 Hey guys, we are here to work on 30 paintings in 30 days. It is day 28 We're nearing the home stretch the last few days and I'm gonna do these last Three videos in real time. I'm not gonna fast forward anything The last few videos I've done before this There's a few of them where my date stamp is accidentally turned to 2012 I don't know how that happened. I didn't even notice it You guys all mentioned it in the comments. I went back and look at the cards. Sure enough. There's I Don't know six cards or so that have the wrong year on them And so I went back and fixed them. But yeah, sometimes I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed I don't know what else to say So I have another Rolodex card here and it's got some absorbent ground on it and I'm wanting to practice some more of the painting techniques from Jean Hain's book That I've been and I've been doing some of them on some of the cards And this is a Sort of an expressive flower shape and I think I'm gonna put two flowers on here. I've got the book and or inspiration photo off camera that way and I'm just using some purple that I've got on my palette I put a little bit of paint and now I'm putting some water and I'm kind of you know I'm letting it bleed and run We're working in watercolor. So you want to Work lighter Because you can always make it darker, but you know the watercolor paint for the most part is gonna Probably stain your paper to a certain extent. So you'll be able to lift some of it, which is what I'm doing here now But you won't ever get it all off and there's there's lots of ways to lift you can also You know sort of just do that, but you can see that that stand whether it's raw paper or it's Paper with absorbent ground on it the paint Does stain a bit and some colors stain more than others. So you should You know just be aware of that when you're painting and that's You know one thing that's good about doing these little practice cards All right, so then I'm gonna continue with the purpley color and I'll probably throw some blue in and let's put some hint of Petal shapes and as we're putting the color down We're gonna put some color down and then we're gonna put just water let it run Where it may and suggest the shapes rather than literally draw them. I love this style of Suggestive painting with acrylic So I'm not surprised at all that I also love it in Watercolor So don't be afraid to throw the hint of the unexpected in there and like for instance I think I want to toss a little bit of blue in and I've got some blue on my palette over here But I you know kind of mixed up from another painting So instead of wasting it wiping it off with baby wipe. I'll use it I'll start to give the flowers and some depth and dimension. Let's do the other ones Wrong color oops. I almost dipped in the blue So now now we'll go in the blue. I like working wet on wet and kind of not knowing where my paint is gonna go Where it's gonna bleed what it's gonna do and just you know kind of pushing it around and Working with what it does want to do To give me an interesting picture I also love that you can do these quick little like experiments with these Rolodex cards that you know They're not very big. This is the small size Rolodex It's like two by three or something like that. It's not very big. I want to add some darker purple tones So I'm gonna take my violet here straight from my dried blob of violet and then I'm going to go in with just water And that actually a lot of purple for me and I'm okay with that mostly, but I think that That's better and you're not supposed to call it blotting you're supposed to call it So let's take some of our violet and let's thin it the pigment down a little bit with some water because I think that would be better Yeah, that's better. I think I'm going with some Prussian blue while the violet's still wet working quickly Just that's just Splattering on some just plain water, right? Let's Work on the other ones And I only have limited control over where this is going and I'm really just laying down colors In a hopefully suggestive way Dry that so that when we put the next layer on the paint doesn't move any more than it already has Before we do that I want to before I dry it I'm gonna lift some So that we get some lighter and darker tones Keeping in mind that when this paint dries, it's gonna dry lighter. Okay, now let's dry it Be careful when you're doing this not to burn your fingers because I know you guys have been seeing me Do this like this with it. I have burned my fingers a few times So I actually don't recommend that you do what I do If you have a pair of tweeds or something I would hold it with those Which I actually remembered as I said that that I have some so let's do that okay You have colors that suggest lightness and brightness and warmth or Temperature your blues and your violets for the most part are cool colors So I want to bring in something that Hints that lightness and brightness and warmth. So before I do anything else, I'm gonna Toss in a little bit of yellow Spread it around a bit with just some water. Okay, and then I'm gonna dry it again another warm color. I Have this pinky red here that again, that's on my palette from something else And then dry it again. Okay, this is where we're gonna really make it look like something and we're gonna switch to a detail brush So this is a size zero round Princeton Neptune brush. It's a very small Little brush and we're gonna use mostly here our paints gray and we're gonna use the paper use the paint on paper that's dry and we're gonna have the paint itself also be as dry as possible and not have it be too watery and I'm gonna go in to the first flower center. I'm gonna zoom in So you can see what I'm doing. Okay in the center and then I'm gonna Go in with some water and I'm gonna just with a damp brush. That's almost dry. I'm gonna see if I can pull out some Lines you want to work quickly while this pain's gray is still wet and I'm gonna go in with some paint Do a few I do some dots. I just put a blob of kind of watery Pain's gray on there. I'm just gonna tap it and force it to run a little bit So let's do that to the other flowers Just try to barely touch your brush to the paper You want to get as thin Align as possible if you have a nail art brush, that would be good for this and I have one I just thought I'd try it with us. All right, let's give ourselves a suggestion of The bigger brush holds more water. So when you want to have the paint Blur and blend Sometimes it's a little easier. I'm not gonna outline all the petals or all parts of the petal. I just want to Do a few spots to hint at some more definition some more purple this really is just like about doing layers and You know, we're starting out with your lightest values and Working your way darker You can do it with watercolor But it is different than you do it with acrylic paint and the best way to figure out what Works for you and how that you want to do it is to just practice and play These a little a challenge like these little cards is good for this and I like watercolor Versus gouache, although I do have some gouache. I don't use them that often. I like that with watercolor all the layers are Translucent and you can see for the most part you can see your previous layers through the one you put on top of it I like that just a little bit here and there. This is that Prussian blue. It's very a very turquoisey color Kind of again, it's a pop of the unexpected. I like that. I think that's just about done I might want to lift a little bit here So I just have my damp brush doesn't have any paint on it Think I want to go back in with some more paints gray We'll just darken up a few spots. I'm just tapping the brush down onto the paper Darkening up some of these lines around the flower centers just remember when you Are working with your watercolors and you're practicing that you can always add more color You just you can't really take it away and you can't cover it up. I Like that. We're gonna call that one done That was a fun one. I'll zoom in for you and Actually, let's give it a dry first at least to mostly dry We'll zoom in first before I flip it over There we go. So there we have it. That's a fun expressive flower pattern Inspired by Gene Haynes And we will stamp it and this time we will try to make sure our stamp actually says 2015 on it. Hello. Okay. First. I'm gonna write on the back here. It's 28th of June Already the year is just flying by Let's see and yes, it says 2015. Hello. There we go June 28 2015. This is The 30 and 30 day challenge. This is Number 28 there you have it. I hope it gave you some ideas of what you can do Just go out there and play and have some fun and Above all else do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later