Wednesday Night Sketch + Chill

Foreign. Hey, how you doing? I'm Jason, here from the inspired life. It is Wednesday, October 8th. October. October 8th. Yeah. Hope you're having a great, great day. It's been a long day here, but a good day. No complaints. Starting to feel like fall a little bit, which is awesome. I just love a little crisp air. The leaves are changing, getting vibrant. So, so cool. So beautiful outside. So just popping on for a couple minutes before I head off to bed, and I want to just add some. Some details maybe to the sketch. This is my sketch from last night. This is obviously, it's a barn. Hopefully you can tell it's a barn. If so, I've done my job, but it's a barn that's kind of wonky, loose, quick, fast. And it's also inspired by fall colors. So I have. What do I have on here? I have some. It's almost like a neon pink color here. I have orange watercolor. I have really cool ink here called Inferno Orange. On here. I have turquoise watercolor. I have apple snail ink red pen. I have a sepia or kind of a brownish pen as well. All kinds of, like, stuff on this sketch, which is so fun. It's. This is just like a playground for me. I just love, you know, being playful, experimenting with colors. It's just so, so much fun to do. All right, so what I want to do tonight is I had to wait for it to dry last night, so it's dry enough. So let's just come on here. I want to. I'm going to add some hatch lines. If you don't know what hatch lines are, let me get a scrap piece of paper. You think I'd have some here? We'll just do on the back of this one. So hatch lines are just kind of a couple different styles. You can do kind of like a diagonal hatch line like that, you know, vertical ones. You could do like a. Like a double cross hatch. Well, I guess it's called crosshatch, where you have one way, then you kind of go over another way. So hatching is a really cool way for me just to add a little bit of depth and shadows without kind of keep that loose look. So let me show you what I'm talking about. I'm gonna zoom in a little bit. Maybe not. I can't find the thingy. I have to open a window on my computer. I can do that. Zoom in a little bit. Cool. Hey, Linda, great to see you. Hope all's well. Really, really great to see you. Nice barn. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. So let's do some hatch lines on here. I hope. I hope you're doing great. So imagining the sun is coming from this direction. So I'd have some shadows here. And I will bring this closer. You can see better what I'm doing after a hatch here. And these lines are going to create just a little bit of depth where that overhang is for that roof. And if I come up here closer, you can see those lines happening there. I could add more watercolor shadow. I could even add black Sharpie. Color it in solid. But I like the loose look. That's why I'm doing the hatch lines. Good to see you. Yeah, great to see you too. It's been. Been a long time. Hope all's well. We're also going to do some hatch lines. So when I do these. These kind of mixed media, I like to call them sketches, sketch paintings. It's almost like a sketch painting. Yeah. My brain's a little tired, so bear with me. See these sketch paintings, it's about layers. So sometimes I do have to wait for things to dry before I come back and add something on top of it. This. I love this paint color. It is incredible. You have a tiny sketchbook dedicated to Barnes. I love that. That is so awesome. That is. That's wicked cool. Love it. Let's just show some. Let's imagine we have maybe metal, corrugated metal roof panels. So I'm just showing kind of where the seams of the panels are just to add a little bit interest to that roof, give a little more shape to it. A really cool way to add shapes to your. Your sketches is with, like, contour lines or just following kind of repeating a line pattern. Linear pattern helps to define a shape. Kind of cool. I want to. I want to pull this. The door's getting lost in there. I'm thinking I don't have any white gel pens. If I had a white gel pen, I might use that. But I can just go over it here with kind of this black pen. It's easy to lose the definition of some objects when you're adding color on top of color. So you could always come back with a Sharpie black pen or another color pen and just go over things to pull them out. Right. Pull them out a little bit more. I'm gonna add some hatch lines here. This is supposed to be kind of a peak inside this barn. That door is slid open, so we're just gonna kind of do that. Hey, Jennifer. Great to see you. Hope all's well. Here's some lake Tahoe we got Lake Tahoe in the house. Ohio in the house. This is so much fun. I had India in the house the other night. That was pretty wild. That was a first for me. Pretty cool. I'm really liking this. And this wasn't meant to happen, but if you look at this barn door, I was looking at it earlier tonight and it's almost. I'm gonna call attention to it. You'll see in a sec. But I'm almost imagining the barn door has a hole in it. You can see through that hole, see some of the background of the wood. And you can see some of that stone foundation as well. So it's kind of like a little happy accident. And I'm gonna call attention to it just by tracing kind of the outline here. Keep it