 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. Welcome to 30 Paintings in 30 Days and we are going to do another small little study painting but we're going to combine it with the June Prompt for Mike Deacon's Art Group Mission Inspiration. So let's get started. All right, if you're watching the full talking video of this, then you found it unlisted on YouTube somehow. If you're not a member of Patreon, I'm not sure how you did that but welcome. If you have any questions or comments or concerns, please do leave them in the comments here on YouTube and if you want to join Patreon, it's in the video description. All right, so Mike had this prompt. He gives out these prompts monthly so it's a really great group to be involved with and this month it was grung it up and I have to do these 30, well I don't have to but I'm doing these 30 painting videos in 30 days and I thought I would just combine the two for this one and I am just looking for a pencil. I know they're here somewhere. Pencil, pencil, pencil, where are you pencil? There you are. Okay and I need something round that's not too gigantic. Maybe that'll work. So the first thing I'm going to do is just trace around this bottle like that sort of lightly. It's not super straight but that's okay. I wanted it straighter. Grab a ruler and I'm going to just go out a little bit on either side like that. I don't always do a pencil drawing before I get started with the watercolor but I do occasionally. All right so we are going to work with I think mostly I'm going to work with the round number four brush. This is an Escota brush. My preferred brush as you know if you've been watching these is Princeton Neptune but I have this so I'm going to use it. What color do I want to start with? Holy cow. So his prompt is grunge it up and the colors are holy cow I need my glasses. Hold on brown, burnt orange and patina green. Now I do have this I don't think you can see them there on camera. Let's pull this down a little bit. So I have this watercolor palette which are like desert toned colors or inspired colors and then I have this one which is this is a graphite palette. These are graphite based water soluble paints and let's you know I'm thinking maybe we should use these so let's get them all wet so that doesn't go in there. That goes over there. So the graphite paints don't travel well. The graphite gets very brittle when it dries although it is you can reconstitute with water. Constitute it with water. It gets very brittle when it dries so they don't really travel super well so I don't use it as much as I necessarily would like. I do have all of not all I have some of them in tube form so if I'm going to take them I'll grab one or two tubes or I will take this and I'll have either that piece of deli paper in here or a piece of plastic wrap or something but anyway we have a few shades of graphite gray we have a yellow graphite color a blue a red a sepia an ochre and a dark brown so I think we're going to use those with the desert color together and I think I'm going to start with I think I'm going to start with ultramarine turquoise I'm going to mix it a little bit with this gray color that's on my palette over here put a little pigment and then I'm going to add some just water I haven't done anything but add that little bit of pigment some water I think we're going to do sort of a still life painting a ball or a box is a really great way to get used to working with your colors getting used to working with shadow and light and just great practice makes a quick little study okay then I'm going to grab some of that gray blue to the wet paint I'm going to add some of the paint other paints here that are on my palette so there would be some shadowing a trick is to get the shadows in the right place now you'll notice that I haven't gotten out my favorite watercolor tool my dryer yet trying to leave some white space between the colors so that they don't blend more than I necessarily want them to and I don't have to use the dryer so much it's a challenge for me so if there's mostly darkness here that's where the primary darkness would be like if the sun was right there then there would be dark around the edges if you're not sure about where to place the highlights and shadows it's always good to work from a photo you can probably find a still life photo of a ball on a table on Pinterest you can put a ball on a table and take a photo with your camera on your phone it's always a good idea that edge is just a little bit I'm going to switch to a smaller brush this is our number one round I am going to add the dark brown these are a number of different well two different brands there's one brand of water soluble graphite called liquid pencil and then there's another one by art graph if I can remember to do so I will try to link them in the description if I forget somebody say something a little bit of that dark brown from art graph around the edge and then I'm going to just blend it into the other colors by adding some water making sure that I put the water on the inside of the ball and not the outside because I don't want it to bleed to the outside I want it to blend into the inside again with the dark brown I've only used a couple colors mind you this is a lot of sort of straight lines it's probably not a painting to do when you've had a lot of coffee as the edge is dry I can add a little bit of pigment and get rid of those white spaces where I don't want them to be I can go into this palette over here where the ultramarine turquoise is a little bit of that places oh we're going to get the dryer okay I left some suggestions of white space we're going to go in there and refine them with our whiteout pen it's a quick cute little study painting it's nothing spectacular but it's not bad so there you go painting number 11 if you'd like to support the free content here on facebook 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 um also I have an at sea shop and I have um paypal tip jar and all that stuff so check out the video description relevant links will also be down there and uh 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