Watercolor Sunflower Art Lesson

You get 10 pages of teaching tips, an easy step-by-step drawing and painting tutorial.

A beautiful field of sunflowers can lift our spirits and fill our hearts with joy. Growing by the warmth and light of one sun, the face of the sunflower tracks the sun’s path moving in the sky all day long. Sunflowers not only follow the sun, they resemble the sun too.

Learning Objectives

• Draw a sunflower.

• Learn about overlapping or layering.

• Practice mixing colors.

• Use wet-in-wet technique in watercolor.

Materials

• 9” x 12” or 11” x 18” watercolor paper

• Pencils

• Erasers

• Watercolor paint

• Brushes

• Water containers