 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 an experiment mostly with watercolor and gouache and let's get to painting and I will see you at the end. Hey guys, we are here for episode 7 of 30 paintings in 30 days. If you're hearing me speak, it's because you're watching this over via Patreon or you've discovered the unlisted video on YouTube. I don't know how you did that but cool, welcome. The regular episodes are just speed through videos on YouTube and patrons only generally get the instructional videos. So anyway, that being said, we're going to do our first painting here. Since I tend to be a messy painter, oh and it's a good thing I did that because the book is upside down. All right, since I tend to be a messy painter, we're going to cover these empty spots with some deli paper. These pieces of deli paper are very old. They're well used, but that's okay. They're still serviceable. Put a clip right there. I tend to need them to protect the parts I'm not painting on today. I am doing the paintings as little small paintings and so I've taped off different sections in the book. The painter's tape, this is just general hardware store painter's tape. It works well to give you a nice, most of the time, a nice crisp edge on your paintings which is another thing that I do frequently. Okay, so I've got my inspiration book filled with photos, mostly ones I took but sometimes I clip things out of magazines and then associated colors I'm inspired to use by the colors and composition of the photos. I created this last year. I have a number of them, so we're using them as inspiration for these paintings this month and I'm right now on this page, but you use whatever you want to for inspiration. I like the sort of muted tones with the little pop of orange. It's in that one. We're going to start with our half-inch flat. This is a Princeton Neptune half-inch flat brush and I'm going to start with, I think I'm going to take some neutral tint which is a dark gray color. I think I'm going to add just a little bit of raw umber to it and a tiny little bit of buff titanium which is an off-white color and you'll get something since the buff titanium is fairly opaque and not transparent, you'll get something that's a little bit more of a gouache opaque paint but it's this sort of brownish gray color and I'm going to, of course, this is why we have the deli paper at least in part because you know hello I'm messy. I'm going to put some on here and then I'm going to add water. Watercolor of course is you know a simple medium. It's only going to go where you put the water. It is not going to go anywhere where you don't put water for it to go. I do a lot of drying between layers which I like because I can control how much the paints mix so that being said I'm going to plug in the dryer and we're going to give this a dry and we'll be right back. Okay now we're going to continue still staying with the half-inch flat. I'm going to grab a little bit more neutral tint to paint a line. I barely touched the brush to the page and I go underneath the line and add some water. Let the pigment go where it may. Okay another dry. Okay before we go any farther I'm going to go in with a white gel pen. Hopefully my white gel pen decides to work. You know I need my reading glasses. Like why can't I see the page? That would be because I don't have the reading glasses on. So you know in my experience your white gel pens don't always want to work super well over watercolor. There's just something about writing over the pigments that make them not a very happy camper but I'm going to do some sketchy lines suggesting a sort of a feather shape here. I'm going to do what I can with the gel pen. I do have a whiteout pen, a scrap of paper. We're going to let that dry for a minute and we're going to stick with our flat brush and we're going to go in with Indian yellow. I'm going to mix it just a little bit with a teeny teeny tiny bit of the quedocca magenta which is a very brightly pigmented color and that was too much. That was just a drop so let's add some more. I just wanted it a little bit more on the orangey side the Indian yellow. There we go. So we're going to again I'm just barely touching the paper. Now the inspiration photos that I took are a number of and I took these photos. There are a number of different pictures of feathers on the ground. Some of them have fall foliage surrounding the feather hence the shapes I just put on there and we're just going to suggest those shapes. I'm going to switch to a smaller brush. We are going to give this a dry and I'll be right back. Okay I've got a small teeny tiny brush and I've got sort of a medium brush so this is a a Skoda number four round and this one is a Princeton Aqua Elite number one round. I think we're going to go with the four initially. I was going to do something different but I'm going to grab some sepia. I'm going to just put a little bit of on my plate which I'm the is off camera. I think I don't think you can see it and I'm mixing it with the orange color I made. Of course that I'm filming my allergies are acting up. Of course I'm just making suggestive lines. This is supposed to be fairly abstract. I'm not expecting it to be something that's realistic. I don't if you've been watching my channel for a while you know I don't really I don't really do that so I'm going to take a little bit more straight sepia and I end up being a little bit darker of course and then a little bit of the dark gray color that we made without rinsing my brush off so that means on the brush it's going to mix with the sepia that's on there. Then I'm just highlighting my feather not highlighting. I'm adding shadows to my feather. I'm adding shadows to my shapes that I have on the page. Blending things just a little bit. Give it another dry. Okay I think we could use a little bit of a highlight. I'm going to go in there real quick with a damp brush to blend like in one of the older other videos. I told y'all to don't use your good watercolor brush. This is a sort of a scrubby brush I use on acrylic paints. This is FX brush number nine by creative mark. No because we're using white out for our highlight color. You could of course use acrylic paint. You could use a marker. You could use a gel pen, a paint pen, but just be aware of how fast things dry. So the white out pen dries pretty quickly. So I think that's pretty good. So now let's take our tape off. It's a cute little sort of fall inspired little painting and what I would do with this painting is I would take that teeny tiny brush and some of the colors that are left on my palette. I would just make that feather extend over the edge like that. Probably grab a little bit of the orange if I can find some on the palette. Yep just like that. There you go. So that's painting number seven version. Sorry if you'd like to support the free content here on Facebook or in the 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. 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