Explore your curiosity to draw/paint with a creative and experimental approach to watercolor pencils and more. Your art piece takes on a new dimension when combining watercolor pencils with watercolor paints, crayons, colored pencils, and ink pens. Surprise yourself with beautiful colors, traditional washes, and many innovative textural effects that will help you to create unique pieces of art.
Required Supplies:
- 1 set of watercolor pencils: Derwent, Caran D’ache, Faber Castelle are great brands
- 1 small set of watercolor paints: Winsor-Newton, Holbein, Daniel Smith, Grumbacher Finest, Rembrandt, Schmincke, or Van Gogh student grade (best deal for the price) are all good brands
Recommended colors:
- Cadmium Yellow Pale or Winsor Yellow
- Cadmium Red Light or Winsor Red
- Bright Rose or Opera Rose
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cerulean Blue
- Paynes Grey
- 1 H drawing pencil
- 1 kneaded eraser
- Small hand pencil sharpener
- 1 small set of water resistant crayons
- 2-3 round brushes—#10 or #12 lg. and #6 or #8 small. Buy good quality sable, natural hair or soft synthetic brushes. A few good brushes can do the job for most paintings
- 1-2 flat brushes—1” or 1/2” for large wash areas. Sable or natural hair is the best, but good soft synthetics are also fine.
- Watercolor Paper:1 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper tablet is fine to get started. 9” x 12” works well, although many sizes are available.
- Watercolor Palette: White plastic palette or white butcher tray will also work
- Permanent ink pen: Be sure to check the pen nib size before ordering
- Plastic cups and paper towels: 1-2 plastic containers needed for your water; a few paper towels, folded
