#30×30, 2025, Day 03: Here’s some more from warmup day :)

Flashback to my warmup day – taking out my new kit of gouache. This was from before the official start – I’m kind of just wandering around the city, testing my new paints, and thinking about what I want to do #30×30.

These ones are from Square St-Louis, just off the Sherbrooke Metro.

Sorry this first one is a bit of a disaster :)

One of my goals this year is learning to mix the opaque and transparent watercolor in one painting, and use the strengths of both.

This is not that! Hah!

A bit of a disaster – but I did enjoy the day :) We are getting a lot of rain this spring so you need to get out whenever you’re offered a chance!

Clearly; these sketches have very little to do with what’s actually in front of me :)

I’ve never really been any good at perspective and I’m getting more and more impatient with drawing accurately as I get older. Nothing wrong with that! We get good at what we like. Drawing takes energy and attention, and there’s no point spending it on something you aren’t engaged with.

I was mostly just chatting with a friend, and playing with the color – just being outside on a beautiful spring day. So these are kind of cartoons, or caricatures I suppose.

I can feel the potential of adding opaque paints to the toolkit – but I’m also just flailing around right now. But that’s how it goes if you’re painting every day; sometimes you’re not sure if you accomplished anything. You need to just keep showing up for the work and see where it takes you!