71/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

Hummingbird for 71! Once you get the sketch proportions right, painting this hummingbird is a pretty slow and straightforward process. Outline is attached if you don't want to sketch. Once you have the hummingbird painted, the background is totally up to you! You'll see I ended up fixing the weird tail in the end, so feel free to watch it through first so you can get the tail right the first go haha. 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.

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 and 3/0 detail -Princeton brand

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/kXfg3xU-w0k