How to draw and paint a Tulip with watercolors BEGINNER TUTORIAL

This simple tutorial is great for beginners and will show you how to create gradated washes (light to dark), layer watercolors, as well as creating texture on flower petals with your paintbrush. I will show you how to draw it and paint it in this lesson. Enjoy! Supplies Watercolor Set Watercolor Paper Watercolor Brushes (3/4 flat, #10 round) use what you have Water in a container Paper Towel scratch paper Pencil Looking for children’s art classes online? Teachers Pay Teachers My Amazon Store Additional Lessons with this tutorial Paint another flower using complimentary colors Take your own photo of a flower and paint it using these techniques Visit a tulip festival or garden and draw 3-5 tulips Print a photo you took of a flower and choose a section of it to paint (make it more abstract by zooming in) Botany Lesson, discuss the anatomy of flowers then paint from flowers you have brought to class or view outside Tulip Mania History Lesson Artists to look at that relate to this lesson Georgia O Keefe, Oriental Poppies, 1928 Tulip Field in Holland, Claud Monet, 1886 Jan Brugel the Elder, Flower Vase, 1599 Jeff Koons, Bouquet of Tulips, 2016? Anonymous 17th-century watercolor of the Semper Augustus Eternal Hope by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license () Source: Artist: This tutorial was created by M Spain (McCall) Mr Otter Studio