- Hello.
Today, we are revisiting this tiny little sketchbook.
If you've been following this series
we have been filling this sketchbook together,
and it has been a wonderful time.
We are actually a little over halfway
through the sketchbook.
So today, to make things fun,
we are using these beautiful jelly gouache paints.
I really love using these,
especially in this tiny sketchbook.
I've done it a lot in the past.
And today we're just gonna have some fun with it. Why not?
If you want your own tiny sketchbook,
my sister-in-law, Sheila, makes these,
and I will link her shop below,
'cause many of you folks always ask about these.
And I just have to say
I love all the handmade sketchbooks she makes.
I have like a jar full of them.
Let's spray this palette down and create some art.
(peaceful electronic music)
Beautiful. Let's open our little sketchbook.
Ah, isn't it so cute? Remember that?
Here's the last piece we created in here,
and today we're gonna fill this page.
Let's see what we can do. (music tempo increases)
You know, I usually hate birds,
but this little thing here is so cute,
so we're gonna try to paint something like this.
We'll see how it goes.
I am so excited to paint with you.
So comment of the day, what was the last thing you created?
Did you paint something? Did you draw something?
Did you sculpt with clay? Do embroidery?
Let me know. Tell me all about it.
I love listening to the creative things
that you are making as well.
I have a little palette here for mixing colors.
Let's see what kind of tiny we should do.
So I'm wondering if I should do just like a one sided page,
or if I should try to do like a full spread.
Ah, what do you think?
I should probably do a full spread,
but I'm gonna put the bird on just like one.
I don't know. We'll see.
I don't really have experience drawing birds.
So pray for me.
(upbeat music continues)
I really like this little dude because he's so round,
you know, round animals are just so cute.
That big beady eye.
Oh, this is actually going pretty well. Now little footsies.
That's intimidating, but we've come this far.
Just have to remember, this is for fun. Nothing serious.
Okay. There's one weird foot.
Yeah, yeah, okay. And then this one.
Why do these feet seem way bigger than they should be?
Are bird feet really this big?
This foot is like way smaller in the picture.
And in my sketch, I have to fix this foot.
This is like not a thing. This is not gonna be a thing.
Okay. Now we're gonna do like a leaf.
Okay. And then I think I'll do this leaf here too.
But then I'm gonna alter the photo, 'cause you know,
I'm gonna do what I want.
There's gonna be probably some blurred trees here,
and then like blurred flowers in the background, we'll see.
I don't think this was recording,
but basically I used my little pencil,
I did my little sketch.
Now we have this beautiful blue and we are going to paint.
I wanted to do a really light blue at first,
and then if I layer later, it'll all work out, you know?
Okay. The background, first layer is blocked in.
We are happy now. Everything is good.
(water sloshing)
In case you're curious about what type of bird
I am painting, this is a wren.
The only reason why I know that,
is because I've been playing Wingspan.
Such a fun board game.
Have any of you played that? It is fun.
I'm a board game person.
I'm gonna do that big beady eye,
just so I have something to look forward to as I paint,
you know, like I know that eye is there watching.
Okay, so for the first layer on our little wrennie,
it's gonna have to to wait, 'cause I did that eye
and I shouldn't have.
So we're gonna do the footsies instead, okay?
Let's make a footsie color.
We love cute little footsies for our little wrennie.
They seem to have a pinker hue than orange,
so we'll follow suit.
Okay, first layer of that is done.
Right now I'm just blocking in everything,
in case you're wondering, we'll do details later.
This fence here is what is coming up next.
I'm just gonna turn this sideways.
(peaceful music) (birds chirping)
Now to block in the leaves.
(music tempo increases)
Let's get little wrennie here blocked in.
(upbeat music)
All righty, everything is blocked in.
We're gonna start going in with some details.
We need to make the background pop just a little more.
(upbeat music continues)
That helped a lot.
So for these leaves,
I think I want to do like a bunch of fun, little veins
and stuff on them.
(upbeat music continues)
Okay, so this, like fence thing, I want to make it exciting.
Let's see what we can do.
First I'm gonna do like some shadows for the leaves.
All right. The fence is startin' to look like wood.
Would you believe it?
Time to do some little blurred branches in the background,
we can make it blend in with the sky.
There we go. I think I'm gonna do the little wrennie now,
and then we'll see how we feel about this background,
and what we wanna do.
But first of all, these feet need some contrast.
This is ridiculous.
(birds chirping)
This little bird is a cutie.
Okay, I think I want to take this color,
just a little bit of it though.
A lot of yellow for warmth. Perfect.
Do some markings with a little bit of this, you know?
(peaceful piano music)
Look at our little wrennie.
Okay, let's work on that eye.
I think I do want to do some sort of like,
I have an idea, I have an idea.
This bird is gonna be overlooking like a field of flowers.
Really colorful, beautiful flowers.
Do some little clouds.
As far as flowers go,
I kinda want it to be impressionistic,
'cause it's like way back there.
Gonna mute this pink a little bit though.
(bright music)
Some yellowish ones.
I'm gonna take some of this cream color
and bring it into the bird too.
And a little, little (indistinct) for the eye.
All right, here's our little wren. What a cutie.
(gentle guitar strumming)
♪ Appalachian sunrise ♪
♪ Meets my skin ♪
♪ Even with my eyes still closed ♪
♪ I can feel it coming in ♪
♪ Golden, I'll follow you, golden ♪
♪ Golden, golden things ♪
♪ Mountain Laurel High Fives for miles in spring ♪
♪ Rainbow trout and a hummingbird playing ♪
♪ Golden, I'll follow you, golden ♪
♪ Golden, golden things ♪
(guitar strumming continues)
All right, we finished our artwork in this itty-bitty,
teeny-tiny sketchbook.
I really enjoy doing little doodles like this
from time to time, because it's a nice reminder
that you don't need to take art seriously.
You can do little projects like this and, you know,
let your creativity out and just do weird stuff on a page.
Or paint a bird, you know, whatever inspires you.
And it's kind of nice too,
'cause this is like a mini gallery of ideas
that I could blow up on a big canvas later,
if I ever wanted to.
I don't know. This is just fun, I enjoy it.
This piece here came straight from my imagination.
It's still a little wet, but you know? It was a good time.
I really enjoyed this one. I hope you enjoyed it too.
And then we have our little wrennie here, such a cutie.
With a little field of flowers.
Anyway, that's all the art we have for today.
I hope you enjoyed this.
And I hope, if anything, it inspires you to, as I said,
not take art so seriously, but just remember
that it is a fun thing that we can use as a creative outlet,
and as a place to just express
whatever's taking space in our minds.
All right. Thanks for hanging out with me.
I hope you have a beautiful day.
And I will see you whenever I see you. Bye.