46/100 tiny painting challenge for 2026 (Patreon)

Ducks for #46! The first part is a lot of wet into wet to get a blurry background and negatively paint around the ducks. Your background can look however you want, and you can add more or less detail depending on your preference. The point is that you can paint a background negatively around objects so that they appear. This is so great for animals in general, but especially light or white ones. 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, cad red, sap green and ultramarine blue.

Brushes: round 4 & 10, tiny detail brush - Princeton

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/aZHmL230WcY