The Inkspired Life - Water Tower - Architectural Sketching - Livstream

Hey everybody! Hey Linda and Denise, great to see you guys. Happy Friday, 4:12 PM here in northern New Jersey. Hope you guys are doing well. I'm kind of on it. A weird time, but, um, I was either taking a nap or doing some sketching, and I wanted to do some sketching. I've been napping most of the day because I haven't been feeling too well, but it's all good. So I want to get up and do some sketching. Um, hope you guys are doing well. Denise says, love this one, Jason Nicholas Nicholas. Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, I hope you guys are liking this. I'm popping on some orange right now. Just to give a little texture suggestion of maybe some brickwork on this, on this building here. Um, I also added some purple just to— actually, I'll add some more right now. Purple is just to create some shadows on here. So let's try and create a little bit of depth with this. And, uh, yeah, I'm having fun with this one. He says, "I'm sitting in the parking lot waiting for my husband who is with the oral surgeon." Oh, fingers crossed and best wishes to your husband. I hope he is doing well and yeah, just positive, positive thoughts. Cool. And I see Linda H is on the YouTube side of things, so thank you, Linda. I always appreciate you watching from YouTube. So awesome. I want to pop— I'm almost done with this one, but I think I want to pop some bright colors, so I think I'm going to throw some pink on this. I haven't thrown pink on in my last few sketches. We'll pop on some neon pink, and I'm going to use actually a light aqua colored pencil. It's a regular colored pencil. It's not a watercolor. Pencil. Light aqua is— these are actually my favorite watercolor— well, not watercolor, my favorite colored pencil colors. I like neon pink and light aqua. They also have neon yellow. Cool. So I think I might throw down some of those actually. I'm liking the watercolor. I'm liking the ink here. I'm liking this part. Zoom in on the water tower. Get really close. Ba-bam! I'm really loving this right in here. I love what's happening with this water tower. For me, that is the highlight of this sketch. It's so fun. I love the, um, you guys know I love the kind of industrial or the, what we call it, kind of the grungish, grungy vibe. Industrial type structures. I put this frame here just to kind of just talking about this area inside that frame. I love all the colors, I love the whites. It's working out really well, but I don't want to overdo it. So I think I'm at a point where that's just going to stay and we'll throw on some colored pencil. We'll call this one done. I spent the day in the hospital as Joe will have an, uh, an OP next Thursday. Oh, Linda, positive vibes to you guys as well. Yeah, hang in there everybody. I'm sending you the best of wishes and best of health for this holiday season and into next year. Hang in, everybody. Linda's like, Barbie pink. Yeah, let's throw on some Barbie pink. I feel like my light is kind of fading. I don't know what's going on with the lighting in here, but all right, so you guys gonna throw on some pink. Just usually I'll throw it in like 3 places, very, very small areas, um, and I do this trick where I just kind of let my hand trace around. And where the pink goes, it goes. So I think I want to pop some up in this tower here on the, uh, roof of the water tank. Just throw a little bit right in there. Now let's say we've got some there. Kind of want to anchor it. I want to have some, I think somewhere in here. So maybe splash right in here somewhere. And then we'll do one more. My hand's like tracing this kind of arc pattern, so I think I want to end up somewhere down in here. Just do a vertical piece there. Okay. So I think that's it for the pink. I like it because it— that really vibrant pink contrasts with the grungy colors. So I like that pop of color. And I put it in these three places just to bring your eye kind of across the painting. Right, so you can kind of see it's doing that pattern, which is really cool. And I have some light aqua, and I did use aqua paint or turquoise paint on here, watercolor, but I'm going to get some intense areas of it. And to do that, I'm just going to use the pencil. So I just want to intensify some of this a little bit more. I really love mixed media sketches, and you can see how this light aqua is really kind of contrasting with the rusty colors I'm putting it over here, and I want to pop some kind of in these window panes. I just want to give them a little bit of shape. I like this look here, kind of looks like this is rusting or kind of dripping down a little bit. Very, very cool. And I'm going to actually throw some underneath There's a slight kind of overhang here at the top of the building. I'm going to contrast that, just pop it out a little bit more. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm digging it. Zoom out, you guys can take a look at it. Sorry, the lighting is wonky. I'm not sure what's going on. Hey, Karen's in the house! Great to see you. Welcome, hope you're doing well. Karen said, my doctor had me vaccinated for pneumonia. Oh my gosh, hang in there everybody, we got to get through this holiday season. Hang in there, it's great to see y'all. I, I typically get run down this time of year. It's my body, you can ask my family. Around Christmas time, my body is like, hey, I need a break, and it just kind of goes into, um, shutdown mode. It just wants to— it just wants— just wants to sleep, rest up. But I am going to New York City tomorrow, so I should rest up a little bit more today so I'm ready for tomorrow. All right, cool, guys. I think this one might be done. Zoom out and take a look at it. You guys can see kind of far away. It's 4 inches by 8 inches on Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. This is my— now it's my go-to watercolor paper. I really like it. Hey, Susan House, great to see you. Long time no see. Welcome. So awesome that you're here. I love these colors, Jason Nicholas Nicholas. It's stunning. Oh, thank you so much. I'm going to give you guys a close-up tour and I have a question for you. Let me know in the chat. Do you guys think I should add any color to the background or just leave it white? Curious to know what you guys think. Let's zoom in and give you a tour so you can see it really close up, some of the details. This is as close as I can zoom, but check this out. I'll just let it sit for a while and I'll pan through it. You guys are awesome, so glad you popped on. This is a