 Hey guys welcome to another video for my creative year. So this month in my creative year besides the daily words that we're working on We're working on forgotten colors using those paint supplies and materials That you have stuffed in the corners of your art room that you've forgotten that you've never used that you don't use often that you Have never tried Or that you've just you know forgotten about maybe they're not even just your favorite colors And it could be Materials like acrylic paint or watercolor that you use a lot, but maybe there's just certain colors You just never use and you forgot or even in your palette Which happened to me recently when I was painting with this and I was like wait quinoa cron coral. When did I get that? So I'm gonna work on a painting in my watercolor journal with colors specifically in my Daniel Smith palette here That I almost never use and you can tell which ones they are because this one looks freshly poured if you zoom in That looks freshly poured that peak is still on there and you can also tell with this one is phthalo yellow green And I just saw another one where'd it go? new gambos, I don't use often And quinoa cron sienna So we're gonna create we're gonna see where I'm gonna stay away from the ones that have a hole in the middle because obviously I use that one a lot that one's called what blue violet, which I love We're gonna stay away from those and we're gonna just use the ones that I don't use a much We're gonna create a painting. We're gonna see where it takes us and I don't know I'll be back Okay, as we get ready to do the painting. Well, first of all, let me get rid of the overhead light because hello lot of show It's better. All right As we get ready to do the painting the first thing and Probably usually hardest thing for me is what am I gonna paint? So as I do that, I'm gonna go through my camera roll here Yes, I'm constantly taking pictures of things Whether it's artwork or things I see on my walk or there was a sneak peek of stuff here. I'm supposed to see it Um, so let's see what we can find to paint You know that might inspire an interesting painting. This is a picture of One of the neighborhoods near here when we were out walking not long ago So I think I'm gonna do that what I'm gonna do first is Set my phone to not turn off Because there's nothing worse than having to touch your phone every two seconds I'm gonna turn it this way to orient it differently Okay, and I'm gonna set it up there sort of It's gonna be off-camera oops Lost my picture where to go. There it is. I'm gonna prop it up. I do have stuff like Actual things that I could Okay, so we're gonna use colors in my stash of stuff that I don't normally use to create this interesting painting I'm gonna give everything a light wash of I Have Naples yellow in here and it in this palette. I don't use it that much I do like Naples yellow in acrylic paint for some reason in watercolor. I just don't use it that much So we're gonna grab some Naples yellow And I'm gonna put that on the page when I add some water. I just want to like a light wash of color I think I want to add little touches of maybe a blue. Do I have a blue? I don't use very much Yes, I do which is Sleeping Beauty turquoise It's a fine color. It's a fine paint I'm not sure why I bought it because I also have cobalt teal and that color is nearly identical So I don't know why I don't know why I bought it So we're gonna put a little bit of that on that's probably way too much And then I'm gonna again add water and then we're gonna take the dryer to it Okay, we're gonna take a little bit brighter yellow. I have new gambos, which I also don't use much I can always tell because there's no hole in the top of the paint pan Then again, we're gonna go in with just a little bit of water And while that's drying I'm gonna take What color what color what color I think I'm gonna take So we're looking for ones. I don't use much, right? So I have a quedachron burnt scarlet Again, it's in my palette. I should use it. It's a very rusty red color And I'm gonna mix it with One I know I don't use much which is ivory black. I usually go for Payne's gray or neutral tint I'm gonna mix a little bit of that with the Quedachron burnt scarlet a little bit more scarlet in there Nope, that was too much Let me zoom out a little bit so you can see what I'm doing mixing wise There we go. So we'll grab some more black. Yeah, that's better Okay, so we're gonna sort of try to put the suggestion of Street and yeah, I'm gonna take my brush and I'm gonna go along one edge of those colors And I'm gonna just blur it out just a little bit. I'm gonna take that same color I'm gonna add some more black to it. I'm going to let's see make sure Put too much right there whatever we Put too much in dark. We can always go back and add white gel pen Oh, I could also use Chinese white, which I have in my palette. I don't use often Kind of don't see the point in white Watercolor paint don't know why I have it because see it doesn't really show up and especially because these background colors are very light Okay, let's see. Let's put some water in it and see what happens Okay, let's go for Let's go for some of that coral color It's very very very pigmented. So that's probably way too much of it and You know, I'm just using the photo as inspiration. I am not looking to exactly copy the photo Am I looking to suggest the shapes? Yes But I'm not looking to copy the photo and I have the additional challenge of trying to do this And use colors outside the norm that doesn't mean I'm not going to use some of my regular colors But it means I'm going to use some that I wouldn't normally do So we have this green that I almost never use there is a little suggestion of green In some parts. I don't know what I want to blur these out too much. I think I want to leave some shape to them Let's see. I Think I want to take And just Use the tip of my brush to suggest the light pulls It's really the light in the shadowy night That really is appealing to me about this painting. I'm going to blend this out I may end up adding purple to this because I really like to use purple as a dark shadow color Instead of the obvious choice of black I also like to use navy. Oh, I have a new navy blue here. This is a brand new. I haven't used it much because it's brand new it is in Disround blue Oops, where are we? It's that one. I got no idea how to pronounce that. Let's add some of that Oh, yeah, I'm working mostly wet on wet So the colors are blending together, which I'm fine with trying to suggest my shapes Love the dark blue. Okay, let's give that a try I'm gonna take a you know, I always grab the black Let's grab lighter brown pencil, which I never have used and I have a white pencil Right because it's about grabbing things using things we don't ever use, right? Okay, but the white pencils not going to show up on here. I need like a light gel pen Which is right here All right, so let's do that. That's also not showing up very well Might still be a little damp might be why try some white paint shall we gonna grab a brush You know, I like that abstract nature of that and I'm gonna stop That's part of the hardest part about doing art is knowing when to stop and I like the suggestion of light and color there This is the let's zoom out just a little bit. Whoops wrong way. This is the original what I liked about this photo is The light and the reflections, which I think I captured here or at least it's a good start I like to do little practice pieces like this from a photo like this one And then if I like where this went then I would try it on a bigger piece of paper Which I might eventually do with this one Anyway, I want you to go out this month and I want you to work with your forgotten colors You've forgotten paint some materials and really stretch your wings and try something new. Maybe try something That's a little abstract. I'm gonna include a copy of this photo over in the Facebook group my creative year For any and all who are members of the group that want to give it a try and see what you come up with I could see really doing something very abstracted with this photo and this painting In acrylic on canvas would be really cool. Anyway, that's it for today Don't forget to leave any questions comments or concerns down below like share and subscribe if you will There's lots of content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups They're all listed in the description below including my Etsy store patreon YouTube membership PayPal tip jar all that stuff. So check it out. Check out that video description and The most important thing is to go out and have a good day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys