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1. Introduction : Hi, I'm a Traska watercolor
artist and illustrator. Also, I teach classes
online and in person. I'm an artist ambassador
for World Watercolor Month, a global movement which
happens every July. July is the World
Water Card Month and this class was inspired by
this beautiful movement. This year, the World
Water Car Month movement is turning ten years. To celebrate this
beautiful anniversary, I wanted to publish a 31
day challenge where we follow the prompts of this beautiful movement
and paint every day. And I hope you're journey. If you're watching this later, you probably will see
the entire challenge right in front of you so you can watch
more videos, paint more. I'm so excited you're here. Thank you so much for joining. Let's get started.
2. Supplies: So for this challenge, we will be focusing
on brush control. So to get familiar
with our brushes. And of course, as always, we'll be practicing
using the amount of right amount of water and
paint in our work painting. So that's the main focus, doesn't have to be perfect, but it's important to practice. So we'll be focusing on painting at least a
little bit every day. And if you feel like painting
for longer amount of times than these videos,
then keep painting. Wonderful. But at
least a little bit, if it's a few minutes a day, will add to the
overall progress. So for today's class, we'll be using any
pins you have. These are all my pins so I
can play colors and brushes, I pick all three
brushes I usually use. So it's number eight. Number four and number one. I leave a medium
and small brush. Also, we need paint palette, water, paper towel,
and for paper, I just cut watercolor
paper in four, so we ended up with these kind of cards for each day
of the challenge. But you can use a sketchbook
too if you feel like that's suitable for you.
Let's get started.
3. Day 1 - Radiant: H so the first thing will be painting for this
challenge is the word radiant. And for this, I thought
we can paint a star. So I'm taking this
yellow orange color from one of my palettes. And first what we do, we just make a little circle
with watery paint. And then I'll just start
jacking the paint out. It's a very nice brush
control exercise. And of course, it's
not about perfection. You can churn paper. And next what I want to add to this radiant star is
sun dogs in between. In between each arrays. So, this is what came to my
mind when I heard a ratio.
4. Day 2 - Espresso: So second word of a
challenge is espresso, and to paint a cup
of espresso coffee, we'll use some sepia. And, again, it's a
brush control practice. So we'll go freehand
without any pencils. And yes, of course, it's not perfect but
that's not the point. And then I'll take
a little bit of parosiena W sepas ever. A little warmer shade of brown, then sepia, and then
add some coffee. This part just a tiny and take some colour
off for a full. And the last thing
which I want to add, just a little Irad espresso cups. And this is our Espresso board. Okay. Okay.
5. Day 3 - Ripple: So a lot of my artwork is
whimsicals and for ribo, which is the next
word of a challenge, I wanted to just
paint a little frog. So we start with this simple
shape of a frog snooze. Then we make an
arch for the eye. So this is a Froi. And then I'll take some blue. And the painting of a ripple. Very simple, very fast. And this is it.
6. Day 4 - Fade: Next word in a challenge
is fade as day four, and it was such a great
opportunity to show how to make a gradient to go from a darker color to a lighter
color in watercolor. We'll start with dark blue. Dark, I mean, very thick paint. And to make it fade
into lighter color, I'll just add water underneath. And then we'll just
turn the paper tone, and then I'll drain my
brush in a paper tone and I'll just help it come down gradually fading with
movements like this and horizontal shoe this
is our dark blue fading into a lighter
blue colour to make painting with
some interest, I thought we can add some
silhouettes underneath. So with a smaller brush, take dark blue and
make some kind of horizon and some silhouettes
of buildings and tres. Mm hmm. So this is the way
I represented with you in this challenge of word
fade fading of blue colour.
7. Day 5 - Lock: So it's day five
of our challenge and today's word is log. So for this one, pick
any color you like. I like blue, and we'll start
by painting a keyhole on the log then we'll
paint a handle. And here we have to decide
what is the shape of the t can be
something like this. And again, this is just
brushstroke exercises. So do not overcomplicated
or stress about it. So just adding some decor to
make it more interesting. And this is hard.
8. Day 6 - Hat: The sixth word is head. So what she made me think
about was nom heads. So take just some red and
paint a huge triangle. Then with a small brush, I'll take some pin gray, and open some yes. As Maybe a year. Little. Not that little. A beard. So this is our hat. Thanks.
