 Welcome to another video for January 2020 for my creative year. This year we're working with color and this month we were working with warm colors and I already did a brief tutorial on what warm colors are and a quick play with them but I wanted to bring you something a little bit more in depth and inspired by a number of different things I had seen on the internet over the holidays that really inspired me to break out my homemade inspiration journals. The one that you see in the shots here is my one that's just all about skyscrapes photos I myself have taken and put in my journals and then done color stories based on the photos and I found one that was in there that was very warm colored purples, yellows, oranges, reds and decided to do a watercolor picture with it or inspired by it. So here I am masking off some edges in my watercolor journal because I want a clean straight edge look for this painting. I'm using some painters tape just plain blue hardware store painters tape. I am trying to use the ruler to get it fairly straight. It wasn't perfect but it was okay. You know how compulsive you want to be about that's totally up to you but anyway stick the tape down really well before you get started and then get out your watercolor paints and we are going to stick for the most part with the warm colors in the palette. This is I believe my floral palette which got the majority of it are warm nature inspired or floral inspired colors. We will use a pop of a dark neutral coolish color warm well I guess it's on the coolish side of warm to accent our painting but you'll see when we get started we are going to start by cleaning our little palette here I am just using some purples to start creating and suggesting my skyscape inspired by the photos I see in my book and I'm going to use a variety of colors in an abstract form to suggest what you see going on in the photo above which the colors aren't coming across on camera as well as they could they're actually a little warmer than you are seeing there I am making sure to use colors that won't create mud meaning that I have a purple on there so I want to not put orange right next to it because if they mix they're going to make brown so I put pink and then I'll put yellow at the bottom you're less likely to get brown because the yellow won't mix with the purple or the orange colors will mix with the purple also drying your work between layers you will see me get out the heat gun and dry my work between layers I am going to be layering the paints in a number of times to get the look that I want watercolor is a transparent medium for the most part and that means that you can layer your colors on top of each other and and the layers below will show through I am making marks with my brush to suggest clouds that I saw in some of the inspiration photos in the journal that's on the desk above me just out of the shot and there we go it's dry and there's some more marks and I'm adding some darker colors I'm working lighter and I'm working my way to darker colors until I'm happy with the composition with the color story with the movement in the painting and the movement of the clouds and suggestion of the clouds that I'm trying to create in the background and with watercolor you make the colors darker by adding less water that's really I mean that's a very simplified way of saying it but that's you just add less water if you have a purple color but you want it lighter just add a lot of water to it and you'll get a very light washed out version of that color so here you see me with my heat gun I actually have two of them now because I thought that one was broken but the husband managed to fix it fun fact that's okay it's very old and I'm sure it's on its last legs so drying your colors between layers will prevent a lot of color blending of colors you don't want like those purples and those oranges and lessen your chance of getting brown it won't eliminate it completely because watercolor is a water soluble medium but it will help you prevent that and if you're quick enough and you don't get the page very wet it works just fine alright now you see me going in with my dark neutral and suggesting trees I do live in the Pacific Northwest my view outside of my back door is of trees I live next to the woods I go walking in the neighborhood it's full of trees so of course the skyscrapes for the most part in my journal are involved some sort of pine trees so we are suggesting pine trees here with our dark neutrals and the same palette I have a switch palettes dark blacks and paint grays and dark browns and using different shades of those colors to suggest our trees and depth in our trees you can of course also we're mixed media artists so don't feel like you have to only do this with paint you of course can dry everything and go over some things and add marks with gel pen and the appropriate colors and pencil whatever you have laying around do this in acrylic paint but the point is I want you all to experiment and step out of your box a little bit bring in those warm colors to really suggest lightness brightness and warmth you'll notice in the finished composition of this how warm that sunset sky looks and I'm going to be bringing you some more content directly to the Facebook group for my creative year on this different little suggestions on how you can bring warm colors into your work to suggest that lightness brightness and warmth without using white and it's really fun to just limit your palette to these colors and that really makes it so that you have to learn how to use them in your work and what way using them is going to make you really happy so I want to have you all give it a shot this month if you want to see other content by me and the other teachers over in my creative year I'm working with warm colors we'd love to have you join the link is in the description below along with links to my patreon and my tip jar and all kinds of other stuff my Etsy shop to support the free content here on YouTube if you have any questions comments or concerns I would love to hear them please leave in them in the comments below or if you're in the Facebook group you can tag me in a post over there and I will reply don't forget to like share and subscribe and above all besides play with your paints get those warm colors out even if you don't like orange I'm not a big fan try using some of it in your work and see what happens I would love it if you did that and I would love to see what the results were go out though and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys