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1. Intro: Do you know what would make
your holidays even better? Capturing it in a frame like this and hanging
it on your wall. If you always wanted to try travel journaling and
a trip is coming, I have the perfect
class for you. Let me take you to Bari, Italy for four days to show
you three beautiful towns. Eat delicious food. Take photos and use the title. Time I have for super quick
and tiny paintings to create a 40 by 40 centimeters
frame full of memories. Hi, my name is Fatty, but everybody calls me Fab. I'm a watercolor artist
and an online teacher. I've been painting with
watercolors for 13 years and I've been working as an
independent artist since 2015. This is my tenth class
and I love showing everyone that they can
do everything I do. In this class, you will
learn how to capture your trips in my no effort
sketch journaling style, no pencil sketch, continuous
counter drawings, and almost abstract loose
watercolor splashes. The results of this kind of
journaling are already great, but this time you
will see them on the wall in a frame rather than tucked
away on some shelf. What you learn from this
class will make you ready for your next or your
first travel journal. But you can also
use the skills to start any kind of journal
with various topics. Class, you will get to
see new places between my drawings with my
commentary rather than learn. Learn, Learn all the time. You know Epo of
work, pit of fun. A bit of work, a bit
of fun. The balance. The balance is the key.
By the end of this class, you will be a travel
journalist, just like me. Is that the word? Journalist.
Journalist. Well now it is. Wikipedia says it is. Okay. Look, I could have sat here in my attic
studio and lectured about how you could
be more creative on your holidays and tell you
what to do or not to do. Instead, I went out there, actually did what
I'm telling you to do and recorded
the entire thing. Be ready for the immersive
learning experience. This class is for anyone who wants to start
a travel journal, or who is bored with what
they are doing and wants to find a way to shake things up
and loosen up their style. No background or experience is necessary to take this class. Anyone with the willingness
to create is welcome. Even if you don't feel particularly creative
at the moment, you can just watch it for
the sites you have to see. Poligano Amare Mh. The class will follow the chronological order of
our trip to Bari, Italy. We will go from day
one to day four with five drawing breaks, and in between them
we will sightsee. Your class project is to create your own holiday art
piece for your wall. It's perfect if you
have a trip coming up, but if not, you can pretend that you're with me
on the tele trip. There are photos you can use in the resource section
as reference. Can't wait to take
you on the Stripidas. Polyano Amare was one of the
prettiest towns I have ever seen and I truly enjoyed painting the little
details from this holiday. Jack is understandably upset because he couldn't
go on the Stripidas. I thought you said
you were busy at that time, so why
didn't you come? You waited for me to
ask. I did ask you. You wanted me to ask
again? Cheese crust.
2. Class Project: Let's have a look.
How do I look? I guess as good as
it gets at this age. Okay, let's start. Like I said in the intro,
your class project is to create your own
holiday art for your wall. If you are not going on any trip anytime soon, that's okay. You can still practice
this useful skill by pretending you're
on the strip with me. You will definitely see
everything I saw in Italy. During this class, you can use reference photos
I put on the screen, on the, I put on the screen during the drawing
portion of the class. Or you can download
many of them from the resource section and
do it on your own time. Another option would be to use your own photos
from a past trip. This way you can
take those memories out of your phone and put it on your wall in a stylish way where you
can see it every day. I haven't sped up my drawing, so you definitely can follow me along and draw and
paint alongside me. Okay. This is going good? Yeah. What do you think, Jack? I'm using nine by 9
centimeters, 200 gram paper, so they are small, perfect for a quick under 10 minutes
drawing session, easy to carry around two. And with this, I have my
waterproof pen with me and two brushes and
watercolor set from retake. And that's a very small set to carry around during my trips. If you want to do just
one square, that's okay. But if you want to
do tiles like me, you can try to do four. If you do three by three,
that would be awesome. I don't think anyone can do 16. No, I don't think so.
I think it's too much. Jack. What do you think
it's too much to ask? Nine is fine. Nine is plenty. No, I'm not trying to
do reverse psychology. You are? No, you are. I don't think you can do 16. I'm sure they can. I just don't want to set myself
up for disappointment. That's all, but no pressure. Do what you can, two
by 24 squares perfect. After that, take a photo
and share with all of us. Seeing a student project in my inbox first thing in the
morning is my favorite thing. I share your projects on
my Instagram account, so make sure to connect
your Instagram account here so I can find you
and mention it now. If you are ready,
let's go to Italy. Jack, you would have
loved this place. Oh, so gorgeous.
3. Day 1: Arriving in Italy and Exploring but No Drawing: Here we are in Bari. We arrived early in the
morning like 09:00 A.M. If you go there, I recommend you take the train straightaway. There was a cheaper option B, but it was just so crowded
we just couldn't get in. We spent a few hours in bar, had coffee and breakfast, and from there we had to take
another train to Polyniano. Throughout the class, you will see these will be
drawn markers that those are the ones that I took
a photo and painted later. Like this one will be drawn this old fiat I try to show you while I'm in the moment
I'm recording and showing things to you and take photos and later
when I have time, I draw them from
my phone screen. Train to Polynano took
about half an hour. And again it was around 50. I think it was inexpensive. And we arrived in Polyano. And as soon as we reached these streets, we
fell in love with it. We were literally
surprised seeing these colorful houses
and narrow streets. There are these kind of
balconies all over the town. As the town is sitting
on the top of a cliff, we are just walking
on the street, you see these kind of balconies with the sea view
all over the town. This is our flat. It was like two stories and on the
very top there was a cuz this is the top balcony
with the street view. There was even a
shower there as well. On the balcony, I took
a shower there once. Even though we went
there in February, it was 20th of February. The weather was amazing
in comparison to Poland. It was very much end of
spring towards summer for us, just with the hood would
be fine and under the sun, definitely with a T shirt. We went for a walk, of course, after dropping our stuff, trying to find our
way to the beach, because we know that there's
a lovely beach here, walking through
these tiny streets without really knowing where
we're going to end up. But we end up in this
main square of the town. I guess there was a nice
place with ice cream. Churches are everywhere. I guess this is
the old church at the bottom, there
is a coffee shop. Then of course, we were hungry. We had to find something to eat. We found that lovely tiny
place that made us sandy, which is out of Focatchia. This is the beach.
