Paint a Sunflower in 6 Steps

Jo Mackenzie explains the 6 steps she uses to paint this colorful flower using watercolors.

Floral Watercolor Time Lapse Demonstration

Floral watercolor time lapse demonstration by Amy Hautman. A three day watercolor painting time lapsed into a 3 minute demonstration. Watch a garden of purple, white and yellow pansies appear before your very eyes!

Peace Rose in Watercolor

In this lesson, you will learn how to paint a light-colored rose of two colors; pink and yellow. You will learn which colors make warm and cool shadows, as well as which colors will deepen the values.   Dawn McLleod Heim has provided step by steps instructions and a line drawing for this rose.

Lian Zhen's Floral Painting Techniques

The watercolor painting demonstration on this page shows Lian Zhen's floral painting techniques....a combination of poured watercolors and brushwork.


 You can see more watercolor and Chinese painting demos on variety subjects from three of his books published by North Light:
 Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolors ,  Chinese Watercolor Techniques - Painting Animals and Chinese Watercolor Techniques For Exquisite Flowers, as well as on his painting demo DVDs.

How To Paint Watercolour White Roses

Demonstration in watercolour by Trevor Waugh: Painting White Roses. A soothing and relaxing video watching Trevor paint "Swan Lake" roses. Loose handling of the medium with no drawing or guidelines ! Accompanied by an original soundtrack written and performed by Trevor.

Poured Watercolor with Stephen Blackburn

Watercolor by Stephen Blackburn

Stephen Blackburn has received international recognition for his watercolor paintings.  He concentrates on close-focus subjects such as florals and still lifes.   The artist says that "pouring pigments is a great way to keep colors pure, although it does take some planning to achieve the right effect."   Blackburn explains his technique for poured watercolors in this article titled "Liquid Watercolors",  reprinted from "The Artists" magazine (in PDF format).