41/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

41 is all about onions! I am so excited for this one because I love painting the shiny reflections on the onion skins. My biggest piece of advice for this one is to make sure you are maintaining your light reflection areas. Not too much wet into wet with this one because we need the white of the paper and that rough dry brush texture for the outside of the onions. 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 phthalo blue), indigo and sap green. I don't use all the colors, but I will name them as I mix them. Feel free to use pre mixed convenience colors as well.

Brushes: round 4 - Princeton brand

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/5UYsFEgDGpw