The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, D-Ray, hope all is well. Long time no see. It's good to see you on. Hope things are well in Alaska. It's always, always great to see you. Hey, Becky, good to see you. Hope all is well. I love seeing you guys tuning in. It has been way, way too long since I've been online. It's probably been about 3 weeks, maybe 4 weeks, I'm not sure, but it's awesome to be back on. Just wanted to, uh, make sure things are up and running so when I go back to live streaming this summer, everything's up and working, including me. I am a little rusty, so I'm just kind of going back to just my free— my freestyle. I like to warm up with just these quick sketches. We'll see what happens. I hope you guys are doing well. Happy Sunday. Hey Karen, good to see you. D-Ray says glad you're up and running. Yeah, just like, uh, America runs on Dunkin', I, I run on creativity. So yeah guys, I took a break for a little bit. School was, uh Just wrapping up school. It's been so busy, intense, and crazy the last few weeks, so I frankly, I've just been so tired at night. Um, I didn't come online to sketch or paint, but I have been doing it on my own off to the side here. But I did miss coming online, and, uh, here I am. So let's get this party started! Cameron's in the house! Hey Cameron, how are you? It's good to see you, Cameron. Cameron, I'm gonna reach out to you maybe the next week or so and see if you're around and we can maybe, uh, get together before you start college up, unless I'm too late. Um, D-Ray says running on creativity. D-Ray, I always love when you capture and summarize what I'm saying. That's awesome because I never remember what I say, which may be good or not. Depends, I guess. So I'm just throwing down some— I have a red Pilot Precise pen. These are my— some of my go-to sketch pens here. And I also have my Lamy with black Lamy ink in it. So I thought it'd be fun to break these out. I always like the look of the red and the black on these kind of abstract cityscapes. And I'm just going to be loose and loosey-goosey tonight. I'm not trying to create anything specific, just trying to get up and running again and get the creativity flowing. Anyway, let me know what you guys are up to. I've been seeing some of your posts on Facebook, which is always fantastic. Let's see, I'm going to change the tracks here. Let's put, uh, something different on. There, that works. Cool. "Ah, that'll be good. Looking forward to that. Hit me up and I can figure out my time." Alright, sounds good, Cameron. I will definitely be in touch with you. So we just wrapped school up on Friday. Uh, seems like a really long school year, but— long but not long. It did go fast. It's good to be done and take a little break. I have a bunch of things lined up. For the summer, but at least I could sleep in a little bit if I wanted. D says, I never remember either. D, gotcha. I gotcha. So I'll give you guys a little tour of our little sketchbook show and tell. Maybe just show you some of the things I have been sketching when I haven't been online. Um, I think I've probably posted most of them. So you may have noticed I just switched to my Sharpie. Um, that way when I add water, the Sharpie won't bleed. Dure says, "Oh boy, show and tell." Yeah, so I just switched to the Sharpie so the ink won't bleed. Sometimes I can have too much ink on here and it bleeds way too much and things look— start looking really muddy. So that's why I'll switch to my Sharpie sometimes. See, this is Lamy ink, so you'll see this bleeding here when I add water. Alright, so I just I pulled out this blue Pilot Precise Pen. Maybe to create the idea of some kind of water happening. I like creating these industrial type of cityscapes. So we have some kind of factories going on here, a bridge. And we have some water happening on there as well. And my music stopped playing. There we go. Cool. I like that pop of blue on there. I think it looks— I like it, actually. I kind of like the hard edge here with the blue. I didn't bleed the blue ink, so it has a nice kind of solid edge there, which is separating the buildings and creating kind of the shoreline here. I love Pilot Precise Pens. They're really awesome for sketching and for bleeding. And this is actually the V7, so I like the 7— size of the 7-point. The other size I like to use is a V5, which I don't think I have any right here, but you'll see me using that one as well. My music keeps stopping. I keep hitting the play button.

That's It's alright.

