1. Load your brush with white and light grey (Today I am using acrylic paint, but you can use whatever paint you have on hand). Only just a little bit gray, you should have mostly white on your brush. The gray just adds some depth, texture, and shadow, this is easy with acrylics because they stay separated on the brush.
2. Make a dot on your surface to give you a center point. It makes it easier to have a center point to pull to. Lead with the white. If you are a little OCD or just want some reassurance, you can draw a light circle around that dot to keep your petals about the same size. Personally, I like live on the wild side... like I said daisies aren’t perfect, so I don’t want to try and make them so.
3. Start with the flat long edge of your brush, then pull towards the center, adjusting pressure to how wide you wish the petal to be, and lift and twist the brush as you get closer to the center of your flower to let the stroke narrow.
4. OK here is the fun part, repeat step #3 and feel free to add different movements to your brush. See what it does to the petals, remember daises are not perfect so you can’t mess it up. Have fun with this!! Keep adding petals until you have filled in to your satisfaction. Less is sometimes more with these flowers. You can always add petals later if you feel like it’s missing something but once paint is one the paper (or whatever your using) it’s not very easy to remove. Once you are content with your circle of petals, it is time add the center.
5. Load your brush in the yellow and pounce on the center. If your white is still wet, it will lighten your yellow a bit. I like to push that out to one side and then add some darker yellow to the other side to add some shape and detention. Now you can leave it just like it is or you can finish it off with a stem if you like. Go nuts, make as many as you like the more daises the better in my opinion.
