Use all the colors to paint these Rainbow Florals. These watercolor flowers are easy and fun to paint, but lets make them super colorful as well!

You can paint these Rainbow Florals using Brush Pens or it is so much fun! You all have loved this previous post of mine Watercolor Salt Technique: Create Interesting Textures With Just A Sprinkle and I hope you enjoy this Rainbow Floral Tutorial too.

using tombow dual brush pens for watercoloring

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What You Will Need:

Sketchbook: Using the same Strathmore Mixed Media sketchbook that I used in my previous post- Easy Watercolor Pen Flowers Step By Step Tutorial
Watercolors: I’m using my Tombow Dual Brush Pens here. Any watercolor marker of your choice will work here. The color numbers used in today’s painting are 755, 885, 933, 985, 133, 173, 379, 403, 526, 685, 817, 772
Paintbrush or Water Brush: Today I’m using this Round 6 paintbrush.
Masking tape: Many tapes can easily peel your sketchbook paper. Check out my favorite tapes in this post- The 3 BEST Masking Tapes for Sketchbooks

How to Paint Rainbow Florals

Learn how to paint a Rainbow Floral spread in your sketchbook!

Total Time: 30 minutes

Start with a Sketch

Using a 2H pencil or mechanical pencil, loosely sketch out the floral and leaves on the page. This will help with the placement of the elements while painting.

Apply Tape to the Sketchbook Page

Mask off the four edges of the sketchbook with a good quality masking tape. This will create a neat white edge around our finished painting.

Apply Marker colors directly onto the paper

I like starting with a flower, and usually, it’s a pink flower 🙂
Apply the marker color directly onto the paper. First, add a darker pink color towards the base of each petal and then a lighter pink near the outer edges of the petals Using Tombow Dual Brush pens to watercolor

Blend the colors softly with water

Using a paintbrush that is damp with water, first paint over the lighter pink area of ALL the petals. Then start painting over the dark pink areas slowly. Let your paintbrush strokes pull the colors to just meet. The dark and light pink colors will blend softly. simple watercolor florals with Tombows

Work on the next flower, then leaf

Continue in this manner, painting one flower or leaf at a time. Remember to leave time for adjacent elements to dry- or else the colors will bleed into each other. How to paint florals in your sketchbook

Vary the shapes of your leaves and flowers

Paint different shapes of petals, make some flowers larger some smaller. Vary the greens you use for the leaves- maybe add some blue to a few of the leaves to change the color. loose rainbow watercolors

Add the rainbow background

The taped edges comes really handy here. Start by applying your marker color along the tape edge- going in the ROYGVIB order. Then using your paintbrush, paint the area around the flowers and leave with JUST WATER! Slowly drag the marker color into the water and mix. Blend the colors of the rainbow as you go. rainbow watercolor flowers