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7/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

Published:
2025-01-24 21:46:56
Imported:
2026-10

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One more super snowy landscape before we get into spring in a few weeks! This one is super fun, just be mindful of your water control for the wet on wet trees. More of a milk-cream wash so that it bleeds but doesn't fill the whole space.

We're again using our knowledge of leaving white space for the white parts of the snow, but also a tiny bit of white gouache for snow splatter.

Paper: arches 140 lb cotton 9X12" paper that I've cut into 3X3" pieces, giving me 12 pieces per page.

Paint: The palette I'm using today is the split primary palette by letter sparrow: cad yellow, lemon yellow, cad red, magenta, ultramarine blue, cerulean, indigo and sap green. I don't use all of these colors in this painting but I mention each one as I use them

Gouache for snow splatter

Brushes: round size 10 and size 4 - Princeton brand

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Comments

Bear Raeb Barrett

Or over thinking is probably the correct statement

Marian

I love this one! Posting 5, 6, and 7 shortly.

Lynne Merrick

Can’t wait to try this. Some of the posts are stunning.🤩

Lisa Hubbard

I thought this was pretty difficult for me. However, I think I learned about color layers, reflections, and depth. will post.

Caroline Green

I really love the colours in this one and did find it a challenge. As a beginner the thing I struggle with is mixing colours in real time when the paper is drying- I'm not quick enough to figure it out. So with this one I had 3 attempts to work out what I needed to mix ahead of time ie light wash cerulean blue, a dark bluey green,a slightly greener green, a deep indigo, a darkish grey/brown, white gouache. Then by the 3rd attempt I have the colours needed ready which makes the painting easier. It would be superhelpful for me to know what to mix ahead of time as I'm too slow/not skilled enough yet to mix as I go before the paper dries. Loving the challenge though 🙂

Nancy Woodhouse

I had the same problem. I now watch the video the first time just to see the progression of the project, second to take notes of colors needed and how she mixed them, third to paint along. I still have problems mixing enough paint and that has been an issue. Like you, my painting dries before I get the mixture up and running again. I guess it just take experience to know how much to mix.

Mary A

This was harder than I was expecting it to be. I almost trashed it early on, but took of the dryer and then layered over. It turned out a little darker than I wanted, and my lake is overworked, but all in all, I was amazed that I even turned out with something halfway decent.

JL

Kristen, this was such a great tutorial! Your tips regarding the lake and how to getvthe correct perspective were so helpful to me!

JD

I am a bit behind. But just finished #7.

Mindy Savage

This was wonderful! I love all of your tutorials, you do such a fabulous job!

Mindy Savage

Overthinking has been a huge problem for me! I am learning to let it go, and it has gotten better. I am learning to create my own interpretation . Work in progress for sure!

Kristin Van Leuven

I'm so glad! I think the lines of water forms can really mess us all up sometimes

Kristin Van Leuven

I'm so glad you didn't trash it Mary! I think there are a lot of ugly stages in watercolor in general, but I also think you can learn a lot from completing a painting even if you know there are "mistakes". I'm so glad you liked it in the end!

Kristin Van Leuven

I appreciate the feedback! I think the hard part is I don't know what mixtures I'm going to use until I start painting. So I'm kind of painting in the moment and then when I do the voiceover I'm able to talk through my thought process. I can try to clip some of the mixtures a little better into the beginning, but I do think that Nancy's idea is really great. A quick watch through to see the process and even pre mix your colors with me before you paint, and then apply the paint while watching it through a second time. If you feel like your paper is drying too fast for the blended techniques, you can always wet the dried areas with clean water and apply a new wash over the top of the dried one. Let me know if that helps!

Kristin Van Leuven

I'm so glad Lisa! I'm trying to find the balance of stretching what you can do, but also keeping it fairly simple

Kristin Van Leuven

very common to overthink, so try not to blame yourself for that. The more you practice, the more you find that you overthink less. I love what Mindy said as well

Susan C Terris

I found this the hardest yet in terms of the lake - having one color blending in from the lake top, and a different color bleeding in from the bottom at the same time. Your art style is beautiful and I appreciate your teaching! Challenging to master, more practice needed.

Patricia Kloenne

I am not thrilled with how mine turned out and my husband suggested I try again. I think I’d rather go through the entire year painting one of each and next year depending on my progress, I may decide to paint them all over again or at least the ones I really struggled with.

Cindy Harper

This is a delightful challenge! I always listen to video in it's entirety before I start. I premixed colors, but started to dark for first trees plus too dilute so had to repair it. Your water control is amazing esp given our canvas is 3 by 3 (mine is more like 3 by 6). The greens around the periphery of the lake bled in and also cauliflowered, though I thought my cerulean was wet enough. Anyway I'm having fun and am just about to paint it again!

Rene

I agree. I am just doing them one time and can always repeat later

Coolkid 295

I find if I have the energy and time, I do a second right away. It almost always turns out more to my liking or at least certain parts I figure out how to do. I haven't done a third, but I can imagine more of the parts would come together.

Hannah Sharp

I am slooowly doing all of them twice, lol. :)

Vicki

I have just started this challenge this week and I am so far enjoying it immensely and learning all the various techniques. These tiny painting ps are great cuz you can finish them in one sitting! One question I have though is do the new tutorials build on techniques presented in earlier ones? In other words, is it better to do these kind of in order?

Wanda C.

Im very much a novice, I've done basic classes, but I don't enjoy painting basic things....so this is way beyond my ability, nevertheless some have turned out pretty well and all of them are recognizable...Kristin is a wonderful teacher and this is exactly how I want to learn to watercolor. I'm doing 2025 classes first because I'm a newbie to her wonderful site