There are 2 assignments in this lesson:

• Practice painting flowers with blending colors
• Coloring a flower from a photograph

Learning objectives:

• One and multi-color watercolor washes
• Loose silhouette painting
• wet-on-wet technique
• wet-on-dry technique
• dry-brush technique

Use a piece of watercolor paper, tape it to a board.

Prepare a few color washes.

Draw a flower outline with a wash.

Color inside the outline.

Lift some color in the top part of the flower.

While the flower is still wet, continue painting the stem with a different color.

Have the colors bleed.

Add another color to the stem.

I like to use darker colors and blue to add shadows to an object.

Grab a small amount of blue and add it to the bottom part of the flower and the areas that logically would be in a shade.

While all colors are still wet, you can add another color to the flower.

Start the leaf with drawing the outline and filling it in with a color wash.

You can add another color to the leaf while it is still wet.

When the first layer is dry - apply a darker wash to a leaf half.

When all previous washes are dry - start drawing "between the veins" shapes.

Leave gaps between those shapes - they will become veins.

Continue on both sides.