How to Paint Sunflowers in Watercolor

⁃ 2 pieces of 140 lb watercolor 9 x 12″ (minimum)

⁃ 2 – 3 watercolor brushes – one small, thin point, one medium, one large for a wash.
(Note: You can actually paint this piece with just one brush: a Princeton velvet size 8 long round
A wash brush is pretty handy also.)

Set of Watercolors similar to:

1. 1. Lemon Yellow or Aureolin (a cool lemon yellow)
   2. Cadmium Yellow (a warm yellow)
   3. Cadmium Orange (or other orange)
   4. Raw Sienna or Yellow Ochre
   5. Cadmium Scarlett or Scarlet Lake or Cadmium Red Light
   6. Cobalt Blue
   7. Indanthrene Blue or French Ultramarine
   8. Permanent or Quinacridone Magenta (Alizarin Crimson would work too)
   9. Burnt Umber (Burnt Sienna would work)
   10. Sepia (you could also mix Indigo Blue or a dark Blue with Burnt Sienna or Umber)

⁃ Water spray bottle filled with water

⁃ A few paper towels