How to Draw a Garden

Step 1: The ground

Below the middle, start at the left edge and draw a long flat ground line across to the right edge.

Step 2: Pointed pickets

Standing on the line, draw 7 tall pickets in a row, each with a pointed top like a pencil.

Tip Leave a gap a bit wider than a picket between them.

Step 3: Two rails

Between the pickets draw 2 flat rails across, one high and one low, from the first picket to the last.

Step 4: The flower bed

A hand below the fence, start at the left edge. Draw a soft wavy line across to the right edge.

Tip The strip under the fence is the soil. The grass is below the wavy line.

Step 5: Stems and leaves

From the soil draw 4 thin stems up the gaps: short, tall, short, tall. Add a leaf to each.

Step 6: Round flowers

On top of each stem draw a round middle with 5 round petals all the way round it.

Step 7: A tree

Draw a big bumpy treetop above the right end of the fence, and a trunk down behind the pickets.

Tip Only draw the trunk where you can see it, above the fence and between the pickets.

Step 8: A watering can

On the grass on the right draw a watering can: a box, a handle, a long spout and a sprinkler.

Step 9: A butterfly

Up on the left draw a butterfly: a thin body, 2 big top wings, 2 small bottom wings and feelers.

Step 10: Cream fence, yellow middles

Colour the fence cream, going around the flowers. Colour the flower middles and the butterfly yellow.

Step 11: Red petals, grey can

Colour the petals red around the yellow middles. Colour the watering can grey.

Step 12: Green plants and grass

Colour the stems, leaves and treetop green, and the grass green around the can.

Step 13: Brown soil and trunk

Colour the soil brown around the stems, and the tree trunk brown. Your garden is done!