Passage To Sicily. How To Be Inspired By Travels and Beauty Of Italy - Paint Your Inspiration.

1. Introduction: As artists, we always search for inspiration. We continuously think about what to draw, where to draw, how to draw, and what colors should we use. As an artist, I would like to share with you a beautiful source of inspiration, which is Sicily. My name is Ana. I'm an illustrator. I'm teacher here on Skilture. So I'm Polish, but I live in Italy, and I'm lucky to be surrounded by this beauty of Italy to travel a lot and to see beautiful places. And lately, I was in Sicily, and I thought that I would like to create a class to inspire you, share with you how I search for inspiration to show you the beauty of Sicily, to create a fun project that will be easy and colorful and fun as summer, as traveling, and tasty as Italian gelato. So in this class, I will take you for a short trip to Italy. Then I will show you how to create color palette by observation. How to search for inspiration, how to make studies of inspiration. At the end, we will create illustration based on the Sicilian inspiration. I think that these tools are useful not only for this class, but also you can use it in your everyday life. For now, I want you to immerse yourself by Italian beauty, by Sicilian beauty. I hope you're inspired and that you will join me. 2. Class Project: For the clasts project, we will create an illustration with watercolors and gh, and it will be illustration based on the inspiration of the Sicily. So first, I will take you to the Sicily, and I will show you a little bit of places. Then we will see how to create color palette based on observation. So no color theory will be included, just observation and inspiration by what we see. And then we will do a study of things that we can draw. We will see how we can search for things subject to paint. And in the end, we will pick some of them the favorite subjects, and we will create final project. And it will be a colorful Chan Colas based also on the Sicilian inspiration, which is ceramics, which are often made of the colorful collage. So if you feel inspired, they join me, and in the next lesson, I will show you art supplies, and then I will take you for a little trip to Italy. So I hope to see you in the class. Oh. 3. Art Supplies: Let's see the art materials that we will need for this class. We can start from paper. I will both use sketchbook and a block with paper. You can use different kinds of paper. The best solution would be watercolor paper if you will use both gah and watercolors, but you can also use mixed media paper if you're happy of how it works with water cools, water mediums. This sketchbook is mixed media. It's nothing fancy. I use it for different kind of medium, so I will use it for my sketches for the research, but you can use also paper obviously. So this is the paper that I will use H anemul, Britannia, 300 grams, but you can use thinner. Maybe 200 is a good compromise. As for the colors, I will use both wash and watercolors. So it's up to you. You can use only, only watercolors, or you can mix them as I go. If you like to work with gua, then why not try it. Also, if you're new to gah, but you have gua at home and you would like to try it, then go for it. Use this class to know it. I won't explain how ga and watercolor work. The only thing I can tell you that well, gua is basically like watercolor. As you can see, they are different kind of guache. They usually in tubes. I have also this kind of gah and jars. You can water them down and make them look like water colors. But if you paint a thick layer of ga, they are really opaque and they cover really well. And what else? Maybe you should know that when they dry, they tend to be Mm lighter. For example, if you make a layer of blue, maybe it will seem darker when it's wet, but when it's dry, it will get a little bit lighter. So maybe that's the only thing that I would like to tell you about wash for now. And also our good, trusty watercolors. I will use the one that I have. I have different sets. Those are warm watercolors, but I also have blues and greens in the other the other box. Okay. As for the brushes, I invite you to use different kinds and shapes. I won't use big brushes because I will work in a small format. But you can use really thin, small for details, medium size, for, for larger areas. And also, I will use this square brush and this cat tongue, which is rounded, tip. It has round tip, because it will be easier to fill, for example, square backgrounds, I will also use spray water spray to activate color and to create textures. But if you don't have it, don't worry. It's not necessary, but it's handy. If you have then you can use it. And also a palette to prepare your color palette to mix your colors. I have this palette ceramic palette, which is really fancy and nice, and I love it. But you can use plastic one. You can use your watercolor box. Or sometimes, I will also mix colors just in the simple plastic plate. Yeah. So you can be creative in creating your color palette. Okay, so, obviously, obviously, I will also use pencil and eraser to to create sketches. Okay, so prepare your art supplies, prepare your colors, your paper, and I'm so happy to start with you this class. And the next lesson, we will create our color palette. So let's dive in. 4. Come With Me To Sicily: My dear friend, let me take you to a little trip to Sicily. I don't know if you've ever been to Sicily or Italy. I live far away from Sicily. I live in Italy, but I was in Sicily many times and last spring, I went to Palermo. I wanted to share with you this beautiful, beautiful city and all the inspirations that surrounded me. In this video, I wanted to show you different places, different