In the first day, there won't be any drawings. With every class I do,
I'm trying to show you, you can make art
part of your life this way it will be
easier to practice. Then you will get
better and better. Yes, I could have shown you everything in
the studio later. Look, I did this, I did that. And you can also
do this, but I'm trying to show you in the moment so you can get the
context and what do I do, how I am getting
to the end results that it will also inspire you
to do so in your own lives. That's why there is this block. I hope you will enjoy them. Crazy, amazing town. I wasn't expecting this
dance all to my wife. Hey, there we are in Italy
and it's amazing place, which probably, I will
butcher the name. How was it called? Piano. Polio. I think if not, I will just the name under somewhere beautiful. I
wasn't expecting this. My wife did an amazing
job finding this place. I never heard of it before, But the place is, as you can see, beautiful. There are so many
things to draw. I don't even know
where to start. I feel like I will just
have way too much things to draw other rather than
not having enough. The idea is I'm here with my family and we
have only four days. There is very limited time. But I thought this shouldn't stop me from being creative
when I have a little moment. It shouldn't stop either. My idea is for this little holiday to
capture this holiday, rather than doing a
traditional sketch journaling, which takes longer and which
takes more time and effort. I will do a no effort sketch
journaling and I will capture the memories from this all day in no effort style. If you have watched my no effort sketch journaling class with quick continuous contra drawings and sketches of
watercolor and that's it, a bit of titles, maybe then I'm going to collect them
altogether in a frame, rather than keeping
it in sketch book. It will be in a frame maybe
nine by nine, not that much. Three by 39 squares or
four by 416 squares. Let's see how it will turn out. I will try to give like ten
to 20 minutes every day to capture some
memories this way. I'm hoping to show
you that when you go on holiday and if you're not alone, if you are with friends, with family, you can't have as much time as you want
for your art and drawing. Maybe this way you can
capture your holidays too. Let's see how it goes. Whoa. Look at the size of the, the.
4. Day 2: Drawing on the Balcony and visiting Monopoli: This is the street.
And see over there. And see over there as well. Let's go and have
a good morning. We woke up to the second day. It's a beautiful sunny day. I think over there
is going to be my drawing station for the
next half an hour or so. The reality is yesterday I didn't manage to do any drawing, but that's why I chose to
do no effort to sketch. Now I can catch up a
bit and during the day, I'm hoping to have some coffee
break in a coffee shop. So I can also draw
today inspiration wise, there's no lacking. I have so many things
to draw at this place. It's amazing that there were so many details I
took photos of. I want to just draw
quickly in this, no effort to sketch
journey style, but having a child and being with your partner and you want to spend
time with them. So it's not always possible. But let's see, I will try my best now let's go
and check out the C on the other side,
that is the sea. Wow, that's amazing. Look at all those antennas and this is the Jacuzzi my
son was very excited about. Now as you can see, it's finally war now. How to make coffee with, how does even work? I found the capsule, and I think it goes in there. Mm, Italian coffee in Italy. And Italian sweets. Oh wow, I should learn
some Italian Ds. And here we are, the first drawing
of the holiday. It kind of makes
sense when I look back now that yesterday
on the day one, I didn't have any drawing because we just went on holiday. We were traveling,
finding our place, and we had to do this way.
I had something to draw. It kind of makes sense that
on the second day I have a, I have one day behind me
to drive from like to, not in the meaning of
like driving with a pen, but I have something
to pull from day one. And this is exactly, this image is from
day one in Bari. The first coffee shop we went while waiting for our
train to Polyana Mare. We went to this coffee
shop, it was for breakfast. We ordered some coffee and
some sweets and croissants, but they don't call croissants. Croissants there, they call them cornetti and they're delicious. Next to the coffee, you
can see just behind it. That is this. How
are they called? I have to remember this point. I can't remember Giotto. Anyway, I will write
it somewhere here. Paste those things
are really delicious. Later I will dedicate a
droving just for that as well. Like I mentioned before,
I'm doing capturing this family holiday in no effort style.
What does that mean? If you watched my Nft journal, it was all about
this. How you can Very quickly, use
the little time you have in a creative way. This involves, it
actually came from, because I love sketch
journaling, but it takes time. I do a pencil sketch and
then draw with pen and ink and then the watercolors and so on and then titles.
It's a whole process. It takes, I love that
process as well, but I was feeling like
I want something small. And to feel those times that I go to a coffee shop and
that's how it started. I have a moment and I just
sit down and draw that scene. And it had a very specific topic that whatever I'm drinking, my drink is my topic. Every time I go
to a coffee shop, like in 10 minutes, I could
have a painting done. That's why there is
no pencil sketch. I do continuous counter. I'm not worry too much. If it's going to look good, the perspective is right. I don't worry about any of that. I just put the pen on the
paper and start drawing that. I look at my subject and just
pick a point with my eye. And from there I just start
tracing the shapes and end up somewhere that I don't know where I'm
going to go with it. But I almost always
like the end results because it is a bit more different in here.