I'm just checking out my screen here online. Just wanna make sure the stream looks like it's working okay on my end here. Alright, cool. Alright, thanks guys. Yeah, so, uh, like I said, I'm up and running for the first time in a few weeks. I want to make sure all the tech is working. So part of me is I'm looking around my screen clicking some buttons here. Um, but it looks like everything's working okay. Very, very cool. Hey, if you guys want to see some show and tell, let me know. I'll flip through some of the sketchbook pages and show you, uh, just some of the sketches I've been doing for the past couple weeks. If not, that's cool too. I'll keep just sketching here. I think I'm going to add some You know what I haven't used in a while? Sepia. Let's break out— where the heck is it? Sepia, here we go. Yeah, let's break out— I haven't used my Sepia watercolor marker in a long time. I love sepia, so let's break it out and throw some on here. There's my pen, so I'll put the cap on.

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So here's a Winsor Newton watercolor marker. My favorite 3 colors are the sepia, cerulean blue, and I have a— actually 4, it's a sap green and a gamboge yellow. And just, I'll show you how I use these. I don't Let me zoom out here. I typically don't put the marker right on the paper. When I do that, I find that it kind of stains and it's hard for me to move the color around. So I'll take the marker and I'll just put it on my palette here. Go off to the side a little bit. And I'll lift it up. Lift it off with a brush. This is an aqua brush, so I have water in here, which I'm actually running out of. And let's see, I think I'm going to put a wash on— let's do the buildings. So I'm just going to pull the sepia kind of on here. You know, it's great, trying to get some kind of industrial vibes happening. You'll see here where I put that Sharpie down, the black ink of the windows is not bleeding here, which, which is good. I want them to stay kind of defined. Here the black ink was bleeding. And on this section here, the black ink isn't bleeding. Paper towel. Let's see, we're just going to blot some of this off a little bit in here. There we go. Just want to pull back some of that color. So you can see how just adding this wash, uh, is on the buildings is— it's adding a little more character to it. It's making the buildings pop out and read a little bit more. I could have put the sepia in the background and let the buildings pop, but I— in this case, I wanted to put the color right on the buildings. There's a bridge over here. Yeah, some sepia on the bridge. Maybe there's a mast of the bridge here, or the tower. Kind of happening on that side over there. Oops, let me zoom out. There you go. Cool. So, uh, Patty's in the house. What's up, Patty? Good to see you. Sepia with an exclamation point. Yes, always love the sepia. Um, it's good to see you, Patty. Hope all's well. D-Ray says, Papa Blue and a sharp edge, precise V7, and use V5 as as well. And now I'm clicking around to tweak everything. Yes, I was clicking on my screen, making sure everything's— I'm actually live streaming on Facebook and YouTube at the same time. One of these days I'll figure out how to go onto Instagram Live at the same time as well. Just putting it out there to different channels and seeing what sticks and doesn't stick. I was so many hours online, none of them would be sepia. Jason is a sepia king. Thank you so much. I'm the sepia king. I am the sepia king, and I love the Winsor Newton sepia marker. Um, Cameron. Oh, thank you, Cameron. Yes, my son has, uh, started his driving— started his driving practice. So, uh, thank you, Cameron. It's interesting. He has about 11 months to practice before he takes his exam, so we'll do a lot of practicing this summer for sure. Uh, ink on Windows not bleeding from Sharpie as I lay down the sepia. Yeah, exactly. I'm liking this. I haven't done one of these abstract cityscapes in a while, so actually it's kind of fun. I want to define this kind of bridge tower a little bit here. Maybe we'll add some— well, actually, you could see this away from my head. Uh, there's actually a shape on here. I'm going to use this shape from the sepia. I'm going to help it use that to help define the end of the bridge here, and I'll show you what I mean. Let's, uh, we use a Sharpie. I think you can kind of see there's an arch here. So that's one of the cool things I like about doing these loose abstract sketches is sometimes you'll see shapes that happen that you can use, adaptive reuse. So I'm just going to kind of go around that with a Sharpie. So I'm just kind of pulling that out a little bit, and then I want to go back to my Lamy pen because I do want this to bleed, I think, a little bit. I'm just going to kind of define maybe— we'll do like a top of the kind of bridge here. Again, this is very loose, very abstract. Is it structurally correct? Maybe not. I'm just trying to capture shapes. Just pull this kind of road through here at the bottom a little bit. What I'd like to do is I want to get this darker in here. I'm gonna bleed some ink in here and see what happens. Let's get some more sepia on here. There we are. Just want to pull that through. We'll zoom out, kind of see what this is looking like. Hey, Linda's in the house! Linda, how are you? Awesome to see you. It's an Inkling reunion. All of you guys are popping on. I'm loving it, loving it, loving it, loving it.

