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Start Art 5 60 RT START www.painters-online.co.uk STAGE 4 Start to define the petals using your round brush and cadmium yellow, which is a more orangey yellow, to bring a little variation between the petal shapes. Then add more green to the areas of the foliage. I made the mixture of green with Prussian blue and lemon yellow. Add a touch of red to this mixture to darken it and paint the foliage area with some dark tones to create depth in the centre of the arrangement. For the centre of the flowers, use a mix of burnt sienna and ultramarine and apply it with your round brush STAGE 5 Add more colour on the lemons and use a little blue in the shadow area. Using your round brush, re-wet the petal area of the drooping sunflower on the right and drop in some yellow colour to create a wet-into-wet effect. I also added some finishing touches to the centre of the flowers STAGE 6 All the finishing touches can now be applied to pull the whole painting together. I defined the petals a little further. Add some of the details to the foliage, and more colour on the jug holding the flowers. Sharpen the stripes of the tablecloth adding creases for more effect and add strong shadow colour underneath the jug and the lemons to ground them ✎ T I P U se an inexpensive watercolour palette with generous mixing wells for making watercolour washes from your tube colours or for using acrylic inks ▼ ▼ ▼