Watercolor pencils

Watercolor pencils are great drawing tools. In this website, you will find information about top picks of watercolor pencils and how to use watercolor pencils.

With watercolor pencils, you can create color drawings just as you would with regular colored pencils and then blend the colors with a wet brush to create a watercolor painting. Compared with other watercolor painting tools, watercolor pencils are much easier to control. Young kids can be especially fascinated by the amazing result they can easily create by their familiar "pencils".

Watercolor pencil techniques

Drawing and painting with watercolor pencils is easy to learn even for young beginners. Beside draw and then blend, you can also try alternative approaches. For example, you can wet the watercolor pencils first and apply them on dry papers, or you can dampen the supporting paper first and draw with watercolor pencils on it.

Watercolor pencil starting kit

If you are new to watercolor pencil art, it will be both convenient and economical to buy a starting kit which usually includes a book about the techniques and a set of watercolor pencils.

The Complete Watercolor Pencil Set: Techniques, Step-by-Step Projects, Materials, published by Reader's Digest, comes with colored pencils, erasers, and two books with one teaching how to draw with watercolor pencils step by step and the other an exercise book. The teaching is very thorough with a lot of examples from the sketch to the finished art work.

Faber-Castell Getting Started Watercolor Pencil Art Set was designed for beginners and teaches the basic techniques of working with watercolor pencils. It contains eight pencils, a brush, a pencil sharpener, and an instruction booklet and an art pad. A great starter kit from a wonderful company.

Watercolor pencil top picks

Watercolor pencils can be purchased individually or in set. Various brands are usually different from each other in their colors, lead thickness and softness, and how smoothly they are on the paper, and how well they melt when wet. Watercolor pencils will not dry up compared with any other painting materials. They can function perfectly like new after several decades. So you can if possible buy the largest set possible, and you can even use different brands of watercolor pencils in one projects to obtain the optimal result. You can always find the best deals from Amazon offered by various suppliers.

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	Kimberly watercolor pencils are the least expensive and are great options for students and new watercolorists. Find the best deal and buy now from Amazon!
	Prismacolor watercolor pencils produce the most intense color and will require a little practice to use. Find the best deal and buy now!
	Derwent watercolor pencils are very easy to use with very nice colors. Find the best deal and buy now!