Cool.

All right, so here's our quick little cityscape sketch. So I hope it has a— it looks like it has an industrial kind of vibe to it. I still want to do something with this piece over here. I'm not crazy about this, so I'm going to pull out— these are my other two go-to friends when I'm sketching. I love my graphite stick and also these Daniel Smith watercolor sticks. They're really great for when I'm doing kind of industrial grungy scenes. My light just went on and off back there. That was really weird. I'm not sure what happened. I think I'm gonna take the graphite stick and let's throw it down here and then we'll just go over with some Some water. Alright, cool, there we go. Uh, phone call, be back. Love this, Jason. Thanks, Linda.

Cool.

Alright guys, let's flip through my sketchbook here. Let me zoom out. So what do we have going on here?

Alright, cool.

So we'll do a little show and tell in my sketchbook. Some things I've been doing on and off here the past few weeks. Here's a really cool, fun little scene. Very, very loose. I always just kind of doodling one night watching TV and just ended up turning this into a little scene. For you guys that know the Whistling Cowboy, he is here making an appearance right there with the Whistling Cowboy on one of his many journeys. Perhaps this is his boat on the shore. He's looking out across the water at this kind of cityscape or little townscape happening over here. But you know who's not here? I didn't add Retro. Usually when we have the Whistling Cowboy, Retro is somewhere. I just realized that. Where should we put Retro? I was like, Retro is always somewhere goofy, so let's add Retro all the way up here. Maybe he's on top of this building. Sketch a little tiny Retro. For you guys that don't know who Retro is, he is He's the Whistling Cowboy's canine friend. So he's up here. He's hard to see, but he's up on the roof there. Um, then I was practicing doing some lino cut work. Linocut. You guys that don't know, linocut is when you're carving. Essentially, you're making— it's for printmaking. You're basically making stamps. So this is a rubber material. Um, I sketched on it and then I carved out— I was trying to carve out a barn building with the trees and a foreground in front of it. I have a couple of versions of it. Here's another one I did on woodblock. Well, it's a woodblock, but this is lino cut. This is like a tile material that you carve out of. First ones I've ever done. It's kind of something that takes a lot of skill and a lot of practice, but I'd like to keep working on this. Printmaking's always fascinated me, so it's definitely something I'm going to keep playing around with. This is show and tell time. You got it. Here's just a scene. Again, just random. I did a lot of these actually at night when I was kind of lounging out and watching, uh, watching some television. Here I was playing around with the perspective. We have a couple figures here, some kind of staircase going up into a building. This is greenery, maybe some kind of trees, potted plants, and we have some kind of a little building here in the background going on. Patti says, "Will love your linocut designs." Remember I did a linocut Project last year with the Peabody Essex Museum's Create Night. Whew, that's a mouthful. I'm exhausted saying that. The Peabody Essex Museum's Create Night. Oh, cool. You carved a dragonfly. Yeah, linocutting is really— it's very, very interesting. You know, you carve with these tools. I have them here somewhere. So here, yeah, so I have this— and you have to pardon me, I don't know the names of the proper names for lino cutting tools. These are basically like knife blades, different types of knife blades that you use for cutting out the block. So you basically put this— I'll show you. So you put the blade in here. And there's all kinds of different tips on here, different widths, sharp points. And you take this and you just carve away what you don't want. And then when you're finished, you take an ink roller. I think I have a roller over there with black ink, and you roll it on top. So anything that's sticking out will be the surface that prints on the paper. You have to be very careful too. Lino cutting is— you could definitely cut your hand doing it. So something you have to take your time doing. Right, so here is that, and that was done with, uh, that was done with this stamp here. So I don't know if you guys can see the barn building here in the background, some kind of— with the trees in the foreground. This is a representation of grass, maybe some kind of water or something. Hey, D. Beeson House, good to see you. Rubber stamp, woodblock, something I want to keep playing around with. Yeah, thank you. Easier to just say PEM. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I will, I will shorten it next time. DB is in house, awesome to see you, hope all is well. Wow, Inklings, you guys are here! While I have you, you guys here, if you want to do workshops, let me know. I will put it together and we can maybe do one in July. I'm trying to take this point out here and it's not coming out. So I will save this for later. I want to cut my hand. Oh, I think I got it. There we go. I like this tool because you can store the blades right in the handle. It's kind of cool. So I think I bought a kit from Speedball that had just the basic tools to get you up and running with lino cutting. Or is it lino? Is that lino or lino? Linocutting, lino cutting. I'm not sure. We'll come back to that one. Here we have— this was a sketch. It wasn't intended to be Whistling Cowboy when I started, but I turned the scribbles into the Whistling Cowboy. Retro's all the way back here. So this is kind of a fun pose. I think you have a little townscape in the background over there. Hey, Evelyn's in the house! Good to see you, Evelyn. Karen says, I like it. Awesome. DB says, heck yes! All right, workshop, yes! You should see my studio cut foam and chipboard lesson. Cameron, oh, I remember the model making days. I remember them using foam core and chipboard to make models. I hear you. This was a fun perspective that actually mixed media. I have ink on here, colored pencil, marker, and what else do I have? I think that's it. I think it's, I think it's Ick Ink.

