Sunflower II

[mafief]

Second attempt at painting sunflowers with watercolors.


Inspiration:


Start:


I had a hard time finding the right tone for the orange in the center, but I got it!


I learned a lot about color perception and ended up using PowerPoint to help decipher colors. That and internet tutorials were helpful to figure out how to shade the petals.




Now with a background! I'm much happier with this technique compared to the other one I did.


So that was fun :). Now I need to think of something else to paint.

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Wow. I love to see how it progresses. Looks great. I couldn't find gel sticks at Michael's but got something like watercolor pencils. Saving them for summer. Minor's got two more weeks of school.

[mafief]

Thanks! :)

You might like the pencils more than the crayons because they are cleaner. Those crayons flake And I have spots of colors on my socks.

I’m done with my H.S. and the boys will be done next week. Soooo done.