Painting White Flowers in watercolor

Field of Daisies

6x9

watercolor painting

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When painting white flowers in watercolor the trick is to leave as much of the white paper as you can.

When you’re painting a white flower, you’re really painting with water and very little color. First, figure out the values. Before you start to paint, study the value changes within the white petals.

The conventional way of painting white flowers is to paint the negative space surrounding the flower.

 The other technique is to treat a white flower like any other flower, only with much less paint, letting the white of the paper represent the brightest hues. The idea is to paint the lines that imply the shape and let the white of the paper represent the flower.

I have used the conventional way of painting a white flower here using the negative space around the flowers to show their shapes.

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