That's what I did. I just started from
the edge of the cup and kept tracing the lines because all the
lines are touching, as you can see the
plate behind the cup. And so I just to continue, no pencil sketch, erasing, worrying about any of that, this saves lots of time and it makes the process
much quicker. That's why I picked no effort
style for this whole day. I knew that three of us, my son and my wife, we were going to want to
spend time together and walk a lot and we will be
tired and so on this way, when I have a little
time, I can just do a bit of drawing and
painting and I'm done and I'm feeling good and accomplished and creative
in this little time I have. But I'm not worried too much. As you can see, very quickly, I finished painting thanks to this no effort style drawing. Then I added the title there, the first coffee, I just
moved on to painting. Painting is even easier. I don't worry too much. Just pick a few colors, 23 colors to add rough. I don't know how else I can
say no effort basically like, I don't think too much about it. Just throw some
colors on the page. For that, I chose the brown of the coffee and
the pastry and the table. And as you see, I add a bit of shade
with black for contrast. And that's basically it. I'm also helping the title
a bit with the blue. It's usually good to find
a contrasting one with the yellow and a bit
of this reddish brown. I used a bit of blue and
that lighten the composition this way I'm not worried
about filling the page. I'm adding some
splashes with the blue. While the browns are still wet, they get all mixed up and it
gives this abstract feeling, more a bit of a dot for the
logo on the Coffee Mac. And in this way, I'm done. And I just love
this style so much because the end results
are so unexpected. That's why for this whole day, I'm doing no effort style. And the next ones
will be the same way. The first drawing is done. It's still drying, so I'm not going to lift it up so
the paints won't go down, but it looks very colorful. I'm very happy with it
and it was very quick. And this was the
whole point that you can, the 10 minutes you have, you can just capture
some memories and take your whole
day home with you. And later all they
will go in a frame. I can't wait to see how
it's going to bill more. Time is now watching cartoon. I will throw one or two. This is the second
drawing I did. There was this fiat. The old fiat. I've seen
quite a few of them. So I wanted to add this as one of the details
from the whole day. Again, this was a
very quick drawing and splashes of paint. This. Actually it's the
hero drawing for me, but I wanted to include
the first drawing. I didn't show this one. Maybe I will be on
my Youtube channel this moment from the beach. We went for the first
time and ki just sat down there and gave
me the perfect shot. I want to include that
and I love this painting. It's my favorite. It like this. The first day is complete, I have three drawings. This was done in
half an hour maybe. First day and drawings are
done, see on the next one. I think I inspired someone. This was the moment we
went into some sort of a Causa drawings are done. So now I can go upstairs
with a and go to the this place my wife
found is amazing. And now we'll go into
the 40 degree here. Whoa. Oh, now let's fix
the hair first. Of course, now we
are in Monopoly. We just took a train
from this time. I will try to remember the
name. How was it called? Polyol are? Yes. That's where we
are staying in that. That was the name I
butchered yesterday. Couldn't remember
Polo from there. We took a train, like
maybe 10 minutes. We are in Monopoly. Other old town. This seems a bit bigger than
Polyana enter this old town. And it's also beautiful. Now we found the
sea as you can see, and the castle is behind me
in Monopoly. It's beautiful. There were beautiful,
tiny, narrow streets. Not tiny, narrow,
very narrow streets. Which I don't know what makes narrow beautiful. But it is. All the houses are painted
white and stone color and flowers are coming from
every corner, every window. It's just beautiful. Now we will go and
eat something. Maybe I will find
some time to draw, if Kay maybe watches a bit. And so I can draw some
stuff from Monopoly, or yesterday from Polana. I will learn this name Plano. And let's see how it goes. Seriously, what is this place? You walk and come
to a street like this and then you turn left. Everything is so beautiful. Like I was just telling
my wife, Kasha, that it feels like all
residents received a memo from the
local authorities on how to make your
house look stylish. I don't know, ever there's
such a sense of style. And in these labyrinth
like streets, incredible place
From the labyrinth like streets where it leads to, wow, this is the
beach we were on yesterday and the sunset. Hey guys, this is the set up. The suns are just over
there and the moon.
5. Day 3 - Drawing the Post Box and the Cactus: This is the spot I
want to draw today. Spalcony, lovely
spots. Nice and sunny. Even the T shirt would be fine, but I run out of time, we have to go check out. I said that, but
then it happened that we packed up everything
and we were ready to go. We just thought if they come
for cleaning or something, we will just say, oh,
we were about to. So we're just going
to use the time. I will just use this
moment to sit down and draw a bit. Here we go. This is the reference image on the first day I
took this photo, I just love how they
put the cactuses with the post box next to it and the tile and part of
the cement showing. I love all these
little details from poly and old time actually in
Bari and Monopoly as well. In this whole day, I decided to draw this as one of those little details
to remind me again, I'm going with
continuous contour. Just started from the corner
in here is not visible but part of the wall
row without the cement, the bricks were showing. I added that to the
detail and then went onto the pot with the cactus in
it without lifting my pen. I don't worry about
that. Everything is happening in one go
most of the time. But maybe every now and
then I might lift my pen. I'm not too anal about it, but mostly I'm trying to
put it down and do it in one go take up. From there I moved on to
the tiles with the details, details and the continuous
control drawing. I don't try to draw
everything perfectly, but somehow I'm just following
with my eye wherever my pen is on the paper and the part of the picture that from the reference picture, my eye is following
at the same time. And I'm just trying
to make marks as my eye follows without
thinking too much. I see a bit of a
pattern in the tiles. I don't do that perfectly, kind of give an impression of
what that's supposed to be. And same with the postbox. Look, Now I've moved
on to the postbox. My eye is following
and I'm just trying to prompt my hand with
whatever I'm seeing. But as quickly as possible,
without thinking, oh, this is not how
it's supposed to be or it's not the
right proportion. I don't worry about any of that. Just keep it moving.