kind of jaggedy a little bit. And then maybe we'll. We'll just do some barn boards on here. We'll just make it maybe vertical lines here where the. The boards are for the door. So there you go. So we kind of have like a little happy accident happening here. Yeah, this is a fun sketch. If. If anybody's interested. I'm actually. Tonight's the first night I'm promoting a. I'm going to do a sketching fall inspired Barns workshop on October 26th. It'll be on zoom hour and a half and we're going to be doing stuff like this. So barns wonky, loose style. Barns with fall type of colors. There's a link on the screen, the bottom right hand side. Check that out and yeah, you can find out some more information about it. I think it'll be a fun workshop. I actually did a barn workshop last October too. What else? I want to pop some of the stones out on the foundation. And I'm thinking I'm going to just use some yellow. Some of this. It's mostly yellow highlighter color. Tonight is going to be a short live stream. It's late and I'm pretty tired, but I want to just kind of finish this online. Oops. Gotta dip it in. So I'm just dipping my brush into that ink and I just want to just call out some of these stones a little bit. It. Cool. I think that's enough for that yellow on there. I have these two new pens here. I showed them the other day online. They're interesting. It's a food. I don't know how to say this word. I think it's feud. I could be wrong. It's called a feud Ball. Bio by O H T O Is the company kind of A thick point, but it's. For me, it feels like it's almost a combination of a colored pencil and a pen. Pen ink. I don't know anything about these. I don't know what the intention is or what they're trying to do with these pens, but that's the vibe I get. So let's just throw some of these down on here maybe. And I'm at the point where I'm getting close to wrapping this up. It. So I have a blue color. I also have a pink as well. Cool. I am. I am striking out with my Sharpies here. Oh, almost dropped it. I want to pull the edge of the barn out a little bit from the background, so I think I'm going to. Just going to go for it. I'm just going to use a. One of these Sharpie markers instead of a thin marker. Just go for a thick one here. So you may have noticed I'm starting. I've been ending a lot of my live streams by saying, sketch boldly, live creatively, and inspire endlessly. So when I say sketch boldly, this is an example. Just. Just go for it. Just throw down ink on paper or color on paper. That's a bold step. And the more bold steps we do while we're creating something, the more we'll build up our confidence, whether it's, you know, if it's a creative confidence we're after. I feel like ever since I started just sketching with Sharpies, it's really helped to build. Just to build my confidence level up, my creative confidence level up, as far as committing to getting something on paper and also showing my work to people as well. And when I say confidence, I'm not talking about in a braggish. I'm not in a braggadocio. Is that a word? In a bragging kind of way. But confidence. Just to have the courage to express yourself and put your voice out there. Whether it is through sketching or music, dance, sports, it doesn't matter. Cooking, baking, any whatever, your thing is to express yourself. So when I say sketch boldly, that's what I mean. Sometimes we just have to get past that fear and just go for it. You know, in my case, what's the worst thing that happens on a sketch? I throw it out and start over. It's only paper, it's only ink. But you know what? Sketching boldly not only builds confidence, but it also kind of forces you to come up with creative solutions to problems. Because once you've committed and you can't turn back, if you're not happy with something, you got to come up with another strategy, another plan, another method or way to get to move ahead. Right. So whenever I'm doing these. Yeah. There are points in this where I'm like, oh, what did I do? I. This looks horrible. Look, I'm stuck. But I try to get out of that mindset, and I'm like, okay, this is an opportunity. What could I do with it? What could I create? The answer might not happen right away, but something will. Will come up. You'll come up with an idea, a solution, or a workaround. So, yes, sketch boldly. Those two words for me are really, really important. A motto is not the word. I guess it's a philosophy or mindset for me that carries beyond the sketching world. So I just want to put that out there because I have been saying sketch boldly a lot, and that's kind of what I mean. Hopefully that makes sense. All right, this is cool. I think this one's done, although not really. I would love to do a sepia kind of background, but I don't have any sepia stuff here with me right now. So let me just look in my bag here. What do I have, by the way? If anybody sees my. My apple watch, let me know. I lost my watch in my house somewhere. