Watercolor pencil art tutorial. The flowers with pencil dipped in water. Watercolors any basic set of watercolors will do. Watercolor pencils can add patterns to a painting the same way regular colored pencils can. In this tutorial ill show you how to use watercolor pencils and well create a watercolor wildflower painting.
Because of these unique characteristics watercolor pencils enjoy the versatility of two different art techniques painting and drawing. I have 2 sets of watercolor pencils a set of 24 prismacolor watercolor pencils and a set of 24 staedtler karat watercolor pencils so i used colors from both sets in this tutorial. In the painting above the patterns on the right were drawn with watercolor pencil. Only the contour lines or outlines are drawn with no shading.
Marks can be made using the control of the pencil and then when water is added a brush can be used to make graceful marks and transitions of value and tone. See more ideas about watercolor art watercolor pencil art. See more ideas about watercolor pencils watercolor watercolour tutorials. When you add water the binding releases more pigment resulting in intense colors.
The binding in watercolor pencil pigments is water soluble. Well begin by creating a light pencil sketch on hot press watercolor paper with a graphite pencil. For this tutorial i used a set by sennelier the sennelier. Watercolor pencils a set of 12 should be enough to get you going in this lesson.
Well work on 140 lb. Night scenery using watercolor pencils tutorial for beginners with instructions on screen supplies used faber castell albrecht duerer watercolor pencils httpsamznto35jtdqn sakura koi travel. Hot press watercolor paper which is quite a bit smoother than cold press paper. Derwent watercolor pencils are used for this lesson working from a basic set of 24.
Oct 21 2018 explore rita shorts board watercolor pencil art followed by 253 people on pinterest. As you see dipping watercolor pencils in water makes for darker bolder line. Feb 28 2020 explore sharon holmbecks board watercolor pencil tutorials followed by 279 people on pinterest.