Painting Daisies by NOT Painting Daisies | Art, Botany, and Zen

James Gurney creates a watercolor study of daisies by painting around the white shapes. We learn about the technique of negative painting, the composite structure of daisies, and the Zen Buddhist concept of the space between things .

WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE
Cadmium yellow light: https://tinyurl.com/3hwh6er9
Permanent green pale: https://tinyurl.com/mrhmfajz
Yellow ochre: https://tinyurl.com/494dae33
Pyrrol red: https://tinyurl.com/2sucwecj
Transparent red oxide: https://tinyurl.com/2ajdfcnk
Prussian blue: https://tinyurl.com/fw5dashp
Ultramarine blue: https://tinyurl.com/3bnrrv5t
Cobalt teal: https://tinyurl.com/t647e2br
Titanium white: https://tinyurl.com/5xwd4twb
Watercolor small set of pans: https://www.kqzyfj.com/ii115ox52x4KML...

TOOLS AND SUPPLIES
Travel brush set: https://tinyurl.com/2s3rsfbz
Watercolor sketchbook: https://tinyurl.com/3zpzj4cc
Sketch Easel Builders (Facebook group):   / 403006076777641  

IDEAS
Zen concept of "ma": https://typeset.io/questions/what-is-...
Botanical info about composite flowers: https://plantcaretoday.com/composite-...

VIDEO TUTORIALS:
"Gouache in the Wild" (Download on Gumroad): https://gumroad.com/l/gouache
"Gouache in the Wild" on (DVD): http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX004...
“Casein Painting in the Wild” (Download on Gumroad): https://gumroad.com/l/casein
“How to Make a Sketch Easel” (DVD): http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00Z...
“Watercolor in the Wild” (Download) https://gumroad.com/l/watercolor
Animal Painting vid: https://gumroad.com/l/paintinganimals
Casein in the Wild: https://gumroad.com/l/casein
Flower Painting in the Wild: https://gumroad.com/l/flowerpainting
"Portraits in the Wild" https://gurneyjourney.gumroad.com/l/p...

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Blogger: https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/20...

BOOKS:
Color and Light: https://tinyurl.com/bd32nebx
Imaginative Realism: https://jamesgurney.com/products/imag...
Dinotopia: https://jamesgurney.com/products/dino...

Music by Chris Haugen
and Kevin MacLeod

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