aspects of the inspiration, trees, beautiful gardens, and plants. All the things that cuddled five senses. This I cannot share with you, but you can imagine the smell, warm wind, all the colors obviously taste, which is amazing. Palermo and Sicily is full of beauty. Magnificent architecture, incredible story. Different cultures that created what the Sicily is right now. I if you've never been to Sicily, then I will tell you just one thing. Go. I fell totally in love in Palermo, in Sicily. It's full of different contrasting things like this beautiful rich story, churches, gold. And incredible story, but also chaos. So many people. But it's all incredibly inspiring. You can find everything you want. You can find quiet places. For example, I discovered this garden in this beautiful old church. And then you can go to the street full of people, and when you're tired, then you can escape in the places like this, full of silence, full of inspiration and story. I wanted to share with you this video. Just look watch. I won't give you names. It's not a documentary film. If you want, you can watch it and silence my voice and just and fill yourself with this beauty. Those are the colors that are incredibly beautiful, bright. There is almost always sun and the streets are full of surprises. You can find old people doing all the rural old professions. You can find oranges on the trees. Clothes that are drying so typical, but, they are there. The life of the street food markets. They are incredible. They're really incredible. There are many of them in Palermo. And the food is really gorgeous, so tasty, so good. How not to be inspired one way or another, there's something that you will love in Sicily. Here I'm on the markets, all the colors, all the materials, and ceramics, that will be the main inspiration of the course. Bright, bright colors. Look at this video and I hope you enjoyed my little guidance in Palermo. I will leave you also photos in the classes resources, so you can also watch at the photos. I will leave you the pinterest mood board that I created. If you want create your own mood board, search for your own inspiration and immerse yourself in wonderful Sicily. 5. Your Own Inspiration: So this is the Sicily that I saw with my own eyes that I interpreted, and that inspired me most. I prepared for you the Moodboard on Pinterest. I will leave you the link and also the PDF with my photos in the classes resources. So be sure to check it out and you can use it for your inspiration. But I truly invite you to create your own moodboard and to search for your own photos. Maybe you've been to Sicily. So search for your own inspiration. Se it with your own eyes. Maybe there are some other elements that you would like to include maybe more C elements. I don't know. Just be yourself and search for your Sicily. 6. Colors Of Sicily - Create Your Color Palette.: In this lesson, you will dive into colors. You will see how to create a simple palette of colors based on observation, and on your personal references. I created, I prepared this chart beforehand. I will have more or less 20 colors, I have 20 squares. You can do them less, you can do them more. It's up to you. You don't have to really limit yourself, but if you want, you can use few colors, and if you want to expand it, I leave it up to you. I want you to feel really free about it. Really free of any expectations, any pressure. If you want to make a lot of colors then do it. Maybe too many colors can be difficult in terms of, you can get confused. But you can always, create a big chart and then exclude some colors that you don't like. So Feel free to do whatever your intuition tells you. In front of me, I have my computer with a moot board. I want to print my photos. If you want, you can print the photos if you feel that it would be better for you, more comfortable you can print them moth and have them beside you. I will look at my computer and the moot board that I created and my photos as well from Palermo. And I will watch for the photos and for the colors that I like that I see, and I think, Oh, wow, this one is great. Or this combination is great. For example, I have a photo of ceramics of plates, and I was really attracted by these combinations of colors. There are a lot of contrast colors in Sicily. You can see a lot of blues together with yellows. It's very classic or greens with red. And that creates really crisp and strong contrast. This time is for you to explore both the colors that she like, the combinations that she like. If you don't like the palette, you can create another one. You know, the important thing is to take the first step and see where it will lead you. I brought the rings because For example, you can think of colors that you like and add some others that are related maybe to Sicily to those colors. This is both my mom's rings. She gave them to me. It's like legacy, and I love them. I love this tquise blue color. I don't know if it's focused here. Anyway, this color is so nice because I love the turquoise blue. Sicily have some of the colors in nature as well. You can find it in the ceramics or clothes as well, patterns. But you can see it also, the sea, the sea is so crystal turquoise clear in Sicily. You can think also in s of your experience, your memories, What kind of colors strikes you? Why are you attracted to some kind of colors more? So you can include them in your color palette as well. Yeah. When I saw this rn today morning in bathroom, I said, Yeah, I have to include this color as well. I love it. It's both my memory and Sicily So even if I don't see it so often in the photos that I did, I also didn't see the s this year. But it's the color that I would like to include for, you know, sentimental reasons. So