Free Watercolor Daisy Painting Lesson by Barb McGinley

Download the watercolor daisy drawing at www.barbmcginley.com under videos. Trace this image onto your watercolor paper. I use Saral Graphite Paper, you can see the supplies I use on my web site, under art supplies. I've also typed them out below.

If you don't have any graphite paper you can make your own. Take a piece of printer paper and cover one side with graphite and use that as tracing paper, or just cover the back side of the downloaded daisy you printed with graphite and than place it on your watercolor paper as shown in the picture and trace.

Just a screen shot of the finished traced daisy image.

Using Watercolor Shiva Masking Fluid or Frisket cover the daisy with this to protect it when you paint the background and let it dry completely.

You can paint the background without applying the masking fluid, but it's much easier to not have to worry about painting around the daisy.

Paint the background with Cerulean Blue or any blue you have on hand. Let that dry.

After the background is completely dry remove the mask. You can do this easily by just rubbing the edge a bit with an eraser and pulling at it or just keep rubbing with the eraser until it all comes off. Just be gentle you don't want to harm your paper.

Paint the stem with Sap Green, let it dry completely.

Paint the center of the flower with Winsor Yellow, and let dry completely.

Add a little cadmium orange around the center of the daisy to give it more definition, and add a little ultramarine blue to the stem to make it look more defined.

Add definition to daisy petals using ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson.

Your finished! Congratulations!

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Watercolor Brushes:
Number 10 flat or bright or ½ flat wash
Number 4 round
Number 0 round or 2/0 or 2 nice point, this is a small brush

Palette:
Any plastic palette with a cover. I like one that has deep wells for paint, and a nice mixing area in the center. I write the paint colors around the edge of my palette with a marker for easy refill when I run low.

Paints:
I recommend starting with these 10 colors:

Lemon or Winsor Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Orange, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red Light or Cadmium Scarlet, Thalo or Winsor Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Sap Green and Burnt Sienna

For this particular demonstration I used: Cerulean Blue, Sap Green, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Winsor Yellow, and Cadmium Orange

Paper:
Watercolor block or pad 140 lbs hot or cold press, I like to use Arches.

Miscellaneous:
Watercolor Tape (Acid Free)
Mechanical Pencil or regular for sketching
Kneaded eraser
Watercolor Board to tape your watercolor paper to while painting.
Water containers (2) anything will work, a cup or plastic storage container, one for rinsing your brush and one for applying clear water.
Saral Graphite Paper
Ruler
Scissors
Facial tissue or paper towels
Watercolor Shiva Masking Fluid or Frisket