83/100 tiny painting challenge for 2026 (Patreon)

Otter for #83! This is the most typical way you will use masking fluid in your paintings. We apply a minimal amount to save extremely hard to paint around details, paint our painting as normal and then reveal the lighter highlights and bits of white paper. Have fun with the water, let it dry after a few wet into wet ripples and then add some hard line sketchy ripples over the top. Once the masking fluid is removed, it's pretty common to need to adjust the negative space, add color and contour into the shapes needed. 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: Winsor and Newton pigmented masking fluid

Paint: For this project I am using a split primary palette. All colors are Winsor and Newton, except the manganese is Holbein - cad yellow deep, lemon yellow, cad red, perm. rose, ultramarine blue, manganese, indigo and sap green. The colors I'm using today are - cad yellow, cad red, manganese and ultramarine blue.

Brushes: round 4 & 10 - Princeton

Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/3bNMmmczxXQ