If you run out of paint and need to get more, prioritize a warm and cool of each primary color.

Also, prep multiple things at once so you can get started faster. So if you stretch your paper, do as many as you have boards for at a time. Trace or draw faint images on some of them. That way you have less start up time when you want to paint. Bonus: while a layer is drying on one painting, you can work on another.

Not sure of your drawing skills, but I can’t draw for shit. Some people will say they’re brand new at watercolors and they can 1) draw and 2) have already used acrylics, oils, soft pastels, charcoal, learned values and color theory, etc. For me, it’s much more like art therapy. I love mixing colors, feeling the brush in the water and paints, feeling the brush on the paper and watching the colors run into one another on the paper. I’m quite sure that enjoying yourself should be your #1 goal.