Developing the Habit of Painting Daily | 14 Days Challenge

1. Welcome to this Class: Have you ever got excited with daily painting challenges but always failed to complete them? Or you get really hyped at the beginning, but find it hard to finish because your studies or work is on the way? Then this class is for you. Hey, I'm Bianca an aspiring watercolor artist from the Philippines. I've been painting with watercolors for the past three years, every single day. And no, I'm not always inspired, nor motivated. But I made it the habit and the commitment to myself to paint every single day. It started with a simple question. Will I be able to paint daily for a week? Then weeks to months and months turned to years. They say that magic happens when you do something daily and really enjoyed the process. And I can attest to that. I started with really simple doodles for my daily exercises, and now I can paint full compositions on my own. This habit helped me achieve my bigger goals, such as participate in exhibits, painting on bigger paper. And my dream job, teaching arts. This class is for every one who wants to develop the daily painting habit, but find it challenging because of responsibilities and priorities. I will share with you how I was able to paint or draw even if there are days when I was too busy, tired, sick, feeling lazy, unmotivated, traveling, or even during my wedding day. I will provide you with daily tips that you can apply straight away and prompts on what to paint. I particularly work with watercolors, but I encourage you to paint using your own style and medium of choice. No prior experience in drawing and painting is needed for this class. Painting daily doesn't mean that you have to finish one painting every day and that it should look good. In fact, I have paintings which took me weeks or even months to complete. So don't stress yourself out and think, Oh no, I need to finish 14 paintings for this class? The project for this class is a collage of mini paintings that took less than five minutes to complete. So as long as you can set aside few minutes daily to develop a new habit, you're good to go. Once you develop this daily painting habit, you can apply the same principles on reading, journaling, learning a new language, and any habit that you want to cultivate. So let's get started. 2. Class Project: Along with tips on how you can conquer each day, I will provide you with daily prompts on what to paint and a painting demo so that you can follow along. Please check the projects and resources tab where you will find the prompt list and a template for planning this out. This template is inspired by the book smarter, faster, better by Charles Duhigg. And it helped me a lot to get started. By filling out this form, We will be clear on their goal. We will identify the first step, recognized distractions and how to handle them, measure success, and decide on what to do next. I've edited this a bit and included examples to guide you in completing the form. I strongly encourage you to fill this up before doing day 1. The class project is a compilation of mini paintings done within 14 days. All paintings were done with watercolors, but I encourage you to use any medium of your choice. For those who are using the same medium, here are the materials that I use. I have here my watercolor sketch book, 300 GSM, and 50% cotton. You may use whatever paper that you have paint squeezed out of tube and let dry overnight. I also have my white pigment here. The brush that I mentioned in the form, a colored mechanical pencil. We won't draw a serious sketches, don't worry. A ceramic palette where I will mix my colors. A rag to tap of excess water, and a water jar where I will rinse my brushes. You may upload your daily progress or share with us, a compilation of your paintings. Either way, I'm excited to see your artwork. Please upload them in the projects gallery, and let's appreciate our fellow artists work. 3. Kaizen Method: Let's talk about how it all started and which method kick-started my journey. Three years ago, I was working two jobs, a graphic design job and a manual work. I was the breadwinner. Sometimes I need to take care of my two-year-old niece. I am in charge of the laundry, dishes, and cleaning some parts of the house. I am applying for a student visa, hoping that I can study abroad. I'm in a long distance relationship with my boyfriend. I make time to call my family, hang out with my friends and I go to church every Sunday. Then I thought this needed to change. I need a "me time" - a time to pause to reflect a mini vacation where I could do something that I really enjoy just for the sake of it. That's when I discovered kaizen. You will find different definitions of this Japanese method. But my key takeaway is this. If you want to successfully develop a habit, you need to start small, simple, short, and scheduled. Take one minute every day to do that habit and try to be consistent with the schedule. In time, that one minute will turn into 3, 5, 10, 20 minutes a day, even an hour. In my case, I can squeeze in that one minute after dinner. When all the work and chores and studies are done, I set 7PM as my schedule and using the form that I showed in the previous video, I started this journey of painting daily. The key is really to keep it small, simple, short and scheduled kiss. That's what I did. I started with doodles. I painted Minis for one minute a day. And the next thing I knew, it's been three years. And now I can paint on my own without someone guiding me. On an average of 15 minutes on weekdays and half an hour on weekends. If someone told me, starting today, you need to paint for at least 30 minutes, it should look really good. And you should do it for at least three years. I would have said no. That sounds ridiculous and impossible given my schedule. So that key is really to start small, which leads me to the next video. 