1 Hour Painting

Let's see if I can make it, meaning painting faster than usually.
Instead of 10 separate paintings I kind of attached them and taped them together on the floor. Next I made a quick sketch.
Since it's cold and I have to crawl over the tiles I will set the timer at 1 hour and stop it if I am disturbed, have to take photos, can't continue or write for this post.

To win some time I wil not mix the colours first. I'll see if I can change them while painting or with different layers. The paint I will use is old but I want to finish it first. The new small tubes I rather save for something else.

I started with the grass (at the bottom) and used a debit card. This went fast. It took me less than 5 minutes.

I love the result of the debit card

The second part is the sky. I doubted the colour, but decided to just use it and take a sponge. Man, was it dry and of course, the new spraying bottle refused to spray! I poured water on the palette and dipped the sponge with paint into it to rub it everywhere on the background, while trying to ignore the ugly part up in the corner on the left. This sponge is too old it leaves crumbs behind. I continued painting since the timer still ran and stopped after the sky was done. I have to get rid of these little sponge parts before I continue!

The blue took me less than 8 minutes (irritation included).

I wiped off the crumbs with a dry flat brush.

Two colours red I used to make the flowers. A plus if the blue sky is that it changed red into purple. The dark red I once mixed (no idea when) it was hard to make it thinner. This results in clumps. I tried to dissolve them with water, but the result was minimal.
I painted the flowers with a piece of sponge. Next time, I should make a test flower first, because I notice that the further I get, the better it looks.

39 minutes and 55 minutes left to finish these paintings. I already know that this will be hard (impossible)

The cats... I find it hard to paint them. My vision is not good. Again Intake the debit card to add the Black and some green again. While painting, I pull it onto my lap since there's hardly room to sit around it, plus my knees feel extremely cold. Ying and Yang would be great but I doubt the titanium white will do it's job. If this had been watercolour paint I could have left this alone.

22 minutes left and I have no clue what to do since the paint is wet — I am out of ideas.

Let's use some pink to kill time and see where it takes me...

And yes, I am disturbed again.

The time is up and this is how far Is came. The eyes aren't done and I do like to add some more details

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Conclusion:
It's possible to make ten paintings in one hour if you just paint, all your paint and brushes or whatever you need are ready. More than once, I grabbed paint I couldn't use, and my brushes were not at hand (at least not if I use the floor to paint instead of a desk, easel or my lap).

@aellly you are so right, it's impossible to do this if you travel unless you paint nano art and use one colour and a waterbrush.

@almaguer... Here's your answer to "How is art?". Fore the painting time was too short to loosen up. I need way more time. It was fun at a certain point, and it went easier till the moment I was disturbed again.

@flcg Here's my second try. The first was with watercolour. With some (I kept it small and needed extra time to use the hairdryer) I liked the process but altogether it's 👎
Once I reach the level of free painter, I let you know.
Painting on walls might be better to get into the flow.

_{8-2-2026
Materials: 10 sheets of bamboo paper (acid free, 250 GSM, 24*34 cm), acrylic paint Van Beiswijck and ? (Action), kitchen sponge, debit card, dry flat brush (to dust off), round brush #14 (Van Beiswijck), tape.
Size painting: 68 x 120 cm}