in here. Chris, I'm so glad you're doing better. That's awesome. Yeah, Janice, I'm not sure what happened. We all know what tech is. Tech could be so wonky, right? Let's do— I know what I want to do. Let's do a little something in the foreground here. So I'm trying to keep this kind of quick and loose. Like most of my stuff is. So the pier, I think it was Chris, I'm not— someone said something about like a pier maybe. So maybe there's some kind of a dock or a pier or something in the foreground here. A little deck area. So that's what I just sketched here. I'm going to add, I do want to add a pops of color somewhere in here too. So I'll be doing that. My brain's kind of thinking ahead a little bit. So I have some magenta. I think I want to pop some magenta on here. Stones, my mouse fell. Janice, your mouse fell. Was it trying to get some cheese or something? Maybe it saw some cheese on the floor. I know that was a bad joke. So I just wanted to pop some colors on here. I feel like I'm trying to control this a little too much and I don't really want that. So I gotta go back to putting some of my wonkiness on here. Wonky makes me happy. I don't know why, but it just does. Ooh, so I put too much water down here. I just put some, uh, watercolor marker on my palette, and I want to kind of brush it off and throw it in here. So I'm trying to make this just a little murkier looking, more of a swampy kind of look. So I'm mixing my colors a little bit, the blue with some of the sepia. I might even end up throwing a little bit of charcoal or— I'm sorry, a little bit of graphite on here. I felt like I was trying to be too controlling before, so I just want to kind of let loose a little bit. Again, I'm just playing around. It might not be great, who knows, but it's always fun to play around with different techniques, colors. Hey, did I find a spot for my root painting? Um, I have a spot in mind in my classroom. Uh, the only thing is I I'm actually not in my regular classroom this year. They have me using 4 different rooms because of COVID regulations, and my regular classroom does not have a window, so I'm not allowed to be in there for fresh air, vent— fresh air flow issues. Um, so when I get back to my regular room, I do have a spot for it. Kids will all be able to see it. But that won't— it could be in September. We'll have to see. But right now I'm traveling between different classrooms. Good question. Yeah, yeah. Hey, Betsy is here. Hello, Betsy. Someone said hi, Betsy. If you guys popped in and I didn't say hello, hello. Sometimes I miss people popping in and out. So this is just warm-up here. It's getting kind of quick and loose. I want to do something with the edges. I'm going to get crazy. I want to throw down some cerulean blue, I think. And we'll move on. Put this one aside. I really am liking the top part in here. This is kind of eh. Oh, is there still some in here I can use? I might have some blue in here I can use. Oh, looks like I do. There we go. I kind of like the way it's looking, actually. I'm going to let it dry. I'll probably come do something down here a little bit later. It's too wet to keep working with it. Um, but I do like the addition of this blue up in here and pulling it down. I think we're gonna let this one dry and put it aside for a little bit.

It's kind of—

it's getting way too wet to work with. Cool! That was just a quick little fun piece. I'm just looking at it on screen. It looks I kind of like how it's a little bit darker and it gets a little brighter in the middle. Almost like the sun or something is kind of poking through this area in the middle, coming out. It's kind of cool. Yeah, so this was a quick little sketch. I'll play around with it after it dries a little bit.

Cool.