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. It's two days, and I know it's here somewhere. And I usually only put it in, like, two different places. Why am I thinking of my watch? Because it's almost bedtime and I usually have my alarm on there. All right, cool. So what do I want to do for the background? You know what we're going to do? This is another example. It's going to be bold. I have this ink. I've only barely used it. It's called forgotten iced coffee. Really cute name, Cute picture. Let's throw that on here in the background. I will test it, though, on a piece of paper. I have a scrap here. Let's just. Let's just see what it looks like. I'm not really. I think if I remember, I think that's actually it here. So let's check it out, and if it's not what I'm looking for, I just won't do anything on the background tonight. We'll save it. I also have dirty water. Let's couple things. Let's see if the dirty water is enough. Oh, you know what? Let's see. Maybe we'll just use the dirty water. This is that color here. And I think it Dries to be this kind of brown color. I don't think I'm going to throw that in the background tonight. Because I just. I do want to see how it dries. So. Yes. I was talking about sketching boldly. You know what? I'm gonna. I'm gonna stick to my word. We're just gonna throw it on here, And then I'll show you one last thing before we wrap up. Something interesting has been developing off to the side that I have not shown on camera because it's only meant to be a scrap piece of paper, but I like the way it's turning out. All right, where's that stuff? Let's throw some water on here first, and then we'll add that color. So I'm just going to kind of wet the page a little bit. Maybe we have a nice kind of gray fall day maybe. I think the grayish background is going to help the colors pop even more, the vibrant colors. And. All right, see what happens. There's. I actually want to do this. I like to prop this up an angle. There we go. All right, cool. I see propped at an angle. Let's try to throw down this ink that I'm not really familiar with. Yeah, you could tell I'm tired when, like, my. I can't talk anymore. Oh, I am. I'm actually glad that we went for it. Remember. Remember that sketch boldly philosophy we just kind of talked about. So this has a kind of a cool. Be fun to see how this dries. So maybe this is adding to that kind of gray fall day vibes. Cool. All right, that's enough of that color on there. We'll see how it dries, and I'll show one last thing and we'll wrap up. Let me know if you have any final questions, comments, or thoughts as I wrap up. All right, so this is. Call this one done for now, and I'll take a picture and show you how it. It dries. I do. I kind of like what's happening up in here. You can see some darker areas, so that's kind of cool. A little bit of glare from the light in here. So, yeah, it's a little hard to see with the lighting. All right, we'll put that aside. Here's. Here's kind of a bonus. First, if you're hanging out still watching. Excuse me. So I had this Brooklyn Bridge sketch I did a long time ago. At some point, I'm gonna say last year or no, earlier this year. And so I've had it off to the side And I've been just taking my paintbrush and kind of wipe. I didn't have paper towels for a while. I was just wiping my paintbrush kind of like this. I would clean it, put it in the water, kind of clean it, wipe it on here. And this is kind of what it's looking like. It's really interesting to see. So the base sketch of the Brooklyn Bridge was there, but kind of all these different color splotches and stuff you see happening that was just random from cleaning the paintbrush off. So sometimes if you have a painting or something, I'm doing something similar with this lighthouse, actually. You see things that's happening on here. If you have a. A painting or sketch you don't like, keep it. Use that scrap paper and maybe clean your. Your paintbrush off on it. You never know what's gonna happen. Actually, even though kind of a ring stain here, I don't even know what caused that. What the heck would have caused that? This cup, maybe. This cup here? Yeah. It could be the base from the cup. Yeah. Pretty cool, right? If I get closer, you can just see some of the details, the colors and overlaying each other. Actually, now it almost looks like. It looks like fire or something. Like. So really, really cool. Keep your scrap pieces. You never know what they could turn into. All right, so we got that and that Put this here. It's kind of gravity's your friend, so don't be afraid to move the paper around. I'm just letting that the water kind of run in different directions. There you go. All right. I think this barn is a wrap. I was trying to think of a barn. Anybody have any barn puns? I need a barn pun. This barn is siloed. I think this barn is siloed. For now. How about. Wait, Hey, I think this barn is siloed. I don't know if siloed. I don't even know what that means. All right, I'm trying too hard. Hey, guys, thank you so much for watching. I am Jason with the inspired life. If you want to learn how to get into my brain a little bit more and dig into my sketching techniques and kind of mindset for creating this kind of thing, this loose style barn with these vibrant fall colors. Check out the workshop. The link is on the bottom right hand side of the screen. It'll be on Zoom. October 26th, which is a Sunday. I think I made it from 8pm to 9:30pm Eastern Standard Time. All right, thank you so much. Remember, till we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively and inspire endlessly. See you soon.