4. When We're Too Excited: We're usually so excited when starting a new habit. But that excitement fades as time passes that we fail to cultivate that habit. Here's what I did. And I was just starting out in developing this habit. I focused on simple shapes and learned how to paint those shapes in different ways. Few months ago, I was so excited and learning Japanese that I set aside an hour to learn vocabulary, writing system and grammar. It was on a weekend, so I have lots of time. The next day I studied for around 30 minutes. On the third day, which was a Monday, I only managed 15 minutes of study, followed by ten minutes for the rest of the week. By the following week was so demanding that I only get to study for 5 minutes each day. And now I have no time for it. Psychology says that it's easier to build the habit when you start small and require minimal effort to do it. And I have proven it again and again and again. The thing is when you're just starting, that habit is not at the top of your priority list. So when things at the top of that list require your attention, you ought to do them and forget about those at the bottom. So I know that you might be too excited to start this challenge that you are tempted to set aside 30 minutes to an hour of painting but I encourage you to do the opposite. Keep it small, paint, something really simple. And for a short time, only, say one to two minutes. That would do. Would you rather that your graph looks like this or this? See you in the next video. And let's start painting. 5. Paint: Shapes: This is how the collage is going to look like. So let's take this time to plan this out. I have here my watercolor pad, and I will draw five rectangles alternatively, to make space for the other mini paintings. You can do the same or you can use mini paper per painting instead. Our prompt for the first day is flower shapes. I'll start off a pastel pink background. I'm mixed quin red with white to achieve this. Since my goal is to get to know this brush, I will also use this one to paint the background shapes too. If your goal is different, you can use a bigger brush for the background, for an easier application, whichever you prefer. As a rich the bottom of the rectangle, I'll rinse my brush and loaded with water for a washed out look. Let's leave this to dry and paint our flower shapes. Don't worry about these two boxes already colored in - those are for days 5 and 7. And I will show you how I painted them on those days. I just got impatient with the drying time. And if you feel the same, you can color in those two boxes with light blue, or you can grab a hairdryer to speed up the process. Or practice painting the flower shapes on a different paper while letting the background shape dry. I made the mess with the first flower, but that's totally fine with me. There's a reason why we're painting the shape repeatedly. One is to help us relax and the other is for us to figure out the easiest and best way to paint this shape. Continue doing this until you almost filled up the rectangle with enough space in between the flowers. I also painted them off grid and not perfectly aligned. For a more interesting look, we'll add more details on this during the other days. Once done, no matter how excited we are, Let's wait for tomorrow to do that painting for day 2. See you and good job on conquering Day 1. 6. When We're Undecided: Here's what I do when I don't know what to paint. Or I've spent so much time deciding on what to grade versus the actual time of making the art. I use prompts. The greatest amount of wasted time is the time Not Getting Started. Ever experienced when you have this urge to draw or paint. But again, decide what to create. The next thing you know, you've been scrolling through social media 15 minutes and then you've got discouraged because some artists are ridiculously good at what they do. Then you receive a notification from Merck or school requiring your attention or your fat demands care. So you have to drop your brush or a pencil and do the other thing. Then you feel frustrated because you could have used that 15 minutes and making your art instead of browsing through and looking for something to bank. I have these like that. Many the haze are like that. Statistic show that the longer you delay before doing a certain task or a chasing after a goal, the less likely you are to complete the task and achieve the goal. During my first weeks of developing this habit, I use prompts. These paintings are based on daily prompts by robots or color group, while this ones are based on weekly prompts by Instagram friends, draw a week. I have listed, is it to follow the prompts to get you started with your daily painting habit. But you may also decide on your own. For example, you might want to paint roses for a whole week or studied painting faces for a whole month. In this case, there's no need for you to list daily prompts, but your task now is to choose your reference photo if you need one, and read them out. I'm currently studying how to paint loose florals is 0 every Sunday I make time to browse and choose photos that I'm going to paint, print them out. And I'm set for the week. By planning ahead of time. I don't have to stress every day what debate. 