 Hey guys, welcome to the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Project. So every day of this month, at least 30 days of this month, we are going to create a little painting a day and we're going to see what happens. I'm going to experiment mostly with watercolor and gouache and let's get to painting and I will see you at the end. Hey guys! So if you found this video on my YouTube channel, it's unlisted initially so I'm not sure how you found it. But if you did, at least initially, it is out there for patrons only. At some point, I may make it public on YouTube. I'm not sure when exactly that'll be so maybe you found it because of that. We are doing a painting challenge. I hope I can keep up with it but we'll see. But I'm going to do 30 Paintings in 30 Days, little paintings, two to a page. I'm going to for sure end up filling up the sketchbook and then starting a new one but that's okay. I've got plenty of them. So this is the first one that we did. So now I'm going to do a second one and what am I going to do? I don't know. I don't have a plan. So we're going to use the muted and basics watercolor gouache palette that we have here. These are M. Grand Paints. The five on the left, the yellow, red, blue, white, and black were the originals that came in the set of watercolor gouache. And these six colors were custom ones that I mixed up and muted tones. And I do have a video on that which I will link in the description below so that you can see how I did that. We are going to do a painting. I don't know. Again, no idea what we're going to do. We may do another sky scene but I don't know. So let's get to painting and I'll be back. Okay, I think because we have 30 of these to do in 30 days we need to not overthink it. We need to keep it fairly simple. So I think on this side we're going to do a simpler flower painting, sort of sunflower-esque, hopefully. Hopefully it ends up turning out like a sunflower. We'll see. So I'm going to take my muted yellow initially and do some petal-y shapes. As with the other painting I am not working with a reference photo. I may at some point, I don't know, but at least to start with I'm not working with reference photos. And this is a watercolor gouache, again, which is a water-soluble paint, but it's a water-soluble paint that's more opaque than your traditional watercolors. They do make an acrylic gouache, which is not reconstitutable with water. This is, okay, so that's a good start. So we're going to give it a dry. Okay. And I'm just using a simple round brush. This is an Escada number eight round. Escada, maybe it's Escada. I don't know. I'm going to take the brighter yellow and add some highlights. Because gouache is more opaque than your traditional watercolor, you can do this. The base color may show through a little bit, but with traditional watercolor you need to leave your white spaces or light spaces light. It's really hard to go over them because that color is transparent and it'll blend. You don't have as much of that with the gouache. It does a little bit, but not as much. So I'm going to, while it's still wet, I'm going to take some white. Because things are wet, you can see that that's blending. It's fine. Just working on giving the petals some dimension. I did, as you see, like with the first video, we've got the page edges taped off. So we get a nice little square rectangle of painting. And then I'm going to go back and just with a damp brush, sort of push color around a little bit. I'm usually in favor of drying things with a heat embossing tool in between layers. You can, of course, leave it to dry naturally. You can also work on another area of the painting while that's drying sort of thing. I'm usually in two bit way big of a hurry for that. So I grabbed my heat embossing tool. Okay, so we're going to stay with the round brush for a little bit and we're going to start with the flower center. I'm going to start with the blue. Then I'm going to go in with some of this purplish gray color that's on my palette here that was mixed up from this, doing this painting, which there's not a lot on here. But we're going to, we're using up what's on there rather than throw it away. I'm going to go into the purple that's on over here. There we go. We'll let that sit for just a second and we're going to go in with some of the green out here. I usually like to do my backgrounds first or background colors first and then go in later with a foreground color, which would include the green, but yeah, I didn't. I'm going to lift up some of the color with a wet paint brush just to give us a variety of tone here. I'm going to go in with some of the little bit of brown color here. It'll mix a little bit with this green and again give us some green tones of color. I'm really enjoying working with this muted color palette and I will link it in the video description how I mix the colors up. But yeah, I'm really liking it a lot. So I'm just very carefully painting around the petals so I don't lose too much of the petal shapes that I made. But I'm just wanting to hint it at green and foliage around the background of the flower. I want to just like a damp brush and just pick up some of that green and add in a little bit of brown. Now we're going to give this all a dry. Okay, I didn't dry it completely but that's pretty good. I'm going to go in with one of my medium a little bit smaller round brush. We're going to take some of this brown. We're going to take some of the black. Mix it with what's on here. Get sort of a muted dark tone and we're going to go around the edges. Sorry about the construction noise in the background. One of my neighbors is working on his house and they always choose the most inconvenient time to start drilling or hammering or sawing or something. Hopefully you won't hear too much of it. I don't know at the moment until I get into the editor but just blending the initial line a little bit. I got some little paint right here which I don't want so I'm going to go in with a damp brush and there we go. Lift it. Okay, now like with the petals I'm going to go in with some white. Some of the paint is still wet so it's going to blend and I'm going to go in with a damp brush anyway and I'm going to just tap on where I put that white paint and just sort of blend it in a little bit but not completely. Just like that. That's cute. I like that. I don't want to do anything else to it. Okay, let me dry it and I'll be right back. Okay, we're going to lift up our tape and there we go. There's painting number two of 30 paintings in 30 days. Am I going to be able to do it? I have no idea but we're going to try. All right, that's it for today's painting. I hope you enjoyed the process and if you want instruction on the painting you need to be over on Patreon. They are going to get the talking version here on YouTube. You're just going to get the speed food through version, sorry. If you'd like to support the free content here on Facebook or in the here on Facebook, holy cow. If you'd like to support the free content here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups, I certainly would appreciate that. You can of course join Patreon. We do have YouTube membership here for a small fee and also I have an Etsy shop and I have PayPal tip jar and all that stuff. So check out the video description. Relevant links will also be down there and yeah, don't forget the most important things. Stay healthy, stay safe, stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Do share your work with me. I would love to see what you're doing. That's it for now. See you later. Bye guys.