So let me move on. We'll do something else. Put this aside and let it dry up. So I think I want to do a cottage sketch. I also pulled this out from my drawer. This I had started a while ago, probably last year. It was actually scrap paper, but I pulled it out and I'm actually seeing— I don't know if anybody sees an animal on here, but I see an the shape of an animal. So I might play around with this at some point soon too. I thought it was a cool find. I love coming back and looking at artwork weeks, months, even years later to see if I can see different things happening with it. So this was kind of a cool image. This is a— I think it was acrylic. Looks like an acrylic and watercolor painting. So that was a cool piece. I'm going to do a sketch. I feel like doing a cottage sketch right now. Sorry, my brain is all over the place as always. You guys know me, I'm all over the place. Yeah, elephant, you got it. Definitely an elephant here. That's cool that you can see it, so I'm not the only one. That's probably what I was intending it to be too when I did this last year. I just never finished it. You can definitely see kind of his head, his trunk here, legs, body, maybe another leg back here. So yeah, maybe, um, Not today, but maybe I'll work on this soon and maybe try to pull out the elephant. Actually, no, let's play around with it now. I have it out. Let's do it. So I'm just going to maybe try to pull out the shape of the elephant a little bit more on here. It's kind of loose, abstract. I want to keep it that way. I'm not going to add, you know, a lot of details to it. At least not yet. I could always come back with a pen later and add some pen details. That might be kind of nice. Um, let me put some tracing paper— I'll show you the shape I'm looking at. So this is— let me see if I can get my Sharpie here. Um, so I'll sketch with this one so you can see it better. So the shape of the elephant I'm seeing is something like this. Quick, I mean, there's a trunk like in here. Head comes down, there's kind of a leg. We have part of the underbody, this does something like this. Looks much more like an elephant underneath than what I'm sketching here. There's kinda legs or something happening here. So if I can pull that shape out somehow— oh, I got a broken— that's okay. It's just a play piece. Let me try— do I want to try magenta? Make it a little wacky. I have magenta or I have some fluorescent pink. I'm feeling a little wacky. Maybe we'll go with the, uh, let's play around with some fluorescent pink and just see what happens. There's only one way to find out. I have this Fluorescent Pink, right? It's— it is fluorescent, alright. I haven't used it, or did I use this one? I may have used it a little bit. Let me try playing on this painting and see what happens, just for the fun of it. Put that over here. What do I want to paint with? I don't want to use a small brush, I'll be thinking in too much detail. Tough decisions, decisions. You know what, I'm just going to go with my brush pen here. You guys can see that okay? Oops, I got some pink on my hand. It's not art unless you wear it, right? Well, I just wiped it off, but I do have some pink on there. Here we go. I like this pink on here. It's really— I think it's starting to pull the elephant's shape out a little bit more. From the background. Again, it's going to be very loose, kind of a loose elephant. I'm not going to detail it. Focus a little bit, maybe. That looks kind of fun. Oh, I already have some yellow. I want to add some. I think there's some like yellow pops going on. I want to add to that a little bit. I forgot I had yellow out. Definitely have to clean this brush pen out when I'm done. I'm kind of seeing this almost as like a primitive type of painting. Yeah, it does need a tail, Janice, you're right. I should sketch a tail on the back. I think I'll do that with the pink. That's a good idea. Thank you. Yes, I'm almost seeing this as a kind of primitive type of art piece where you can just see the image. Not like a cave painting primitive, I mean, but kind of that feel to it. I don't know if I'm describing it right. That's what I'm picturing in my brain that this looks like. Alright, Janice, I for— elephant tails, do they have long tails or short tails? I might have to Google an image. I think I would know. I'm picturing a tail somewhere, somewhere like back, coming right back in here. Something like that. Break out some of the pink. Short. Alright, we'll do a little short tail thingy. Wish me luck, I'm going in. This should have— I think I should have made it a little more curvy, so I'm just going to add to it a little bit. Try and curve it. There we go. Let's see how it dries. Cool! We got zettel! We got zettel! I think I got some fluorescent. Let's break out some fluorescent yellow here. I feel like I wanna add some more in the foreground. So this was actually acrylic ink on here, or acrylic paint. So I'm going to put some acrylic ink on it too. This is a very yellowy, very bright yellow color. You saw it too? Awesome! Looks like a person sitting on the left. Looks like a person sitting on the left lower looking at the elephant. Oh my gosh! Wow! That's so cool! I sprayed over in here. Yes! Looking— that is so cool, man. I love that. I'm not gonna mess with that. I think that's perfect the way it is. I don't want to touch this area. So cool. You guys are seeing some really awesome things. I love it. Let's try some of this yellow. I have never used this yellow. Oof, it is bright. Kinda like me, it's bright. Just kidding, just kidding. I am not bright. Hmm, Detective Gannon put my hand in the paint. What are they gonna do with me? No wonder I never get invited out to dinners. My family keeps me inside. It's 'cause I get paint all over my hands. Imagine if I went to a barbecue. I'd be wearing more of the barbecue sauce than I'm eating. That would just not be good. Mm-mm. Very cool. One thing I want to do something with is this. Although I could crop it out there to frame it, but something with this. Let's see, what can we do with this piece up top here? It's kind of just sticking out like a sore thumb. I'm seeing abstract mountains or hills back in here. Then I come to this piece. It's like a volcano erupting or something, I don't know. So it's a little wonky. What would happen if I did this?

Oops.

Just gonna crop it out. I could always crop it out too. Maybe I would, maybe I'll end up just cropping it somewhere in here. Yeah, it could be a tree. Could be a tree. Throw up some low mountains. Yeah, so Chris, yeah, I've seen some mountains here. Could be incorporated into the mountains, yep. Buy some of those $4— yeah, buy some of those white $4 Goodwill shirts. That would be awesome, wear those at the barbecues.

Woohoo!

I love that, that's awesome. Just thinking for a sec. Shame I got Sharpie on here. I don't think that's gonna come off. I know it's not gonna come off. It's okay. It's alright. It's just a fun little piece. Just playing around. Um, hmm. I wish I had white trace paper. I don't have any white trace paper in the house. I just wanna see, sketch some ideas on here. Gotta make a little bit of room.

Alright, so—

this is what I'm seeing here. Some kind of mountains going on. So we could definitely incorporate some kind of something maybe in the background. Excuse me, I like the tree idea, but I think the tree— I feel like the tree would be competing with the elephant a little too much because of the location of it. Unless, like, if I was to make a tree like right in here— not that kind of tree, but it would compete with the elephant in the foreground because they're lined up. But what if we did something like Maybe something like this.

