31/100 tiny painting challenge for 2026 (Patreon)

Peacock for #31! I promise, this one is a lot more straightforward than it looks, it's just repetitive. We save the parts we need to keep bright with masking fluid, and doing that makes the rest of the painting easy. Watch the first wet into wet layer all the way through first, and then after that the layers are slowly built up to create feather texture using dry brush. After the masking fluid is removed, we now have bright white ovals to create our feather pattern, which helps the pattern stay bright and contrasted against the darker feathers. 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 - lemon yellow, cad red, ultramarine blue, cerulean and indigo.

Masking fluid: Pigmented masking fluid by Winsor & Newton

Brushes: round 4 & 10 Princeton brand.

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/OKpdgL1ibkA