10 30-minute challenge Over the next year, we're running this 30-minute challenge to encourage you to loosen up, and maybe approach your work with a different attitude. You can choose to do one of our '30-themed' tutorials, or something completely different, but whatever it is, we'd love to see it! Here's a selection of entries so far. Joan Tolman « Watercolour ‘This was painted in watercolour, wet-on-wet and masking out some of the foreground stems th masking fluid and spattering the background a salt. twas inspired Ik through our local David Shaw Watercolour Awet-on-wet watercolour from imagination, done with a Hake brush and a rigger. PAINT & CREATE | saa.co.uk oa Lakhvinder Kaur - Acrylics My work combines themes such as abstract and nature on one hand, and folk art on the other, with the use of both traditional and contemporary painting, | was looking to doa painting that | could turn into a card, without being too complicated. | am 76 and retired, | started painting about five years ago, having not touched a paint brush since I left school.a Hazel Moore - Watercolour ce This is my second (a fussed too much with With this ainting of the standing stones, ne frst and it did not turn out well it almost painted itseif, using Schnincke Super Granulating paints for the stones themselves. The inspiration photo was taken by a family member. NR SPEN! Lust love the tensity of the colour in fields of rapeseed. Painted in watercolour and pen and ink from my imagination - no photo reference. | wanted to see if could doa quick painting as normally | paint in a realist, style, which takes many hours of work, Dorris Murray Watercolour After hearing the very sad news that the Queen had died, | decided to do a painting in her honour. Having already done a portrait of her and a special memory for her Platinum Jubilee, | decided on painting a rose. | looked up Queen Elizabeth roses and then did this little watercolour which took me about 30 minutes. ene Raymond Smith « Watercolour Painted from a photo on Unsplash by James Wheeler of a beach in Vancouver, British You can upload your work Columbia, Canada. Painted to the 30th Anniversary 30-minute Challenge’ gallery on our website at: saa.co.uk/30minutechallenge, where you can also see more of the work that's been submitted. on Arches 300Ibs rough. 14" x10", in watercolour. Thi painted in approximately 15, minutes, using just a No. 10 SAA Gold Round brush, saa.couk | PAINT & CREATE