It's the season for colour!

Colourful flowerpots to brighten up your garden

We're kicking off the most beautiful time of the year in a blaze of colour by decorating these vibrant terracotta plant pots. Available in a great selection of vivid colours, our acrylic markers are perfect for creating a summer look for your garden or balcony. We’ve got all manner of different colours - from neon pink and deep turquoise to sunny yellow and pastel green. Once dry, the lightfast, low-odour acrylic inks are permanent, making them perfect for designing plant containers. If you wish, you can create additional effects by blending the colours while they're still wet.

Categories: Creative garden ideas
How to paint with acrylics
Summer
Products: Acrylic range
Materials: Terracotta
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

Our acrylic markers come in a wide array of colours, so feel free to pick your favourites. The broad edding 5000 acrylic marker is ideal for colouring larger areas. For more delicate patterns and small areas, however, we recommend the edding 5300 fine acrylic marker and the medium edding 5100.

Step 2

Before you start, wipe down the pots with a damp cloth to remove any dust. It's a good idea to sketch out the motif in pencil first. That way, when you come to the next step you can simply colour the different sections in.

Step 3

First of all, you need to activate all the markers. Leave the cap on and shake the marker until you can hear the mixing ball rattle inside, then carefully pump up and down until ink appears in the tip. Test the pen on a piece of scrap paper. Now colour in the all the sections as neatly as you can. To stop the colours running into each other, always let one band of colour dry before continuing with the next.

Step 4

To decorate the upper section of the pot, we used the broad acrylic marker in pastel green. Once the paint is dry, take the medium acrylic marker and add the finishing touches in the form of a few small triangles here and there in neon pink.