This is the key thing. And then this allows you to reach somewhere you
wouldn't go usually. And I like how carefully
these drawings look. And then adding a bit of watercolor the same way that gives this very
abstract feeling. It's still the memory,
when you see it, you remember what it was about, but in much more artistic way. And that's why I
love this style. And it allows you to
do quick drawings. That's also quick
drawings and paintings. And it's perfect
for this holiday where you don't have that
much time, you're not alone. You can't just go to a coffee shop and spend
half a day drawing and painting where you
need to be present, run after your child
because he wants to play. You can just go wherever you
want to go because you need to keep him in mind as
well for the holidays. I think this style is perfect. You have a little moment for yourself and you
can just go for it. I finished the drawing
as you can see, and I'm adding the title now, just like I was telling
you at the beginning, This was about these
little details I was seeing all over the place. I adding a little details
with the titles in here. I'm not going to go
into it too much. Everything I do I put together in a class called
Everyone can draw letters. And in there you can just go and pick a few of the letters. I create a list of like 30
phones that very easy to make. I'm also showing how you can make your own phones and so on. So I'm just following basically the same rules I
was showing in that class. I'm not going to go
into details here, but I'm basically mixing
two different phones. The first and third words are in capital letters
and more bold, and in the middle
I use the cursive. Yeah, I like this style, a triangle behind
the titles I write, it brings out more
and it allows me to guide me for where I'm
going to put the colors on. Now I'm moving on to the painting portion
of this drawing, that there's actually not much color as you can see
in this reference photo. It's a lot of white and
this is actually good. Ah, you can see this
lovely tiny balcony. I really love that apartment
that my wife found. I was saying that because it's all almost
like a white wall. It is like a broken
white, I think. Not fully white, but I'm
not worried about it. I'm just going to leave
all the background white. But I decided to add a bit of shadow because it
was a very sunny day and part of the wall wasn't painted properly
and it was showing, I'm adding a bit of a
brownish yellowish color to the top for that. The hero color is going to
be green for this because the cactus is really standing
out those little tiles. I'm going to add colors to them. At the end, I'm going to add probably a few splashes
and then it will be done. Look, here is the
hero color green, very roughly added
onto the cactus. Here you can see my
set up from the top. It's not much as you can see, it's just two brushes, one pen, very small set of water colors, and a tiny sketchbook that
color from the cactus. I use green. I also
used it for the title. Usually I try to pick one main color I used for
the painting into the title. To complement each other, you can see a bit of splashes. That's pretty much
it, We are done. Sometimes I add two different
colors, splashes as well. Like next to a green, I could have splashed yellow as well. For example, to mix them. A abit I recorded today here. This was my recording location,
this beautiful balcony. And I did two drawings we
need to check out now. And I will show you where I am. So these were from yesterday and co portases and
other projects, this is where I
am, five of them. Let's bring them to the sun. Altogether they
will go in a frame. I'm thinking of 12 or 16. We'll see the weather
is beautiful. Sea is over there,
can see the sea.
6. Day 3 - Last Hours in Polignano and Drawing the Cliffs: And that's the town on the
cliff, polana, amazing place. And this is the cliffs we are watching from
the other side. And now we are going
to check out the sea. Now, this is day three. We left our apartment, that's why I have all the backpacks. We had to leave our
apartment because we are going to stay in
Bari for two days. And now we are spending some
time still here in Polio. And then later on we
will take a train, go to Bari, so half
an hour or something. And then after that we are just checking out the
places we haven't been in Pana, which we really love this place. It's, I look at it
amazing place later. I'm hoping to have a coffee shop break and throw some more. I drew and painted two scenes in the morning and maybe three more because it's no effort
to get journaling. And it just takes about
10 minutes for me. One we will see, see you later. I have like 10 minutes while
cashier is playing with k, and I decided to make a
drawing of the Clifford Day. Let's see. This is my
table to draw now. Okay, here we go. This is
the image I was looking at. This is the view I was
looking at from those cliffs. And there is a smaller version. I put it on the left for
you to have a look at. You can find these
photos, by the way, in the resource section, when you want to draw for yourself, maybe just download it
to your phone and then you can look at from
your phone like I do, like I was saying in
the project video, that you might not be going
on holiday at the moment, but you can just pretend like you've been on
this whole day with me. I think I did my best
to take you along with me and make your own drawings and put it together for your class project. It will be a good practice for your next holiday
and you will be fully ready for it
on this nice rock, like a table like flat rock. I found, I just started drawing the cliff and the town of
Polan Amarre in front of me. I really loved how
this place look. It had to be part of it and
this is my location drawing, meaning that I'm not
looking at my phone, the photo I took, but I'm looking directly at the cliffs
and drawing from there. So in that way, this drawing is also special. I don't know why, but
for this one, actually, I even realize
looking back later, I didn't do the
continuous contras style. For some reason I really had
like 10 minutes to do this. I didn't have much time and I wanted this to be part
of the class as well. I just dived into it and I think my mind
wasn't fully there. I just went into drawing. But basically the
same thing I like, my eye is following the scene. The cliffs cliff
finishes and the water, and the sea stars and
where the beaches. So I'm just following
those lines and trying to make very simple
shapes to represent the houses sitting on the top
of the cliffs and some of their windows because
they just look like a small, tiny black rectangles. I just went and drew like this. And it's, this is one of the
parts I love about this. No effort to get journaling. It's this no effort part. I'm not worried too much about
it and neither should you. This is about being in that
moment and being creative. You don't always have an hour or two to throw the
scene perfectly. You can take a photo for that. And I did take a lot of photos, and I can look at those photos to bring up those
memories as well. But the purpose of this exercise is to use the
little times to be creative. And In the long run,