Ick.

It's not ick, although some people might think it's ick.

Icky.

I have a marker, ink, and colored pencil on here. So I thought this was a cool little perspective. I was trying to, um, try to bring your eye kind of further back into the picture. So I have this arch where I continued the sky color here, just kind of bring your eye, make this building have a little bit of depth to it. So that's That's why you see that sliver of blue in there. I was trying to make it have a European feel, sketching some maybe mansard-type roofs here, something you see in maybe France or Paris somewhere. So that light keeps flashing behind me. It's really weird. "I like the drawing of the cowboy." Thank you. "Cool colors here." Yeah, thanks. Yeah, I threw in this pink. So for the color pink, ooh, for pink I was just using, I think my Pilot University, I'm sorry, not University, Pilot Varsity pen. That's how it is, the pinks you see on here. "I'm drawing a house now and I have to erase the roofline several times, can't get it right." ODB, feel free if you want to send me an email or a post on Facebook or post it to my Facebook or Inklings page, I can take a look and give you some feedback on your house if you want. Just send it my way. "I would say the purple O-ring attracts more of my attention." Yeah, so I did want to put a pop of color in there, Cameron. So I'm glad you said that. So the pink is supposed to draw your attention. Here's a cool and different type of view. This is almost looking kind of down at a boat, ship, boat or ship, sailboat. It is actually. Here's the mast. You see some of the rigging. Here's kind of the edge of the boat. And then beyond you see a harbor with some boats on it and some buildings. So I thought this was just an interesting viewpoint. Again, just playing around with different kind of perspective on it. Quick, loose sketch. This is just a page of a bunch of different things I was doing on this page. I'll zoom in actually. Just a quick little thumbnail kind of sketch here with a barn, maybe, you know, the barn in the foreground or some kind of agricultural building, flower, and then just a couple of cityscapes. And you guys know I love the Statue of Liberty. I'm always playing around sketching different versions of it. So yeah, there's a couple of Statue of Liberties on there. Wow, you have really gone out of the norm. Yeah, thank you. Hey, thanks to you, Ray. I'm glad you like that view. This was fun too. This— I was playing around with this really abstract city. Cityscapes here. This is a really fun blue ink. Uh, and then I did the kind of the same thing here with a pink ink. And then I just went over it with my Sharpie just to create some details on here. I'll zoom a little closer. You see, I kind of even sketched some people on there. Yeah, so that was fun to create as well. DB says, actually, it's the porch roof. Yeah, no worries. I will— I can take a look at your drawing, so feel free to send it to me. I'll take a look at the porch. Hey, Heather, good to see you out in the mountains following a river for the day to to get away from the heat. Ooh, Heather, that sounds like quite the adventure. I love that. Follow the river. You know what, guys, since I have some room at the bottom of this page, let's just play around down here and do some kind of sketch. Again, I'm just getting back in the groove, getting warmed up, thinking out loud. I never know what I'm going to sketch or create. Um, it's totally open-ended, just playing around with all kinds of tools. And just having fun. That is the name of the game. I love your style. Oh, thank you, DB. I love your style too. DB is the master at pencil drawings. DB is incredible. If you haven't seen DB's work, it's amazing. You got to see it. Cool stuff. I'm going to put some jazz Let's go to some jazz music.

