75/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

Mushrooms for 75! This is probably one of the longest tutorials, but it's really only because the grass and the shadows on the white spots take time doing repetitive layers as we build up the color. I used masking fluid for the dots on the mushrooms, but if you would rather use white paint at the end you totally can! The trickiest part is the grass and painting the negative space, so feel free to keep it simple and do your own thing with the background, because the mushrooms are the real star. If you want to do the same background, I would recommend watching that part of the video all the way through first since it goes fast and a lot of it is wet into wet. 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 4 - Princeton brand

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/4Synn8zgDT4