How to Draw Fairies

How To Draw Flowers

1. Find a meadow, garden or another place where flowers tend to grow.

2. Get there early in the morning or late in the evening when the light is slanted and magical.

3. Choose an especially fine flower subject by:

A. Spinning around until you're dizzy and then choosing the first flower you can focus on clearly.

a.) This can be challenging and you may have to try hard to find the flower's "good side."
b.) You may fall on your subject.

B. Asking out loud "who wants a portrait done" and then tell anyone interested to bobble back and forth.

a.) May be a bit confusing on windy days.

C. Finding a comfortable spot to sit in and then locating a perfectly good subject right in front of you.

a.) This is my preferred way.

4. Watch out for honey bees. They are territorial about "their" flowers.

5. Watch out for honey bees but avoid bumble bees. They hold a grudge and can remember who you are for several days.

6. Put your pencil to the paper and draw. It doesn't matter how you draw because, as you probably already know, the hardest part of creating any art is actually getting around to doing it.

Where to Find Ideas for Drawing

Look under mushrooms.

Dig in the dirt with a stick and pull them up like potatoes.

Listen for inspiration chirping first thing in the morning along with the birds.

Plant an idea in the fall and wait for it bloom in the spring.

Put out treats, like sweets and peanuts, and hide behind a bush until ideas flutter in.

Hold out your hand and pull one out of the darkness when it settles into the palm of you hand.

Tie a thought onto a line and drop it into a deep lake and see what you catch.

Examine the underneath side of flowers.

Wade into a stream and see what nibbles at your toes.

Lie in bed after you awake and look for new ideas at the edges of your dreams.

Twirl your pencil in the air and let ideas gather around it like cotton candy.