To start painting our Daisy The first thing we have to decide is what color to make it. The petals of real Gerber Daisy come in all colors except blue and green. So really anything goes and you could of course always paint them blue or green if you'd like. I'm going to paint this one pinks and purples to start with and I want a really attractive painterly image. So to achieve that, I'm going to leave a lot of white on my image here, the actual petals, the center and the stem, and I'm going to work on a background at the very end. So I'll mix my color first, I like to mix an abundance of colors and just leave it on my palette until my painting is complete.

So I'll just take some water, put it down in my palette, and they'll take some of this brilliant pink and mix that in. Then we'll come over here and make another puddle. I'll mix the same brilliant pink and again trying to achieve a similar color. They'll take a little this perylene read and mix that in. And then I'm going to come over here with my purple. I'm going to take a lot of that and I'm going to mix that into this pink over here.

Rinse my brush and take a little crimson lake. This color is very intense, but I'm just going to still put a little just a little bit on both the pink and the purple here. So there I have two very nice colors for the pedals. On the daisies, the center pedals seem to be a little darker than the ones on the exterior. We'll start with the exterior pedals. Going to treat each pedal individually and I'm just going to go in there and I'm for the purposes of this demonstration, I'm gonna have a little pigment on my water.

So you can see how I'm putting a little water down on my a few of my pedals maybe five or six pedals that Time and all I'm doing is saturating the paper. If I wasn't demonstrating this, I would paint this with clear water. I'm going to rinse off my brush and I'm going to switch to my number one brush. And now I'm going to take some of that light pigment we made. I'm going to try and paint over the areas that we wet on the paper. But I'm also going to paint some areas dry on that are dry on the paper.

And right now I'm just going to put down a very light image here. I'm not trying to fill it in completely, I'm just trying to add some striations and some pigment to our image. Now I'll go back to my original brush, and I'm going to wet a bunch more. And again, I'm going to fill in approximately three quarters of the pedal, not the tip and not the end. And I'm just doing this to create a saturated layer so that I can come back in and deposit some pigment. I'll do this with all my long pedals.

This is our first layer Not continue this all the way around. I'm trying to leave areas of the paper white, and I like that variation. If you want to color it all in, feel free to color it in if you prefer that look, I just think the striations look very artistic and a little abstract. But yet because we have our pencil sketch, it's very clear what it is. So now we want to go in again with my clear brush. And I'm using the tinted water just to show and I'm going to go in on our next layer of pedals.

So I'm going to wet all of those since there aren't too many of those and then I'm going to come back in with that pigment, the light pigments still and go around and deposit it in, again leaving the tip white and the base of the pedal white. So here we have our first layer. You can see brush strokes in certain areas and you can see a lot of water Behind each pedal and I really like that look. We'll let this dry and we'll come back in and paint our second layer.