9. Day 7 - Melt: So when I read the word
melt for this challenge, first, what I thought
about was ice cream, but then it made me think about the melted clocks by famous
painter Salvador Dali. So let's try to paint
a melted clock. Our own version, of course, so I'll start to
melted clock shape, add a little. I being on top. And now I'll take
some sebo a dot on the middle a long arrow
and a short arrow. And next Cel do
with some numbers. Of course, it's nothing as good as Deli, but it's not supposed to live. It's just, it's just like fun. So this is our interpretation
of a word melt.
10. Day 8 - Tired: Oh so we are in day eight of our challenge
and the word is tired. I hope you are not tired, and the association
with this word came to me was a slow
sleeping on a bridge. So to paint him,
we'll we'll take a water osiena and we'll make this circle on the space
for his face white. And then we get down for one of the paws and here
we have a body. Like sweeping so sweet
and another. Am I not? So here I'm leaving some
space for the branch. And for the branch, we'll
take a smaller brush. A sepiumthicker pint
than previous one. This one was very way. So pins very scary. Ossa happen. Branch. Boys is
bleeding. It's okay. And of course. I'd like to catch some of
this dark paint with brush. So I can wash it in the water and these are supposed
to be dark anyway. The ice around the yes. So this is our
sleeping, cute slop.
11. Day 9 - Home: We are in day nine of our challenges going
fast and so much fun. Today's word is home, and I thought not to
paint like ber house, but instead, we can
paint a mushroom house. So we'll start with a base. I'm just using Gross iena
and very fine lines. And then with a deeper brush, I'll start painting
the hat or a mushroom. Once again, this
is for developing a confidence in your brush
strokes and my brush strokes. So just have fun and
move your hand feed. But most importantly, have fun. I might dunk a little water. Now, take a smaller brush. This was number eight. And with smaller brush, I will take blue and mix it with a little
bit of this yellow. Pinkno stairs here. So these are short videos, but if you feel like you want to keep painting,
just keep painting. And now we need a window. So I'll use the same yellow, and I'll make four dots, one, two, and four. And then with a tip of the
brush with the same grim, I'll make someone
between around. And of course, it's
bleeding, and it's okay. What else I want to do is
to add a little darker red on the bottom of the hat. So mix red with some green
complimentary colors. And just add a little bit of s. And Rossi and I just add some volume
to this mushroom. So this is our mushroom house
and day nine of our Jung.
12. Day 10 - Turtle: So we are in day ten, which sounds huge
of our challenge. And today, we have
to paint a turtle, which is pretty easy
subject to paint, and I have some green left here, so add a little
bit of blue to it. So I'll start with some general
shape on start the hand. So this is more like
a turtle sinlet and then the shell
rush control here. And then and then the Little tail. I know is a fun part
we can start talking raying the shapes
inside the shell shape. So we can be healed or
we can be just circles. So for this, I'm
using just one color. I'm keeping it simple. So um, you don't want
to give up first, so you can just, um play every morning on
this challenge where we paint interactive work this
is our little aro day ten. Yay.
13. Day 11 - Spicy: So today's word is
spicy and I couldn't come up with anything more original than just a hot pepper. And these are so easy
and fun to paint. So I'll just take a
bright red paint, and, well, just make a squiggle. But I wanted more water, so I'll go back and
add more water. So we have our pepper shape. And next we need to
take our classic green, and if it bleeds,
it's even better. I think it bleeds too
much for my liking. So I push it a
little bit. Go back. So, this looks spicy to me.
14. Day 12 - Rumble: So let's stay 12 of our challenge
and the word is rumble. It wasn't easy for me to come up with what you paint
for this word. And I um I think we can paint a thunderstorm
somewhere far away, and rumble is the sound,
which we can hear. So start by painting
a little long house. And then let's add
margarine some. It is. It's hiding behind. Maybe some fields
here. Margarine. So this is a little bit of landscape for our thunder songs. And then I'll take pins gray. I'll hesitating if I want a
big brush or small brush. And then I'll just make thunder the clouds
the knee clouds, and then brush control. Dan so. Rain and some thunder and
hopefully some rumbo. I feel like we need
a little more green here to in this house a
little bit from the still. So this is our
interpretation of rumbo.