I'll do it this way.

What if the tree came up from the left side? It's coming up and it kind of does something I'm picturing like a horizontal thing, just kind of comes down like this. So this would all be shaded in or something. This is kind of like architecture planning when you're planning floor plans. These are called bubble diagrams. Bubble diagrams just to give you like an idea of the relationship of spaces to each other. So I'm picturing this as being maybe a part of a tree, the horizontal part, maybe there's a vertical part in here. Obviously they'd be connected somehow. I don't know, I kind of I kinda want the elephant to be the star of the show. I'm picturing there too much happening. So this is my architecture brain kicking in to artwork. This is kind of how I'm visualizing it. Sometimes I visualize more final, or not final, but more finished type of artwork rather than my quick, loose abstract stuff. Where you see me, I'm just rapid fire, right? This I'm kinda thinking in my brain and bringing some artistic vision, some architectural skills as well, like space planning. And I'm seeing, you know, if I have this and this, you know, composition, right? I guess that's the art term, some composition. I'm gonna have this form going on here. There's a lot happening here, here. So I like when I try to design things, I try to design simple, like simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That's my Leonardo da Vinci quote. I love that quote. I try to live by it. It's not easy. I want to keep it simple, and I could be overthinking it too. It's possible. I keep picturing like a volcano. I know I don't— probably don't see elephants where there are volcanoes. I could be wrong, but Something kind of erupting back in here. Hey, it's my painting, right? My world. I can create what I want. That's the beauty of art, guys, right? We can do what we want. We have artistic license to create our own visions, our own stories. Don't be afraid to explore. Just try different things. It doesn't have to make sense to everybody. Doesn't even have to make sense to yourself. If you feel good creating it, you're having fun, for me that's what it really comes down to. So I'm picturing this, some kind of a volcano coming up and some kind of—

pshew, pshew, pshew, pshew.

I don't know, I might think on this one. Hey, it's only sitting around for a year or so, so what's another few days or years? I am trying to think back, but I don't even know what colors I used here. This is only a thin piece of—

oh, is it watercolor?

Yeah, this is watercolor. It's not 140 pounds, it's really thin. That might be mixed media paper, actually. It's pretty thin. All right, I'm going to throw some of these away over here. I'm pretty sure the color I used for that was— it was probably acrylic paint, was probably Very diluted magenta. Alright, I'm gonna— where's my graphite? Just wanna line, outline something. Pardon my arm, guys, sorry. I might just lay this out with just some graphite and just create almost a shadow, come— some kind of shadowy lines in the background. Let's try that. Let's see how that looks. Hope you guys are having a great day. Good night, Janice. Good seeing you. Take care. Appreciate you watching, Janice. Awesome. Yeah, go back later. Krista, go back later. There's too much tension. Go step away. Come back. Yeah, I'm just gonna paint some graphite and we're gonna see what it looks like. Sometimes it is best to step away. But I'm determined to get something on here. Okay, I want to keep that simple, almost primitive kind of look. So I'm just outlining a shape in the background. I'm painting with not the flat part of my brush, I'm just kind of painting with the end of it. Or actually not painting, sketching with it. Just, just to create a shape or line with it.

Cool.

