How to Create Watercolour Florals with POSCA

Lightly sketch out your floral design to give your piece structure. We have drawn simple petals to arrange the composition. Remember don't be too heavy-handed when making your sketch as your diluted POSCA colours will be light over the sketch.

Arrange your leaves first to frame your flowers. To create light, watercolour-style leaves apply the flat of a wet pointed brush to make watery leaf shapes. Then apply your green POSCA pen over the damp shapes and use your brush to shape the colour. Pick up the green hue with your brush and use to paint in more leaves.

Clean your brush and change your water. Now you can work up your petals. Apply a wet brush over the flower shapes. Then use your red and pink POSCAs to work pen colour over the tips of the petals to shape. Drag this colour down with the wet brush to create a soft painterly effect.

Make curved shapes with a wet brush around the top and bottom of your floral arrangement as shown. Use your blue POSCA to make heart shapes along the lines and soften with the brush. While the blue floral sprigs are still wet, add dots to with your white POSCA.

Clean your white POSCA by dipping in water. Now add little spots of white to your flower-centres and drag with a wet brush.

Use the black POSCA to create your flower centres. While the paint is set wet dilute the black circles with a damp brush. Where your brush has picked up the colour, use the tip of the brush to make dashes around the centre.