15. Day 13 - Cavern: So it's day 13 of our challenge and
today's word is covered. So we'll start by painting a little bit of water
like a lagoon or sea. So I'm putting so
water on the paper, adding some blue to it, and making it a little lighter. A little bit of yellow
to make it more fun. And now we can take some browns. So let's start with Rosina. And then we go straight into sepia obvious I
do with big brush. And so what I was planning, this is a view from the cavern. So we're sitting in a cavern
and that's that's the view. Very free, very
cuck. Rocks here. And you can see it will
be changing as it dries. You'll feature as
many rocks with confident pretty
straight brush strokes like this they breed
into each other. And Depending on how
dry your papers. And you can leave
some wet spots. Um, this is life like this. No to perfection, of course. And Oops. What I want j of course is a little suete of of ship. What about? Services are covered. Let see.
16. Day 14 - Stretch: H so they foreseen of our challenge and
today's word is stretch, first thing which comes to
mind is a cat stretching. Let's try to paint
a freehand without any drawings in advance and
we'll see if it works out. We start with nice curve
of the body like this, and then we come back and make a pop and here we have
hand looking up here. I'll keep on. Keep
adjusting shape as we go hoping it will look right and then here we'll
have the next poll. I think it looks
kind of like a cat. And with the tail, of course. And to make the tail fluffy and you just
add water around it. The water is so it's so dirty. After it drat, you
can add some ices. I don't dry and nose.
17. Day 15 - Dusty: So on day 15, it's almost a half of
the 31 day challenge, and today's world is dusty. So I really challenged myself
with this one because I wanted to paint a horse. So start with the hunt. Without joining, it can
turn not so horsey. So this is a hunt
years. And I have. So the horses run, and that's
what makes the road dusty. That's what you strength
to represent here. So I'm using paints gray
for this entire painting. And then I have tail in
mint and I'll have a leg. And then one body. It you remember we're
just practicing brush struck here. All right. And when I have looked
like I've done the rest, I wanted just to dust and
taking a giant brush, watering, paper, and
edging more pains brray. This was scary, but it turned out to be right. So come somewhere. So this is our
dusty, dusty road.
18. Day 16 - Geode: So it's basic ten
of our challenge, and today's world is God. Goods are perfect pinks to paint in watercolor
because if you get those water blossoms which
are usually a trouble, they're perfect for Gods. So what we do, I take
the purple because the first which came to
my mind was amethyst, and we'll just dab
some caker just like most Jaslee semi Danglubt and I'm leaving some white dots in this cluster
of brush strokes. Next, what we'll do, we'll
take some water and we drag just a tiny bit of
this beautiful color. We create a pod up around it, leaving some white dry edge. Next, I'll take a hacker color, and we create another. Round of dark color. So it's usually alter. It's dark and light and dark and light. You can help watercolor or you can just let
it do its thing. You see how here it's already bleeding beautifully
all by itself. And again, can add some
water to get to lighting. Waco is perfect
for jot painting. And then dark again. And then water again, and so on until
you played enough, and then you have to
add a little bit of brown at the edge of your geode. You can put a couple
dots here and there, too to make it look
more realistic. This is our geode in Wargo.
19. Day 17 - Chair: It's day 17 of our practice
and of our challenge. Today's word is the
chair or chair. So take some brown. Once again, we're not
using any pencil drawings. We'll start painting right away. So start a seed. I want to paint
ustic looking chair with some liquors of almo. This is the shape I'm working. And then let's add
some lines here. It's looking like a chair. The back legs will
go parallel with this one and say mine. Maybe just a tiny bit lower. It's pretty hard to get the proportions right
without a pencil drawing, but this is just a
practice, so it's okay. And when other works, we go in front. And now it looks like a check. Y.
20. Day 18 - Rigid: Oh Hi. So it's day 18 of our challenge, and today we have a word rigid. And the first thing which
came to mind was gemstone. So I think it would be
fun to paint crystal. So mixing some blues here and I'll start just
some rigid forms. On the triangle, we
leave a white line, and then we can paint
the bottom part. You can play on the colors here. Then is another facet here? Might be another the one here. Making a tiny fact here. I think this is enough. But god he did work.
21. Day 19 - Perform: Hi, it's the 19th
of our challenge, and today we'll be
painting the word perform. The first thing which
comes to my mind when I think perform is
a ballet dancer, we'll be painting a
little ballet dancer in her Tutu dress. I'm mixing some magenta, some orange and now
start with skirt. Then the top part of the dress, make it a little darker
so you can see press. I'm serving a little bit of
distinct, so it's lighter. So we have a dress, and I'll take red
ochre for skin tone. So I have one leg and second cap the
arms going up. And now we'll take some
sepia and we'll pick her. And with pink will add shoes. And this is our ballerina and that's I need to close.