Alright, I think that's good on this one for now. I'm going to let it dry and I'll come back to it. So let's see what it says. Hey Dolores, how are you? Good to see you. Awesome. So yeah, I'm going to put this one aside and let it dry. I'll come back and play with it a little bit more. But yeah, it was fun finding this piece in her drawer and I really like the way the elephant shape kind of pulled out a little bit more by adding the pink around it. It's kind of neat. So yeah, this was a fun little A little piece going on there. All right, I'm gonna do one more sketch. What am I gonna do? I'm itching to do a cottage sketch, so let's do a little bit of archi-torture. I mean architecture, not archi-torture. We used to say that in college, archi-torture, because of all the late, late, late, late nights we'd spend working on projects. It was all good. It was all in jest. Alright, so I have a piece of watercolor paper here. We'll do some sketching on it. Put some music on in the background. So I'm just imagining this kind of structure. Maybe it's not so cottagey, it has more of a I'm gonna say adobe type of looking, feeling structure, maybe built out of stone and some plaster, some adobe materials, some timbers coming out of it. Some windows here, some kind of timber here. Just kind of, you know, maybe it's a mud— made out of these mud kind of bricks. I mean, they're not perfectly square, and that's fine. They're kind of stacked. I'm not sure, maybe— I don't know, I'm not sure what this is. Just having fun playing with different forms and different lines. We'll do some brush on it, brush pen. I'm just adding some stippling on here or some dots just to create texture on this building. You know, this is something that was just built with local materials and what was around, and they had to kind of scavenge and use what the what nature provided them to build their house with. Their shelter, right? Think about primitive shelter structures. You know, the primitive hut is one of the earliest images of a house. It wasn't really a house, it was just for shelter, right? It was a primitive hut. It was just basically made from a tree. Tree trunks and branches. Sometimes homes are just made from what you can get your hands on. Awesome, hey Dolores, yes, good to see you here. Oh, so this is a pen. I am using a sepia pen, a sepia brush pen. Oops, just moved this, sorry. Sepia brush pen by Pentel. That's what I'm using right now. I don't know if you can see it on here. It's hard to read, but yep, Pentel sepia pen. Hey, Patty, how are you? Yeah, it's a fun pen to use. I'm just— I haven't used it too many times yet, but I'm enjoying using it for sure. So yeah, I like this. It's almost like a primitive hut kind of structure. That's what I'm going to chalk this one up to. Cool little piece. I'll flip it over and we'll see if we can do something on the other side. So I'm going to go on the other side. I'm just going to use a, um, the graphite stick, and I'm just gonna do something loose with it, and we'll just add water to it. So what I like about graphite sticks is these big ones don't have fine points on them, so I can't thinking a lot of detail as I'm sketching. I'm just making just rough lines on here because I don't want to think in detail. I wanted to keep it really loose. And then I'll just add some water to this and we'll see what kind of shapes, you know, come out of this. And it might end up being abstract and nothing, which is cool. Again, it's for me, it's about the process. It's just fun to create. I'm not I always, 95% of the time, I don't even have a specific result in mind. You know, unless I'm trying to copy something or it's a specific sketch for somebody or a client or something like that. But I'm just, this is just playtime right now. So we'll see. I like to use my brush pen with this. Or sometimes I'll use a 3/4-inch brush. I like to use these as well. So it's just a 3/4-inch. This is like an acrylic watercolor brush. Hey, Dawn, how are you? Good to see you. Thanks for tuning in. So I'll just take my 3/4 brush and let's just put it on here and see what happens with the graphite. Again, we're just playing around with some loose lines, that's all. So almost sketching with the brush, basically. I'm not so much painting, but I'm kind of sketching with the edge of it. Sometimes I'll turn it and use the wide part and I'll kind of drag some water across it, and then I'll turn it sideways and I'll just sketch with it. Just because it's a brush doesn't mean we can't draw or sketch with it, right? There's so many different ways that you can use tools sometimes. So I can see the shape of a building kind of in this. How about you guys? Cool! Patty says cool with exclamation point. Dawn's like, hey folks, happy Friday! Love it, love the exclamation points, love the energy level. You guys are awesome. Hope your week was fantastic. I hope your weekend is even better. So let me just grab a drink here. I gotta— it's really dry in here in my house, so pardon me while I get a drink of some Gatorade Frost Cool thirst quencher. Sounds good to me. Let's see if it quenches my thirst. Mm-hmm. Cool. So I switched to my brush pen. Just because I want some— just do some more fine kind of lines on it. So I'm seeing a building, I'm seeing it— I like to draw skylines, I like to draw cottages, I like to draw religious structures. I sometimes see like churches and things. I'm almost seeing this as a church steeple here. This is some kind of a church building maybe. —and I'll just try to keep all graphite on this, and I might add some color around the outside just to pull this building form out a little bit. So this is a Pentel Aqua Brush here. Keep water in here, which is awesome. I always have one of these in my little art travel kit so I don't have to worry about having— well, I have to make sure I fill it before I leave, but if I don't have water bottle of water, at least this is filled and I can have it ready to go. If I want to do some watercolor painting with it or do some graphite sketches like I'm doing now. So it's a cool little tool to have in your arsenal of art supplies. Ch-ch-ch. I like