7. Paint: Sakura Blossoms: Our data's prompt is Safra blossoms are cherry blossoms. Using white. I'll mix it with pink to achieve this pastel color. With quick dabbing strokes, I will paint an impression of the flowers and petals. Just an impression. So no need to go for a realistic look. You may go extra by painting a whole cherry blossom tree or a copy what I'm doing here and really enjoy the process. You are already on day two, so good job and showing up and developing this habit. I loaded my brush with fewer Quinn read the bank bugs and make the center of some flowers darker. Again, this is just an impression. They're not even shaped like flowers, but I'm good with that. For the branch, I'm using a brown here. If yours is not as dark as you like it, you can try mixing brown and blue for a more muted or desaturated brown mixture. I'm painting the branch and trying to connect the flowers that I painted earlier so that they don't look like they're floating in the air. For a more interesting look, try bein thing broken lines. Do. Just a few more touches. And let's call it a day. Congrats on conquering the two. You're doing great. See you tomorrow and let's discuss what to do when we're too busy to paint. 8. When We're Too Busy: Crazy busy days. Try the brush dance exercise and apply the One Minute Rule. Tell yourself combined, paid for one minute, just one minute, and you're done. And guess wide, we're often than not, that one minute turns into 3 and then 5 and sometimes even 10 minutes. You might be watching this tutorial doing another task, and that's totally fine. Priorities, responsibilities and commitment demand our time. But by applying the one-minute rule, I'm sure you can still squeeze it in your schedule and work on developing this habit of daily painting or a drawing. Objects in motion than to stay in motion. The trick is to just get started. Don't think, and just do it. Sal yourself. One minute. And that's it. If it feels horrible after one minute, then by all means stop. By. You feel like you want to paint and keep going for a few more minutes, then do it. If in case one minute is still too much for you, then you can lower the bar goal for thirty-seconds. Remember the foreign debris field out earlier, we set a minimum amount of time for us to call it a day. If one minute is too short, then adjust. If it's too long, then go lower. Just don't skip a day. Okay. I believe in you. 9. Paint: Brush Dance: Brush Dance or brushstroke exercise, is a perfect way to get to know your brush. Let's try and keep it to one minute, especially if you're actually visit today. But you still want to paint. I'll use Payne's gray and dark brown for my brush dance exercise. And if you'll notice, I'm using a limited palette, a pink, brown, blue, and some violence. This is also a way to start small. By choosing few colors. We're removing the stress of having to decide which colors to use. I'm going thick, thin and thick. By controlling the pressure on the brush and dragging it slowly. I'll alternate the volume of those lines. Do. If you want to paint some more, you can try the other brush exercises I showed on the previous video or add details on our day one painting and tried to paint tiny dots. The goal is to really just make the brush dance on the paper and discover the strokes it can make. You conquered the three. See you tomorrow. 10. When We Feel Lazy: When I feel lazy eye being semi abstracts, rainy days, visa days, cozy days, period days. These days make me feel extra lazy that all I want to do is curl up in bed and read manga. I think it was on my second month of this David painting habit when I felt extra lazy. It was during a rainy season or what we call the bad weather. Luckily, I ever heard about the lazy jar. Their rule is symbol. You have to pay for each day that you miss drawing or painting. There are apps and websites for this too. But I personally prefer a physical job that I can see set a duration for me. It was a month. And the amount that you wouldn't want to lose $25 or 1000 passes for me. That was my a weekly allowance back then. And decide who would the beneficiary will be? It was my boyfriend and tell him or her that he or she gets to keep whatever is in the jar after month and that he or she can spend it on anything he or she wants. Do you think I still felt lazy after setting the jar off of cars, knives? I belong to lose my weekly allowance in a day just because I didn't feel like painting. Sometimes we need this kind of motivation. We all hate to lose money, especially if you work for it. So after month, I am happy to give an empty lazy jar to my boyfriend. See you in the next video and that's paint. Okay. 11. Paint: Waves: I thought it would motivate you once that lazy jar is set up. So let's paint something interesting, a meanie, kinda Galois wave. I will use three colors here, from light to dark. Manganese blue, ultramarine blue, and Payne's gray. Let's start by outlining the wave with a semicircle shape. It's a good practice for painting lines. Thin lines do. As we reach the top. Randomly paint squiggly, curvy lines to mimic the wave, have fine and this bark, just an impression of the wave will do. Then let's call her in December circle shape, starting with the lightest color, Manganese Blue. While this is wet, load the brush with your midtone color, ultramarine for me and let it bleed with the first one. Then do the same with the darkest color. Since I'm going from light to dark, there's really no need to rinse the brush in between. Now add tiny details and shadows for a more complex look. Those are just random shapes, but the painting, lots of them. Our painting looks complicated. I'll introduce dark colors of the top do for contrast. Well done conquering the four. I'll see you tomorrow. And let's find out what to do when we're not motivated. 