random time, so it's— I didn't know if anybody would be showing up, so this is amazing. So I'm really digging, digging the colors in this water tower— or on, let's say, on this water tower. Yeah, I've been mixing up my prepositions lately, saying on instead of in, but you get it, you get it. You know, this has that nice weathered kind of look that I wanted to have, and I could throw— I want to overdo it, but I could just throw a little specks in here. And then these colors here are actually really cool. I am feeling like I need some— you know what, I'm not done with colors. I need some more, um, freshness to this. I need some— a little bit of yellow. I'm gonna pop on some yellow in a second. I love this. This is so fun. Kind of see a close-up. Leave it white or maybe just a very light blue, Linda says. All right, awesome, awesome. Thank you. I love the white background, it makes it pop. Very cool. Leave the background the way it is. Love the splatter color there. Yeah, you guys, I think we're gonna leave it. Just go up a little bit more and you can see some more of the details. Um, Take a look at the windows. I am not sketching beautiful, perfect rectangles for windows, right? This is not— I'm not doing this. There's nothing wrong with it. If I wanted a more technical drawing, right, we kind of sketch our window like this. Sketch our frame here. There's nothing wrong with that. That's really precise, right? A little uneven, but I'm going for really quick and loose. So put them next to each other, kind of see them there. For me, this loose window has just a lot of movement to it, some energy, a little bit of mystery to it. 'cause the lines are crooked and going all over the place. I did purposely leave some white in here just to create the idea that there's some kind of reflections going on. So I purposely did not color that all in. Let's zoom out again. Let's see, where should we put some yellow? And for the yellow, I'm gonna break out the neon yellow watercolor. Color. Not a— well, I keep saying watercolor. Prismacolor color pencil. It is not a watercolor pencil. Yikes. Yikes. All right, let's see. I kind of feel like I need some in here. It's gonna be very subtle, I think. Let's see if it even pops out a little bit. Um, you could— you can kind of see it, which is fine. I like that. That might be enough. Yellow. All right, that might be enough. The reason I did is I wanted just to break this up a little bit in here, um, so I thought the yellow would be a good pop. And ta-da, this one's done, guys! This was actually in inspired or inspired by a water tower that is along the High Line in New York City, up in a building. So that's where I took my inspo from on this one. Let's sign it. Let's shine it. Let's see, I've been signing my sketches sideways lately. So let's keep that going. We'll just put it here. Jason Nicholas Nicholas. And then I like to put the month and the year, so I'll just put 12/23. There you go. Ta-da! We have a finished sketch. So I'm guessing this one took maybe 45 minutes. If I went back to the beginning, yeah, it's probably about a 45-minute sketch we're looking at here. Very, very cool. All right, I'm gonna end with some show and tell and then, um, let you guys go. I do appreciate it. This is so fun having you guys here. Thank you so, so much. I just wanted to break these out. I came across my first— this is my first Tree in the City sketch. I probably did not date it. 19— not 19, 2019, maybe 2020. I'm not exactly sure. But I love this scene. It came out really, really cool. Again, it's another mixed media sketch. It's ink, watercolor, color pencil, some splattering. And this is just a fictitious cityscape from my imagination. Pretty cool. Then if we— I thought it was interesting to put these next to each other. This is from this year right here, Tree in the City 3-ish, because I don't remember if it's number 3 or 4, but very, very different styles, um, and I like them both. So really, really fun. And again, this is also a fictitious city street just from my imagination. This is really fun. I like— I'm enjoying going back and looking at my sketches and putting them together, hanging them up next to each other to see what kind of relationships I can see and how my style has changed or not changed, how the colors have changed, not changed, etc. So really, really cool. Awesome, those are nice. Hey, thank you, Karen, I appreciate that. Yeah, I love these. Zoom out, can you see them? As far as I can go. Really cool. Ta-da! And, um, yeah, that's it I think for now, guys. Thank you for tuning in on this Friday afternoon. I do appreciate you all so, so much. You keep me going, keep me creative. And inspired. I love seeing what you guys are doing, post your artwork, so keep posting your stuff as well. And I'll be on— I'm off next week from school, I'll be on probably more frequently than usual, just doing some sketches. Um, yeah guys, stay healthy, stay happy, stay positive, and I'm thinking of you all, you guys. Um, enjoy! I'll be back on maybe tonight. If not, it'll be Sunday. Tomorrow I'll be NYC tomorrow. All right guys, take care. Sue is awesome catching you. I haven't seen you in a while. We need to catch up. I hope you're well. Um, Linda, I always appreciate you being out there on YouTube and your positivity. Thank you so much. Good luck to your, um, your husband. Karen, it's always great seeing you. Karen and Sue are go way, way back to all my early days. Thank you guys from the early days, like what, 3, 4 years ago? I don't even know. Thank you guys for sticking with me. And, uh, Denise was on. Denise, you're awesome. I love your— I love the pups that you have in your artwork that you paint. Um, they make me smile. I appreciate it. Take care, guys. Have an awesome rest of every day. Peace, live creatively, keep paying it forward with positivity. Sorry if only the half of my head was on camera. See you guys, take care. I'm gonna find the finish button, gonna click right now. By the way, the replay is available. Feel free to like this, share it, subscribe if you're on YouTube, thumbs up, all that jazz. I just want to get the word out there that heck, Anybody can sketch architecture. I believe if you can scribble, you can sketch architecture. That's my motto for now. Going with it. Stay tuned for some workshops in 2024. See you guys. Peace out. Oh yeah, and a sketching membership site I'm working on. I have been working on that for all year. Hopefully it's going to come out in probably February. End of January or February. Take care, guys. Peace and live creatively.