94/100 tiny painting challenge for 2025 (Patreon)

Glowing lantern for 94! The colors in this one are simple, but the first part of wet into wet is fast and you might need to watch it first to understand where I'm trying to end up. Don't worry about painting pine tree shapes as much as nailing the texture that gives it that look, especially for the background trees. Focus building values in the objects in the foreground like the snow clumps on the branch and the lantern. Everything in the background should be fuzzy and not as detailed. 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 - optional. I used white gouache at the end for snow splatters

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

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/Kvg35Stqqww