12. When We're Unmotivated: When you can't find the motivation to paint, paint something familiar. Roses are the first flowers I've been dead, so I'm quite familiar with them. There are so many reasons why I get unmotivated. I'm subconsciously compared my work with others. I got rejected and an exhibit. My previous painting socks or I'm just filling down generally. But still, I don't want to break the daily painting habit. So what do we do? We use positive reinforcements in contrary to the lazy jar, where we will be punishing ourselves for not doing a task. This time, we will reward ourselves for completing a task. The thought of completing a 14 day challenge can be daunting for others. But let's break it down. Think of it as painting once a day. Let's make it even smaller. Think of it as fainting for at least one minute a day. Then pair that with a small reward that you will surely enjoy. For example, if you manage the pain today, you can watch an episode, play again. It chocolates, drink your second cup of coffee at Decartes or shop online, or any other thing that build be a reward for you. It might seem silly to reward ourselves by completing a task, but trust me, it is a really effective, it's a positive reinforcement. What reward are you thinking off? Give it a shot. 13. Paint: Tori: Our prompt for today is story gate, a famous Japanese symbol that you must be familiar with. Let's start with a light gray background. This is a combination of pink and Payne's gray. But feel free to choose your own mixture. Just make sure to make it the light by adding lots of water. Leave this to dry. And let's add details. Light blue for my moon, with a drop of ultramarine blue. For a guitar engaged itself. I'll use Payne's gray and a mixture of quinn red and ultramarine blue for a variation later. I am slowly getting to know this brush and that was my goal. And I felt sorry that I judge it the first time I used. It. Turns out it wasn't really that bad. I just didn't give it enough chance for me to know what it can and cannot do. Beyond the silhouette shape of the landmass. And as we rich the right side, I load my brush with that violet mixture. So it's not too monotonous or barring paintings structures has always been a challenge for me. So I'm thinking of my reward right now to give me an onset of motivation. Here we go. Beyond the tare gate. You can paint it have like me or being did full if you love an extra challenge, I'm carefully painting this and trying not to make a mistake. But if you do, that's totally fine. And that's it. We conquered the five. I am so proud of. You. See you tomorrow and let's discuss what to do when we feel tired. Don't forget to give yourself a small reward today. Again. 14. When We're Too Tired: When you're physically or emotionally drained out, I recommend painting random shapes. It might be work, school, chars and other responsibilities that demand our time, attention and energy. But they're adjust those days when we're really tired. All we wanna do is sleep, recharge, and rest. One common misconception about daily painting habit is that you have to finish one successful painting a day. Wrong. It doesn't work that way. If it's just a doodle, then it's possible. But if it's a complete composition, it's not realistic. Unless you're a full-time artist. I have been things that took a week to finish, a month to complete, and the one that took two months before I can wrap it that those right at times when I don't need to decide on my prompts and blend out 12 paint next. I just spend few minutes each day to pick up the brush and start painting on the same artwork every single day. When I'm tired, I usually paint shapes. Basic shapes are easy to paint and finish. Null need to think too much and bland the composition, and they don't even need to look good. This trick really worked for me. Bear it with the One Minute Rule and tell yourself just for one minute, you can rest. Okay. And I'm sure you won't skip a day no matter how tired you feel and good job on pushing yourself a little bit harder. 15. Paint: Bamboo: Bamboo, a perfect prompt for a tiring day. That's manganese blue plus payne's gray for a mid-tone color. Using long strokes, paint, bamboo shapes. The preview earlier shows two layers of bamboo stems, but we'll work on the second layer or some other day. For now. Let's keep it to a minimum and paint a simple composition. Once I have three to four stems, I can now work on the leaves. Another exercise on painting thin lines. This is just an impression of bamboo. So no need for a realistic look. Good job on conquering basics and painting. Even when you feel tired from all the responsibilities and commitments. See you tomorrow. 16. When We're Too Sick: But what if your sake and you can paint anything descent, then don't, don't try to paint something beautiful. I manage to record myself during one of my migraine attacks. I feel like vomiting, my eyes hurt and my head is throbbing. I know it would take time before the pain killers work. But when it does, I need to report to my job. This is when I find visualization been really helpful. I imagined myself getting up, slowly going to my table, picking up a round brush, finding myself a piece of paper, opening my tin palette and start googling. Then I will feel happy about it because I was still able to paint. Once done, imagining myself doing it. I got up and painted it. It was a terrible, ugly and dull painting. Well, at least for me, when I'm sick, as long as I can still sit up, hold the brush, and I'm not into hospital. I paint how are what I feel with doodles or a semi abstract? It's impossible to paint something beautiful and acceptable in my own standards every day anyway. So I'll just accept the fact that I'll make bad art today. Be good z or self, especially when you're not 100% filling okay. Physically or emotionally, and just paint what or how it feels. I know you can do it. 17. Paint: Scenery: Our prompt is a scenario. Let's start by painting a rectangle with dull gray colors for the background. I'd like to use dark colors when