 Welcome to the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Project. So every day of this month, at least 30 days of this month, we are gonna create a little painting a day and we're gonna see what happens. I'm gonna experiment mostly with watercolor and gouache and let's get to painting and I will see you at the end. Hey guys, we are here for painting number 16 in our 30 Paintings in 30 Days little series of painting studies that we're doing. And for this painting, I've grabbed yet another one of my inspiration books that I made. These are pictures that I took. And this one is all about skies called Skyscapes. And again, I've taken photos, mostly that I took a few from magazines, but in this particular book, I think all of these are pictures I took. And I've paired them up with acrylic paint colors that I thought that if I was gonna do something inspired by the photos, these were colors that I see in the photos that I would be inspired to use by the photos. So, and I have I think six of these or seven of these books. So anyway, and this is a Moleskine Cayet with the blank pages. This is the one that's like five by eight and a half, I think. Anyway, I have a series on these and if I can find it, I'll link it below. So I'm gonna use this mini clipboard to clip it like that and I'm gonna put it over here. And I've got my paints, a little palette, some brushes and really dirty water, but that's okay. And we are gonna get started right here with painting number 16. So as per usual, let's start with our half inch flat. This is sort of a cloudy sunset sky it looks like. I have all of this like gray color on here. Some of this might work for the background. There was some teally blue in there. So I'm gonna mix that in. I'm gonna mix in some more. I'm gonna use the cobalt blue. There's a couple of different cobalt blues in here in this palette. I'm not sure why I have two of them in here, but anyway. One is Van Gogh, one is Windsor Newton. I don't know why I did that. So I'm gonna grab some of that paint and I'm gonna put it again on the background, not too much because that's really dark color. And I'm gonna add some water. Just blend it out just a little bit. I might mop some of it up with my rag because I think it's a little darker than I wanted for the background. Once better. I do think I need to get some more blue involved than add some water. I, you notice I didn't dry the background. And all the other paintings that we've done so far in the series, I think I start out with putting something on the background and then drying it. And I didn't do that this time. This is just an abstract like sort of skyscape. And we don't necessarily need to do that. There is like a big, some big cloud formations. And I can tell it's a setting sun because of the yellows, oranges and sort of pinky purpley tones that are in here. But I wanna ground it first with these other colors. Okay, now let's give it a dry. It's mostly dry. It's not all dry, but that's okay. We're gonna stick with the half inch flat brush that we're using right now. And I am going to, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna add a little bit of some purple to these colors that are already in the palette. That was just a little bit of Daniel Smith Cobalt Violet. Literally a tiny, teeny bit. Look what it did to the color. Very purple. So we'll take some of Jane Davenport's ink and a little bit of Holbein's Van Dyke Brown. There we go. We've grayed it back up again. So now we have a purpley gray, which is what I wanted. Okay, and inspired by the photo, we're gonna put in some sort of stormy cloud shapes. Skyscapes are great for practicing abstract shapes and color, their clouds and sky. So if you don't get it perfect, it doesn't matter. Okay, so I'm gonna get that dry. Okay, still a couple of wet spots, but I'm okay with that. I'm gonna take the Jane Davenport Buzzy, which is the yellow color that's in this palette, which needs some water. There we go. And I'm going to put it here. Just put a little bit of it and then we're gonna blend it out and or blot it, cause that's really a bright color. Okay, that's better. Using the colors I see in the inspiration photos for suggestions of where to put my colors. Okay, then I'm gonna take a little bit of the orange that's in this palette, which is Holbein's Permanent Yellow Orange. I'm not gonna let that yellow dry too much before I put this in. Add some water. Now I do see some pink tones in the sky. So we're gonna go in with Jane Davenport's Best Friend. Again, put a little bit down and then grab some water if you wanna blend those marks and that color out. Again, with this Jane Davenport color, they dry pretty quickly. So you don't wanna get too far with the mark making before you get back in here with the wet brush, cause they do dry pretty quickly, which can be good if you're using the paints. When you're doing like plain air painting and you're doing it while you're having coffee with your friends or something and you need it to dry fast, these Jane Davenport paints do dry really fast. Okay, let's give that a dry. Okay, I am gonna go back in with my whiteout pen and add some white back. So I've got my damp brush in one hand and the whiteout pen in the other hand. I'm gonna put the whiteout down and I'm gonna get right away in with the damp brush and move it around. This is a great way to maybe carry some white paint with you if you are taking like your watercolor paints traveling rather than taking a tube of white paint or a tube of white gouache. You can just take something like this whiteout pen or acrylic paint pen and that can serve as your white. There we go, I like that. Okay, let's take the tape off and see what it looks like. That's cute. So there we go, sort of an abstracted skyscape painting number 16 in our 30 paintings of 30 days project. I'll be back. 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