54/100 tiny painting challenge for 2026 (Patreon)

Moon for #54! I love painting the moon, especially with splatters. We splatter for the stars of course, but we also splatter in color and water for the textures on the moon. The first part of the painting is wet into wet with the moon, but it's such a small area so take your time. The most important part is leaving a few places light enough that it looks like the moon is glowing. A bit of wet into wet as we build the night sky, but it's very forgiving. 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.

Masking tape: I'm using scotch home and office masking tape

White gouache: I'm using winsor and newton gouache, but any white paint will work!

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, cerulean, and indigo.

Brushes: round 4 & 10 - Princeton

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/YEZNwfpb4hU