doing this exercise, following with your eye
and transferring that to paper in a non afford and
continuous counter style. It really helps you to get better at normal
traditional drawing as well. So this is a very
good practice to do. In the meantime,
you are capturing your whole day instead of
scrolling your Instagram. You are being
productive and there is this feel good aspect
to it as well. Here's me, you can step, I'm drawing in the distance while my wife is
playing with my son. Back to the drawing,
now drawing portion is over and I'm going into the painting because I
have a very small set. I don't have all my colors
like turquoise, for example. For that as you can see, I mixed up a bit
of green and blue. I have set in this set, I have 12 colors only, and I mixed up a bit of a green and
blue to make turquoise. And that totally works for me. The scene is also color
wise, not very complicated. It's blue sky, turquoise waters, and basically the
brownish cliffs and the houses are the
same color as well. For that I'm going to use, I will put the name of the
color on the page here. I can't remember now. But
the yellowish brownish color that I'm picking up,
you could see there. And add it for the cliffs. Then it will need a bit of a shadow because there
are those dark parts. But again, I'm not trying to make a perfect copy
of what I'm seeing. It just, I'm trying to grab
whatever I can in this seven, 8 minutes because that's how long it took to do
this drawing that. I'm just trying to grab
that moment in that moment, whatever I can get to make me remember when I
look back at this photo and once again
remember all these together will go on the wall once they are next
to each other. They will also
compliment each other. Don't think it as just one drawing and painting
in tiny square format, but there will be 15
more next to this. Now I'm going to add
finishing touches. As you can see, I darken that yellowish color I used
with a bit of brown to add some shadow and make it a
bit darker, those cliffs. And after that, I can't remember at shadows because remember
now I'm not there. I'm in the studio
giving you commentary. In these drawings, I think I will add a bit more to the sea. Oh no, it's slash time, now I'm splashing a bit. Especially I enjoy
doing the species. While some of the paint I used before is still wet this way, it makes these watercolor
washes in some parts. Here we are, we are done. One more drawing done. This was done on the spot
and I will always remember this moment and done Poliano Amarre. And there's the beach over there and the color of the water is unbelievable and there
is my beach over there. Look, this was my set up
little tripod and this. Perfect. I think it was
done under like 7 minutes. Come on, you can do that. Uh, that's the guy. So this is goodbye to Plano. Are now we have our backpacks. We had some time to kill, so we went to the
beach and stuff. It was heavy to carry them, but now we are waiting
for a train to bar. We will be staying in bar
tonight and tomorrow night, and then back to Warsaw. I have more time
and more places to. Let's see how it goes now. We are waiting for
our train to bar. Look at those bedded coffee, coffee coffee machines.
Aren't they sweet? We are in bar now and we
went to our apartments. Not as special as
the one we were, Polo, but still we were so tired after carrying
the backpacks all day. Now we just lay down
and couldn't get up. And then we just
went out for dinner. And now we are going
back home to rest of it. I didn't think I will have
energy to draw anything. We are going home. I
don't think I will have energy to draw anything
anymore tomorrow. I'm hoping to two
sessions and catch a bit more drawings and Bill
se see you on day four. Did she say, Oh, my wife set up my son
to say during my video.
7. Day 4 - Bari streets and Drawing Our Place: Since I have half an hour, I will tackle three drawings
in this tiny amount of time, small amount of time. One of them, I was our place
that we stayed in Polyana. I really love this place. This tiny door on the left, you can see Brown
was our entrance and it was leading to
the stairs directly. And there was first floor, I guess we can call
where the bedroom is. And then there was another
floor with the kitchen and the balcony where
I drew on day two. Then on the top of that, on the roof there
was the jacuzzi. I thought if I'm capturing the memories
from this whole day, I have to capture this house and I love how it looks
from outside as well. This tiny balcony you can see in this painting is where I
drew on the day three, the same deal as always. I'm doing continuous con, I just start from the corner of the house and I'm
following my eye. I'm ignoring the houses
on the left and right. I'm just focusing on the middle
subject here, the house. With my eye and my hand follows what my eye.
Too many follows. Don't forget to follow me
here and on Instagram. Anyway, I, I was explaining earlier that I'm not trying to draw
everything perfectly, just whatever my eyes,
the time I have. I'm just trying to make an
impression with the pen. And as a result, I have the Q drawings
and I love them. I think if you give it a go, you will love them
too at the moment. To be honest, I love
doing the more than the traditional drawing
because it's so quick and I get same amount of satisfaction if not
more at the end. I can't wait for this part
because this is something new that they will go on a
frame all next to each other, and I'm looking
forward to that part. How is it going to look like? Because this might
be something new and it might become something I'm going to
do more in the future. So because I was thinking to do this with my coffee drawings as well from the coffee shop. That's how my no effort
schedule started. And maybe I will do, I have a series I'm
working on now, cafe portraits from
every coffee shop I go, I try to draw the shop front or some
corner from the inside. And then I'm going to put them together in a frame
as well, I think. But that will be a
bigger one because there are quite a few now. I drew the balcony and
went down to the door. Then I'm now drawing
the payment. Even like I said, you can choose how many
details you're going to bring with you
because that's the, I guess, artistic choice
you have to make. You can, for example, decide to draw the houses next
to on the left and right. You can also try to draw them, but I like in this style,
making something pop. In the middle, there is a bit
of white space around it. It allows the composition
to breathe a bit. I'm not trying to
fill the entire page. Then later I said that and I went on to drawing
the house next to me. Okay. I'm a bit embarrassed. I hope I'm not going to
draw the right one as well. But this was a month ago still because I recorded
this on whole day we came. I just went into editing
the block straight away and now I'm doing the
voice overs from my studio. Please forgive me
for not remembering, but there wasn't too much to it. As you can see, I
finished it there and on the right I'm going to actually, it would help if I had this
final drawing in my hand. Maybe I should remember
that next time. I'm going to just add a title, and this will be it. For the drawing part.
