87/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

Ghosties for 87! Happy Halloween - the ghosties are out. For this one I focused on creating a different type of background tree by using the corner of a credit card to scratch the trunks out of the background. Test this technique on a scratch piece of paper to get the timing just right. I also used a transparent medium for the white so that I could make the ghosts a bit transparent and layer on some more intensely bright areas. 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.

White paint: white watercolor- daniel smith brand, straight from the tube

Brushes: round 3/0, 4 & 10- Princeton brand

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/Wu9Fc_2hzDE