 Hey guys, welcome to the 30 paintings in 30 days project. So for today's painting It might look a little bit familiar to some of you out there So if you're a member of the Facebook art group my creative year or you're over on patreon or ready This is the painting I did for that group for July. I mean sorry for June which started this idea for this whole project So For those of you who haven't seen it yet. Here you go. Here's the video Welcome and joy 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 at the end Okay, so for the patrons and Patreon I Here we go Here's a rag. All right, so for the patrons over in patreon We are going to get started with a Painting using the muted gouache palette I created for my creative year And I am gonna start with this blue that I created this grayish blue, which I really love I'm gonna kind of water it down a bit I'm gonna do the background first. I'm gonna spread out the pigment. I want it to be blotchy We're gonna be doing an outdoor scene So I don't want the the color to be Solid I want it to be Muted and blotchy sort of like a Stormy or cloudy sky That gives you a hint about what we're doing That actually is really good right there So we're gonna stop there and I'm going to dry that and I'll be right back. I Love the way that turned out already and we haven't barely gotten started. So for those of you again watching here on patreon, we are Doing the talking version here for you all I do think I'm gonna try doing a 30 small paintings in 30 days series You will get the talking version here on patreon And they will get the sped-through version at some point over on YouTube. I will probably talk about it on YouTube But I encourage people to come over here to patreon, but I don't think I think they're gonna just get the sped-through version But in any case, I hope it's Process people enjoy and maybe encourage them to do the same maybe take up some kind of daily practice Whether it is actually painting or something else So I'm adding the sort of muted pink tone Here in the Pacific Northwest we often get these pinkish purplish skies, which are just wonderful And the reason I dried the blue first before I added the pink was I didn't really want them to blend together Right away, but I am going to take the leftover paint that's on the palette and mix it and get it sort of a grayish purple Just to use up the paint on the palette We do have a Muted purple in our watercolor, which we're gonna use so I'm gonna dry this and I'll be right back Okay, so now we're gonna take some of our purple and we'll just mix it with the colors that are on here I don't have an inspiration photo this for this. I don't have a plan for this. I'm just winging it Just FYI But that's coming out pretty good, I think Drying it between layers so things don't mix too much So drying it again Okay, now when I did reconstitute the gouache palette I did add water to the non-muted colors including the black and white because I knew right away I was gonna probably at least want to put the white in And see I was right because I have a tendency to Get carried away with the color Because I'm having fun and forget to leave white space. So that's just a thing. I know I do So I'm aware of that That's okay. We have white gouache or if you don't have, you know, white paint and white acrylic white gel pen White something I'm loving the way this is looking you guys and I haven't you notice I've used my flat brush now I got asked recently what my favorite watercolor brushes are or water What I use with my water soluble paints Princeton Neptune brushes. This is a Princeton neft Neptune half inch flat Um, but I have a lot of Princeton Neptune Neptune brushes and I love them Okay, drying it For the moment, we're going to stick with a flat brush. I'm going to grab some of the green That was really watery. So rather than grabbing more paint, I'm going to use what's on the page I'm drying my brush off. So it's just damp and I'm just using the flat end of the brush and going side to side to suggest some leaf trees in the foreground Then I'm going to go in with our dark grayish brown color I'm going to go ahead and let it mix with the green And I'm going to add a little bit of black to it. I'm going to just carefully I don't want to add too much of this. I don't want to cover up all the green Okay, I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to rinse my brush off and I'm going to Dry it off on the rag I never use my watercolors or gouaches without a rag for reasons like this now if You do this and it's not enough of the dark and you want to add more you can always go back and add more But with watercolor, it's harder to it's hard to take it away So I do have a small tiny round brush here, which I'm going to dry off a bit So it's not too wet. I'm going to grab some of that dark color. I need to find some of the shapes With the tiny round brush with the Detail brush. I'm also going to anchor the base of the painting With some of the dark You notice that I'm using what paint is on the brush and I'm not constantly redipping and it's giving me a variation of colors Which I like And then you can always go back again and add more. It's harder to take it away That's perfect. I love that Let's give it a dry. Let's take some of the tape off Well, I'm going to want to leave some of the tape on because I want to paint the other side But we're going to take some off so that you guys can see Again, this is painters tape. Just regular painters tape from the hardware store Nothing special. It's the thin stuff. That's about an inch wide When you're working in journals, the thinner one is better There we go So there's our muted painting So what do you think? I would love to see what you've done this month with muted colors Whether you're in the facebook group or not And experiment with painting and here on patreon if there's other video content, especially that you would like to see That even if it goes up on youtube eventually if you would like to see it first and have more instruction What would that what would you like that to be so please let me know All right, that's it for today Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I appreciate your support very much and I will be back in the next video How is 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 If you'd like to support the free content here on facebook or in the 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 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 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