For the titles. Again, I'm not thinking
too much about them. I don't know. Make a little sketch on
the site with a pencil, how it's going to look like
or something like that. Let me take a zip
from my coffee. I what I want to write, the general topic
for this whole day was capturing little details. All came down to
the little details. The beach, the first coffee. Like those titles in here, of course, it's our house
where we stayed in Polyana. I love that place.
Again, I don't worry about the composition
as well because this no effort style also
allows you to make mistakes. And on those mistakes
that I knew that I wasn't going to fit five
letter word house in there. I just put a dash and put
the rest at the bottom. Please remember not to
worry about these things. You need to really let
yourself go and be free. And if you make mistakes
just on them in there, I'm just writing Jacuzzi. I'm pointing with the arrow
where the Jacuzzi was because that was also a
big part of our holiday. My son, my wife told my son that there will be a Jacuzzi on this whole day. He just wouldn't
stop talking about it before we went there
and the first day we went, I checked the water
straight away. Of course it was cold
and it took like a day to warm up to 40 degrees. And he just kept talking
about he wouldn't stop, we would go outside and
he would be still saying, Let's go home and
go to Jacuzzi He didn't care about sightseeing
the town, nothing. He just wanted to
be in the Jacuzzi. I also want to have, as I'm capturing the memories
from this whole day, I wanted to write with an arrow. Jacuzzi was just there. I'm now adding these colors. The brown doors, the
green shutters upstairs, The house next
door was brownish. Again, just few colors. Not make it too complicated. Don't try to paint the shadows to make
everything perfect. Just with your brush, pick up some paint splash on it. It's often better, I realized, not make it to
water down either. Just take a good amount of paint and just put it on your paper and
then deal with it. If you need to dilute it there, take some paint off with
your brush or paper towel. It's better to do so. Just be free with it and put
lots of color, make it pop. I think these green
shutters were very pretty. And that's why I went with
the green as a hero there. And I took it to
the title as well. And of course, this
beautiful blue sky, it in the blue sky as well. And then probably I will splash a bit and that will be
it. What do you think? I love these drawings. I can't wait to put them
together on a frame. I'm very curious how
it's going to turn out. Now I picked some
green and some, as you can see, look, the
street I painted was still wet. I splashed over
there with green. It creates these
washes and it gives a very nice loose
feeling to the painting. I'm putting my brush down, I think we are done with
this painting. In this. At the moment, we
are in Bari and we first tried this
Martinic in Pongan. There was one more
location there, in here. We also found it, I really
enjoyed staying there. Coffee is delicious in there. I normally don't
drink milky coffee, but in there all I ordered
was cappuccino because, so delicious in here. It just feels so milky. I feel like I'm drinking
a cup of milk and there's a close
up and my set up. I'm very happy with this one. I think this is a memory. I'm very fond of
the jacuzzi there, our house in the
sitting I did three, can you see past? I ran out of space. I just carried it down
on your mistakes. Don't worry too much about it. I actually love
how it looks Now, these narrow doors
everywhere, all the house, they had such narrow
doors you couldn't go without turning your
body around a backpack. I was unable to
fit. For example, I had to capture the long
and narrow doors as well. This place behind me was the location for
today's drawings. I'm hoping to do
some more drawings later in the afternoon. I did three drawings. It took me 38 minutes
and her gave me hired my wife half an hour to
have some time for myself. So I used it for drawing and painting and
I'm really happy with them. I think they'll look really
good altogether on the wall because I'm trying to capture little things from the holiday. Like those little details drew my attention
the place we stayed. And I think it would be
a great way to capture this memory and this
beautiful holiday we have with our son. So now I'm going to
go and find them.
8. Day 4 - More of Bari and the Drawing the Vespa: This is day for our
holiday last day, Tomorrow, very early
in the morning. We are going to the
airport at 06:30 We have a shuttle now so far. I have nine the drawings,
which I'm very happy with. It's already nine. I
could just do nine. We have a little moment
because everyone does Yester at 01:00
everywhere is closed. And so we decided
to come home and we have a moment to press. And I decided in the balcony, I'm going to have one more
session, like 30 minutes. I will do three more
and it will be 12. And my plan is to add a
few more to that at home. Maybe 12. I want to do one square, just saying Boy and
Polyoma, Monopoly. Just as like big
titles to show value, we have been on
the little details and the things I
want to remember from this holiday
all in a frame. Maybe I will reach
to 16 this way, but those I will do later. Now I will do three more
drawings from bay because we've been by since yesterday. That will be it for
this whole day. And drawing now, I'm going to draw here on this
balcony from our flat. And I will show you
the set up myself. This is the set up in this tiny, I think it's called
french chair and table. It's nice outside. I'm just with a hoodie
and this is the view from the balcony. Like this. There was an old lady hanging
the laundry a second ago. I can actually
smell the detergent smells very nice everywhere.