22. Day 20 - Kitchen: Hi, it's day 20 of our
challenge. Can you believe it? It's unbelievable how fast it
goes when we're having fun. And today we'll be
painting a kitchen. So start with line
for the counter. And then to represent
the kitchen, we'll just paint
a couple objects which we can usually
find in the kitchen. So it could be
some drawers here. And then let's
have a red teapot. Or coffee pot. Let's top. It's coffee pot. Of course, I'm
smudging a little bit. Be more careful than me. Man like this. And what eels can I
have? I have a bowl. And blue roll. And some lemons. Nice. And what else can I have? You may be a little tall, hangry. Oh, no, here. Yeah, that's it. One more lemon
which fell out of a bowl. So this is our kitchen.
23. Day 21 - Street Food: Hi. Today's date 21
of our challenge, and the word of the
day is street food. So what I want to
paint is a prattl. I'll take a beanbush, fill it with paint and water, and I'll try to make
it in one smooth move. One, 23. Well, I counted till
three, but it was one. So this is our pretzel, and we can add some crumbs here. And here. And it's still very wet. But when it dries, you
can add some dots or salt to to the pretzel itself. All right. I took some sepia and I'm trying to do
it well still, but I think it's cute. So this is a street food I
chose to paint today a pentel.
24. Day 22- Jacket: Oh Hi, today is day
22 of our challenge. I'm so glad you are
still here and let's paint a jacket today because
that's the word of the day. So we've been into
pirates and ships in our house and because
I have a toddler. And I decided to paint
some vintage jacket, which looks like
a captain jacket. So take a small brush, and I'll mostly outline it so
it doesn't bleed too much. So I'll start with color. Let's see if I can. So again, no pencil lines, just straight into the
paper with the page. Like this. I sweet medium branch. Oops. And then I'll take
orange along and I'll add some fun details
with a small brush. And I feel like I
need to heal it in sand to taste a little. So this is O jacket Ill
station for day 22.
25. Day 23 - Group: Oh Hi, so it's day 23 of our challenge and today's world is actually
a very easy one. It's group, it could be
a group of anything, group of flowers, group of
objects, group of animals. I decided we can paint
a group of snails, like garden snails because some you're keeping
it whimsy color. So I'm taking some
yellow green and For the second one, I use ro simon over a
little met of orange. So I want them kind
of to look similar, but still to be different
colors to keep it fun. And for the third one, let's use some magenta
into the same mixture. So painting this
kind of spirals is a great great exercise, job. So the KepkarOb and Let's stir magenta magenta without mixing it with anything. So here we are a group of
colorful snails. Why not? And
26. Day 24 - Avocado: Hi. So it's day 24 of our challenge, and today we're
painting avocado, and it's a pretty easy
subject to paint, but there are some
secrets to keep in mind. So we'll start with a pet. I'm taking some ro sienna
and just painting a circle. Let's absorb excess of this paint just by washing the brush and
drying it in paper town. So the paint goes
back in the brush. Then I'll take some sepia
and add a little bit of shadow che circle it shows us the volume
of the peat next, we'll paint avocado shape
with a light green, and I'm using sap
green from this set. Let's make it a little
yellower by adding some of this mixture we
had before in it. So here's a secret
we need to remember. You need to if you're
painting fast like I do, you need to leave
some white space, dry space around the pit and then you can get into
painting because otherwise, this brown on the
bleed into green. And then we just repaint the avocado itself with a big brush. So you see this white
dry spot around the pit. And next we need you to take
a very thick green paint. So we take a small brush,
not too much water. So we can take it
straight from pen. My toll it is wet. So I'll just undra a brush in a paper towel and I'll take
a pint straight from there. And then we'll make a
very thin line around. And this time it's okay if it bleeds a little bit. I think. So this is on
Avocado for day 24.
27. Day 25 - Howl: Hi. It's day 25
of our challenge, and today's word is how. And I thought I can paint a silhouette of a
wolf hauling at the moon. So let's try it again
with no pencil. So it can get tricky, but hopefully we can do it. So I'll start with
the wolf himself. Were down. A good pole. And now let's add
more to his body. A little too much. So we
should make a pole longer. I think it's pretty
close for a freehand. And now let's take some
yellow paint moon. And here we can
add some branches. So this is our wolf or some
kind of animal howling at the moon for the white how
28. Day 26 - Sea: We are in day 26 of our 31 day challenge for really getting close
to the finish line. So it's very exciting. And today's world is C. So S could be painted
in so many ways, but I want to keep it simple, so paint a little bit of
sand with just o sienna. Big crush. Needing
some white spots. And next I'll take
some bright blue. And I'll paint the sing itself. In light so it doesn't
touch this yellow. And then with a smaller brush, I'll take some coupled blue
bright but together well so. That's ice. This paper tolls make so much noise. So, now Hicks' whiz. Well, I'll help him a little
bit to go the ways I want. And then I'll take some pinks gray and download some birds. Very simple. This is R C
Illustration for J 26.
