Botanical illustrator Sandrine Mogi shows how to capture the richness of a sunflower's yellow hues in watercolor. A field of sunflowers is a real symbol of summer. Capture the rich brilliance of the yellows, the richness of the greenery of the foliage, and be transported to a place where every morning, opening the shutters, you will catch the warm welcome of the sun's rays.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to mix colors and layer them properly to recreate the serene splendor of this beloved summer flower. We will go all the way from sketch to finished painting. And let's start with the fact that the first layer of watercolor will write shadows to give the object depth and shape.

Three or four more colors will be applied on this layer, using a wet-on-wet technique, with the majority of the color mixed directly on the paper to allow the paint to flow and find random and unique combinations.

When all the layers are applied to the petals and leaves of the flower, we will begin to work out the small details, first wet-on-dry. Finish off with dry strokes with a small brush to create the finishing touches, such as the hair on the stem.

Materials used

Paper:

• Saunders Waterford 640 hot pressed

Brushes:

• Prolene Plus Series 007 sizes 12, 8, 5, 2 and 000

Paints:

• Daler Rowney Lemon Yellow
• Daler Rowney Permanent Yellow
• Daniel Smith New Gamboge
• Winsor & Newton Winsor Orange
• Winsor & Newton Perylene Violet
• Winsor & Newton Winsor blue (red shade) (Winsor Blue Red Shade)
• Talens Rembrandt Herbal Green (Sap Green)
• Winsor & Newton Titanium White

Other:

• Plasticine eraser MAPED, rubber eraser, pencil
• Album with thick paper
• porcelain palette
• Cotton napkin

Step 1. Let's start with a sketch

I always start with a small sketch. I draw at ease, I erase a lot. A sketch always helps to more accurately transfer the drawing and avoid noticeable traces of corrections on the finished picture. The sketch will include paint swatches and a quick sketch in color, this will come in handy in case the subject fades before I'm done. And this happens quite often.

Step 2. Let's designate the shadows

I start painting the shadows "wet-on-wet" based on the color sketch. First, I dampen the surface with clean water, making sure the paper stays flat and wet enough, but not so much that puddles form. Then I apply shadows, letting the paint flow and lightly guiding it with a damp bone.

Step 3: Add Gray Tones

I use the technique of harmonious shadows. It consists in mixing gray from the three primary colors that will be used in the drawing. This allows the gray tone to harmonize with the colors of the depicted object. The same gray tone is used for the entire flower, leaves and petals. Here I mixed yellow-blue-red: Permanent Yellow, Winsor Blue Red Shade and Perylene Violet.

Step 4: Draw the Petals

I paint the petals in a circle, one at a time, being careful that the previous one is completely dry before I move on to the next one. This prevents layers of paint from flowing over the outlines, which could smear the lines and distort the drawing. Note that the shadows in the center and on the foliage are darker than those on the petals.

Step 5: Use Yellow

I rewet the paper and add clean inks, allowing them to freely interact with the wet surface. First Lemon Yellow, then a few drops of Permanent Yellow for the veins and at the base of the petals. Before the layer is dry, I also add some Winsor Orange at the base of the petals.

Step 6 Soften the Texture

I again draw the flower in a circle, applying wet-on-wet layers of yellow paint over the shadows and partial shadows, leaving the lightest areas intact. Moisture helps keep the texture soft and avoid sharp lines within the contours of the petals. Even the veins should look soft, otherwise they will resemble colored stripes and stand out from the overall structure of the image.

Step 7: Brighten Up the Colors

Some colors will need to be enhanced. After making sure the surface is completely dry, I re-wet each petal and repeat the process in step 5. This makes the colors more saturated without disturbing the balance of the yellows. The first layer should be thin enough so that when applying the second, third and, if necessary, the fourth layer, the previous layer does not overlap it.

Step 8: Working with the Leaves

But not all leaves require the same careful study. The rightmost sheet is the background, the lack of details will help it stay in the background. The leaf on the left will require more detail, but not as much as the leaf in the center right. It will be the main focus, with sharper lines and pronounced veins.