Laundry is hanging. Let's throw for this session, I decided to throw this Wespac just like
the Fiat drawing, we saw so many spas on the
road or park on the pavement. I thought I should draw one spa. I just love how they look
at it and how they look. I thought as I'm capturing the little memories
of this whole day and it spa, it had to be there. There was this cute, you
can see in the photo. I'm going to draw
this in this session. In the sitting, I did
again three drawings, and I had already
nine with them. It will be 12 altogether. I chose to show
you here the Spa. And other than Spa, I think I will show you later. I will have two more. This is a photo I took in
Bari while we were in Bari. I'm, I realize I'm drawing more things from Polyano because I
loved it there. It was such a lovely cute town. Then I want to a
bit balance it out. Drawings from Polyano as well. There was also a little half
a day trip to Monopoly, which was very
close from Polyano. I'm drawing Spa the same way I just started from
the back of the vehicle. I think in general, I start from right
top corner ish and then make my way towards the
other parts of the object. Maybe because I'm
right handed it comes easier to go towards
right and towards left. I put my pen down and just
start tracing with my eye. What I see I didn't worry
about the stickers on it, just the general shape of Spa was pretty enough and that's what I
wanted to capture. The tire, the front
tire of the vehicle. As you can see, there are so many lines
there because when you look at the tire, you can see actually
that one outside black and then on the inside another
on the inside, there are so many of them. I don't worry making
them perfectly evenly. I just go back and
forth with my hand. Like I said, there is
this feeling of being limited by time and my
hand has to follow my eye. And this way I can get these
drawings done quickly. And this really helps when you are trying to capture
your holiday during holiday. I'm thinking to do the same holiday
afterwards like I would do capturing our explorations
on my sketch journal. I want to show the difference between no afford style during holiday and traditional sketch journaling style
after the holiday, so we can have a
look at the both. Now I'm done with the
drawing and the title. This will be one of
the quickest drawings. I it was around 6 minutes maybe. I will add a bit green and this cream color
and a bit of black, and we'll be done with it. Yeah. Usually, I don't worry about the backgrounds
that I'm not trying to draw the payment here or the shop behind or anything
like that, as you can see. Instead, I chose to extend this green I had from the
vehicle outside a bit, but not as intense
but more washed up. Adding the cream while
the green is still, I want them to mix. This is the key. I like these. Sometimes it's good to
have a bit of a separation that while the first layers dry you at the second one,
so they don't mix up. But every now and then
I want them to mix, there will be these washes. And I really like the
feeling it gives to a painting on the seat. If you realize I left
a bit of white space, that's to give the feeling of the shine and the
curve of the seat. You don't have to
draw everything. The paint also helps
you to capture this. How can I say the feel like a texture or the shape of
a thing, of an object? You can also try to do this
way by preserving the shine. For example, on the
black leather seat. Adding some more, I
decided to bring blue into the mix and probably
I will splash around a bit while
it's still wet. There we go, this will help. The black paint is still
wet at the bottom. It will also mix
up with this blue. Because this blue is also an opaque paint,
it's very dense. It pushes the other colors away. You can see those washes in my set up on
another tiny balcony. I guess Italy is full of
tiny balconies. I could say. Here is another drawing I did. There were these narrow
lots of narrow streets, and I love the feeling
of these narrow streets. I had to capture it
for this whole day. The architecture in
Barry was impressive. There were so many,
usually churches, I think most of them look like churches. This
was a cathedral. I had to capture this as well while I was doing was
doing his own drawings. This is a kind of a bingo
that when he sees the thing, he was just coloring
them in and he filled it all and got
the present at the end. Now, it's the
evening of day four. It means our whole day is over. And in the morning
we have a flight. We will take a shuttle at 06:30 And now we are
heading towards home, collecting a few things on
the way to eat in the plane. And so altogether, I did
12 drawings and paintings. So probably I will do a amp up from the studio
and put it all together. But this is the end
of the block. Bye.
9. Conclusion Day - Back to Studio and Framing: And we are back in the studio. It was quite a trip,
don't you think? Thank you so much
for joining me. I do hope you enjoyed
this Lock course. Logs if you will or
what clock from. I promised you a frame full of paintings and you shall have
it before we wrap it up, let's go over to my desk and I will put these
paintings together. Okay. Now, I kind
of set them up to see how they're going to look together and how they're
going to go in the frame. I guess maybe I will just take care of this to be
able to remember. There we go. Okay, I thought what
better way to conclude this class than looking
through all the drawings. Even those I didn't show the drawing part because the class would be too long. I have 16 squares in total. I thought we could have a
look at them altogether. Remember what we did and
the ones you didn't see? The ones I did after coming
home in my studio to complete the 16 so we can
have a look at all of them. And then after that I'm
going to frame them. And then I will
put down my wall. And this will be the
end of the class. And I hope this will inspire you to capture your
holidays in a similar way. What I have in front of me
is 16 squares of paintings. I did 12 as you know
during the holiday. I think in order if
I could go first, I did this one on the second
morning of the holiday, the first coffee from Bari. Then I did the beach. This is, I think among all
of them is my favorite, with K on the beach
and the sea beyond. Then I did this one
from a photo from Bari, that there were these old fats everywhere and I
thought it has to be captured the third
day of the holiday. On the second session, I did this coffee machine we
had in the apartment. We were staying in
house I should say. Right in the apartment,
it was a house. There was this one also. I think you've seen the video of this cactus and the postbox, the little details from Poliano and also I
really like this one. I think I could make a bigger one of these and
just hang it on the wall. I love how it looks or
maybe just a scan of it, I can enlarge it and
put it on the wall. Maybe like a four
size, three size. Then on the following
day no, after that, on the same day we
were on the cliffs, I drew and painted the town of polyana on