yeah, that's f. So let's get started. I will show you some supplies already I already showed you. I will both, I think I will use also gah as well. So here I will use watercolors. You know, you can use org or just watercolors or you can mix them. If you're new to gah, I won't explain it in this lesson as well. But basically, it's like watercolor, you can water it down. It's water soluble medium. You can water it to be more translucent like watercolor. The reason that I want to use them is because they are more opaque. You can apply them in very opaque color. You can cover the layers that are underneath much more easier with watercolors. Basic I will use them for their o. So another tip that I can give you because we will mix here in the intuitive way. There is no color theory here. The the intent intention of this class is to be inspired by the colors that are there that you saw, that you see every day, or in this case, be inspired by Sicily, by your journeys, by your vacation traveling. So I won't explain you how to mix colors, but I can give you one tip. If you're really new to mixing colors, you can both see some of my classes that I already did about the color of theory. But I have this easy way to mix colors. This is my gah chart. So basically, I created all this palette. From five colors, and they are yellow, magenta, cyan, black and white. So I ordered this this palette. This is gas like this one, but in another format. For example, this is the same brand. So I had this one. I ordered those five colors. And basically, what I do if you really don't know how to mix colors. With five colors, you can really achieve a a lot of colors. So I just mix them in this way. I mix first with the second one. Then I add one, two plus three. I have this one, and I add gradually more of, for example, blue. I have green and then by adding blue, I have this kind of greens. Then I go one plus three, one plus three plus four. And one plus five, and then one plus three plus five. I proceed in this way. It's very easy. As you can see, there are really infinite possibilities of creating the church Lot, for example, I would like to use my turquoise from the ring. I can use three p basic colors that I have or this green, it's so lovely. Or for example, look at this. I'm really fan of neon light green. I think it's fun. I, complicated, nothing difficult. So I will keep it right here. I will probably use it as a sheet. Let's get started. We talked through a of useful stuff, but now the fun can really begin. So I am watching my photos from my mood board. Here is my computer, as you can see, here it is. So I will leave I will leave you here because basically, I want to comment it or less. Maybe I will just tell you in the meantime what colors I would like to include, but I won't explain you how I actually mix them. I want you to explore it in a very intuitive and playful way. If you want, you can create the charts of your colors as well. If you new really really new to the color mixing. Okay, so let's get started. So even if I'm a not big fan of yellows and oranges, I will include them because it's so classical. It's really so nice. These combinations of blue and yellow within Cici ceramics. I have this palette which is ceramic palette. You can use the plastic one. I could use the plastic one, but it's already dirty and have colors in it. This one was clean. This is primary yellow. So it's quite bright. But probably I would like to have a cool yellow. I will try to use lemon yellow that I have as my water color. Another thing to do is, if you're not sure of the color if you want to swatch it, you can first swatch it in some other sheet of paper. I will try, for example, mix two yellows. Even if I don't like oranges, I will give it a try. I mean, it's not that I don't like them, but I'm not a big fan. But since I think I will try to do my own kind of orange. Now, how can you put an orange when there are a of oranges, clementines. All different kind of fruits. I don't know what kind of color I will put next to it. This is how you discover things. I can already see some lovely combinations. When I put let's say blue next to it. We'll see. We'll see. As you can see, I'm using quite pure colors. That's because the Sicilian colors are really vibrant, bright, and pure. Let's try to make some blues. Yeah, blue. I have primary blue, I have ultramarine. I would like to have two blues, one bright and maybe three. I don't know. But one should be light, and one should be like dark blue, which can be seen also in ceramics. For the dark blue, for sure, there is ultramarine. Let's start with this one. I want to create one and the really bright light blue. So probably would add white to it. Let's create the dark blue. The So as you can see, I created more blues. I'm searching for a blue that is really bright and really intense, but I can't find it. So right now, I'll try to make and maybe then try to do intense, really, intense blue. Right now, I'm switching to water colors. I'm using this granulating glacier green from Sminke, which I really love. It's It has this water turqus pipe, but it also has particles of violet pigment, which I really really like. I'll see if I'll stick to that or if I will do some other combinations with it. I finished my palette. I will walk you through briefly. What I created here. I'm basically happy about this palette. I really like some colors. Some of the colors maybe are too many, for example, my famous turquoise that I want to recreate, maybe those two are too similar or those three, but it doesn't matter. I just wanted to try them all. For example, I would like to create some lighter and darker tones. Actually what I will do that I can expand the colors by adding white or black and making different tones of it. For example, here, I wanted to try this color with more white. So, I'm happy about this palette, and I will leave it right now, and I invite you to the next lesson where we will draw different motifs and search for what we want to do for our final illustration. See you there. 