How to draw a Tulip from nature

So spring is here, summer is coming. What a joy – we can now draw flowers from nature! If you have a living flower in front of your eyes,when carefully examined ,you will be able to draw it.

And I’ll tell you: is not that hard to draw most of the flowers , it’s hard to paint a picture. Look at the Tulip: long stem, broad oval leaf with a pointed end and a large six-petal flower. And now we will study specifically how to draw a Tulip.

A Tulip flower fully open step by step drawing

First sketch with light lines the General contour of the flower:

The stem with the leaf look very simple.

The flower consists of two circles of petals, three in each. In the center is a high pistil,surrounded by six stamens.

That’s all – the picture is ready.

Nothing complicated – just look closely at nature.

Now let’s outline it with colored pencils.

But now we will paint with watercolors and have to work hard:

Abd add the stem with its leaf:

That is quite a Tulip, isn’t it?And all because the drawing was not made on a vague fantasy,but obviously from life – things as they really are.

The second lesson is about how to draw a half-opened Bud of a Tulip.

Tulip Bud drawing

And here is such a Bud of a Tulip drawn from nature step by step.

And I invite you all to draw from nature. My internet – Tulip drawing lesson may inspire, but you will learn how to draw only in the practice of observations and images of life.