Step 9: Keeping Layers Under Control

For the stem, I mix Sap Green, Winsor Blue Red Shade and Winsor Orange. Having moistened the paper well, I apply the paint in the direction of the grooves of the stem. Synthetic brushes are stiffer, giving you a bit more control when working wet-on-wet. They also hold less paint, which reduces the risk of applying too much.

Step 10: Highlighting the Stem

To add some light to the stem, I use an appropriately sized synthetic brush. Moving to the side with a slightly moistened brush on a wet layer will help highlight the desired area. The same movement over dry paint will give a sharp line, which we use to create the veins on the leaves.

Step 11: Adding Details

To paint the pile on the stem, I take a brush size 000. The mixture of paints is the same as for the leaves, but more concentrated. We draw the villi carefully one at a time, this is the only way to depict them reliably. I add Titanium White to highlight some of it in the shadows.

Step 12 Finishing touches

In the same way, I paint small inflorescences in the heart of the flower, for them I make an almost black mixture of Perylene Violet (Perylene Violet), Winsor Blue (Winsor Blue Red Shade) and Lemon Yellow (Lemon Yellow). Yes, they are all drawn one by one too. I carefully look at the object to draw them in the right place and in the right direction. That's all, now it remains only to leave your signature on the picture and send it to the wall as a pleasant reminder of the warm summer days.

The sunflower flower immediately attracts attention due to its bright and cheerful colors. It is not at all difficult to draw it, so both an adult and a child can cope with this task. From this master class you will learn how to draw this beautiful flower step by step, for this we need: colored pencils, a black gel pen, a pencil, an eraser and paper.

Having prepared everything you need, you can proceed to the image of a sunflower:

Draw a small circle.

Draw a second circle larger than the first.

Draw a third circle that has an even larger diameter than the first and second.

Draw the sunflower petals between the second and third circle. Try to make the petals as diverse as possible so that the finished drawing does not look boring.

Draw the stem and leaves.

Draw the veins on the leaves.

Use a black pen to outline the outlines of the image. Draw the middle of the flower with a pen, drawing chaotic lines. At the very core, which is bounded by the smallest circle, draw less dense lines with a pen, connecting in the center.

Erase the pencil sketch with the eraser.

Color the leaves and stem with a light green pencil. Color the petals yellow, and the middle and core brown.

Apply shadows to the petals using orange and reddish-brown pencils.

Darken the leaves and stem with green, and darken the middle and core with brown pencils.

The sunflower drawing is completely ready! It is not necessary to color it with colored pencils, because paints, for example, watercolors or acrylics, are perfect for this purpose.

Hey! In this step-by-step drawing lesson, the author shows step by step how to draw a sunflower with a pencil, paints and diligence. Of course, getting such an amazing drawing the first time is quite problematic, but if you devote a lot of time to practice, diligently applying the acquired skills, you will definitely get something similar.

So, it starts with a simple sketch. Before drawing, if you are not drawing sunflowers from nature, it is recommended to carefully study several dozen photographs of sunflowers, carefully examine these flowers, study the structure of the leaves, flower and stem, observe how certain surfaces reflect the color. By the way, it is important not to forget to prepare all the necessary materials. In this tutorial, the author draws with paints, so you may need to buy artistic acrylic paint in Ukraine, or maybe some other missing tools and materials.

Next, we draw a sketch using a pencil and an eraser. After all this, we apply the first colors - bluish-transparent, yellow and greenish. This is the very first layer, so try not to overdo it.

This is followed by a more saturated green color. Please note that the author does not just apply paint in an even layer - he uses different shades, and somewhere, where there are glare on the leaves, he leaves that soft blue tone that we applied at the very beginning of the lesson. In some places, green goes into warm yellow, and in some places - into a cold range.

Now you need to draw the core of the sunflower - it is yellow with a greenish center.

Shade the sunflower petals and start painting the background. The lower part of the sheet is filled with a greenish-brown tone, and the upper part is bluish.

It is important to let each coat dry so that the paints do not mix with each other and do not acquire a dirty tint. Next, we will make the colors more saturated, add more details, making the drawing even more interesting.

