Welcome, beginning watercolor painters, to a four-part series on practicing textures and color mixing on a forgiving canvas: the versatile sunflower.

Continue learning how to paint with watercolors in this second lesson in a series on painting a sunflower. This lesson focuses on painting petals one by one.

In part four of Angela Fehr’s sunflower watercolor painting tutorial, add detail to the flower petals and create veins in the leaves by using negative space.

Your sunflower watercolor painting looks just about finished! In this last lesson of the series, add final touches such as seeds and more shadows.

In this third lesson of a series on painting a sunflower with watercolors, start filling in the green background and adding dark strokes to the flower’s center.

Interested in recycling, DIY projects, and fashion? Combine all three and transform old magazines into paper beads for a totally green fashion statement.

Take your beading to the next level! Make a necklace by wrapping a series of beads around one another to create a single multi-bead pendant.

Spring into springtime arts and crafts! Learn to make a delightful floral beaded daisy that can be used as an earring or as a necklace pendant.

Peace sign pendant. Great for birthday parties and craft workshops. Perfect for teens, children and adults. Peace and Love.

You'll be the star of the show once you've made a beaded star pendant! Make a small version for a necklace, or scale up and hang it up as an ornament.