portraying how or what it feels when I'm sick. Though, our prompt is a sensory. This is rather dark and rich, does not suit the standard bright landscape colors, but perfect when painting ugly and not so good feelings. That's a mixture of beings green with a bit of hematite, genuine. I'm neutral color, but granulating properties. Let's paint a silhouette of a mountain with trees on top. And don't try to make it look perfect. It doesn't need to be. Those squiggly lines are a good illustration of these. Do quick dabbing motion to suggest the trees at the top. And you have conquering day 7. We're halfway there. And I'm so proud of you. See you tomorrow and let's discuss what to paint when we're not in the mood. 18. When We're Not in the Mood: Not in the mood. Swatch, mix and match colors and call it a day. Yes. That's what I literally do. Before. I don't consider swatching as a part of my daily painting habit, but I soon realized its importance when doing mean these studies. There are so many pigments available in the market, but I don't need all of them through swatching, I was able to mix and match colors, tester compatibility, and up with my own favorite color combinations. When I was a beginner, I find that really frustrating to mixing greens and Violet's. But through swatching, I found my own perfect mix. Sometimes I'm too excited to finish a painting that I often overlooked, the planning stage, which includes doing many studies and creating a bounded by mixing colors. Later did I realize that it would save me so much time if I knew my colors. Swatching can be easily done even if you're not in the mood. In fact, I'm often surprised with color combinations that I thought wouldn't work together, like cadmium orange and ultramarine blue or alizarin crimson and very gangrene. Give it a try. It might feel like you're just lazy swatching, but consider this as a part of your learning process. 19. Paint: Swatch: Time to do little swatches. I mentioned earlier that I am using a limited palette. I will consistently use them all throughout the project. The same Binks, browns and blues, and swatching will help me discover different mixtures that I haven't tried before. This is green, red, and I will try to come up with purple and semi neutral mixtures, weight bearing it up with different blues and grays. Manganese, blue, Payne's gray, and indigo, and later on even mix them all. Then I'll paint a small rectangle per color on the top left corner of my sketchbook. If you want. You can also paint them on the separate paper. You might have noticed that the preview earlier showed patterns over this watches. We will work on that on a separate day. Have fine doing your swatches. And remember, this del counts as a part of the daily painting process. Sometimes I even swatch to give second chances to the colors that I hated when they first tried them. Like cadmium orange, Sir William blue, that I've added the Davis very end carboxyl violet. Thanks for watching. I found there perfect pair. And my first impression with them change. Well, dine on conquering the eight. See you tomorrow and let's find out what to paint when we're stressed. 20. When We're Stressed: There are so many stress triggers and I really find patterns to calm me down. Seth Godin, define stress as the result of one thing or feeling like you have to do two things at the same time. You may not want to do those things, but you feel the pressure that you must. At the same time, your confidence dips and you're not even sure that you can do those things well or on time? I can totally relate to that. I easily get stressed when it's time to paint, but suddenly work demands my adventure. Work from home set up. I wanted to paint. But the HENI the goo, my job even if it's overtime because my work visa bills, stressful. Working overtime also means that there's less time to paint and the quality of the might suffer. So what do I do? I choose which one to do first, work or paint. Some days. I choose to paint first. Remember when I told you that painting is a mini vacation for me. It's a time for me to pause and somewhat meditate. And it's a way for me to relieves stress. So I tell myself, okay, I will work over time. But before that, I'll paint for a few minutes. The other option is to choose work first and remind myself of all for us, quote, do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. Working is what I have to do and fainting is what I want to do. Hello. 21. Paint: Pattern: Today's prompt is a Japanese Inspired wave pattern. Let's start with a light blue background. We're using a smaller rectangle. This time. We have already conquered more than half of our 14, the target. So it's about time to remind ourselves of the goal that we set. Mine was getting to know this brush. And I will keep that in mind. Right. While our background is still wet. Let's warm up by retouching one of our previous paintings. I guess the mean, the bamboo painting here needs another darker layer. We'll be painting thin lines later. So Better Alarm up. This also reminds us that you don't need to finish a painting in one sitting. What their colors, like other mediums are very workable. In fact, there are days when all I do is retouch and old artwork. Just because I cannot get myself to start a new line, right, for a dominant touching, but the background is still wet. So let's take this time to practice painting thin lines. This is one of my frustrations when I was a beginner. It is so hard to paint thin lines and apply light pressure on the brush. It's totally different from holding a pencil or a pen. So on a separate paper, Let's practice the wave pattern. If you can't paint thin lines and you feel that you'll be frustrated later. You may switch to a pen and use that to draw the pattern