Sunflower Varieties Watercolour Reference Set — 20 Named Sunflowers to Paint with Colour Recipe Cards (A4 PDF)

Twenty named sunflower varieties. Twenty colour recipes. One golden afternoon at a time.

Everyone paints "a sunflower". This set is for painting THE sunflowers — Russian Mammoth with its enormous seed spiral, Teddy Bear's shaggy golden pompons, Velvet Queen in deep mahogany-rust, Italian White's airy cream daisies, Ms Mars in moody purple-pink. Twenty real, documented varieties, each drawn from its own catalogued character — and each with a colour recipe card so you never have to guess what to mix.

Every design comes with five colour swatches sampled directly from the painted reference: a hex code, a descriptive name, and a soft mix hint that works with whatever watercolours you already own. So instead of wondering how Velvet Queen keeps its glow instead of going muddy, you have a starting point — and the confidence to trust your eye from there.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 20 named sunflower variety templates — soft-pencil outlines, ready to print on watercolour paper and paint loosely. Each one carries its variety's true drawable character: the branching habit, the petal shape, the disc, the height of the plant on the page.

• 20 colour recipe cards — the bit you won't find anywhere else. Five swatches per variety, every hex code pulled straight from the painted reference, each with a descriptive name and a brand-neutral mix hint. The finished painting is on the card too, so you can copy a finished version or mix from the code — whichever you prefer.

• 1 variety identifier index — a 4×5 grid showing every variety at a glance with names. Handy for choosing what to paint next, lovely on its own.

THE 20 VARIETIES

Russian Mammoth · Teddy Bear · Velvet Queen · Italian White · Earthwalker · Claret F1 · Lemon Queen · Moulin Rouge · Autumn Beauty · Ring of Fire · Strawberry Blonde · Evening Sun · Valentine · Soraya · Sunrich Orange · Little Becka · Sparky · ProCut Plum · Ms Mars · Pastiche

A note on honesty: five of the twenty (Velvet Queen, Earthwalker, Autumn Beauty, Evening Sun, Pastiche) are documented colour blends rather than single fixed colourways — no two plants come out quite the same, so their pages deliberately show a range of shades.

FORMAT DETAILS

• 42-page A4 portrait PDF, 300 DPI, print-ready

• Plus a zip of all 20 individual lineart PNGs — paint just one, or print as many as you like

• Instant download — no waiting

MADE FOR

Anyone learning watercolour who wants more than a generic outline to work from · slow-Sunday painters, journal-keepers, and garden lovers · cut-flower growers who know their varieties by name · beginners who want their sunflowers to actually glow.

WANT THE WHOLE LIBRARY?

Sunflower Varieties is included in the August Patreon Tier 2 + 3 watercolour drop along with every other watercolour kit, brush set, and Procreate goodie I make: patreon.com/Artsydee — from £8/month for the full Creatives Treasure Chest.

If you paint one, I'd love to see it. Tag @artsydee_inspiring_creations on Instagram.