 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, welcome to painting number five in our 30 paintings in 30 days series. So as per usual, I'm going to probably be saying this in all 30 videos. You're going to get sick of hearing it, but I've got some watercolor paints out. I've got a little mixing plate. I got a couple of white pens. I've got some brushes, some dirty water, and some inspiration photos. So let's get started. We're going to work here in this square and I am going to start again with my half inch flat and I'm going to this time start with some buff titanium, which is this sort of off white. Can you even see what I'm doing barely? Okay, so it's sort of this off white ochre-y color. I'm going to add a little bit of French ochre to it. Yeah, that works for me. We're going to just sort of model that over the page, grab some water, brushes, paints, fabrics, stitching supplies all over the place on my desk because you know, it's how we roll, right? So as per usual, as you all know, I like to do the background first before I do the foreground. I am blotting it with a rag to get not only get up the excess paint, but to give it some texture. And I'm going to take again the same color. I'm going to put some suggestions of horizontal shapes. We're going to refine them in a minute, but I just want to put some suggestion of some horizontal color in this mixture that we've made. Okay, we're going to of course give it a dry. Okay, we're going to stay with a half inch flat for now. And we're going to go in with some more of the French ochre, only this time just the French ochre without mixing it. And the background paper is dry. So it's not going to move too much unless I put more water. So now that I've got some pigment on there, I'm going to take some water. I kind of want to preserve the suggestion of some lines. Okay, that looks pretty good. I am going to go in with a slightly darker color slightly. I'm going to go in with raw umber, which is more way more brown. See, look how dark that is. Rinse my brush off. Now if you get too much, you can just get a damp brush in and you can lift. You're going to want to have something to wipe on. Some colors will stain immediately and some won't. Usually the paint manufacturer has marked on the tube somewhere, at least on the better brands of paint, how much they stain. To be honest with you, I don't usually look. I just yeah, I just kind of like to play and see what happens. I'm going to go in with what color now I'm going to switch brushes. I'm going to go in with a tiny one. I have a couple of really small brushes and I'm going to use the same paint. I'm actually going to let's dry this first. So we're going to go in with the same raw umber, fairly concentrated raw umber. I haven't added a lot of water to it. So and we're going to try to draw a couple of straight lines. You know, we'll see how far I get with that. I don't know. Okay, so I'm going to rinse my brush off and I'm going to grab some more of that and just draw, draw paint. Some little sort of blobby shapes. I'm being inspired by a picture I actually took. There's a couple of pictures actually on this page. One is from the Venetian in Las Vegas and another is from a venue that we used to go to concerts a lot in California and they had these beautiful hanging giant overhead lanterns. So if it gives you any clue, that's what I'm inspired by. So we're going to take a little bit of the yellow ochre, I think, some of the brighter Hanse yellow and mix the two of those together. Okay, now go in with straight, the brighter yellow straight. It's going to mix with the mixture that we just made. That's totally fine. Okay, here's a little trick. So I'm going to go in while that's wet with some whiteout pen and I'm going to have my damp paintbrush really nearby. That didn't work because the dried out. Let's get some. There we go. So before the really quick before the whiteout pen dries, I've got whiteout pen crumbs on my paper. Okay, let's get those off. Okay, really quick while the whiteout pen is wet still, if you get in there with a damp brush, you can move it around and mix it with the paint that's on there. Of course, you can also do this with a little bit of white acrylic paint. And this is probably why my whiteout pens are always clogged because I'm always mixing them up with other things and using them on stuff that's not completely dry. Just FYI, lately, my whiteout pen video from years ago has been getting a lot of interest and activity over on YouTube, which is kind of weird. But yeah, this is probably why they're always clogged. I'm going to go back over some of those, some of the yellow. Then we're going to take, I think I'm going to do this with my flat brush, but I'm going to take some of the Prussian blue and I'm going to I'm going to just mix it here with the buff color that was on here and then add some water. Well, that's wet. I'm going with a little bit of a buff color. Okay, we're going to give that a little bit of a dry. Okay, so now we're going to take our whiteout pen and I'm going to leave some of the marks. I'm going to take the wet paintbrush to some other parts of it. Now, this is a Princeton Aqua Elite brush. It was fairly inexpensive. I usually don't. I do have a couple of really expensive super small brushes. This is the number one round. I don't use those on a whiteout pen because it can clog it up. So I'm going to take some more of our blue mixture. Just kind of help define our shapes. The inspiration photo had these little lights in between up against a stone wall and these blue globe shapes. Again, as per usual, I'm just trying to be inspired by the photo. I'm not actually trying to copy it at all. This is what is this, the Indian yellow. And let's give it some good shadows with something really fun. Let's take the Daniel Smith Moonglow, which is a dark gray purple. I'm barely touching my brush to the paper, just FYI. Okay, perfect. We're going to dry it. Okay, you can't even really tell that that was purple. It just looks like a really dark color, which is fine. So we're going to take the tape off. So these little paintings, again, and as I've said before, are great for doing, you know, getting back into the practice of doing something, whether you're doing little paintings or you're doing ATC cards or some other quick, easy, daily practice, it gets you back into the habit of maybe doing an art or craft style that you've not done for a while. It's a good habit to get into and it's good to also to try experiments with your mediums. I love it. So that's our painting for today. I hope you like it. And I'll be right back. 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 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 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.