the top of the cliffs. There was this, that's six. After that we were, we moved to Bari for the next two nights in
bar in the morning. I drew, I think our house. That is also very special to me that remembering this
house that we stayed in, number 57, I, of course, painted this delicious thing. I don't know how many of them
I ate during the wholiday. I also couldn't
remember the name past. And also the narrow doors
from Polyana. It was amazing. These narrow doors, you really couldn't pass through
if you didn't, what is the word
like turn sideways? I had a big, big backpack
on me and I couldn't get through the door without
taking the backpack off. Then in the morning in
Barry, I drew these. And later in our
apartment in Barry, there was a tiny, cute balcony. On that balcony, I drew the
narrow streets of Bari. This cathedral from Bari. The name is Paslica Cathedral, Metropolitan
Primalabino, I'm sorry, for all my Italian friends
who is watching this, for me pretending to speak like Italian,
but I can't help. It plays name, you
can see it here. Then finally it was this West. Because Italy West pas like, you can't go without the fast. I also drew one West Pa. I enjoyed that. This was
a very quick painting. Another thing like this one, I think I wouldn't mind having on the
wall just by itself. Like I can maybe enlarge and put it somewhere
in my studio. So this was the original
12 I did on the whole day. Then after coming
home, what did I do? Some of them were missing dates. I added the dates and
the places on them. Also, I added three
titles to reach the 16 because first of all we
visit visited Polan Amare, so I made a title title
page for Polyiano, I did one for Bary. Again, I didn't
show these in here. I felt like it wasn't
part of the class as much like how I made
the hand lettering. I have my handwriting class. Everyone can draw letters. You can go and check
out all these types of different kind
of phones I used. I took it basically
from my own class. You can just go and
check out there, see how I do them. And you can also just
copy it the way I do. And you'll have your own phones. They're very easy to make and
I encourage you to do so. Then also we visited on
the second day, Monopoly, another small town bigger
than, smaller than Bari. I also made a name
tech for Monopoly. This made me reach
to 15, I needed 16. I realized I focused on the
details from Plano and Bari. I realized I don't have actually
anything from Monopoly, and I loved Monopoly as well. I thought I could
throw one more extra. This one I drew in the
studio after coming home. I wanted to capture
this by the docs. We were walking a
lot around there and there was this cute boats. Fishing boats, probably I capture the scene from
Monopoly as well to represent monopoly in what is this in this holiday memory
capturing frame I made. There's also a representation
of monopoly like this. We reached 16. I really hope you enjoyed this class and seeing me how I put this
together that you can, of course, sketchbook like this, you don't have to
do the way I do. You put it on the wall. You
can have your sketch books like I was showing this in my no effort sketch
journaling class. This was my sketchbook that whatever was
happening at 03:00 P.M. I was drawing. But I love them. But they just stand
close like this. You need to open to see them. I thought this might be interesting thing to show
you guys that you can also have your drawings nicely
presented on your wall, and this is one way to do it. There will be more
in the future. I have an idea for coffee shops. I will show that too.
I hope you enjoy it. And now I'm going to frame this. And then we will wrap
it up, this class. My only hope is that this
was inspiring for you. And before your next trip, you think if he can
do it, so can I. And you will grab
a tiny sketchbook and throw it in your backpack. And a waterproof pen
and watercolors and a tiny jar for water and
brushes too, and paper towel. If you enjoyed this class, a review would be
much appreciated. Reviews are my bread and butter. I can't get enough of them. There is something even
more precious than reviews, and that's a class project. Nothing gives a greater joy
to a teacher than to see a student create something with their class.
Maybe $1 million. But still very close. I share all your projects and reviews over on my Instagram account. So make sure to connect your
Instagram or better yet, share it on Instagram
and mention me so I can find you. It
goes without saying. But don't forget to
follow me here on Instagram on the street,
wherever you can. Really, I love followers. Then I will follow you, we
will follow each other. That's how communities
are born or cults. Anyway, moving on, do you think Jack should start his own
Instagram? What do you think? Would you follow him And what would you want
to see from him? Him showing me behind the
scenes, complaining about me. Let me know what you think
in the discussion board. Once again, thank you so much for taking
part in my class. I will see on the next one. Until then, stay creative By Good Jack What do you
think we did quickly? How long it took us? Only about 10 minutes. Okay, let's get going.
We don't have time. I never have time. And we are rolling Baby Jack. All good? We are
rolling red button. Everything good. Do
I look handsome. Okay. I will pretend
that I didn't hear that. Let's start. I will have
beetles here for sure. I will show parts from Italy. How to capture your trips
in my again. Come on. Do you know? It's
07:00 A.M. and I started at 06:00 A.M.
and I woke up at 05:30 to be able to
record this because the camera was going
to be busy during the I had to have it done today. Okay. Almost done. Rather than
tucked away in some shelf? On some shelf. I think
I have it somewhere. I want to believe I have it. How you could be
more creative on your holi days and
tell you what to do. But instead, I can't
use maybe both of them, but instead how much left? Almost there and
losing up their style. Okay. Paul Polan, Plano. Okay. I think that's it. Crust. Just say bye. Look at this, isn't it? Pretty, so many memories. Look, this is the beach. This is the old fiat. These narrow doors, perfect. Look at this hop on the wall. Like I said in the intro,
your class project is to create your
own art holiday. No, you can create your art
holiday, that would be great. Actually, that
sounds really good. I should create art holiday that where I go just
it's all about art. I just keep making art. I go and do some painting
there and I go and do some sculptures there
and all about art. Of course, I need to
log into my stuff. I keep logging into Google. Every time I to restart my computer and Google
is like, who are you? Prove me that it's you.
Tell me your password now. Log into your phone as well. It's me already and put
a password as well. And then again, who are
you proving that it's you? Now, if you are ready, let's go to bar, let's go to be cheese
crust. Wow, That was good. I didn't all at once create something with their
create something. That was correct, Jack, you distracted me and that
was that cheesy crust.
Fatih Mıstaçoğlu, watercolor storyteller
