Sunflower - easy watercolour tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Paint a beautiful sunflower in watercolour with me! I will show you in real time exactly how to paint this gorgeous blossom, with only a few materials.
If you would like help with the drawing for this and many other paintings, you can download the sketch for free from dianeantone.com. Just log in to the site and you can put the sketch in your shopping basket and check out for free and in just a few seconds you will have the sketch to trace from in your hand!
For this painting I used 140lb watercolour paper, Fabriano Artistico extra white amzn.to/2Mr0fqf
a Princeton Laurel size 11 round synthetic brush amzn.to/2PglaNT
and the following colours:
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Cadmium Yellow amzn.to/3dSNY9r
Cadmium Orange amzn.to/3qWHWZ1
Olive Green amzn.to/2ZQyMBf
Cobalt Blue amzn.to/3qWcMAZ
Winsor Violet amzn.to/3uzgMJW
If you are looking for suggestions as to what to purchase as a beginner, here are my recommendations. If you use these links I will receive a small commission from Amazon which will help to support my channel.
PAINT
Here is a link to a Winsor and Newton starters' paint box which would be ideal for a beginner.
12 colours: amzn.to/3a1IVko
This is a link to a Winsor and Newton Artists' quality box, which is ideal for a serious student.
24 colours: amzn.to/3tHJTKI
12 colours: amzn.to/3rC0IVj
TUBE PAINTS
I always have a tube of White Designers Gouache on hand for lights and corrections
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These colours are very useful and don't usually appear in the sets the manufacturers make:
Naples Yellow
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Quinacridone Gold
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Permanent Rose
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Indigo
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Sepia
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PAPER
Winsor and Newton Watercolour paper pad 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques.
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Canson MONTVAL watercolour paper block 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques. Exceptional resiliance and easy to work with.
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Arches 140lb cold pressed 9 x 12 inches pad hard to beat this paper whatever technique you use
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BRUSHES
Princeton do a good range of synthetic squirrel brushes. This is a size 10 round.
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And Winsor and Newton Cotman brushes are also good. This is a size 10 round.
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I often use a rigger brush (called script liner in the US) and this is a link to the Cotman range of riggers, this is size 1.
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A size 3 would also be useful.
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Staedtler Noris Karat Aquarell black watercolour pencils
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I love this painterly sunflower. ❤
You're kill'n me wirh theae sunflowers. I love them. And I'm going to paint them. ❤ Thank you soooo much D.
My 156 th. 😊thanks for accompany me having lunch and the layered sunflower smile😊wim
You’re welcome Wim!
Thank you Diane ❤❤
Gosh! That’s so pretty!! You make it look so easy!
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful!
A lovely painting! Thank you for your advice about colours.
This sunflower was the first painting of yours that immediately caught my eye. Sunflowers, like poppies, are my favourite flowers. I was thrilled by your style. There is nothing superfluous about this painting, the eye is simply drawn to this beautiful flower. It is one
Thank you so much 😀
It’s magical watching you produce this beautiful sunflower. Thank you.
Thanks Christina!
Very beautiful,my favorite flower! Thank you so much Diane!❤
Bursting with sun and fun. You're right - the background complemented ever so nicely.
Thank you! It was very enjoyable to paint x
Stunning
Thank you! 😊
Thank you for this tutorial! I love sunflowers! I’m inspired!
Beautiful painting!
Thank you so much 😀
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Love the sunflower! Thank you so much for sharing.
I love how vibrant and alive it is in the middle of the flower and then almost melts into the background around the edges. Well done!
Thank you Robin! I love this painting too and I've done it several times, and the prints have been popular too. Also, it looks good when enhanced with a few touches of pastel...
Your Sun flower seemed to be reflecting the sun! Beautifully painted thank you for sharing your amazing talent with us.😊
Thanks Eileen! And please, if you are enjoying my channel if you can and don’t mind, please share the videos you watch with other people you know online, and any art groups you belong to, to help grow the channel. Or even just share to your own Facebook page if you have one. It really helps! Thanks!!
I can't describe how lovely this is. I Will attempt it and hope for something beautiful. Thank you so much. You have helped to bring peace to my morning
Lovely and a joy to watch! Cheers from Arizona
This turned out really beautiful 🙏🏻🌻
Love the sunflower and the instruction.
So nice of you, thanks so much, and I'm glad you enjoy it!
