 Hey guys, welcome to the 30 paintings in 30 days project. If you choose to join me on the 30 paintings in 30 days journey, I hope that you do share and tag me and post like on social media and stuff, maybe film some videos, tag me in the description, something like that. I am kind of excited about the project. I do do daily drawing. I don't necessarily do daily painting, but making a daily practice out of something like this encourages you to get better at it, encourages you to work it into your daily routine or weekly routine. It also is a way to use up supplies. So if that's your goal, maybe you don't want to do 30 paintings in 30 days, but you want to do 30 collages in 30 days. That works too. So let me know. Let's get to painting and I'll see you guys. We are here for painting number 22 of our little experiment of 30 paintings in 30 days, our little painting studies. And I think we are going to work on some abstracted sort of very floral e shapes that I have my inspiration book open to and I spilled glitter earlier and of course there's glitter everywhere. Okay, I am going to start of course with my flat brush as always. I'm going to just take these sort of dried up grayish color brownish grayish color that's on here and I'm going to mix it with Jane Davenport 70s eyeshadow which is a light blue, brighter than I would normally pick but the gray of course as you can see tones it down a lot. I'm going to add some water, kind of wash it out a little bit to our tape is pushed down. Okay, we're going to put just just slap some on there just slap it on there and don't worry about it we're of course we're doing the background you guys know I like to do the background. Before I do that focal image always I'm going to take some of what color am I going to use that say let's just stick with 70s eyeshadow for right now. I'm going to put some of the paper obviously is still wet I haven't dried anything. I'm going to let it blend and do what it will. My husband's downstairs working in the garage if you guys hear background noise. Okay, I'm going to take my C sponge it's dry it's not wet. I'm going to just kind of do this just creates gives us texture to the background. I'm going to dry it just don't come out cleanly is because that little piece of tape wants to just poke up so we'll see what happens at the end. Now I'm going to go to my round number three brush, and I'm going to take Jane Davenport's pink color that's in here called best friend. I do find that her colors tend to be more opaque than normal watercolors they tend to be more gouache like. I'm going to mix it here with just a little bit of that blue gray color that we have. It's going to purple it up just a little bit which is fine. And I'm going to just suggest some berry shapes here. I'm going to do a few I'm not going to probably do more than three before I rinse the brush off. And then get things wet. The watercolor you know watercolor is a simple creature. It's going to go where the water is. It's not going to force itself upon the dry spots. So if you want the watercolor to go a certain way just put water there. If you want to try to semi control it, you have to control the water and make three more shapes. Grab some of the pink straight from the pan and add that in. And then grab some water, which I would love to be able to tell you is clean water. It's not really I've been painting a couple of paintings now today and it's not super clean anymore. Now if you have a spot like this where the paint is puddling and it's not as varied in tone and movement is like this one is just take your sort of damp but not super wet brush and just put it there and look at how it lifts up the water. And then you can take some of the pigment straight out of a pan with not too much water and add some color back if you lift too much up. I am going to take. Magenta out of this other palette. That's my husband sneezing. Our allergies have just been crazy this year. I'm going to add that darker red as a shadow color. I'm going to go in with moon glow, which is a dark grayish purple, just like that. And we're going to give it a dry sticking with the round brush. I'm going to go in with I think undersea green. Again, I'm going to mix it sort of tone it to the other colors that are in the painting by mixing it with the paint that's already on my little plate over here. I'm just going to add some stem shapes. I'm going to switch to a bigger brush. I'm just blending out the colors and the green until I'm happy. If I think there's too much or I've put the color in the wrong place, you can do that and lift it up. If it's too defined and I want it to be more suggestive, just have a rag or something nearby. I'm going to switch to a color. Let's see. I'm going to stick with the undersea green for a minute. And I'm going to grab some moon glow, which is that dark purpley gray color. I'm going to dry that. Okay, we're going to go back to our round brush. I'm going to go straight into moon glow. Try to define a few shapes. Not all of them. Just enough to tell you for sure what's going on in the painting. Or at least to give the viewer a good gasea. That tape doesn't want to stick today. I don't know what the deal is. Okay, and then I'm going to go in with Jane Davenport paint. I think it's called Gemini. Some days I can't read my own writing, so there's that. I'm just going to put a little bit. It's a sort of a bright yellowy green color. And because her paints are more on the opaque side, and I know that they're not as transparent, you can sort of use them sometimes if you've lost too much of your highlight. I'm just being someone who started as a mixed media artist. I have nothing against using a gel pen or acrylic paint, or I think that's completely fine. I'm also going to go in with that same pink color that we started out with called Best Friend. Kind of do the same thing. There we go. And let's give it a try. Pull the tape. That side's not too bad. It doesn't want to come off my fingers. That side's not too bad. Oh yeah, it didn't sneak up under there. I thought it was going to. So there we go. Painting number 22. All right, on to the next. How was that for today's painting? I hope you enjoyed the process. And if you want instruction on the painting, you need to be over in Patreon. They are going to get the talking version here on YouTube. You're just going to get the speed food through version. Sorry. 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