33/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

Today we're painting the mama bird - a bullfinch - for painting 33! This one you can take more slow and deliberate, but the key to many areas on the bird is the blending technique. Add paint, rinse brush, tap on paper towel and then with a damp brush blend the areas out adding and removing water as needed to get the right blends. I can't wait to see how you do and please let me know if you have any questions.

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 deep, lemon yellow, cad red, magenta, ultramarine blue, cerulean(probably closer to pthalo blue), 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 4 Princeton brand

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/nWX4iYk4Hso