Kristin Van Leuven - 89/100 tiny painting challenge for 2026
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Kristin Van Leuven - 88/100 tiny painting challenge for 2026
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Stack of books for #89! This one is pretty straight forward, because once you get the shape of the books just right, you get to have fun decorating and painting the spines to look like old weathered books. We can use white gouache for a painting like this because it helps our colors look muted, old and dusty right away. Use less gouache in your watercolor mix as you get into the darker contrasting details so the deep watercolor pigments will look harder and less pastel. 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.
Gouache: zinc white by Winsor and Newton
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, and ultramarine.
Brushes: round 4 & 10 - Princeton
Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/8WNMSAbLOto
Stack of books for #89! This one is pretty straight forward, because once you get the shape of the books just right, you get to have fun decorating and painting the spines to look like old weathered books. We can use white gouache for a painting like this because it helps our colors look muted, old and dusty right away. Use less gouache in your watercolor mix as you get into the darker contrasting details so the deep watercolor pigments will look harder and less pastel. 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.
Gouache: zinc white by Winsor and Newton
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, and ultramarine.
Brushes: round 4 & 10 - Princeton
Private youtube link to watch if you need captions or translation: https://youtu.be/8WNMSAbLOto
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