The Posca Pen is a game-changer when it comes to painting and drawing. With its rich, opaque water-based paint, you have complete control over the application, whether you want fine lines or broad strokes. These markers are not your ordinary ones – they are real paint that dries permanent, making them incredibly versatile.
Illustrators are captivated by the vibrant colors they can achieve on paper, while painters rely on them for adding fine lines, highlights, and intricate details to their acrylic paintings. Sculptors find these markers handy for adding a pop of color to their outdoor work, and curators use them to write important information on the windows of their exhibitions.
Street artists, on the other hand, utilize the large markers to create stunning artwork on concrete and brick walls, while hobbyists explore the possibilities of Posca by painting on textiles, stones, and flowerpots. And let’s not forget about the charming semi-permanent drawings that grace the windows of cafes, thanks to Posca.
In short, the Posca Pen is a must-have tool for any artist or creative individual looking to elevate their work with vibrant, permanent colors and precise application.
Customer review:
“Really versatile pens with great coverage and range of colours. I’m glad I found them!”
Posca Pens are a type of paint marker that uses water-based paint.
They have a small ball inside the barrel that helps mix the paint to the right consistency when shaken. When applied, the paint feels similar to acrylic paint and has a smooth and fluid texture. It provides excellent coverage and is highly opaque and dense, allowing you to paint light colors over dark ones. These pens are particularly useful for adding highlights, lines, shapes, and text to acrylic paintings due to their control and precision. The paint dries quickly, similar to acrylic paint, and does not run on the painting, allowing for a controlled application. Additionally, you can even paint on a wet painting to achieve blending effects.
After the acrylic paint dried, I effortlessly applied the highlight with a Posca white marker (PC-3M size) for this canvas acrylic painting. The Posca Marker Pens’ opacity enables white on dark, making it perfect for highlighting. Additionally, a paint pen can be handy for adding intricate details or lines to an acrylic painting.
Control the Width of Your Line
Posca paint Pens are available in seven tips:
- 0.7mm ultra-fine pin tip
- 0.7mm extra-fine bullet tip
- 0.9 – 1.3mm fine bullet tip
- 1.8 – 2.5mm medium bullet tip
- 8mm chisel tip
- 15mm extra-broad tip
- a brush pen tip
All tips can be rinsed with water and some are reversible.
Left to right: 0.7mm ultra-fine pin tip, 0.7mm extra-fine bullet tip, 0.9 – 1.3mm fine bullet tip, brush pen tip, 1.8 – 2.5mm medium bullet tip, 8mm chisel tip, 15mm extra-broad tip.
You Can Use Posca Pens on Almost Any Surface
Amazing adherence to almost all surfaces, with very little bleeding or show-through.
- Paper – All types of paper and cardboard such as tracing paper, photo paper or cardboard. The paint does not bleed through paper.
- Acrylic paintings – permanent – best sealed with varnish
- Stone, concrete and plaster – best on sealed surfaces and then with a few thin coats of MSA spray varnish.
- Ceramics – permanent (for light use) after baked.
- Glass – semi-permanent for window displays (draw on the inside of the window and remove by scruubbing off with window cleaner), on glass items you can fit in an oven they are permanent (for light use) after baked.
- Fabric – permanent after ironed (iron on reverse)
- Plastic and latex – permanent
- Metal – great for outdoor metal works, best with a few thin coats of MSA spray varnish.
- Wood – best on sealed surfaces and then with a few thin coats of MSA spray varnish.
You Can Use Posca Pens on Almost Any Surface
H Locke, Margate-based illustrator
“Posca are great for non-porous surfaces, I use them for drawing on glass and plastic. Because the drawing will clean off glass, I have used them for site-specific, semi-permanent window installations so I don’t damage or permanently affect the immediate environment. I also use white for drawing on dark surfaces, I haven’t found any other marker that is opaque enough to do that.”
One of 35 parts of ‘The Journey’ installed in St John’s Church, Leytonstone for the exhibition Seeing is Believing, July 2016. Posca marker pen on plastic sheet, temporarily attached to church pews.
by H Locke
H Locke drawing on the window with a Posca pen during the ‘Colourful Language’ exhibition at Hoe Street Central 2015
Part of H Locke’s very large drawing on the windows of the ‘Colourful Language’ exhibition at Hoe Street Central, East London, 2015