Sneak Peek: 🍂 September in Watercolor (Patreon)

Hello, my dear patrons - and welcome to September! 🍂 There's something about this time of year that never fails to get me! Brand new notebooks waiting to be filled, that familiar itch to begin something new - I feel that same little flutter of excitement as I did years ago, and it's a feeling I hope I never outgrow. As the light turns golden, I hope your painting room feels like exactly the right place to settle in and get to work. If you're feeling that same back-to-school pull (minus the homework), you're in good company - because this month's line-up is full of fresh starts. Here's what's on the easel for September:

🦚 Blue Peacock Tutorial: Already Live!

Yesterday I posted the full Blue Peacock tutorial - a technique-rich painting built on wet-on-wet for the soft base wash and wet-on-dry for crisp texture and definition. We bring the neck feathers to life with tiny vertical strokes, work a fish-scale pattern into the wings, and finish with a touch of negative painting on the head, all using a mix of granulating and non-granulating blues. If you haven't caught it yet, it's live now: https://www.patreon.com/AnnaBucciarelli/posts/blue-peacock-168454381

To keep those brushstrokes sharp, I will also adding a bird feather techniques exercise to our growing Watercolor Foundations series 💧 the ongoing library of foundational "watercolor workouts" you can come back to any time to practice your strokes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1619988

🤎 Browns, Blacks & Neutrals : Our Pigment Deep Dive Concludes

We've reached the final installment of our pigment review deep dive - the series helping you build your perfect watercolor palette and really understand your pigments. We've already made our way through Blues, Reds, Greens, Yellows, and Purples, and now it's finally time for Browns, Blacks, and Neutrals. Unsurprisingly, there are SO many options here — earth colors like Umbers and Siennas make up such a huge part of the watercolor pigment world. This one's especially for my landscape painters and anyone who loves painting animals and organic forms. And of course, I'll throw in a few super-granulating wonders from Schmincke and Daniel Smith's PrimaTek range too.

Enjoy other Pigment Reviews here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/99366

🌸 Back to Blooms: Geranium Flower Cluster

We're returning to Blooms with a geranium flower cluster, straight from my latest sketchbook collaboration with Etchr. Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered the two-sketchbook set - there are still 10 days left to grab yours before we move into production and shipping! I'm also working on a second Line & Wash tutorial for the smaller sketchbook, so there's more of that on the way too.

Pre-Order Your Sketchbook set here: https://etchrlab.com/products/full-bloom

🐸 Complementary Colors: One Tiny Frog, One Big Lesson

Finally, I'll be posting an ad-free video on complementary colors, using a tiny, vividly colored poison dart frog as our example. Next weekend, I'll follow up with the full real-time process video, along with black-and-white outlines. And since one frog is never quite enough, I'm also repainting the little guy alongside a surprise guest for a fuller, more complex composition tutorial.

As always, thank you for being here - this community is the best part of what I do! Here's to a beautiful, colorful September 🍂🎨

~ Anna