46/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

Sea turtle for painting 46! This is a fun one. We're using masking fluid to block off the shape of the sea turtle so we can easily create the sun light rays through the water. Practice the light ray technique on another piece of paper first, because the wet on wet removal of the paint can be tricky at first. Remember to very thoroughly dab your brush on your rag before removing paint on the paper so that you don't create blooms on accident I can't wait to see how you do with this one! 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.

Masking fluid: winsor and newton watercolor pigmented masking fluid

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 10 & 4 - Princeton brand

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/Svi5sD6_-MY