How to draw a cornflower easily and quickly?

Resting in nature, you probably have seen small blue flowers with non-standard flowers for petals.

A little about cornflowers

These flowers are called "cornflowers". Whether this name has anything to do with the man's name, Vasily, is reliably unknown.

This gentle flower with a song name is nothing but weeds. But how beautiful!

Cornflower - a fairly small flower, but not devoid of its attractiveness and merit. Here are a few facts.

1. Cornflower is better than other colors suitable for weaving wreaths. This, of course, is not so important, but when there is nothing to do at the dacha or in the village, you can check this statement.
2. This flower is used for medicinal purposes.
3. It is used in the manufacture of cosmetics.
4. Vasilek is especially popular with bees.
5. It is used in cooking in the form of seasonings. It gives the dishes a taste of lemon and mint. And some even add cornflowers to conservation and cooking pâtés.
6. Cornflowers can decorate a bouquet of wildflowers.
7. The flower is the national symbol of Estonia.
8. Vasilek is featured in some folk tales and legends.

How to draw a cornflower with a pencil

Do you like to draw flowers? You will be interested to learn how to draw a cornflower. There is nothing difficult here, especially if you have already dealt with the image of flowers.

So, let's get started. We will analyze how to draw a knapweed with a pencil.

Take a blank sheet of paper, a simple pencil and an eraser.

1. In the middle of the sheet draw a few stems, and on their tops - something that looks like an oval. It is not necessary that it be even. Now just outline the location of future colors.
2. Inside the ovals draw circles - the middle of the cornflowers. Petals of triangular or trapezoidal shape should depart from them. This is a sketch, but try to paint the petals in the right places and give the flower the necessary shape.
3. Make the stem a little thicker.
4. Carefully draw a middle of each flower, trying to give it a shaggy look.
5. Petals also give a realistic look, making ripped edges.
6. Under each flower draw a three-dimensional flower-like, similar to an unopened bud.
7. Supplement the picture with a few more stems with buds and a few leaves.

Here's how to draw a cornflower easily and quickly. If there is a desire, paint the picture. To do this, you need color pencils green and blue.

There is another option of how to draw a cornflower. Draw a circle, there is another small circle in it - it will become the core. Draw a few radii. Erase unnecessary lines between the formed petals. This drawing option is suitable for children, since it is easy enough. Near the main flower, you can draw an unopened bud. So the picture will look much more realistic.

How to draw a cornflower with the help of paints?

Let us examine this topic in more detail. How to draw cornflower paints in stages? The following materials and tools will be needed:

• paper;
• Watercolor or gouache paints;
• Brush;
• Wax crayons (namely white).

Let's get started.

1. Rotate the sheet vertically. With white chalk draw out the flowers, since you did this with a simple pencil. Draw only the inflorescence. Remember that the edges of the petals of cornflowers with jags. Immediately determine the location of each flower.
2. Dip a broad brush into the blue paint and draw on the entire surface of the sheet.
3. Next, take a brush thinner and paint with green paint stems with leaves.
4. Add a blue hue to the colors.
5. Black paint with a thin brush paint the core, trying to identify the stamens. Put some white dots near the middle.
6. At the bottom of the sheet, you can draw the grass to slightly revitalize the picture.

Other ways to draw flowers

Here's how to draw a cornflower with the help of paints and brushes. The picture can be framed. Show this technique to the child and explain how to draw flowers in such an uncomplicated way. It turns out plausible, but does not require special artistic skills. How to draw flowers of other species? Also, using this principle, changing the shape of the leaves and petals.

It is very convenient to draw cornflowers with crayons, with the help of which it turns out to create a specific roughness. For expressiveness, you can distinguish stamens with a black or blue felt-tip pen.