 Hey guys, welcome to the 30 paintings in 30 days project. 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 then. Hey guys, welcome to painting number 29 in our 30 and 30 series of little watercolor study paintings. We're going to do one more sort of botanical painting and then for painting number 30, I have an oldie but a goodie. So let's get on to this one. I live next to the woods. For those that don't know there's 25 feet of woods or more between me and the school actually next to us. And it is wild protected land and it is full of wildlife, gigantic pine trees and that are like 800 plus years old and a lot of mushrooms. There's a tip mushrooms. Okay, so we're going to paint some mushrooms. So of course, as usual, we're going to start light and work our way darker. I am going to start with kind of a wash of Naples yellow, which isn't going to spread the way I usually like my washes to spread because of the paper that we're working on, but we're going to just make it work, right? Alright, then I'm going to go in with a, let's see. I have this golden brown in the palette. It would be a good color. Suggest the shapes here of the mushroom I see in the background. There's a big shadow under this one. Let's go back to this one. This paper dries so quickly. I guess one of the advantages is I don't have to worry so much about getting the dryer out in between layers of paint. I'm going to switch to one of my round brushes. These mushrooms are poisonous from what I understand. I don't know what kind they are. I'll show you the picture at the end. They're pretty. I've actually, fun fact, I've tried to mold them to make a silicone mold of them. I would love to pour these in resin, but it was an epic failure, so that didn't work. Okay, I'm going to grab some white. This is the titanium white. It needs more water. And the titanium white, at least in this palette, seems to be more transparent than the Chinese white. So I use it to layer where I have to make the colors a little bit lighter, but I still want to see those colors and marks through the paint. So again, that's why I've said in the videos you want to do these little studies is to get used to your mediums and to get used to your brushes and your paint. Don't just paint the same flower over and over again, although I guess you could do that, but try something new. Break out of the box. I mean, it might not turn out to be great, but you never know. It might be a fabulous success. Okay, we're going to just let that dry a little bit. I'm going to grab some green because there's some greenery around the mushrooms, and we are going to go with, I think, the olive green color. I'm not loving the way this is turning out, just FYI. I'm going to switch back to my big brush. I like my big brush. I'm going to go with a darker brown. Let's see. Let's try burnt umber. Need more pigment. It is challenging with this paper to get it to do what I want because this paper just really starts warping. I'm going to dry that and I'll be back. Okay, we're going to go with some more of one of our light beigey colors. I'm going to just use this plate. I know it has some green on it, but that's okay. And then I'm going to rinse off my brush in my disgustingly filthy water. I'm going to grab one of my whites and then I'm going to grab some lemon yellow. And I think that'll be kind of maybe the right color. It might not be. I might need to bust out the tube of engram white to really get something super opaque, dark. Sometimes getting the paint right out of the tube is like the best thing because you have all that pure pigment that hasn't been watered down yet. Of course, as a mixed media artist, we can also use a gel pen or something like that and you can just like sort of watercolor the background. I want to see if I can do this with the paint palette. I'm just dabbing it on. These mushroom tops have sort of a really sort of textured top. And I'm alternating between what's on the palette and straight out of the pan. I am trying to choose the titanium white more than the Chinese white because again, it's more transparent than the other one. And I don't want to completely cover up some of those marks I already made. Constantly switching your eye back and forth between what's on the paper and what's in the photo. But at some point you're intending to do an artistic interpretation of said photo. We are not intending to do an exact reputation of the photo. So at some point you probably want to let go of that photo and stop referring to it completely. Otherwise, if you're like me, you just get frustrated with not being able to exactly represent what you see. And you get lost in not copying and you forget that you're not trying to copy and you're trying to create a artistic piece inspired by that photo. You'll notice I just added more of the beige cream color and some of the lemon yellow. This is like my highlight color because again now right now I'm not really referring to the photo. And I am defining my shapes and defining my highlights. Hopefully that's what I'm doing. Okay, now I'm going to give it another grab our teeny tiny brush and the golden brown which is a lighter brown of the ones that are in this palette. I'm going to just use the tip of the brush barely on the paper. Just help me refine my shapes. It would be really fun to do a painting sort of like this with that sort of 70s inspired mushrooms that are like red with polka dots and stuff like that. That would be fun. Just barely, barely touching the paper. Do a teeny bit of blending in a couple of spots. I'm going to give that a dry. We are going to go in with our M gram white paint and I'm going to use that stippling brush I've been using which is by Creative Mark. It's called an FX FX brush number nine. It's like a short stippling brush. I'm going to go right into the tube. Now this M gram titanium white is a watercolor paint but it's straight out of the tube. Pure pigment, no water. And I'm going to just go and make some marks. Do a little bit at a time and that way if you feel like you've done too much you can blend it out with some water. And you'll notice I just dipped it in the tube once and now I'm just, as I go, again as I go, I've said this in other videos. The first mark is dark and then the successive marks are on the lighter side. I'm just trying to make the mushroom cap stand out a little bit more. It's not the best painting I've ever done but it's not the worst either. It's a fun experiment to see if I could do this. You know on this channel I don't hide my mistakes from you all. If I screw up I say so. But your journey with art is about having fun and making mistakes and learning from those mistakes and just enjoying the process. That should be part of it. And there is some advantage if you are going to get into watercolor to having a combination of tubes and pans. This would be one of them. You don't have to have all the colors in tubes but sometimes it's good to have one or two. Alright I kind of want to add a pop to this. It's kind of like very, the picture is very beige and brown and bland. But so it's turning out that way too. I kind of just want to add a pop so let's do it. What's the worst that can happen? We have this chrome orange here. I'm going to, I don't want to dip, oh maybe I will. I'm going to take that same special effects brush and grab some of this chrome orange. Where's the light coming from in the picture? So I'm looking at where the light is in the picture and I'm just adding like a bunch of, not a bunch. I'm adding some of this orange where the light is hitting these mushroom tops in the photo. It just seemed like it needed a little pop and I wasn't wrong because this orange is doing it for me. There we go. I'm going to stop now. So that's it, painting number 29 onto the last one. 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 on Patreon. 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