Sometimes a drawing has a mind of its own and tells you which colors to use.
I started out by picking a marker shade I haven’t used recently. How about a nice dark grayish greenish color?
But a few minutes later this picture was demanding sunny yellow sunflower shades. Big, bright happy sunflower colors – with all kinds of different yellows.
I figured I’d add some more green and see if I could create a color scheme that was a little more like embroidered tapestry than like a giant flower bloom.
Maybe just a little more yellow around the edges.
And a little more yellow.
OK. I give up. If you want to be a sunflower, you can be a sunflower. And not a sunflower with white space peeking out through the petals. I’m going to go full sunflower today! 🙂
And there we are. My finished sunflower – so bright and cheerful that I could picture a garden full of flowers that look exactly like this right in my front yard. Wouldn’t that be wonderful!
(Today’s bundle of good cheer is from Balance For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers.)
(Colored with these Copic marker shades.)