over a watercolor background. It's called ink and wash. A combination of watercolor and ink. The background is dry now and later Randy, just make sure that the orange and has completely dried or the lines will bear out. Start by painting a single row of waves and alternate them. As you add another layer on top. Make sure that the colors you're using are darker than the background layer. If you're using a Ben for your ink and wash pattern, go for black, or reverse the colors and use dark background and white ink. Ben. Add another wave under the first one using a lighter color for a contrast. Convenient painting these patterns until the filled up the box or until you're satisfied. I find painting repetitive patterns like this. So calming that it relieves my stress. So long as I'm not aiming for are perfect painting. I hope that your stress levels will decline to focus on the process and not on the output. Observe how the B3 apps with the paper. How the pressure affects the brush stroke and do not rush. Good job on conquering the nine. See you tomorrow and let's discuss what to do. What do we got no time to pain. Especially during big events are celebrations. 22. When We Have No Time: For days when you think that you have no time, try Chongqing are breaking it down into smaller pieces. When memorizing numbers. Instead of 000 52337692, wouldn't it be easier if we memorize it as 000 52337692. You can apply the same concept with your schedule. Instead of thinking of it as Y big busy day, like your exam day, graduation day, birthday. Think of it in terms of chance. Would you believe that I was still able to be on my wedding day? Here's what I did. I checked the scheduled first to give me an idea on how busy that they wouldn't be. It's a small garden wedding which will start at 10 AM. So the schedule looks like this. Looking at this, when can they possibly paint undisturbed? Not brushed, not too tired. And of course, I don't want to misplace my art materials with all the chaos. So I decided it should be done first thing in the morning before the makeup artist arrives. The first chunk. I woke up 15 minutes earlier. No one. So we get and I started to paint my wedding bouquet. It would have been impossible if I haven't planned it out. But you don't need to start the new painting. Whenever you have a big day coming and you think you've got no time divided into smaller chunks. Decide when you will do your habit before or after the event. Find yourself on old artwork that you can retouch and work on it for a few minutes. 23. Paint: Bamboo: Since we're assuming that you've got no time to paint today. Let's read thought. A previous painting with dine. Say this bamboo here will look livelier with more shoots and leaves. You may choose another painting to retouch or add the dose do, but keep it short. I worked on an additional project on top of my day job recently. That all I could do is rethought all the artworks for two weeks. I don't feel guilty about that because I still got the daily and practice my brushstrokes. So when you got no time, go ahead and look for a painting to rework on, and good job on conquering the 10. See you tomorrow and I'll share with you what I do when I'm traveling. 24. When We're Traveling: What they feared traveling, how can you possibly faint or draw? Try implementation, intention, or creating a mental contract? It's a self-regulatory strategy in the form of if then plan, which can lead to better goal attainment or habit formation. This was introduced by psychologies either Gollwitzer in 1999. Some examples specific to this class. When they get home from work, I'll paint first before doing chores. Or if we have a missing in the afternoon, then I'll paint after breakfast. Or if I have a long lunch break, I will eat fast and do my quick painting by anticipating what will happen. You have a clear plan on when to do the task. In this case, painting. This strategy has been used to count there for potential problems in achieving your goal. Failing to get started, getting their rail, becoming rigid, or overextending yourself. So when you're traveling, you have to determine your cue for it. The habit, when our best man gifted me and my hasn't been a trip to Japan. It was our dream country by the way, I have to decide when I could possibly paint considering the early flights, the travel fatigue, being overwhelmed. So I made a mental contract every after dinner while our friends are planning out what to do the next day, I will paint, I guess, still talk for helping things so it wouldn't be unbothered to them. I even added, as soon as we got to the house where we're staying, I will unpack my travel art materials, please them beside my bed. As a reminder, it worked like a gem with that methyl contract. I don't need to decide throughout the day. When will I paint? Can I paint now? What if they suddenly invited us to eat ramen? Can I still paint and fill so tired? Shall I beam? Now? To make it even more effective, you can announce your contract and let others hear it. They might even hold you accountable and ask you, Hey, I thought you said you're going to paint after dinner. There were four of us. So I have three heads to remind me of my mental contract. It is so effective that I still do it almost every night and announce my plans for the next day. 25. Paint: Mountain: I think it's only fitting to paint mountains or clouds when traveling or anything that caught your attention with your destination. You may even Bain something you ate from that place. Our prompt for today is a mountain. So let's paint line. I'll even add a moon behind it to make it more interesting. And once again, using my limited palette of blues and violet, That's Manganese Blue with lots of water. For the base of the mountain. Lost