the shape this is taking, the form. Looks like a statue on the left. So over in here, let me zoom in a little bit. Hey, there we go. I'm going to have to focus a smidge. I think it went out of focus, that's weird. So the statue is over in here is where you're saying there's a statue, like in this area. That's so cool that you're seeing that. That's one of the reasons I love to do these kind of loose style sketches is that it allows you guys to see, use your imaginations and see different things in it. I think that's sometimes more fun for people viewing artwork. So it's one of the things I strive to do is to, I want to leave it open and interpretive. For interpretation. So it's so awesome that you guys always see things in my sketches. Oh, what you said was the steeple, the tall part. Yeah. Oh, there could be a statue. Yeah, this could be a statue up top, maybe with an angel, like an angelic statue or something, right? Absolutely. Good call. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna add some color around the outside of this just to pull out this kind of this church, this building out. A couple of choices. Sometimes I like to add sepia. That's my go-to usually. I like to use my sepia brush— watercolor marker, sorry. This is a sepia watercolor marker. I like to use this sometimes. Or, as you guys may know, this is my magic solution of— I made up a year ago, like acrylic paint and stuff in it. I don't even remember the recipe. I still have some left. It's running low though. Sometimes I'll take this and brush it on the background. Actually, let's try this today. We'll use some of this, the Magic Solution, patent pending. Do not drink this at home. It's acrylic ink, it's acrylic paint. There's some brown in there, rust color stuff. There's even some blue in here, believe it or not. I was trying to recreate like a rust color, as you can see in the lid. This is one of my most favorite colors in the world. I love rust stuff, rusty stuff. So I was trying to recreate my own version of it. Let's put some of this on here. It might mix in with the graphite and that's okay. Again, we're just playing around. So let's brush some of this on. Sorry if you can't see the whole thing. I'll move it so you can see it. I like doing grungy kind of paintings, urban or industrial, I like to call them as well. So this color helps to create that industrial look I like. That mixed with the graphite is how I— one of the ways I like to achieve the grungy industrial aesthetic. I know it sounds kind of weird doing that with a church, but I just— I like the effect and the look of it. But you can see just by adding this color It's just pulling the background, it's just pulling the building out. I could have used any colors. I could have used yellow. I could have used cerulean blue as my other go-to. I just wanted to keep it kind of in the dark family. And I don't care, I kind of like that this spot is darker than here. This is— there are different tones. It's not an even tone. I have some white spaces. So the idea is to have that kind of model look to it. Model like M-O-T-T-L-E, model. Oops, I think I just hit the camera thing. And I'm going to put a little bit more on and I'm going to let it dry because it's buckling as you can see. But I like it. I think it's looking kind of cool just by adding that. Hey, Andrea, how are you? Good to see you. Sorry I missed so much, but I will watch. Yeah, definitely check the replay. Yeah, you know, I just popped on randomly, so I I apologize. I know I drive some of you guys crazy because I show up sometimes whenever, and I do apologize for that. I do have a scheduled one tomorrow night at 7:45 PM Eastern time, so I'll definitely be on tomorrow night at 7:45. And I'm trying to do Wednesdays as a regular time, around 7:45. So, that's my goal right now, to at least have at least one regular time a week, if not two. Other than that, it's just going to be random based on my schoolwork and what I have to do and how tired I am at night and all that stuff. But I always appreciate you guys popping in and watching the replays. You are awesome. And if you watch the replays, always feel free to leave comments or questions in there because I try to go through them. I can't promise I'll get to everybody's questions or comments, but I try to go through and look back. But I really appreciate it. So cool, and you're watching from YouTube. That's so cool. Very, very nice. Hey, Becky, good to see you. How are you? Linda, darn, I can't be here tomorrow night. Hope it is on replay. Yeah, so Linda, it will be. Usually the Inking Out Loud sessions I do are on replay. Once in a while I'll take them off if it was kind of fluff and had nothing valuable. I would say 95% are on there. When I do my course, my workshop in May, which will be Saturday nights at 7:00 PM I think 7:30. I should know my time. I think 7:30. Those will only be available for people in the workshop. So I won't have those on the Facebook page. So Saturdays in May, those will be private workshop kind of lessons. And some of you guys signed up, so I appreciate that. That's awesome. We'll be doing loose style sketching. We'll be doing stuff like this. I'll teach you my loose technique. Style sketching techniques and with architecture as a focus. Yeah, this looks kind of cool. I'm liking this. I'm liking the background, how it's kind of mottled. It's getting that vibe. Becky just tuned in. Becky, you missed it. I used the Magic Solution for the background. So we got some Magic Solution going on. I'm gonna put a little bit more graphite on here. I wanna pull out this rough area or roof, depends where you live I guess. Roof, roof, rough. Just wanna give it a little more texture. I mean, one of the cool things about this is there's not a lot of detail. It's just in the form and the shapes that we're— you can see, oh, this looks better at this angle. It's really washed out, but if I do this, you can see it. You know, it's just a form of the lines that we can tell that it's a building, right? You know, is it an old building falling apart? Maybe. And that's okay. I'm leaving that open for interpretation