7. Search For The Inspiration: In this lesson, we will search for an inspiration what to draw. Before jumping into the final project, the final illustration, let's take the steps gradually. Now we can just paint different elements that we like that we feel inspired by I will again, look at my mood board at my photos and paint in a very simple way the elements that I prefer. To do that, we will use just one color. You can obviously use more colors if you like. But this will simplify the process. You can use black, you can use graphite, you can I will use blue, just one single color. For each element. So right now, you won't have to be focused on colors. You will just try to warm up the hand and figure out the elements that you want to include. So what can be the things that inspire me, for example. Almost everything that I see on those photos, the elements on the ceramic, It could be obviously lemon. I love fish that I saw on the backs on the market. I love the floral elements. I love flowers. And probably I will include also a bird. It wouldn't be me if I wouldn't paint at least one bird. So I can also, you know, let my imagination flow and Think of the things that I saw during the travel, my journey. But I can also let my imagination flow and paint the things that comes to my mind. They can be linked to Summer to traveling, to Sicily or not. Everything that brings me joy. So I will get started. Why not to start with a simple Memon. I will use my sketchbook, by the way. You can use sheet of watercolor paper. It doesn't have to be anything perfect or elaborated. You can warm up your hand, you can explore shapes. If you don't like one, you can ski to another one. I can do more. Why not? I really like the fish that I saw on the necklace in this Italian shop. I will try to recreate this shape. If I'm not hy, I can different kind of shapes of fish. Maybe this time outlined. And the other element that I will show you, let's say, There are those kind of floral geometrical shapes, and I really enjoy them. I really like them. I think I will include them in my co. I will proceed with my exploration. I think I will draw a lot of them. You don't have to include everything, then you decide what you prefer. Maybe the first fish you don't like, but then you try another and until you find something that excites you. Enjoy your exploration, enjoy your research, and I will leave you and speed up my process. This is the outcome of my sketches. I filled out two pages. If you want, you can draw elements. I'm satisfied. I think this exercise is because I wouldn't come up with some of the ideas And during the process, some of the ideas came out, for example, the sun with an eye. I started to do a sun, then I thought to put an eye in. Then I did sun in this way with a face and combining this with this. I combined elements both from the pictures, from the photos, from the elements of the patterns. And also from real life, for example, I try to simplify the palm tree that I saw in Sicily, which are really everywhere basically. For example, the moon and the sound are typical for their ceramics. I played with different shapes, simple moon, this kind of moon, the same with sun. And from the real life, I also draw this tower. I saw in Palermo on the cathedral roof. When you're in Palermo, please go to the cathedral, and then you can go on the roof. There are this kind of elements on the roof. I decided to draw it as well in a very simplified way then also the cactus from the real life. I could continue and continue and continue and I will probably do it for other illustrations, but right now I will stop. I will have to pick from those elements 12. My final illustration will have 12 squares. You can do less, you can do more. You can do bigger squares, and if you want to do more, you can just divide your page into lot of many tiny squares. Oh, you can do just four or two, it's up to you really whatever you feel inspired to do. In the next lesson, I will start to do final project. I can't wait. So see you there. Oh. 8. Final Project Part 1: Let's start our final project. As I already told you, I wanted to do this kind of colash. It's because of the ceramics, Italian ceramics are often divided into those squares, so it's also an inspiration to do this kind of design. Now we will proceed. I already sketched my elements. I picked the elements from my sketchbook. And they're already sketched with pencil. And for the color, I will choose as I go. Not sure what colors will I use? Will I use all the colors from the palette. But the good thing is that I already chose them. They are already here. I don't have to think about it, to create new colors. I can modify the ones that I have, I can make them lighter or darker, and That's already something that simplify the process. As I told you, I'm not sure if I will use all of them. For example, I use this pink because I thought I will paint cactus, but in the end, I picked other elements. But maybe I will use it for some other details. So the process will show. The things that I can tell you in the beginning is that you can create your colors by working with contrasts. And to simplify the process, you can pick two kind of contrasts. The first one is the contrasts of colors. For example, red and blue, it would be contrast of worm and cool colors. You can create contrasts of two strong and bright colors. You can create complimentary contrast, if you want, I did a class about