a bit of indigo at the bottom. I'm trying to illustrate a snow-capped mountain here. Going darker for the background. That's Ultramarine blue with a bit of Payne's gray. I will use the white of the paper for the moon and leave out a circle shape. If you find this too challenging, paint, the whole background, let it dry and use white paint for the moon. You know what's more fine? When you get the chance to travel again. Try painting on the spot, or what they call plein air. Painting outdoors. It's a lot more challenging. But you will learn lots through observation. Your painting, what's actually in front of you, rather than drawing from a photo or a painting from imagination. So shadows will change as the sun sets or rises. So better, big fast. Let me know if you've already tried this. I've tried it once or twice. Lifting some colors here to redefine the mountain shape. I accidentally connected the background and the mountains so the colors are bleeding in. Well done. Finishing the 11. See you tomorrow and let's find out what to do when we got extra time. 26. When We Got Extra Time: This is the time when you can experiment, learn a new technique, try something complicated, or even finish a painting. But if there's one thing that you should do when you have extra time, it is thinking that, Oh, I will paint the whole day so that I can skip the next few days. Please go do that. It doesn't work that way. To put it simply, would you take seven tablets of vitamin C and assuring that your immunity will be boosted for the next seven days? Or would you eat seven full meals a day to give you energy for the whole week? Instead, for days when you got extra time, I recommend finishing a painting or a trying out the new technique. Negative painting, glazing, scratching, but still keep it short. 10 minutes maximum or whatever your schedule allows. At this point, after three years, I can spend five hours a day just working on a single painting, mainly because it's an exhibit, peas or my entry for a competition. But it took years for me, for watercolor painting to move up my priority list. Keep it short and do it daily. 27. Paint: Cute Girl: Our prompt for today is a cute girl. You meet, paint this when you've got extra time. And we'll also add the details on other paintings. Let's start with a flash mixture using Quinn red plus a bit of yellow. I dropped a bit of pink for the blush, will be doing a cartoon like character. So don't stress out about getting the perfect skin tone mixture. Next. Since this is still wet, Let's work on her hair accessory. I'll use blue for that. And with great dabbing motion, I will suggest a flowery hair clip. Feel free to design your own character as you see fit, or experiment and try out different techniques and color combinations. As they wait for this to dry, we can add the details on our previous paintings. Like this wave pattern. You may or you work on other bean things that you got or speed up the process with a blow dryer. I'm going to add more details on my cherry blossom stew. Tiny florets using dark pink and some battles floating in the air to suggest some movement. Still not dry. Let's grab our white paint and draw some patterns on our swatches. Just random ones. This might seem like we're just passing time. But I am constantly reminding myself of my goal for this 14 day challenge. And that is getting to know this brush. So I'll make different shapes. Test painting with varying pressure and even using it in adding tiny details. I suggest that you review your goal too. Why is the layer of the phase of our girl has dry and let's make some brown and blue to get a really dark mixture for the hair. You may use black if you prefer to write even change her hair color. I'll give her bands for a cute look and a bond sitting at the top of her head. Again, this is your painting, so feel free to change her hairstyle too. Using the same color. I'll draw in her eyes and lips. Don't forget that you can use a pen to draw this if painting thin lines is still hard for you. Finishing this up with a pink border to sort of follow the same of the other paintings. I'll give her a blue dress. And that's it. So more days to go. And I believe in you see you tomorrow. 28. When We're Stuck: There are times when you feel lazy, unmotivated, tired, busy. I'm inspired. All of the negative feelings rushing in. I advise that you get yourself a painting body. We are social beings. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs show that we have an innate need to feel belonged. The first few months of the pandemic was a challenging one for me. I can no longer at the workshops and paint with others in person. So I decided to teach watercolor online for me to meet. Other people will have the same passion painting. I also made the small group chat with my painting bodies. There are three of us in that group and everyone's encouraged to share their progress. Ask questions, inquire about materials and even non-related our chat. You'll see that getting a bean thing body makes developing this habit a lot easier and more fine. You can remind each other, encourage one another, do a video call and have a quick painting session and the list goes on. Now, if you don't know someone who's into art, that happened to me when I was just a beginner. You can join social media are challenges and I'm sure you'll still feel part of a bigger group. Socialize with others, appreciate their art, know their stories, and realize that you're not alone. This one that I'm working on is my piece for an art Colab. In fact, let's engage with others projects posted or will be posted on this class and encourage one another. We might not know each other personally, but thanks to technology, are able to find others who are also artistically inclined. 