intentionally. I'm not trying to make like a detailed Victorian house, which They're amazing. But that's not what this is about. I would love to do it. And I am going to— someone asked about doing like technical, doing like a demonstration of architectural technical type of drawing. And I would definitely— I'm going to be doing those. So if you're interested in watching those, that would be kind of— I'll let you know. Tomorrow night, guys, if anybody is watching tomorrow night, I just remembered. Tomorrow night I'm going to focus on doing an Inky Inky Night type of sketch. Just to remind you guys, if you don't remember what that is, that's this type of drawing or sketch. I did manage to get some more markers. Hopefully I got the right colors. I think I did. So I'm going to try to create an Inky Inky Night type of sketch tomorrow night. I'll probably do a quick loose warm-up of something and then we'll work on doing maybe just a small 6x6 piece or something. Because this is actually, this is about a foot long. It's pretty, pretty big. So I'd like to focus on doing this tomorrow night. Inky Inky Sketch. So if you want to try along, play along, I use tracing paper. You can use white, yellow, all kinds of colors. I just use tracing paper. I use markers. I use these kinds of markers. Other kinds may work, I don't know, but I can only suggest what I've used so far, and it's AD Markers by Chartpak. Michaels does have these, believe it or not. Some colors I had to have ordered though. They didn't have them in stock. So I have some of these as well. And a Sharpie, of course. So that's what I'll be doing tomorrow night for about an hour. And I'll be doing more of them as well. So if you can't— if you want to join in and you can't tomorrow, You don't have the stuff, that's okay. I'll be doing more, but at least if you want to watch, definitely check it out. So I'm just adding these kind of vertical lines here in the background. Again, I'm just drawing with the brush. Kind of locking my arm, my wrist and hand together and just dragging it up. You know, it adds more interest. Maybe these are some trees in the background. Just a suggestion of some growies or trees or something happening. Sometimes I'll mix the Magic Solution with some graphite. Just to get a dark tone and just bring it across the bottom here a little bit, just so the color continues down to the bottom. So I'm picturing this maybe as some kind of abandoned building, abandoned maybe church building that someone discovered as they were taking a walk or a hike. Here we go. That's kind of cool. Neat. I think I like this piece. I'm going to leave it at that for now. Hey, have a good night. Dolores, thank you, inspiring process. I appreciate that. What is in the Magic Solution, Andrea? Good question. Magic Solution, so to the best of my knowledge, this is the best. It was like over a year ago. It has acrylic paint. I believe it has like a burnt umber or raw umber acrylic paint, acrylic ink. I think it has some red ox— I think it's red oxide acrylic ink. There is some blue, cerulean blue acrylic ink in here as well. Can't really see the blue, but there is some in there. And there might be some other things, but that's all I can remember. I just one day was playing around and made it, and I didn't write it down or I didn't video it or anything, but that's kind of what's in there. And the idea was to replicate a rust color. You can get paints, inks and paints that are already rust colors. There's red oxide, there's copper. I mean, there's all kinds of paints out there. This was just fun to play around with. Awesome. Hey, have a good night. Take care, Linda. It was good seeing you. Thanks for tuning in. I appreciate it. Hey, Dolores. Goodbye. Have a good night. I think— I'm saying good night. Hopefully I'm saying good night to the right people that left or are leaving. I'm not sure who's— but good night. If you're still here, hello. Um, Chris Haker. Chris Whitaker, good night. Good night, Chris. You guys are amazing. So cool. I thought I was done. I did. I really did. I just feel like I want to pull out this roof a little bit more. There you go, I think that kind of popped it a little bit. Has more of an edge on it now. Pretty cool. So we did this sketch. Yeah, have a great night. Thanks for tuning in. Appreciate it. Yeah, I'm out of here too, guys, in a couple minutes. So we did this. So this was graphite and Magic Solution background. That's all we used on this one. This side was our quick kind of primitive scavenger, find what you have in your area and build it kind of shelter. That's all hyphenated, by the way. So this was a fun piece, and this was using the Sepia brush pen. We also had our elephants. So this is the watercolor I pulled out that I found I'm sorry, acrylic. Yeah, it's acrylic ink and watercolor. Had this in my drawer probably for a year or so. We pulled it out and just wanted to pop out this elephant silhouette a little bit more, so we did that tonight. Still trying to debate, trying to turn this into some volcano or something in the background. I'm working on that. And I accidentally got some Sharpie on here, so there is some Sharpie on this piece. That was fun. And then the last thing, this first thing we did, a quick warm-up, and maybe I'll do a little bit on this for another couple minutes since it's dried up a little bit. This was— I'm gonna zoom out. I just realized I'm way zoomed in. Holy moly. There we are. Now you can see it. So this was the warm-up today. Quick loosey-goosey kind of scene, maybe with some kind of a pond area, swampy area. Got some growies going on, we got a little dock area, or even maybe the log or something in the front happening. So it's fairly dry, so I can add a little bit more to it. You know what, I'm going to pop some of this red on here. I'm going to I'm not sure why, but let's do it. So this is red. This is Pyrrole Red. It's just watercolor ink. And I'm just gonna pop some on. Grunge this up a little bit more. Hey, thank you, Andrea. I appreciate it. I'm gonna mix it up. Sometimes it'll be Andrea, sometimes it'll be Andrea. Unless you have a preference. I think either way.

