WHAT THE ARTIST USED

» Arches 400 lb, cold-press 22½-by-30-inch paper. » Watercolor tubes of lightfast pigments: most are Daniel Smith. The five main flowers were painted with just three paints: Daniel Smith Manganese Blue Hue and Hansa Yellow Medium and Winsor & Newton Permanent Rose, which I find is a bit softer than Daniel Smith » Quinacridone Rose.

» I use a range of round watercolor brushes. I do a lot of softening of edges with my brushes and really beat them up! Because of this, I don’t invest in expensive brushes. The brushes I find myself going to most often are super-cheap Princeton Snap No. 6, Creative Mark Mimik Nos. 6 and 8, and for glazing, I like the soft bristles of Princeton Neptune in sizes from No. 10 to No. 16.

I use the smallest size Fritch scrubber from Cheap Joe’s when I want to lift in tiny areas here and there.