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. Hey guys, we are here for painting number 15 in our series of 30 paintings in 30 days, our little painting studies. So as per usual, we've got our watercolor notebook, I've got some paints in front of me and a little small palette I've been mixing in, a bucket of water with some brushes in it that's really dirty and needs to be cleaned soon and a booklet of inspiration photos and colors over off of that way. You can get inspiration from anywhere, of course there's a lot of different places on the internet, not only Pinterest but Pinterest is definitely a big one. I take a lot of pictures with my phone wherever I go and I print them out with my mini printer and stick them in one of my inspiration books and then match them up with some paint colors like you see here. I do have, I think there's one or two videos here on the YouTube channel on these and I will try to find it and link it in the description but no guarantees. So anyway, that's what our current booklet is open to and we are going to do something inspired by the more colorful side of that book. I'm gonna start with my half inch flat as always and I think I'm gonna just go crazy and I'm gonna grab some core cobalt teal which is just nuts, very bright color, very pigmented. I'm gonna put it on my palette sort of off to the edge it's gonna mix a little bit with the gray color I have on here but that's okay. I'm gonna add some water. Okay, I'm gonna start with this holy cow. What's the bright color?  Then I'm gonna actually grab some of the paint do a couple of splatters, okay. And then let's give it a dry. I dried most of it but not all of it. That's intentional. And so let's see where we go from there. I am gonna grab some green. I'm really liking this Jane Davenport water spirit but I think to start with I'm gonna grab mermaid which is a bluish green. And we're gonna about some shapes here. Some of these pictures were taken in Seattle. They have this display of these large metal flower-ish flowers. I think they're supposed to represent flowers. We're using them just as sort of inspiration for what we're gonna do here. I'm gonna blur out some of my pigment, okay. I'm gonna switch to the round number four brush and that water spirit green which I really looks like cascade green. That to our shapes. Grab some water, blur it out again a little bit, okay. Give it a dry. Okay, because I know the Jane Davenport colors that are in this palette are fairly opaque I'm gonna go ahead and add some dark highlights to the base of what is gonna be these flowery suggestive flowery shapes before we do the petals.  So I love to use unusual colors for my shadows and light to suggest shadows. Purple's a gray one, green, dark blues rather than black. And for a light yellow, orange, pink instead of white. So we're gonna grab some purple. This is actually purple, okay. I'm gonna just put it like we did with the green.  I like the way that is looking. So now we're gonna dry it again. Okay, we're gonna stick with our number four brush around number four and we're gonna go in with Frida. I like this Frida red color that's in this palette. And let's see. Now the paint's a little bit on the dry side so I'm getting these sort of brush strokes that kind of really show the hairs of the brush. But you know what? I think it works for what I'm trying to achieve. I like that so we're gonna not fix that and add water. We're gonna let that go. Let it dry just a little bit before we do go back and add any water and that way we won't lose all those brush strokes. Little hair marks. And we're gonna go in with Best Friend which is a much brighter pink color. Barely touching the paint to the, I'm sorry, the brush to the paper. So we get just interesting marks. Again, the paint is fairly dry. I am gonna add a little bit of more water to it. There we go. Because this paint dries fairly quickly, I don't know that I need to take the dryer to it again because parts of that red color are already dry, believe it or not. So I'm gonna go in with some of the Holbein Permanent Yellow Orange and my teeny tiny brush. Just make some dots that sort of look like the center of the flower. What's it called, a stamen? I like the way this turned out. Holy cow, I might need to do this one again. All right, now let's give it a dry. All right, let's see. I got a little messy with the paint but that's okay. Again, these are just little studies so they're not meant to be perfect but that is super cute and I might need to at the very least scan this one. I am thinking I might scan most of these and put them up as a bundle in the Etsy shop. But holy cow, do y'all see that? That's cute. So that is painting number 15 onto the next. 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.  Do share your work with me. I would love to see what you're doing. That's it for now. 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Here's a brutal irony about regulating hate speech. Such laws often end up hurting the very people they're supposed to protect. That's one of the most important lessons in Jacob Michingama's new book, Free Speech, a history from Socrates to social media. Michingama heads up the Danish think tank, Justicia. He's worried about a proposal that would make hate speech a crime under European Union law and give bureaucrats in Brussels sweeping powers to prosecute people spewing venom at religious and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBT plus community, women, and others. Europe's history with such laws argues against them. In the 1920s, Germany's Weirmeyer Republic strictly regulated the press and invoked emergency powers to crack down on Nazi speech. It's censored and prosecuted the editor of the anti-Semitic Nazi paper Der Stürmer, Julius Streicher, who used his trial as a platform for spreading his views and his imprisonment as a way of turning himself into a martyr and his cause into a crusade. When the Nazis took power in the early 30s, they expanded existing laws and precedents to shut down dissent and freedom of assembly. Contemporary scholarship suggests that there can be a backlash effect when government shut down speech, leading otherwise moderate people to embrace fringe beliefs. Michingama points to a 2017 study published in the European Journal of Political Research that concluded extremism in Western Europe was fueled in part by extensive public repression of radical right actors and opinions. In 1965, the United Kingdom passed a law banning incitement to racial hatred, but one of the very first people prosecuted under it was a Black Britain who called whites vicious and nasty people in a speech. More recently, Michingama notes that radical feminists in England have been charged with offending LGBT plus people because they insist there are biological differences between the sexes. In France, an LGBT plus rights organization was fined for calling an opponent of same sex marriage a homophobe. Once the principle of free speech is abandoned warns Michingama, any minority can end up being targeted rather than protected by laws against hatred and offense. That's what happened in Canada in the 1990s. To the Supreme Court there ruled that words and images that degrade women could be banned. The decision was based in part on the legal theories of Andrea Dworkin, whose books on why pornography should be banned were briefly seized by Canadian customs agents under the laws she helped to inspire. First Amendment rights are still very popular in the United States, with 91% of us in a recent survey agreeing that protecting free speech is an important part of American democracy.  Hearing hateful words and ideas outrages and discomforts most of us. But Michingama's history of free speech underscores that state suppression can grant those words and ideas more power and influence, and that the best antidote to hate in a free and open society is not to hide from it, but to loudly and persuasively confront it.