Let me know. Cool.

Alright, let's do some of this. Put some of this stuff on here. Hmm, just thinking. I guess we'll go with— I'm gonna pull out a brush I really never use. I don't know why. I really don't ever use this brush too much. It's a Liquitex round 6, size 6 round brush. I don't know. Let's play around with it. Like I said, I don't really use this brush. Let's just see what happens. It's the spirit of adventure. And this is just, again, we're just playing around. This is for fun, experimenting. It might be cool, it might not be. I just feel like I want to sketch some loosey-goosey things happening in the background, maybe. Just want to dilute it with a little bit of water, I think. There we go. Boom. Hey, Kim, you are not late. You can never be late when I don't tell you what time I'm going to be on. So your timing is perfect. It's good to see you. I might be late, actually. I may have turned this on late. I am on tomorrow night, scheduled from 7:45 to, we'll call it 8:45. So I'm just adding some of this red color down here on this, maybe some kind of dock structure or something happening up here. So again, this was just a warm-up piece we had started with earlier and it dried, so I wanted to add a little more pop on it, some pops of color before I wind it down for the night. I'm going to change the music though. Oh, it's too slow. It's too slow, so pardon me while I put something else on. You know what I want to listen to? Some Talking Heads. The very best of the Talking Heads. That'll be fun. Cool. Little Talking Heads. Take me to the river. So I just took out some yellow watercolor ink. I just want to play around with this a little bit. I thought this bright yellow would just add another just some more interest to this background area. Typically, typically I like to stick with maybe 3 or 4 colors. I have what, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, I have a lot, I have like 6 going on here. But that's okay. That's cool. I don't want to overdo it. I'm going to add some more cerulean blue. Where is it? Where'd I put it? Where'd I put it? I don't know where I put it. There it is. I'm actually just brushing the paint off of the eye dropper that's in the bottle. Yep, I'm milking it. I'm milking it. I'm gonna use every last drop of this paint. I do have more in here. Cool. Hey, thank you, Kim. Like that one too. Thank you, guys. Reminds me of a hot summer day on the lake. Hey, that's cool to hear. Awesome. I'm glad that it's making you think of something. That was kind of vague, wasn't it? Glad it's making you think of something. That's so cool. I love when you guys see things and imagine things in paintings and sketches. I think that's awesome. Again, I like to leave a lot for interpretation and not paint, you know, I'm not doing still life, I'm not doing portraits, I'm not doing real life images. Just trying to capture feelings and moods. So Kim, that's so cool you said that. Sketching for me is about paint— is about a— one of the things is about capturing the spirit of a place. You know, the spirit or the feeling of a place. So that's so cool you said that. I do wanna add some more back, some more black in here. Graphite? No, let's do some Sharpie. Sharpie time! "Great colors, I can feel the warm air." Oh, I love that. That's so cool. "I'd really like to learn to do that." That's cool, Patty. What, um, let me know what you're talking about. Are you talking about loose sketching, doing colors, capturing the spirit of a place? So I'm just adding some Sharpie in the background. I just want to create more of a natural look, something happening without actually drawing individual flowers or plants. So this is my way of creating kind of an overgrown area. I'll draw some lines, I'll do some dots on it as well. And I'll hold it up closer so you guys can see it. Just put some more on here. Mm-hmm. I'm lip-syncing, sorry. You don't want to hear me sing, that's for sure. So if I hold it up, you can see what I'm talking about. I have some lines and some kind of dots. You know, just to give an illusion something's growing here, right? And maybe, I don't know, maybe there's some kind of flowers or plants or something. I don't, like I said, I don't know. Yeah, I'm just trying to create a feeling of something happening. Sorry I'm so vague sometimes in my descriptions. You know, I wish I could say, "Oh, I'm drawing a tulip," or, "I'm drawing a rose here." I just say, like I say growies, I'm just growing some growies. Showing Groves here. I do want to create some kind of an edge here, kind of along the bank. So I'm going to— actually, I'm going to use my Pilot. Sometimes the Pilot pen, Precise Pen, works better over acrylic ink that's dried than a Sharpie does. So you'll sometimes see me use this pen for that. So the Sharpie and the Precise, these are my two go-to pens for pretty much everything sketching. And I'm just going to create the edge and I'll turn it over in a second. I'm just drawing some vertical lines to give the indication that there's an edge between the water, kind of the bank or the shoreline here. Oh, actually, I thought of another thing I'm going to add. Just draw this. Alright, so you can kind of see, see I just kind of have these vertical lines across here? Just to indicate maybe there's a shoreline happening. And I do want to add some kind of circles or fuzzies going on here. So these are, what are these guys? Are these cattails? We used to call these punks growing up. I don't know if they still call them that. I know my parents would like burn them to keep mosquitoes away. Way. I don't think I'm imagining that. I might be. I'm just adding some stems coming down. Maybe, maybe some ideas of leaves or something coming off of these stems. Pretty cool. This one might be actually done. I don't know if I want to add any more to it. Hey, Dolores, thanks for tuning in. Punks, yeah, cool. I'm glad I'm not the only one who calls them punks. Thanks for watching, I'm glad you were able to catch us. Becky, growies sounds more fun than vegetation. I agree with you, let's go with growies. We got some growies going on. Love that. Love how you have so much fun doing your artwork, it comes out in your piece. Ah, thank you, that's so nice of you to say. That's so cool. Here's a kind of a close-up. So just kind of adding these stems and I added some jaggedy lines. Indicate some kind of leaves coming off the stems. Just add some more texture to it. I'm really liking this background with the colors. If I had to say one thing I wasn't crazy about, it would be the red growies here. Although, so you'll notice I did add some of the red down here also. And that's because I did want it not just in one place. I was kind of trying to balance it down here with here. If I just had the red up here, it would really pop out. I think having it down here helps to balance it. This is cool. I'm liking this quick sketch that we started with tonight. How awesome. I'll have to go back and watch the video on that. See how it started. Hey, that'll look great framed. That's— yeah, it might look good framed. How cool would that be? I'm just looking to see if I have any frames here. Any mats I can put around it. Let's do the mat test.

