 Hey guys, welcome 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 going to experiment mostly with watercolor and gouache and let's get to painting and I will see you at the end. Hey guys, welcome to day four of 30 paintings in 30 days. I have as usual a watercolor palette in front of me, some brushes, a small plate to mix on, gel pen, my whiteout pen, an inspiration book of inspiration images off camera that way that I don't think you can see. Well, you can kind of see corner but that's okay. It's not important that necessarily you see what's in the in the book because that's just for me to take inspiration from. So anyway, we are going to get started and I think we're going to go a tannacle today. As usual, I'm going to get started with my half inch flat. It's my favorite brush in case you didn't have a clue yet. My water is very dirty, but that's okay. And I think we're going to start with I'm going to I'm going to grab some of the Prussian blue just a little bit. A little bit goes a really long way on this palette on this color. These are Daniel Smith colors, FYI. I'm going to really kind of water it down a lot. Cover up the painting that we already did. Maybe the one we haven't done yet. There we go. Gonna flick some. Oh, we got it way over here. Okay. And then we're going to take some water and blend that out just a little bit just like that. So one thing I am going to do is try to come over here. Now my brush is very dirty, or I'm sorry, my water, but I just put this down. The Prussian blue isn't completely staining. So I can get most of it off and that's fine. Okay. So that works for me. A little bit more. I'm just gonna, you know, if you've been watching me painting for a while, you know that I really like to do my backgrounds first. I really detest having to go back in and retouch my background. So I like to get something interesting in the background first and then we'll paint the foreground. So that's what I'm doing. So now I'm going to dry it. Okay. We're going to switch to a round brush. This is around number four. And I am going to go in with mineral violet, which, and I'm going to just mix it with the color, the Prussian blue that's on here. And look at that beautiful violet we get. That was Prussian blue and mineral violet both from Daniel Smith. Look at that. Okay. So we're going to go in and we're going to start in. I've got a picture just off camera of some flowers. I don't know what kind they are, but they're purple. That's all I could really tell you about them is that they're purple. We're going to paint in just some sort of outlining shapes and then I'm going to go in with water. I'm going to let the ink run the ink. It's not ink. The paint, the pigment. Y'all knew what I meant, right? If I waited too long between flowers to put the water down, although that was just a minute, some of it really set in well to the paint. Then you can see what I'm doing is putting some water there and adding some more paint to just disguise some of the lines. And again, as I've said before, many times Gene Haynes is a favorite of mine. Artist-wise, I'll link her. Something of hers in the description below. She's a very suggestive painter and she likes to suggest shapes and color rather than paint a ton of detail. And I'm really, really have over the years been enjoying exploring that idea. I have a number of her books. In fact, I have paint yourself calm just off camera on the table that I need to work through. So I'm going to dry this because I don't want this to move anymore. Okay, using that same brush that round number four, I'm going to grab some green and I'm going to use undersea green. It's a nice sort of a muted green. We're going to just suggest some shapes here in the background. We're not going to, again, not going to hopefully go too far before we come back in with some water, blur out some of the edges, more water. Just, you know, you're suggesting the foliage part of the flowers, right? Not just the flowers. I love this sort of muted undersea green. It's one of my favorite greens from Daniel Smith, FYI. Now, while that's drying, we're going to go back in with I'm going to make some more of the mineral violet and Prussian blue, like a darker shade. Hopefully need some more of the violet. There we go. Going to some of the shapes for some of the flowers. I'm barely touching my brush to the paper. You don't need to dig any holes to china with your paintbrush. A very light touch goes a long way. And as you saw, I just went and grabbed some water, blending out a few of those lines, not all of them. Add some pigment, add some water and just keep at it with your layers until you get something that you really like. These little paintings are great for practice and doing little painting studies before you do a larger piece. You know, if you're really thinking about doing a commission for someone, I usually take a notebook and I'll do sometimes a fill an entire little paint watercolor book or notebook with drawings and paintings for the client before we actually settle on the actual design of what they're looking for. And there's nothing wrong with doing it that way. Okay, I'm going to go in with some straight mineral violet. I'm lifting a little bit of it off because I think that's a little too much pigment. So I just went in with a damp brush and I'm just brushing it up. There we go. And it's just lifting some of the pigment off. You can also spread it out like that. I need a little bit more over here. Just kind of putting water in the middle so the pigment moves around sort of on its own. That's looking pretty good. We need a little bit of undersea green, I think, right here to sort of suggest stems. Okay, the inspiration photos on this page, and there's more than one, I'll have purple with shades of orange in them. And so I'm going to take some of our Hanse yellow, it's a brighter yellow, made too much purple so I don't have a lot of room on my on my palette here. And I'm going to take some of the Quedocridone Magenta and hopefully get an orange. That looks still really red, let's see. And then I'm just going to, I'm just going to do some dots, just dotting the page. Very tip of the paintbrush. Again, no digging any holes to China. We don't need to do that. Just dotting the page, just suggesting those flower centers, yeah. Just like that. Let's give it a try. Okay, let's take the tape off, or some of the tape off. I still have to do this other side of the book, so here we go. Tape doesn't want to come off. Let's roll it backwards so we can get a good look at the painting. There we go. There we go. That's a pretty cute little painting. What do you think? So that is Painting 4 in our 30 Paintings in 30 Days series. I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do. If you're like me, you've been collecting books of inspiration photos, or pictures on Pinterest boards for years. It's time to break those out, take your mobile device to your desk, and open that Pinterest board. If you've been taping them into a book like I have been, then get those books out. Let's create some paintings from those inspiration photos. You're not looking to copy, you're just looking to be inspired by, and let's do that. Let's get it done already, right? What are we waiting for? All right, that's it for the moment. I'll be right back. How was that for today's painting? I hope you enjoyed the process. If you want instruction on the painting, you need to be over on 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, 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. So check out the video description. Relevant links will also be down there. And 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.