complimentary colors. There are many kind of contrasts, but I wanted to tell you about the two, and the other one is the contrast of bright and dark. For example, you can use the same let's say blue and make background, the light blue and the element dark blue. So there are many different ways you can approach this kind of process. I will draw square some squares with you and I will explain you the process. Probably I won't go. I won't follow the order, so I can paint first this one, then this one, then this one. I'm not sure. I will do what my intuition tells me. I will follow my guts, yes. Let's start. So piece by piece. No panic. I will start with the lemon. Obviously, you can paint lemon whatever color you want, but I will just do the classical Yellow lemon. That's because I really love the lemons on on the Sicilian ceramics, and they are yellow. Let's do that. I will cancel a little bit pencil. Make sure it won't show through my color. In in this case, I think I won't make background. Probably I will leave the white background, but we will see. I can always paint the background around the lemon. So I have my lemon color here. This one is really almost greenish almost greenish yellow. Misses Water color, So also here, you can decide if you want to use squash or water colors. If you want to make flat colors or if you want to put some texture and gradients into it, I could, for example, make some blending. Yellow into yellow blending. As for the leaves, I will use blue. Different kind of blue, green blue. The color is still. You know what? I will skip to another s because I don't want the color to bleed. Let's do the tower. So I decided to draw a tower, the one that I told you that I saw on the roof of the Permian Cathedral. I want to do it kind of a night scene. So I will make a night sky with the moon. I will use this Prussian blue. Which is this one. It's wash. It can be tricky to maintain the straight lines. Since I'm not very precise person, it will be a challenge for me. We'll see. You could, for example, put the masking tape in between different squares. In this case, you would have white lines in between the squares. I'll do my best. Let's see. You know what? I can help myself by using a square brush. I will mix different kind of train and Prussian blue. Since I really like I really like textures in the skis, not really flat color. I will try to make wet on dry lending technique. That's good. Exercise precision at least for me. I will proceed with the sky. When I was in Palermo, the nights were so stunning. That's why I decided to do a night sky. Also, because I really love night illustrations, night scenes. You would have to see the Palermo Cathedral. Seems gold. It seems so yellow against the blue sky of Palermo. It's really, really gorgeous. So That's what I'm trying to recreate here. I really love to add textures into my illustrations. So you can do that or you can maintain a flat backgrounds, if you put my courses, you know, that I love to splash, to create night sky. Again, here, I will leave it to dry. So that's the other thing that defines my process because I will skip to another square and then wait for the other to dry. My lemon is dry. I can come back to the lemon. So I will do as I told you, blue, I love this blue and yellow contrast. This one is wash. You can see the difference. It's more opaque. It covers the lemon. It covers paper, sorry, really well. Here, we are quite all right. I will do this. I've thought to make it turquoise, the roof. The roof on the Palerma was greenish, so I will try to recreate it somehow. I saw the ceramics again, which inspired me for this piece. This one, I would like to make orange, red and blue. So I will make orange background. Maybe I will make it a little bit lighter than the one that I have in my palette. This is my orange. I will add a bit of this yellow here. Since the flower will be red, so I can cover at least the petals. But I can tell you that the square brush is kind of a game changer here. If you have a square brush, then I recommended because again, waiting for this square to dry. I will fill inside the with darker blue. The one that I used for the sky. And for the roof. I will pick different kind of turquoise and greens. Again, you can make yourself things easier. For example, for this kind of petals, I can use this brush, which is tongue bruh. Is she rounded, so it is easier to fill in the shapes of petals. If you're new to mixing gas with water colors, then a little tip here, use gash over the first layer, if you want it to be very opaque and to cover well the background to create flat color. We can proceed with lemon. Let's fill in the flower center. I will do it with different blues. Here, I will paint the star. I will paint it what first, I will paint it with a lighter. Orange. Another explanation here, I continue to use both ga and watercolor. The star in this case, is diluted, but it could be also watercolor. Be aware that you can play with different quantity of water and color when you mix them together in order to create more opaque or more translucent layers. Try to play with this as well. And maybe I'll give a last detail here. I will make tiny dots. This is also how your personality shows through. I started with Sicily Folklore and right now, I feel like I'm putting some of my polish roots as well. Okay, folks. So I will proceed. I won't annoy you anymore with my vocal guidance. I will decide step by step, what colors will I use? Maybe details. In the end, I will see. You can observe, you can paint along with me. I will see you in the end of the process. Oh. O Here, you can see another example when I paint with more diluted or it could be also a water in order to create more translucent and textured illustration over the first layer. 