26/100 tiny painting challenge for 2026 (Patreon)

Succulent for 26! Take your time sketching out the shapes of the succulent, and then all the outlining and painting is straight forward. The reason this one takes a bit more time is we work petal by petal, layering and building until we get to the final darker values. The most important part is to make sure your greens and pinks aren't mixing together too much. let the colors blend slightly into each other without over mixing and start lighter than you think you need. Slowly letting the color build. 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: For this project I am using a split primary palette- cad yellow deep, lemon yellow, cad red, perm. rose, ultramarine blue, cerulean, indigo and sap green. The colors I'm using today are - cad yellow, perm. rose, ultramarine blue and sap green.

Brushes: round 4 Princeton brand.

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/tjRoUCggX6g