Trace the picture from your monitor.
French Impressionist, Claude Monet, who lived from 1840-1926, painted a series of oil paintings entitled Water Lilies. The series includes approximately 250 oil paintings of water lilies, which in itself gives testimony to the wide variety of water lilies, in color and style. To draw a water lily, you can begin by tracing a photograph of a water lily on a piece of paper. If you would like to draw a water lily onto canvas, for painting, you can lay a piece of carbon paper onto your canvas, cover with your drawing, and retrace to transfer the drawing onto your canvas.
Instructions
1. Go online to search for photographs of a water lily. Use the link in the "Resources" section of this article to search using Google’s image search. Once on the search page, type in “Water Lily” in the form and click “Search.”
2. Find the water lily picture you would like to draw. Click on the image to enlarge it.
3. Hold a piece of paper over the water lily picture on the monitor. Use the pencil to carefully trace the image onto the paper. Do not press down; you do not want to damage your computer monitor.
4. Remove the paper from your monitor, and complete the drawing by comparing your work to the photograph on the screen.
