1. Transfer the hummingbird and cactus design to your canvas.

2. Paint the background with cerulean blue and titanium white. Paint all up and down strokes using a 3/4” flat brush.

3. Paint the barrel cacti using various shades of the greens and turquoise.

4. Paint the cactus flower using Naples yellow, cad yellow, titanium white and a few shades of cad orange medium and cad red medium.

5. Paint white dots on the cacti then paint some spikes.

6. Paint the hummingbird beak black.

7. Paint the green areas of the hummingbird.

8. Paint the purple areas of the hummingbird.

9. Paint the wings of the hummingbird.

10. Use a fan brush to add texture to the hummingbird tail and wings.