Sunflower Watercolor Painting

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 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.

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.