What are we going to do?

What do I want to do here? Just looking around. What do I want to do? I am not sure, guys. So we are just going to— you know what, let's— I haven't done anything with graphite in a while. Let's pull up this graphite. And actually, I do want some water. So one of the things I like to do when I'm using graphite is I'll actually dip it in water to sketch with it. I'll zoom in so you can see this better here. Let's see if we can get lucky and if this Lamy works. This Lamy likes to jam up on me. Mm, let's see. It has a really cool green ink in here, but it doesn't, doesn't want to play nice, so we'll have to abandon, I think, the Lamy pen. Cool. So there you go. So just a quick loose sketch of very, very abstract. Maybe, maybe there's some kind of a park here in the foreground. So I didn't have any green Precise Pens or ink around, so I just grabbed a Sharpie. So that's the green I used. Used a Pilot just to do some water here. We have the red, so we have some red buildings going on. You know, a picture of a bridge back here. One of the joys of being left-handed is this. If I have any left-handers out there, give me a— let me know if you're left-handed. It's not art unless what? Unless you wear it. So I am definitely wearing some artwork tonight, guys. DB says, hey Chris. Hey, Chris is in the house. Good to see you, Chris. Hope all is well. Um, you guys are awesome. Green ink. Oh, you're getting storms tomorrow. Hey, good night Becky. Have a great night. Thanks for tuning in. Appreciate it. Hey, Andrea is in the house. Ah, thank you. I'm so glad you got to catch me live. That's so cool.

Thank you.

