How to paint a sunflower and shadows using watercolors.
Sunflowers are one of my favorite subject matters to paint. Their colors and shapes, not to mention the unique shadow forms that can be seen are inspiring, challenging and well worth the effort of attempting to paint! Following are photos and comments to explain and illustrate the steps that I used to create my finished work of art inspired by a huge Sunflower growing by my garage. Let's begin with the picture that I took.