How to Paint Sunflowers

Video Transcript

"Hello I am Sherie Tengbergen here at the Education Network in Palm Beach county, and we are here to learn about watercolor painting. In this clip I am going to show you an easy way to paint sunflowers. The first thing I like to do is use liquid maskoid, which is miskit that actually preserves the white in my paintings, and I go ahead and I draw down the outline of my sunflower with this material. The nice thing about it is if you don't like your line you can just rub it away with your finger. I begin with the petals of the flower, and I am going to be using cadmium yellow medium, and cadmium orange. And I want the orange to be the most important part, because I am going to be painting the flowers from the petals from the inside out, and I want to make sure that I have the darker part in the center of these flowers. So I am going to quickly put down cadmium orange mixed with cadmium yellow, and paint from the inside of the sunflower to the outside of the petals very quickly and very loosely. See how it already makes the petals of the flower look like they are coming out at you. Just by adding these quick strokes. Now I can also take a little bit of cadmium red, and put a few more dark parts towards the center of each of the petals. And we will do that real quickly here. And again I am using a round brush. And now I am going to take the lighter yellow, which is cadmium yellow light, and I am going to go ahead and paint to the ends of the petals. Okay, now we are going to start doing the center. You see I've got some little flecks of liquid miskit there to protect my whites. And I am going to take a stiff bristled brush, and I am going to start dabbing the center of my sunflower with different colors. And I'll use a little orange, I may use a little red all over the center of this sunflower to give it some texture. And then I am going to go back and I am going to just make that area look a little bit more prominent, and when this dries a little bit more I'm going to go in and put some more detail on the petals. I am now taking Windsor green and a little bit of yellow to complete my stem very quickly. And a little bit of yellow ocher so they get more of an olive green on the top. Once again this has been Sherie Tengbergen showing you how to paint a sunflower."