How to Paint a Sunflower

Larn how to a paint a sunflower with a watercolor crayon resist. The combination of crayons and watercolor paint merely can't exist beat.

There's a reason why artists take been drawn to sunflowers for centuries. Their bright colors and generous size can't help but inspire those who try to capture them in a work of fine art. And if they were good enough for Van Gogh to pigment over and over again, then they're proficient enough for students to practice drawing too.

This project takes advantage of a elementary, straight-forward await at a large sunflower, is drawn with crayons and painted with watercolor. The crayon lines not only add together a overnice texture, they keep the paint colors from running together as well.

For your best results, I can't recommend highly plenty working with existent watercolor paper, and liquid watercolor paints. The brilliant, textured color that you encounter in my sample is purely thanks to that combination. I found my liquid paints at DickBlick.com, simply any make volition practise. You can use it straight from the canteen for a super bright expect, or add a fleck of water to tone them down. Either mode, the colors stay nice and true and it'south piece of cake to paint a background without constantly mixing the right amount of water with a tablet in a try.

Ane last tip — when making the initial cartoon with a pencil, encourage students to draw extra, extra light. Yellow and orange crayons are a bit transparent, so nighttime gray pencil lines will show through if the lines are too heavy. This is the projection to work on light sketching skills, which are always helpful, and can really make this sunflower painting polish (pun intended!).