29. Paint: Chopsticks: Today's prompt is chopsticks. I made mistakes during the painting process. I will adjust as a goal. This first shape is supposed to be a chopstick, but I made it too thick, so I'll just make it into a box. Seems like I haven't gotten used to this brush yet. But no problem. It only shows that we will make mistakes and we should learn to let them go or embrace them as a part of the learning process. Now I'll use darker pigment and try to draw the chopsticks for the second time. Oops, I made a mistake again, but that's fine. Let's just pretend that these chopsticks are for kids. So they got to be thick for easier handling. These Mimi errors also test our creativity and imagination on how we can cover them up or handle them. Adding a shadow and a chopstick rest. And we have conquered day 13. See you tomorrow and let's discuss a trick that could help us if we tend to forget a new habit that we're developing. 30. When We're Forgetful: Here's what you can do when you tend to forget a task, set up a visual cue. I was about to sleep one night when something felt off. It's like I forgot to do something, paint. I literally jumped out of bed and paint them for at least three minutes. If painting or drawing, It's not the death of the top of your priority list. It's normal for you to forget it. But there are ways to address this. Remember the saying out of sight, out of mind. I recommend that you place your art materials where you can easily see them. This also lessens the preparation time for a painting. If this is not the NADPH, place, something that doesn't belong there, or set an alarm that this unusual for you, say 6, ten different BM. That's a good reminder that it's time to paint. You don't need to do this every day. Just some days that you feel like you will be swamped with other things and forget the habit that you're trying to develop. 31. Paint: Koi: Let's paint a coin for our last day. This is a mixture of green, red, and Payne's gray. I will paint a silhouette of the fish and drop blue colors while it is still wet. This shape is a bit challenging, but as long as it looks like a fish, we shouldn't be satisfied with that. Remember that we're here to develop the habit of being thin daily and not to create a masterpiece every single day. For additional details, I will surround our coin with bubbles. If you checked the prompt list document from the projects and resources tab, you should have seen another set of prompts for the next two weeks. You can use this or come up with your own list. But I do hope that you will continue painting daily, even for just one minute a day. To develop this habit. Once you successfully cultivate this habit, you can apply the same principles. Another habits that D1 to develop. I included a bonus topic on what to do when we miss a day and some final thoughts and key takeaways on the video, what to do next. I hope you're enjoying this class as much as I enjoyed crafting this wine. Congrats on conquering 14 days of the painting. I'm looking forward to seeing your class project, a collage of the mini paintings that we did for the past 14 days. 32. Bonus: When We Miss a Day: Now what happens when you miss a day that you stop? The you go back and reset today's wine? Or do you continue for the past three years that I've been painting? Namely, I can remember a day when I missed. But I didn't stop because that one day is nothing compared to the 100 other days when I did not skip painting. Don't be discouraged if you miss the art, do deliberately or not. We can use the Seinfeld strategy for this one. Get the colon dark, mark the day so we're able to do the daily habit. After a few these, you'll see a chain. The goal is not to break the chain. If you missed a day, knowing how long this trick was, That's your new goal to beat. It wasn't until last year when they kept a handy Colleen director record, but I paint white on my third year. I need though calendar to remind me. Painting is so hardwired in my system that it's automatic for me to grab my brush no matter how I feel, how busy I am or how unmotivated the diagonal. It has become hard for me to break this habit. The Seinfeld strategy is a double knot. The velar. If you feel accomplished by crossing out each day, it's a positive reinforcement. But if you want to avoid the pain of keeping a day and breaking this trach, then it's a negative reinforcement. I recommend getting a fiscal calendar and posting it, right? You can see it. It works as a great reminder. Do 33. What to Do Next: Congratulations on completing this class. By it, it doesn't end here. I have included a list of prompts to give you an idea on lots of pain for the next 14 days, I strongly encourage you to continue painting daily until it becomes automatic for you to grab your brush and paint no matter how you feel or how busy life gets. I have used all of these strategies all throughout my journey of developing this habit. This form really helped me get started. I paired it with prompts and a calendar to keep track of my progress. Simpler rewards like desert and punishment like the lazy jar helped me through my second month. The One Minute Rule, retouching on old artwork, creating doodles or a semi abstracts. Swatching colors, and Brush Dance exercises are my go-to. On days when I'm too tired, sick, got no time and unmotivated. I'm looking forward to seeing your bean things, so please don't forget to upload them in the project gallery, our discussions them. And let's encourage one another. We got ourselves painting bodice here, don't we? I'd also appreciate reviews to help me improve my future classes. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress. Let's make this world a little bit more colourful with our paintings. Keep creating.