37/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

Today we're painting a cherry blossom tree "snap shot". A huge part of this painting is the wet into wet splatters at the beginning, so watch that part first before painting because it moves kind of fast. The shape and size of your brush, the amount of water in your paint mixture, and the wetness of your paper will all contribute to how the paint splatters look and bloom, so feel free to experiment with those 3 variables first on a scratch piece of paper and see what works best for you. If you're not a fan of the paint splatter process, feel free to just tap the color in randomly when the paper is wet. 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.

Brushes: round 4 & 10 - Princeton brand

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/9mI_IXGncy0