Marie Curie daffodils - number one

For those who have no idea what this is about, you can go to this link on Hochanda     https://www.hochanda.com/about/paint-the-daffodil-rewind

This is where you can pay just £5 to buy everything you need to paint two special paintings in aid of Marie Curie.    Every penny of that £5 is donated direct to Marie Curie, so that is brilliant.

In the kit, you get a really good quality brush, two pieces of watercolour card and the bevelled mounts for when you have finished.  The paint comes as three blobs on a special piece of card and is more than enough to do the first two paintings and lots more.

Your instructions are available on Hochanda on the same link as above in the form of a masterclass from Matthew Palmer, teaching journalist, Penny Smith, and comedienne, Jenny Eclair.

This is my first go, in four stages.  It is not perfect but then that does not matter.  Everyone will do something slightly different anyway, which is how it should be.

This is the first stage with the basic daffodil in place.

In this second picture, the shading is going in to show which petals are on the top and which are hiding underneath.  The grey colour is mixed with all three colours.

Here, there is some veining, using a strong orange to give it life.

This final picture is the last, with the mount over the top.  The mount makes a huge difference to the final picture.  The green for the foliage is just mixed from those original three colours.

It is a brilliant idea to raise money in this way, where you can also learn and have fun too.