Banina Olga Alexandrovna

Abstract of a drawing lesson in the middle group on the topic "Sunflower".

Target: The development of manual skills in children, the proper use of art materials.

Tasks:

Gain knowledge about sunflower flower.

Learn to navigate on a sheet of paper.

Learn a new way to create a Brush Dip image.

Continue to consolidate the skill of drawing a straight line with a brush.

Continue to consolidate the skill of densely painting the depicted object with a brush.

Course progress.

Greetings.

The teacher enters with a bag in his hands, in which the seeds.

Today I came to visit you not empty-handed. Look what an amazing bag. What do you think might be in the bag? (rattles bag). To find out what it is, you need to solve the riddle:

Break it down -

There will be a grain

Plant it -

There will be sunshine.

(Seed)

What do you think will grow if you plant a seed? (Sunflower).

Why do people grow sunflowers?

(Oil is made from sunflower seeds, they are fried on it, seeds can be gnawed, sweets are made from them: halva, gozinaki, candies with seeds, etc.).

Bees also collect honey from sunflower flowers.

Children, are you tired, let's play a little.

Finger gymnastics Sunflower

The sunflower has a palm oh-ho-ho! (show left hand)

A hundred seeds in the palm of his generous hand (tap fingers)

In cramped conditions, but not offended, everyone is sitting, (squeeze your left palm into a tight fist)

They talk about summer with a clear sun. (Raise both hands up, spread fingers).

Practical part

1. To complete this work for each child you will need:

Gouache (Yellow, orange, green, brown, ocher)

Tinted sheets of paper A-4 (density not less than 200 gm2 watercolor or drawing paper)

Brush No. 5 or No. 6 (nap - squirrel or kolinsky)

Water container

The lesson is carried out by the method of direct demonstration by the teacher of the methods of action, step by step performing the movements, the children do not make mistakes and achieve a good quality of work.

1. We ask children to roll up long sleeves, open paints.

2. Show where the middle is on our sheet. Dip the brush in brown paint, draw a circle in the middle.

3. Color the circle in brown.

4. We dip the paint brush called "ocher" and add our middle of the seeds. By the method of "wetting with a brush" we lay the seeds in a chaotic manner.

5.. Dip the brush in yellow, orange paint and add petals (from the center to the side) around the circle with straight lines of medium length.

6. With the very tip of the brush, with green paint, add the stem and leaves to the flower. The work is ready.

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In this lesson we will look at how to realistically draw a sunflower with a pencil step by step. To do this, we need pencils of different softness, such as 2H for light tones, HB for medium and 2B for dark. You can choose other pencils that you are used to drawing with.

Here is a picture of a sunflower should turn out at the very end of the lesson. The pictures are getting bigger, so click on them for a closer look.

With a 2H pencil, draw a core and a few petals of a sunflower. The lines should be very light. In the picture they are very darkened in Photoshop so that you can see them, in fact they are barely visible.

Draw even more petals.

We add more, as well as leaves on the sides. Don't forget to click on the image for more details.

Now draw the stem and leaves on the left.

Then leaves on the right.

The result should be such a sketch of a sunflower. Lightly go over the leaves with an eraser to lighten them.

The color source is on the top right, the day is cloudy, so the shadows are soft. If you are right-handed, then we shade from left to right (as in my case), if you are left-handed, then vice versa, from right to left. In reality, the drawing is much lighter than in the picture. We use different pencils, I use mechanical 2H to create light shades, HB for medium and 2H for darker ones, while in the light areas the hatching lines are far apart and very light, and in the dark areas we do the hatching close to each other friend and use in some areas. The next image is a larger version.

Remember that the less pressure on the pencil, the lighter the lines will be. On the lightest areas of my drawing, I don't press down on the pencil at all, the pencil's own weight does it for me, so the lines are very light. When you finish working on the drawing, be sure to check whether you have correctly distributed the light and shadow, partial shade, half light, etc. Check the foliage, and the petals, maybe you missed something.

We continue to shade.

We draw the core of a sunflower, it consists of circles that become small and dark towards the middle. The direction is spiral.

We make hatching of the lower part of the sunflower.

Leaves on the left.