For background, I just want to create a light pop of color emanating from this flower. So I'm taking my large brush, my number eight brush, and I'm just going to saturate the paper not touching the flower, but just creating like a halo around the flower. I have a little area of dry paper between where I'm putting the water down, and the actual flower, kind of like a little moat, a reverse moat. So it's going to be dry instead of wet, but it just gives me a little barrier. So here I've wet my paper, saturated it all the way around my focal point. And so I'll take a little water on my palette, I'm going to add a little bit of this hands a yellow and a little yellow ochre, just to warm it up.

Get a switch brushes to a smaller brush that I can control easier. So I'm gonna use my number six brush and I'm going to pick up some of this pigment And then I'm going to start here at the base, echoing the shape of the stem and a couple of pedals. And then I'm going to come rinse my brush so that it's nice and wet, and just blend that color out. I'll go back in eco the shape of the pedals some more, maybe six or seven or so. dip my brush in water to diluted a little and blend that color out further. And I'll put my paper around and I'll continue this process all the way around my Daisy.

Having that dry paper helps me to control the pigment. And then I wet it to bleed it out and blend it so that it conforms in a little gradient. turn this around and continue wetting my brush, blending it out. And I'll continue all the way down. When I try and blend it out, I don't take my brush all the way to the area right to the edge of where I added the pigment. I just try and catch some of the area of the pigment we put down that was wet.

And then I allow it to run in the water that we've just added. So I'll turn this around like this. Gonna take my smaller brush here, my number one brush, pick up a little pigment, and just in the corners here of this halo. I'm gonna deposit just a little hint of color. It will bleed because the paper still wet underneath it. If your paper and pigment have dry You can go in and just add a little layer of water to help that move around.

And I'm going to go just down the length the stem as well. If you echo the shape, you'll have a nice result. Get a rinse my brush and just at the edges here, going to help that edge move a little bit more. Now lastly, with my number one brush, I'm going to go in add a little more of the hands a yellow to make it a little more intense. And I just wanted to posit a little more color on the center. And there we have our completed first Daisy.

The next chapter we'll start our second Daisy