Um, do I have a mat here?

I usually have a black mat or a white mat here.

I don't think I have any.

I have small frames. I have small frames here, but just my test frames. You know, sometimes I'll crop out just a part of a sketch or a painting. This definitely needs a bigger frame though. For sure. Cool. Hey guys, it's 9:49. I think I'm going to get ready to head out, so let me do a quick recap here. If you guys have any takeaways from tonight, something you learned or you were inspired by, or ideas you came up with or had, or anything you guys, you know, talked about in your conversations, not just from stuff I did, but stuff you guys came up with out there. So I'd love your feedback. If you could just leave a comment or two about something you learned or takeaway or an inspiration or a to-do list, I don't know. It's always good to see your comments. I appreciate that. I also appreciate if you guys can give me thumbs ups, and if you're on YouTube, if you can like this page, that would be helpful, or like the video so we can spread the word out. Let's get more people watching. I would love to have this community grow because you guys are amazing and inspire me, and I'm fueled by you, and hopefully I'm fueling you guys too with your creativity. So yeah, make sure you do that. If you want to get notified when I come live on Facebook, I think there— and YouTube— I know on Facebook I think there's a little bell icon or notification you could click on. If you click the notification, the bell icon, you'll know when I'm live. YouTube has something like that. I think it has a notification system as well. Anyway, sorry about the plugs, but you guys are awesome. I like to always— I'm going to try to leave with one of my takeaways. What's my takeaway? I'm going to start leaving these Saturday Inking Out Loud sessions with one of my takeaways. Sometimes I have more. Let's see, what did we have tonight? Just looking back at what we did. So we have our quick little sketch here. This piece. We have the elephant piece. We have the sketch. You know, I think my takeaway is, uh, gonna come back to this piece tonight. So when I first did this earlier, I kind of really didn't like it, to be honest with you. It was, you know, it was just a practice warm-up today. And this part was really bothering me in here in the middle. But I'm glad that I came back to it with fresh perspective after it dried for a while and added some more lines and some details, and I think it kind of pulled it together. So always revisit your artwork with a fresh perspective, whether it's an hour later, a day later, a year later. Like, this is a year later, this piece. Don't be afraid to come back and look at it, and you can make changes, right? So that's my big takeaway. Try to see your artwork with fresh perspectives. And you guys, listen to your friends, your community. You guys, you know, have some great feedback and suggestions. Suggestions. So be open-minded for suggestions. You don't have to incorporate everything. But, you know, we're talking about brainstorming in my classes right now with my students. You know, brainstorm. Be open-minded. Exchange ideas with each other. You know, they may not go anywhere or they might. You don't know. So be open for conversation. Those are my takeaways. I hope you guys can relate to that. "Hey Patty, thank you, have a great evening." Dawn, "My takeaway, never throw anything away, just give it time." Dawn, I love that, that is perfect. Perfect, perfect. And guys, there are no wrong answers. Whatever you write down is correct, right? It's not a quiz, not a test, so. You know, someone may say, "Hey, I don't know." I'm not gonna put words in your mouth, 'cause you guys are awesome at doing that yourselves. Have a great, great night. I will be back tomorrow, 7:45 PM Eastern time. We're gonna do a quick sketch and then I'm gonna do the Inky Inky Night. We'll play around with that for a little bit. As always, thank you so much. Appreciate you guys. Peace and live creatively. I need a t-shirt that says that. My t-shirt actually is— before I go, I got this at Hersheypark years ago. It's a mess. It's okay. But it says, "I'm original." So I guess this is in reference to the Hershey bar, the original Hershey bar. But I think it's a cool shirt. I love that saying, and I love the colors. I'm original. So guys, we're all original. We have our own uniqueness, our own voices. Don't be afraid to put them out on paper, baking, knitting, whatever your thing is. Put it out there. Take care, guys. Peace and live creatively. See you tomorrow. Unless I fall asleep and don't wake up. And take a nap tomorrow night. I'll be here. Take care.