Flowery messages

Make a watercolor flower wreath to celebrate spring!

The beautiful spring days are coming so we suggest you learn how to reproduce this pretty spring card! A watercolor wreath and brush lettering are the perfect elements to enhance your messages. Cathy from Ocaium will show you step by step the techniques to make it.

Hand lettering Watercoloring Illustrate

You will need the following materials to reproduce the illustration:

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Step 1: Pencil Sketch

Draw a freehand circle (it doesn't have to be a perfect circle) in the middle of the watercolor paper.

Tip: The line should be very light so that you can erase it afterwards.

Step 2: Watercolor background with the blending technique

Use a blending palette to apply the 4 colors of the ABT Dual Brush Pens. Using a brush and water or a reservoir brush, dilute the material on the watercolor paper to fill the circle by alternating colors. The brush must be wet to get a pastel look.

Tip: Don't hesitate to clean your brush on a tissue at each color change to have a nice gradient.

Step 3 : Erasing the sketch

Gently erase the pencil line.

Tip: Wait until the paper is dry so as not to crumble the paper.

Step 4: The flowers

Outline a few flowers of different shapes with the fine tip of the ABT Dual Brush Pens (ABT-925, ABT-993, ABT-743) on one edge of the circle and on the diametrically opposite edge.

Step 5: Fill in the flowers

Roughly color the flowers with the soft tip of the ABT Dual Brush Pen.

Tip: It is possible to add more than one color to a flower in order to create a color gradient.

Step 6: Mixing the colors with watercolors

Dilute the colors inside the flowers with the tank brush.

Step 7: Details

Complete the illustration with leaves using the soft tip of the ABT-126 and then with a few dots of different colors around the flowers using the fine tip of the ABT Dual Brush Pens.

Step 8: Outline and detail with Fudenosuke

Outline the visible parts of the circle twice with a black Fudenosuke. Also add a few dots in the center of the flowers to illustrate the stamens. n.

Step 9: Lettering

Write your message nicely with a fine felt pen like the MONO drawing pen or brush lettering with a black Fudenosuke.

Tip: You can draw a marker with a pencil beforehand if needed.

... and finished:)

Try it out yourself right now and share your Watercoloring Flower Wreath with the Tombow family under #tombowinspiration.

 

 

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