 Welcome to the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Project. So every day of this month, at least 30 days of this month, we are gonna create a little painting a day and we're gonna see what happens. I'm gonna experiment mostly with watercolor and gouache and let's get to painting and I will see you at the end. Okay guys, welcome to the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Project. We are on painting number 13. So let's get to it, shall we? As usual, I have a paint palette in front of me. I've got my inspiration photos to the left of me, a few paint brushes and water to the right of me and let's get started. These are just supposed to be little painting studies as we've stated in the past, something to help you get used to maybe a new medium or maybe you're used to watercolor, for instance, which is what I'm using, but maybe this is a new brand of watercolor and you don't know how they're gonna react. Maybe you're trying to get used to using a particular set of colors together that you don't normally put together, a new palette of colors, new composition, something like that. So there's a lot of reasons to do these little studies. They're just practice, but they're fun practice. So let's get started. I am going to start as usual with my half inch flat Princeton Neptune brush, which is my favorite brush. We are gonna start with, I've got a photo of actually patio umbrellas from a restaurant I went to last year with my parents and husband. Not only are the colors normally ones I don't necessarily use together. We've got this brown, a red, sort of olivey green and some white together. There's a little bit of like darkness in the background. We're gonna do something inspired by this photo. I don't normally use like those colors together without a bright pop of yellow or turquoise or something, but we're gonna give it a shot. That's what these little studying paintings are all about. So let's proper book up. There we go. We're gonna start with the olivey tone. And I'm gonna grab the Jane Davenport water spirit, which is a very olivey. It reminds me of sort of a cascade green. Oops, there it is right there. So we're gonna start with that color. I'm gonna add some water to it and I'm going to map out a shape in the background with my paintbrush. I'm going to go in with PBO's burnt umber. See, I'm remembering about these PBO paints they don't wanna be super friendly about rehydrating all the time. I'm remembering you very well. Okay, so we're gonna map out the next umbrella and then fill it in. Now I'm gonna try hard to leave white space, which as I've stated before, if you've watched any of the paintings in the series or any of my watercolor painting tutorials I've had on the channel in the past, I get focused into working with the paint and I forget about leaving white space, but I'm not a watercolor purist by any stretch, so I have no problem with grabbing a white gel pen or something to bring the white space back if needed. All right, then I'm gonna go in with Jane Davenport's Ladybug, which is a nice sort of bright red color. Out the red umbrella that's in the front of this inspiration photo. Okay, before I do anything else, I wanna dry that, so I'll be right back. Okay, I'm gonna go in with a little bit smaller brush, one of my round brushes, this is the round number four, and I'm gonna go in with the Jane Davenport ink, which is her dark blue-gray color. I'm gonna actually mix it with a little bit of the green and the brown that's already on my palette. Grab some more brown, I'm gonna grab some of the Van Dyke brown and just make sort of that dark background color that I see here. So we're gonna put some here. Fill in the shapes between the umbrellas. No, again, these are little study paintings, so you're not looking for it to be one super realistic like at all, let's see. It's just representative of what you see in the picture. You're trying to create something inspired by trying to map out these shapes so they kinda make sense. There we go, all right. That was stressful. Okay, so now, while that dries a little bit, I'm gonna start with the green umbrella, that was the one that's probably dry the most. I'm gonna take some of our water spirit color again. I'll let it go ahead and mix with the background color a little bit. And I'm gonna add some shadows. I'm actually gonna switch to a smaller brush for that, this, because that was way too big. I'm gonna just hint at refining my shapes. And you may find when you do this, you know that's an umbrella, but nobody else does. That's okay. Again, these are little studies. They're not supposed to be perfection, okay? So then I'm gonna go into the brown one, and I'm gonna actually go with the dark Van Dyke brown for this one. Refine, again, refine the shapes. Referencing the photo, if you wanna blend the paint at all, not going too far before you bring some water back into the picture, especially again with the Jane Davenport paints. They dry really quickly, okay? And then we're gonna do the same thing with the red. I'm gonna go in with a Jane Davenport color called Frida, which is a dark red. I had a lot of coffee this morning, my hands are a little shaky FYI, in case you didn't notice by that wiggly red line. I'm gonna go in with my color, go in with some water to get some depth in there, and blend it out a little bit. Okay, I'm gonna go in with the ink color, just a little umbrella finial on both of those. So now, while that's like drying and settling, I'm gonna take, I'm gonna go back to a bigger brush, and I'm gonna take the Jane Davenport, well, I'm gonna just take this color that's on here. I'm gonna add a whole bunch of water to some of it, and get a very light color. So the more, generally speaking with watercolor, the more water you add, the lighter the shade is of color. And I'm gonna put just a little bit, I don't want too much, that's actually too much. And I wanna suggest a shadow for this white umbrella, just put a little bit, and then pull the pigment up with water, again a little bit, pull it up with water. There's a water puddle right there, so I'm gonna dry it with my rag. I'm gonna grab a little bit of that same color that we're using, suggest the little kind of flap that's in the middle of the umbrella. I'm gonna do the same thing up here, switch back to my little tiny, teeny, tiny brush, grab a little bit darker shade of that tone that we're using to just refine the outlines and some things, that little puddle right there, I've gotta, I got it, I have to dry it, hold on. Okay, okay, now we're gonna go into the same ink color, the dark blue-gray, get my bigger round brush here, add some touches of this dark color to the background. I'm not sure this is a successful paint study, as much as an interesting experiment, but that's what these are about, these are not about perfection, so I don't even want you to go there. Don't beat yourself up about it, just experiment and play. I'm gonna take a little bit of this bright, bright green, a little bit of that color to some, like the green umbrella, we've got a bright pink on here. I'm gonna grab some yellow ochre. This is definitely like the kind of little painting study that you could do maybe when you're out at a cafe with friends, you could draw some notes in the margin. I think it's a cute little painting. Let's see what it looks like when we pull the tape off, but let's dry it first. Okay, before we even pull all the tape off, I can tell you that I'm not a super big fan of just using these colors together without some pop of something, but it's an interesting experiment. And see, as I pull the tape off, it's more interesting without the tape on there. So that is painting number 13, 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, 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.