I'm so glad you were able to tune in. So I'm on Totally Ramsay. This summer I will be on— my goal is to be on Wednesday nights, 9 o'clock. I will make a post about that. Here we go. Zoom in here and move up a little bit. There you go. Yes, it's just a fun little mixed media piece with graphite. Again, some blue here, just using an aqua brush, kind of being really messy. I'm not cleaning the brush off, and that's okay. These are just quick, loose, fun sketches, and they're not meant to be anything else but that. Cool. I like it. Um, all is well and busy. Oh good, I'm glad all is well. Busy is a good thing. Um, quick and creative. Yeah, thanks DB. Yeah, just quick sketch. Sending stars is fun. Thank you guys. Oh, if you're sending stars, I— that is so cool, I appreciate it. I can't see on my interface here. When people send stars, I could see it later. If you are sending stars and for the live video, thank you so much, I appreciate that. And, uh, I do see it later when I go through the comments. I'll be sure to thank you. Yeah, I can't see it live as I'm streaming. Cool, guys, let's do something else. I'm kind of having fun just getting back on the horse, as they say. It's been way too long since I've livestreamed. Alright, let's see. This is, uh, the one we started before tonight. I actually like this. I'm gonna leave it. I think it has just enough lines on here to define an industrial cityscape scene, and that's all I wanted this to look like. Yeah, I'm thinking, no, I think that's it. I don't want to get too cray cray. I just love the hint, the idea that there's some kind of a bridge here. You know, could I have continued the bridge? Yeah, I could have. I'm loving this building here. It's really cool. You know, maybe there's some kind of chimneys or smokestacks going up. And this reflection on the water is kind of fun too. I like the way this is drying. Actually, I lied. I think I might add a little more detail. I lied. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Let's see. I feel like I want to add a little something, something maybe in here. You know what, I'm imagining some kind of arch or opening here in this building. So I'm just gonna sketch an arch shape here. And I'm using my Sharpie. Again, I don't want this ink to bleed if I go over it with water. Not for this arch. Kinda pull this down. And I'm gonna very, very lightly just drag some horizontal lines across here. Just to give some texture to the structure. Maybe it's brickwork. I'm barely touching my pen to the paper and I'm just dragging my hand across. My wrist is pretty much planted down and I'm just— Just dragging my hand across there just to add some texture. That's cool. So the reason I wanted to do an arch is I kind of wanted to play off the curve of the bridge. Kind of the wiring, the cables here. So I want to just kind of have another kind of curve on this side just to balance it a little bit. All right, there we go. Now I think this one's done. Sharpies come in gel form now. Yeah, Sharpies, you— I have a— where the heck is it? Um, you can actually get Sharpies that are retractable as well. You can get retractable Sharpies. I don't have any here. I had a student— a student in class showed it to me. Uh, you guys know I love Sharpies so much. You get them at Walmart. Oh, very, very cool. Been so long since I had a live stream, let's have fun here. Thanks, D-Ray. Yes, yeah. Uh, do you ever show your students how to draw like this? Um, good question, DB. So I have showed them how to draw like this. Um, I've actually showed them some of my YouTube videos as well, the time lapses. That's a really great question. Cameron, if you're still in the house— Cameron, I know, has done some sketches in my classes as well. But I think this year in school, I think I want to focus and, you know, maybe spend just a whole week just about sketching. I kind of brush over it very quickly in school, but I think I'd like to maybe give a little more instruction. So yeah, really, really good question.

I appreciate it.

