43/100 tiny painting challenge for 2026 (Patreon)

Stone house for #43! We're bringing back one of our favorite techniques: line and wash. Remember, line and wash is supposed to be messy, quick, and very loose. Once you get your pen sketch how you like it, let the color blocking wet into wet be super quick. You can always lift out colors that go astray and lift out colors we need for highlights later. After the wet into wet part, it's nice and slow building up all our textures and shadows. Even still, keep your strokes quick and light to continue that loose feeling until you're finished. 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.

Pen: micron 01 , archival ink pen - waterproof

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, cad red, ultramarine blue, cerulean and sap green.

Brushes: round 4 - Princeton

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/DffFPatz0sc