29. Day 27 - Drift: Oh Hi. It's day 27 of our challenge, and today's world is drift. And the first thing which comes
to my mind is drift wood, which is a wood which
ended up in a water at the sea or ocean and became
all smooth and interesting. So I'll just take some
very watery sepia, big brush, and I'll paint a drift piece of wood like this. Well so wet I a warmer
shade of rosena And now I'll take a kicker
paint with small brush. And I'll add some. Oh, it's a very very wet. Darker details check. So we could have wait, but we don't want to, right? Wow. I just very wavy lines
with a dark step. Next I want to add a
little bit of blue and chill a drop of forget. And show a little
bit of water here. Oh, please tumble. I. So this is my interpretation
of a word drift as a piece of drift
put in a wire. And to make it fun, we can
add a little birdie here. Oh int.
30. Day 28 - Weave: Oh Hi, we're on day 28
of our 31 day challenge, and today's world is weave. So what came to my mind
was weaving flower crumbs. So, what we'll do, we'll paint a flower crown. And we'll start the
middle of the flower. I just taking some orange with a small brush and
putting some dots in it. And then with a medium brush, I'll take some magenta. And it's watering. So just make petals. And I think that yellow
should bleed into the petals. And then I'll take some green
and we'll show the stem. Now we can paint
the next flower. I took some red. One petal. Petals. Midas sometime to keep
it in a crown shape. Maybe my middle
of a flower here. Some blue flour. Make some pink. Small flowers. Just shapes. So bloom here. Then I'll take more bee and
keep eating stems which are weaving between them
and more leaves. And now I want to add
hair to show it's a girl. So just fell this with osiana then I'll add some waves of osiana here. And with, um with red ochre, I'll show a shoulder. Thank you. Maybe some blue dress. Why not? So this is the flower crown
for our board with on day 28.
31. Day 29 - Submerge: H Hi. We're in day 29
of our challenge. My paper is getting worn here, but today's word is submerge. And for that word, I was thinking about mermaid who jumps in the water
and submerges and we can just see
the end of a tail. So let's paint that. We'll use some seal. Color with a little
bit of violet. Gives us a beautiful blue. And we'll start with
the medium brush, and we pin the tail. Just the end of. Caravan will take a big brush. We'll add brush drops like this. So it is submerged. Now we can add darker color. And maybe some splashes. So theses J 29 and
word submerge in what.
32. Day 30 - Ornate: Hi, our challenges
are almost over today's day 30 off
it 31 day challenge, and it's a little bit sad, but it's amazing but we got this far and today's
word is ornate. And I was thinking we can
just paint as ornate frame, which I love painting, so I took you can take
any color you want. I took just dark th classic
thin and did a dot. And the n an oval. And then here we can have. Both. And another dog. Then we'll f and start
dating some ornate elements. Whatever you feel. And in the frame itself, we can add a shuett on a bird. In. Si waiting to the shape until I'm happy. So this is our word
ornate in Watercolor. M
33. Day 31 - Tower: Oh Congratulations. This is the last day
of our challenge. Thank you so much for
getting this far with me. And today's word is tower. So for this word, I thought
we can paint a chess piece, the tower one, and we can see I want to end some
branches or flowers around it. So I'll take a pins gray
and I'll start at the top, which looks like a tower top. Me this. Chess pieces are great to practice Bastrop because they have
to be symmetrical. So it's a nice practice of your hand eye coordination and mind So this is amazing when you got to
the end of a change. And, um its so exciting. Thank you so much for
spending all this time with me and participating
in World War one. I hope you did, or
maybe you're watching this later and just made
some personal change, which is also exciting and fun. So this is our tower. Yeah. But some laurel
check. We did it. We completed the entire
31 day challenge. I hope you had fun
painting with me. Thank you so much, and I'll
see you in my next video, but I'll thank you again. Let me just finish some Ds. And some sale Broers,
bushes, C fruits. And we did it. Yes.
Irina Trzaskos, Watercolor Artist & Illustrator
