Drawing – pencil and ink
- Now you can go back over your pencil lines with a permanent ink pen. Try to really observe the petals, you will find that they are quite irregular and bunched together in places so don’t be tempted to tidy them up. You can also fix parts of your original drawing at this point. Rub out the original pencil lines.
- Draw the sunflowers very lightly in pencil, then using a small amount of diluted ink, paint the darkest areas of the flowers. Try not to fill in any areas and leave plenty of white paper for the watercolour. Less is more at this stage and you can always add more ink later if necessary. Allow the ink to dry thoroughly.
- Mix your watercolours in your palette so that they are ready to use. You will need a large puddle of lemon yellow, cadmium yellow with a touch of cadmium red and puddle of cobalt blue. If you are using pan watercolours make sure they are properly moistened so that you can mix a good sized puddle of each colour
Now you can go back over your pencil lines with a permanent ink pen. Try to really observe the petals, you will find that they are quite irregular and bunched together in places so don’t be tempted to tidy them up. You can also fix parts of your original drawing at this point. Rub out the original pencil lines.
Draw the sunflowers very lightly in pencil, then using a small amount of diluted ink, paint the darkest areas of the flowers. Try not to fill in any areas and leave plenty of white paper for the watercolour. Less is more at this stage and you can always add more ink later if necessary. Allow the ink to dry thoroughly.
