Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw a Sunflower and a Sunflower Coloring Page. Their yellow color always look amazing against a blue sky.

Sunflower Drawing

A drawing of a sunflower, made with the help of a step by step tutorial.

Learning how to draw a sunflower doesn’t mean that you have to have just one centered in the middle of the paper, all by itself. That doesn’t make for a very exciting composition. You might want to consider Vincent Van Gogh, who I think made about 17 different versions of his sunflower paintings, all with different arrangements. Instead of arranging them in a vase though, students can experiment with their own layout by balancing a simple large, medium and small one. And if some of them are so large that they go off the page a bit, that makes things look even a little more lifelike too!

Student Art from John Paul II School in South Carolina

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Sunflower Coloring Page

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Another Coloring Page

VAN GOGH PAINTING COLORING PAGE

Materials to draw a Sunflower

Colored Pencils or Crayons

A larger pack will offer more color choices.

Sharpie Markers Black

A permanent marker will give you a dark black color.

Pencils

I like how this brand always makes nice dark lines.

Drawing Paper

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Step by Step Directions for a Sunflower Drawing

Time needed: 1 hour

Draw a Sunflower

Start the center of a large flower.
Add a row of petals around it.
Add tips of more petals.
Draw the stem and leaves.
Start center of medium flower.
Add a row of petals around it.
Draw leaf, start small flower.
Add more petals.
Trace with marker and color.

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