Simple Watercolor Flowers

Let me just say this, if I can do it so can you!

A couple weeks ago I was getting ready to go on a road trip. I knew I couldn't take a lot of art supplies, so I decided to prep a watercolor page before I left. What you see above is all the prep I did. I took a decent size paint brush and spread some generic flower shapes onto a piece of watercolor paper using my Grumbacher watercolor pans.  Not a lot of attention to detail. Just got some color slapped onto the page with the focus being a couple flowers and what could pass for a sunny area.

Next I started adding some lines. I drew around the petals and stamin of the main flower, and detailed the stem.

I outlined the petals of the flower bud, and started turning those orange arms into something - maybe some aloe, or cactus arms.

I finished the cactus-aloe-octopus arms, and detailed the green leaves. The flower bud didn't really have any way to anchor it to the rest of the picture, so I added a stem leading up to it.

Did a little more details on that stem and those leaves.

Then I started filling in a sun.  Basic flower design for the sun -  a center and some petals. That makes an awesome and easy sun.

I completed the sun with some loose 'nzeppel tangles,  and some rays in those petals.
And I was done.  Seriously, the drying of the watercolor paint almost took longer than the drawing.
All in all I have probably 15 minutes  worth of work in this drawing. Simple and direct. Sweet and easy. The clock is running. Go!