painting flowers

Paint with cotton swabs to create a beautiful q-tip flower painting! These quick and easy paintings are a great craft for spring and summer!

Van Gogh had always used generous amounts of paint. But after discovering [the flower still lifes of Adolphe Monticelli](https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0251V1962) (1824-1886) in June 1886, he went one step further. That French artist painted colourful bouquets with thick paint and emphatic brushstrokes. Van Gogh compared them to liquid clay. In still lifes such as _Vase with Chinese Asters and Gladioli_, you can see how thickly he began applying the paint to the canvas in his own flowers.<br><br>The vase shown here has been preserved and is now in the Van Gogh Museum collection. It is smaller in reality than in the painting. The large bouquet of flowers shown here would never fit inside it.

One of the most beautiful things nature has to offer is probably its incredibly colorful flowers. They also happen to be one of the best places to start if you’re just beginning to paint. The magic behind learning how to paint flowers is that there are so many incredible ways to paint them for every skill level. Today,

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Learn the ins and outs of painting flowers in watercolor, using a garden or bouquet as your reference, from artist Maria Stezhko.

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