How To Paint a Blended Daisy with Willow Wolfe Brushes in Water Mixable Oil

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Bloom your brush skills with this blended Daisy in Water Mixable Oil Colours

Callia chisel blenders are created using synthetic kolinsky sable and they are an amazing brush for soft blending. They also hold an incredible chisel edge that can create sharp lines when desired. It’s one of my favourite brushes and I use them in almost all my water mixable oil work.

Painting with water mixable oil is so much fun. You can blend for hours without it drying which allows you to paint wet on wet without the stress! There is no need for toxic solvents or mediums so you are free to paint anywhere at anytime!

PLUS, watch Willow's video below alongside this article to get the most out of the tutorial!

Bloom your brush skills with this blended Daisy in Water Mixable Oil Colours Supplies for this Tutorial How to Paint a Daisy using Water Mixable Oil and CALLIA Artist Brushes wth Willow Wolfe Painting The Daisy Painting a Landscape

Supplies for this Tutorial

Willow Wolfe Callia Blending Brush Set (Set includes a 2, 4, 6 Chisel Blenders and a 10/0 Liner)
Water Mixable Oil Paint: Cobra Water Mixable Oil Colours
1. Titanium White
2. Yellow Light or Primary Yellow
3. Pyrrole Red
4. Magenta
5. Ultramarine Blue
Ampersand Gessobord or Canvas

Additional Supplies:

Grey Transfer Paper, Pencil, Pen, Eraser, and Paper Towels

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How to Paint a Daisy using Water Mixable Oil and CALLIA Artist Brushes wth Willow Wolfe

Painting The Daisy

Your daisy is a mixture of Red Violet and Magenta. You can use either one or both to create drama and interest. Blended flowers are painted by applying a dark, medium and light value and blending. Work on one petal at a time to establish your dark, medium and light, then blend. Apply additional highlights and shadows while the painting is still wet.

Dark Value	Red Violet or Magenta
Medium Value	Dark Value + Titanium White
Light Value	Titanium White + Medium Value
Highlight	Titanium White
Shading	Red Violet or Magenta and if desired a touch of Ultramarine Blue added to either of those colors.

Abstract Trees In Watercolour

Painting a Landscape

Step 1

Apply the dark value at the base of the petal. Apply the medium value beside it and apply the light at the edge of the petal. Wipe the brush and pat blend. Continue working on one petal at a time.

Step 2

Apply highlights to the edges of the petals with Titanium White. Wipe the brush and pat blend. You may also load the chisel blender with white and stroke some color from the outer edge into the petal.

Step 3

Paint the center with Yellow Light or Primary Yellow. Shade with Pyrrole Red using the corner of your chisel blender. Apply Yellow in the highlight area and then Titanium White to further brighten. Use the liner to drop little dots of Pyrrole Red where the center meets the petals. Highlight with dots of Titanium White.

Line Drawing

Willow uses transfer paper to trace out her designs.

A line drawing if you prefer to trace out the design

Willow Wolfe

Willow Wolfe is widely recognized for challenging and modernizing today’s world of art supplies and education. Willow is an award winning art teacher, the author of a library of internationally available books and the designer of best-selling brush lines for over twenty years.

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