Uh, dragging horizontal lines to add texture, balance a little bit. Yes, exactly. So that's all I have in this sketchbook. Let me grab this one over here. So you guys, you have probably mostly all have seen this one. This is a— has a lot of my kind of, uh, sea shanties or sea shack buildings. I love this piece here. The colors are fun on this. There's a Really wacky Roo I was doing one day while watching Roo. My animals need some help. This is a fun sketch I think based on a— I think Becky had posted a picture. I didn't go through all these but— I really like these types of sketches where there really is no detail, very, very little detail in the background, but you can still tell that we have some kind of a scape, townscape happening here. So you don't need to have— or for me, I don't need to have detail everywhere. On a sketch. I detail a lot of white on here. You know, a lot of this is just pulling out the roof lines, popping in some windows here and there, and just some verticals to show where building edges may happen. Those are really fun to do. And this one's a little bit different. This, this sketch has more detail on it, but the intention with the detail here is I wanted to create the texture on the buildings, right? So I want you to be able to tell, you know, there's a metal roof up here. We have some kind of siding, maybe cedar shingle siding on this building. We have the texture of the stone. There's some hatching where I wanted to indicate shadows. So detail definitely has its place. Love all the colors. Thank you. Yeah, it's a cool one. Sisak. Yeah, fun colors. "You are an illusionist." Oh, that's— thank you, Chris. I love that. The illusionist. I think there was a movie called The Illusionist. I think there was, right? The Illusionist. It was a really, really good movie. Google it. You guys might want to Google The Illusionist, if it's the one I'm thinking of. "DB, I try so hard to draw like this, but my brain yells, 'Where's the details?'" Yeah, so— Let's go back to that one. Let's talk about that. Here, we'll keep this one up for a second. I totally get it. So being an architect, you know, designing buildings, I have, I have to think about details, right? You know, how construction details, how are things coming together, what are things made out of. There's so many details. So I get what you're saying, like trying to switch my brain to doing something where there's less detail is— it's tough. It really is. It's definitely a mindset. I have to, you know, when I do these things, I have to start with the intention and tell my brain, hey, we're just capturing shape. And form. That's it with this one. No details. So it really is an intention that I set out with, you know, before I start sketching things. I'll tell myself, yeah, I want, I want a lot of detail or I want just shapes. So, you know, try to, you know, try to talk into your brain a little bit and before you get started and set an intention or even write it down somewhere. You know, on a Post-it, right? I always have Post-it notes somewhere. So take a Post-it note and just write, um, "Shapes, no details." "Shapes, no details." And just have that out when you're sketching so you can look at it, or you're drawing, you can just look at that Post-it as a reminder. That might be, um, something you could try. Or the other thing also is set a short time frame when you're drawing or sketching something. You know, give yourself a very limited amount of time, and the less time you have, the less detail you're going to want to show. The other thing for me with— for doing less detail is a smaller sketch. Small thumbnail sketches. Have a lot less detail. Where the heck are they? I'm gonna pull something out here. If I can find it. I'm trying to grab an old sketchbook here. All right, so this is just an old sketchbook. I mean, these are really— here's my thumb. These are really tiny sketches. There's no way I could fit a lot of detail on these quick thumbnail sketches, right? And you look at these, here's again, here's my thumb. Sketch, you know, don't be afraid to sketch small or draw small, and your brain will be forced just to capture the essence of what you're trying to do. Gosh, this is, this is a, I have showed this probably many times, but I, This is from 1993, guys. I got to protect these sketches somehow. These are, these are priceless to me just for memory's sake. These were sketched live across the Hudson River from NYC. You got the right here. We have the Twin Towers. I can still remember being there that day sketching. This skyline from back in 1993. But you can see, right, these— I just, I was kind of forced to capture the essence of the skyline. So I've always had a passion and a love for cityscapes. Now here, there's another one here. That was just a There's a boat that was in the Hudson River. And here's another part of the Hudson River. I mean, the skyline view. I'm just gonna put on here. Oops, just dropped. Cool. All right, guys, I think I'm going to wrap up shortly. So give me a number from 1 to 20. We'll do a Whistling Cowboy outro sketch to end the night. And I appreciate you guys tuning in and watching. Thank you so much. I just wanted to pop on, try to get back in the groove because it's been so long since I've been on. I'm out of practice. But we'll get back into it for sure. This was fun. This is actually— this is called the Tugboat Inn. So the Tugboat Inn is here and it's the Tugboat Inn Restaurant. So this is on land actually. Place we'll be actually visiting in about a month or so. I will be standing right in front of this building. And I am— I hope to do some live streaming along the way. That would be really cool. And for you guys that did the workshop with me, if you guys remember our mindfulness and sketching workshop, I still have some of the circles we did. Be yourself. And I love this one here. Life is Is creativity. Our Zen circles. That was fun. Number 7. Chris says, all right, so we'll do sketch song number 7. Um, before I do that, guys, I want to show you these pens. Um, I was introduced to these EnerGel BL437R1 Retractable gel roller pens from Pentel. Black, 0.7 millimeters. I was introduced to these pens by one of my students, actually. She was sketching with it. I'm like, "What is that pen?" So I tried it and then I said, "I gotta buy 'em." So where the heck is it? Let me pull it out. Pull it out and let's sketch with it. Let's do, let's do it in here. So before we do the Whistling Cowboy, we'll go to song number 7. Let's just do a little demo with this pen. I'm going to put, I'm changing the tunes, guys. I'm going to put something peppy on, upbeat here. I love this music, but I need something, something a little more zippy. Let's put on some zippy music. Oh, I don't know where my zippy soundtrack is. I guess I don't have zippy music. What is this one? That's fun, but not zippy. That's fun. Those are fun songs, but I want something zippy. Did I take them off? They're not on my playlist. That's alright. We'll just play this. So, yo, so I'm going to try this Pentel EnerGel. I'll show you guys, we'll do a little demo. I'll show you how it bleeds. First of all, I do love just the sound of pens when you click them. Something very therapeutic about that. I'm going to do a thumbnail, a perspective sketch here of something.

