 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 wanna do 30 paintings in 30 days, but you wanna do 30 collages in 30 days, that works too. So let me know, let's get to painting and I'll see you then. Hey guys, we are here for painting number 25. All right, so my little inspiration books I'm running low on them. I do have other pictures laying around and my People book, which is a bigger book, but I'm gonna try to find a photo here that inspires me. I thought I was actually out and I just found this one like literally as I was turning on the camera. So let me find a photo. Maybe we're gonna do some cherry blossoms. We have a couple of pages here right in front of cherry blossoms. So let me find something, I'll be right back. Okay, I found another poppy sort of shape that I really love, that I wanna try. So, and interesting colors. It has a really bright, brilliant pink color to the flower, which I don't exactly have here in the palette, but let's see what we can mix up. So the Shmiiki palette has a magenta, which is a great color. Let me get a bunch of it on here. Now these Shmiiki paints were dried in the pan. They're not tubes. So it takes a little bit to get them rehydrated. That's actually a pretty good match for the color in the inspiration photo. I like that and I might take some of it over here. Rinse my brush off. Now this palette does have a Chinese white, which is an opaque sort of more of a gouache-type color. So we're gonna take some of that and put it here with some of this magenta. And we're gonna of course start with the lighter color, add some paint, grab some water, move the paint around. Again, not a super huge fan of this paper because I don't, probably because I don't work with it enough and it really grabs the paint really quickly. And if you're working with paper that is gonna do that and you're doing client work or something you wanna hang on the wall, you probably wanna take some smaller pieces of it, like something in a journal or tear off some smaller chunks of it and do some of these little studies so you can really sort of get used to working with the paper before you do the actual big piece that's gonna hang on the wall. You can do some little tests and some studies. So I am taking the undiluted magenta and just starting to try to define some sort of petal-y shapes. I'm working with the paint now straight out of the pan that it's in and the paint that's on here is still wet. Again, this paper absorbs the paint really quickly so it's not spreading out as much as it normally would on some of the other papers that I work with but it is doing sort of what I want it to. Hate to say it but I think I might be getting a bit used to working with this paper. Okay, and we're gonna rinse our brush off. I'm gonna take some of that Chinese white and I'm gonna just dab it here in the photo. The tops of the petals are like being hit by the sun and they have this sort of really light pink almost a white reflection. So we're gonna add that, let that dry for a little bit. We're gonna go down below the flower and I'm going to use, I think I'm gonna use that olive green yellow that's in here that we used in the last painting to the stem. It has these seed pods in the photo that are sort of hanging down. We will make a couple of them again. I'm just using, do you see that? I'm just using the very tip of my flat brush. I haven't switched brushes yet. You really don't need a whole ton of paint brushes. You really can get away with a flat and a couple of rounds and really that's it. My three favorite brushes are these three in size. So, and I do love the Princeton brushes. These are a Skoda, but I have these two in Princeton also. So a half inch flat, a number four round and a number one round. You can do a lot with just these. Okay, so now we're gonna go and kind of want to add a little bit of purple to this flower. I don't know if that's a mistake or not, but I like using purple for an unexpected shadow color. Your shadows don't have to be black and your highlights don't have to be white. So think of using other cooler colors to suggest shadow other than black, like purple, like blue and other colors other than white to suggest highlight like yellow, like orange. I'm gonna add a little bit of yellow. We have a lemon yellow in this palette. So let's grab a little bit of that just like that. There you go. I didn't do any drawing that was super quick and super easy and that was a lot of fun. Of course you could keep going, but the point of these is to do little studies trying new paper, trying new paints, seeing how they blend and bleed and you'll see why I don't like this paper. So that's another reason for me to stop because this paper starts to really wrinkle and pill if I work at it anymore. So anyway, that being said, this is probably something I would do again on a bigger piece of paper. I do really like it. So that's painting number 25, on to the next. How is that for today's painting? 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