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Feeling in the mood for flowers as February approaches! This one is a lot slower paced because there's not a lot of wet into wet until the vase parts. I still would recommend watching the whole video first to get an idea of the colors used and the general process and then watching it again to paint it with me. I can't wait to see your bouquets!

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

Brushes: round size 4 - Princeton brand

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Erin Berlin

Oooh! I can't wait to do this!

Jenn

This looks like so much fun! Probably won’t get to it tonight but it gives me something to look forward to tomorrow!

marielle

Flowers were just what I needed today!

Mindy Savage

Can’t even wait to do this one!! Love it!

Norbert

where can I show my pics?

Tabi

I just want to take a minute to say thank you. I just started Watercolor and followed many tutorials on YouTube. I have been so discouraged. Then I happened along your tiny painting challenge. You are a good teacher, easy to follow. My skills are improving, I've learned so much, I am inspired and encouraged, and most important... I am having fun. I enjoy this immensely and look forward to painting everyday. So, thank you!

Mary

This one is just so sweet 🩷🩷

Kristin Van Leuven

Wow, thank you so much Tabi! I really appreciate your kind words and I'm so happy you're here!

Donna Hale

I love your small palette, perfect for my small space. Can you tell me where I could get one please?

Michaela D.

I just recently joined and am very happy that I did. Between yesterday and today I finished the first eight tiny paintings. I love that you work with a limited palette; I am fairly new to watercolours but thanks to your series this experience has turned into more fun than I anticipated. Your instructions are well thought out and executed and it is so much fun to do each one of the paintings. Being new to watercolours it makes so much more sense to do these miniatures than to tackle a larger project. I very much appreciate the series!

Karen Drake

Did you ever find a small palette?

Donna Hale

I did order one from Etsy but I’m not quite as happy with it as I thought I would be. I think 2 things that bother me are that the paint and palette get pretty messy and also not all my paints are tubes. Do you have any suggestions? I’m completely new at watercolor painting. Thanks for your reply.

Elizabeth

I did my own flowers in a vase for this one. I am slowly working through all of these. It was midsummer here when I joined and in our South African heat, I had no energy for anything. Now we're midwinter, really cold with the rain pelting down outside, so these are perfect for me. I really enjoy them.

Gigi’s painting progress

I am having so much fun with this project.. I just finished number eight, the flowers. I have been doing Watercolor for two years. Just long enough to think I know something, and also long enough to realize I know not much at all. What I love is that I learn something with every one of these projects. I can practice techniques, brushstrokes and color mixing. And I can get each one done pretty quickly so the reward comes fast. I am using only the eight colors that are in your pallet, but my pictures are 4 in.² instead of 3 in.² You ask people to submit their pictures, but I haven’t seen any. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Jeany Pfaff

Hi Laura I joined late on this so I’m just about to start on number 8. You can post photos in the chat tab under Kristen’s main page.

Linda DiLouie

I'm really late but so enjoying these tiny works. I persevere and I've tried painting this multiple times and keep getting jammed up with the vase. My cerulean WN cotman is just so much brighter and I just can't get that subtle transparency....

AnnieMac3317

Just getting started and learning a ton. Had fun with this one! 😃