We'll see.

So I like this pen when it bleeds because you get a nice gray, these shades of gray from it, as you can see here. So it's not like the Lamy. The Lamy is black, black, black. This just has real, real nice gray on it. Let's see how well it works with a wet on wet. So I have some wet down here, wet paper. Can I sketch on top of it? Let's see. Yes, I can sketch over it when it's wet, which I like. I like when my pens can have that capability. Ah, you know what? I feel like popping out some— let's see, where's that pink? Yeah, let's break out some pink. So this is a Pilot Varsity pen. Just want to bleed some pink on the background here. I always like the color combination of, of pink and gray. Maybe we'll throw some here. Maybe, maybe this is the sky here. These— if you haven't, guys, if you haven't tried the Pilot Varsity pens, these are really, really fun to sketch with and they bleed really nicely. I don't think they're refillable. They're just pretty much— I think they're disposable. I just got it all over my fingers. Sometimes I just kind of tap the pen down on the wet paper and let it bleed. Cool, I actually— this is a fun little sketch here. I like the colors. So there you go, it's a quick sketch with this, with the Pentel EnerGel BL, BL437R1 retractable gel roller pen. I'm still trying to decipher what the code means. I think BL is black. R, I'm thinking, is retractable. 7 might be the 0.7 millimeters. I don't know what 43 is, and I'm not sure what the 1 is. There you go. Cool. Um, ooh, that brown boat by the building is tugboat. Oh, you like the tugboat? Thank you, D-Ray, that's so cool. Karen says it bleeds. Love the, love the bleed. Yeah, this is, I love the bleed on this. Smooth Gray, Pilot Varity pens are fun. Yeah, thanks. You got it, D-Ray. Cool guys, all right, so let's wrap up with the Whistling Cowboy outro sketch. I actually do, even though I'm out of school, I do have to get up early tomorrow. I have an architecture project I need to work on and a bunch of errands. Alright, where's my Whistling Cowboy stuff? Is this the book? Let's see. Yes, yes, when we last left the Whistling Cowboy, I think we had just started a new book. I think this is book number 3 or 4 of the Whistling Cowboy. I guess this was the last one we did. So we'll use this page. We'll play around with the pens we have out. Hey, thank you guys for watching. I appreciate you all so much. We're gonna go to song number 7 and wrap up. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 is called In the Wild West. Hey, thank you guys for watching. I appreciate you all so much. Have an amazing, amazing Monday. Peace and live creatively. Here we go. Thanks guys, have a great, great night. Peace and live creatively. Keep paying it forward with your creativity. See you soon. Take care. I'm looking for the finish button. I know it's here somewhere. Where's the finish button? See, I am out of practice. All right, finish right there. Got it. See you guys, uh, take care. I'm planning on being back live Wednesday night around 9 o'clock PM. Um, I may even do some maybe earlier times during the week now that I have time. Take care, guys.