I'm so glad I didn't miss this one! It is my youngest favorite flower and she would be so excited if I could create this magical painting for her. This tutorial was the best I have seen! But so are the others on your channel! Many thanks! Wish me luck.
Wonderful! So glad you like the painting and came across it in the channel! I'm sure you will make a great job of it and your daughter will be thrilled!
My very favorite flower! Thank you.
So dramatic aren't they! I should do another one soon before summer is over (argh!)
A lovely painting,enjoyed it.
Lovely! I have a sister-in-law who loves sunflowers and asked me to paint one for her. I did two of these with slight variations and she loved them so much she kept them both!
Fantastic, what a lovely sis in law you have!
Bellísimo!! Muchas gracias por tus enseñanzas!!
Thank you for sharing your talent & techniques.
Thank you!
Preciosa!! me encanta todo lo que haces Diane Antone😍😍
🙏for Ukraine 🇺🇦
Just love your style. Thank you for sharing. 💕
Thank you!!
Loved watching this and it turned out amazing x
Thank you Deb!
Gorgeous. Thank you, I learned so much
Glad it was helpful!
Soooo beautiful
I love your painting 🥰 I am going to try this today!
Thanks so much Wendy, have fun and enjoy - I expect it'll turn out really well x
Learned so much❤️ thank you for sharing.
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful!
Lovely sunflower, going to try this one today! 😊❤️
Hope you enjoy it!
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Beautiful. Love the look. Just found you. Looking forward to watching other videos of yours.
Hi Sue and welcome to the channel! So glad you found us and that you’re enjoying the videos! Have fun with the painting and happy Easter!
So beautiful 💛
Thank you!!
starting around 6.30, van gogh's face appears in the center :D
Very beautiful layout of colours love every detail you had explained absolutely well🌻thank you kindly, one question I have ; you don’t apply any clear wash to the sheet paper , I guess you are using very loose colours 💦💦I’m I correct? Thanks 🙏 again
Yes, if you mean the background? Mostly loose washes if I remember rightly.
Thanks for sharing ☺️☺️☺️
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love the back ground music who is that. Thank you for the lesson 💓
That is Nylon Wings on Epidemic Sound!
Really enjoyed this video!! What colour could be used instead of Sepia?
Hi Cindy So glad you enjoyed the video. I use Sepia because it’s a very convenient ready mixed dark brown, and you’re quite right you could use a different colour brown Such as burnt Umber or Vandyke brown. Ready-made Sepia is actually just mixed from burnt umber and black, so if you have those two colours in your palette you can mix your own. If you don’t have burnt umber you could use any dark brown that you happen to have, for example Vandyke brown. And if you don’t have black then you could use a dark blue such as Winsor blue or ultramarine. However the blue mix is likely to produce a dark brown which is less intense than if you use black. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching my videos, greatly appreciated!
So beautiful! Prayers for the people of the Ukraine. I want to try to paint this but I’m such a beginner. Question: Can I be success twist Cotman or should I get the Windsor Newton when I can ! Thank you Diane. Your awesome! Love your videos!
Hi Catherine, thanks very much for your lovely comments! To answer your question about Cotman watercolours, absolutely, you can definitely do perfectly good art - even exceptionally good art - with Cotman. One of my heroes Ron Ranson never used anything else and was an internationally famous tutor and artist. Cotman paint and Bockingford paper were all he ever used. So while you’re learning, no need at all to spend more money. He used to say it’s better to have plenty of inexpensive paint than to be hung up on how expensive your paints are. Happy painting and welcome to the channel!
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Well,that didn’t work out for me, time to call it a day…🥴thank you Diane💐
This is a difficult painting Tina! I have also failed sometimes to do the same thing again, so don't feel downhearted! I think you are quite new at watercolor, so I'd suggest you try some of my much easier tutorials first. Happy painting!
@@DianeAntoneStudio thank you! I will ….so much to learn 😊
Me either. She is so talented so makes it look easy. 😉. I will keep trying.
Thank you for sharing this tutorial. Unfortunately, I'm not able to locate the sketch on the website. Can someone please share? Thank you
Sorry Inga, that one hasn't got a sketch yet. I'll see if I can find the painting to put it up for you.
@@DianeAntoneStudio no worries. I managed on my own. 🙂
Ok another one on the easel
You can never have too many paintings on the go!
@@DianeAntoneStudio ;)
Beautiful!
Thank you!