Only have a few minutes but curious about watercolor? This one's for you!

I didn't have time to finish beautifying last week's chaos and make it into a video for you this week, but that's okay. We can come back to it next week and get a little watercolor practice with a bit of color theory while practicing creative self-care with art-making in the meantime!
Welcome to BETTER WITH ART! I’m Melinda and I’m here to encourage you to reclaim your creativity and practice creative self-care with weekly small-art prompts that can be done in the privacy of an art journal or on paper if you don’t have one.
If you'd like an art journal that’s ideal for my simple form of art journaling that uses various mediums, the paper is important. It needs to be heavy-weight and smooth. Hot-press if it’s watercolor or some heavier mixed-media paper, because although I love the texture of cold-press it's really hard on markers and pens. The mixed-media art journal I use in my videos and the art journaling groups at the library where I work is 140lb/300gsm. It stands up to all my dry, wet, and layered applications. Sold in a three-pack, it also remains the best regular-price value that I've found:
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Also used this week is an inexpensive set of Prang watercolors in the eight basic colors:
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If you mixed last week's video, have fun making intentionally messy chaotic art below. And come back next week to make it beautiful:
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