9. Final Project Part 2: Oh. I decided to tell you that I did a little pause in my drawing. So I'm starting it all over again. And in the meantime, in the meanwhile, all the colors go dry. What I do to reactivate them is the same as what I do with water colors. I will just give it a little bit of water. I have this spray bottle. It works also with guash, it will reactivate. Some of the colors I already finished, so I will have to made them again, and maybe that's what I will do right now. And then I will start again to do my drawing. All right. So I recreated my palette more or less. Maybe it's not perfect. Maybe no of the colors are originally what they were. I wanted to show you this only because if you feel like you're a little bit lost with colors, maybe you changed them during the process. It's totally normal. I mean, we don't have to be perfect. It's Again, I'm always repeating that it's about the process. So even if the colors aren't exactly the same, that's more or less the palette that I created. And I just keep you know, I just keep going and and it's okay to be in process. So As you maybe you saw in the speed speed up video that I recreated those greenish bluish colors, Turquise colors. By using just those three basically, which is yellow, can and white, and it's all about making different proportions, quantities. Sometimes I added this my favorite favorite glacier green. I never stopped talking about this color because I love it. Schmincke, which is turquoise with this particles of let, which I already showed you so. Let's get back to my drawing. As you see, I already have those squares. So I can, for example, make some of the details on the bird, and then I have this fish, which I have to define. I can do that before I will switch to other pieces. You can, for example, use details to explore your own style, to explore your own personal style and Maybe they don't have to be necessarily linked to Sicily or Summer, but they can be just something personal that you do and you can try to do whatever comes to your mind. For example, I make some light blue details for the bird. M I use gash. One of the characteristics of guash is that when it dries, it becomes darker. What I will do is that I will add really a lot of white because since it's very watery, I'm sure that you can see that when it dries, basically not visible. I wanted to do something more Light, very light blue. I will try to mix this kind of blue. I'm not sure what I will put here. Maybe some flowers. As I told you, you can feel free to add whatever elements that he wants. It doesn't have to be all linked to the Sicily. The process of painting was quite long and I decided to leave it to you the whole process, but I will speed it up and this way you can watch the process or skip it if you want at the end of the video or paint along with me. At the end of the video, I will leave final thoughts. Oh. O O So I finished the almost everything. I will add some last details. Just a little bit of update. I will only repeat that some solutions came to me as I during the process. For example, I wasn't convinced to leave square white because the other one was already filled with colors. So I I've put the background later on. So I created this color based on red, I added a little bit of yellow and white. So this is based on the colors that I used here, so it's cohesive because that's the mix of this and this and white. U for example, some details here. I add dots here also. So you know, the solutions comes while you're going. So I will continue, and I will turn back to you when I finished all the illustration. O Oh Oh I finished. I think I will yeah. I will stop here. Obviously, you can add and add details, but I think it's already saturated. Maybe I think some of the details I could not do, for example, not sure about circle here, but yeah, that's a good place to stop if I feel that maybe I exaggerated a little bit. But I'm really happy about the outcome. While I will taking of the masking tape, I wanted to leave you some thoughts that I have right now about creative process about being happy or not with the art that we create. I'm happy about the outcome. But I also have thoughts like I could have done it better. I would change so many things and I don't know if it's good enough. But those thoughts are fine. I'm sure you have it too. I wanted to just to chat with a friend from artist to artist. In the end, I wanted to do some light and fun process without the pressure of making some serious and you know, good art of peace. I want it to be light and fun, and that's why I'm leaving those thoughts and yeah, let me know what do you think and if your ener critic is strong and were you able to quiet it a little bit. I hope that this project and this class helped you with it. 10. Final Thoughts: Thank you for taking this journey with me for traveling with me to Sicily. I really hope that you enjoy the class that it was helpful and useful for you. And I hope that you not only fell in love in Sicily, but also found useful tools that you can use for your everyday art and for your everyday searching research of inspiration. I would like you to aploud your final project in the projects gallery. Please share with us your final illustration, but it would be lovely to see your study of color from observation, your study of inspiration, share with us what inspired you and why. So it would be really great to see your process and you're behind the scenes. At the end, I would like you to leave the review if you like this class, share it with your friends, if you liked it. It will help my channel to grow. I appreciate it very much. Thank you in advance. And I hope to see you in my other classes. By or better say, Chow,