Art-Along Watercolour Sunflower 26/03/2020

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Hello, chances are you have followed the link I sent you for our online class this Thursday evening. Where hopefully you can paint along with me and create a sunflower, like this one, and learn some watercolour glazing techniques along the way.

sunflower
sunflower

If you’d like to join in, you can download my original line drawing  image below.

sunflower line drawing © Karen Smith, March 2020, you may download this line drawing for personal use only, this image may not be reproduced or copied in any form.

For our session you will need:
  • Your sunflower printout, ordinary copy paper is fine for this exercise.
  • A spare piece of paper to try out your paint mixes on before applying colour to your painting.
  • Watercolour paints a warm yellow, cool yellow, brown & blue.
  • Watercolour brushes.
Here are the actual colours I used to paint the above image

Cadmium yellow or Gamboge
Lemon yellow or Hansa yellow
Sepia
Burnt Umber
Cobalt or Phthalo Blue
Sap Green

my own original sunflower photo reference ©Karen Smith