DIY How To Use Watercolor Pencils (aka my favorite novel fashion to brand art!)

November 09, 2017

Hey ya'll! Jesse left town for a few days for operate in addition to I spent my evenings inwards sweatpants, surrounded past times sleepy animals, watching 90's sitcom reruns, in addition to playing alongside arts and crafts supplies. Because my life is wildly fascinating.
If y'all were a wing on my wall, y'all would wing away. Because y'all would live bored.
Anyways, from all that excitement came i actually awesome discovery...watercolor pencils! They are quite mayhap my novel favorite thing.

Ya'll know I am obsessed alongside making my ain art, in addition to receive got pretty much done thence for our entire line solid (my fave examples here). Not because I'm that proficient at it, but because fine art is expensive in addition to I'm frugal to a fault. Plus, there's something actually cathartic to me virtually drawing in addition to painting.
When the cat's away, the mouse makes art.

I ordinarily merely brand abstract fine art because it's thence slow in addition to y'all could basically depict a circle in addition to tell ABSTRACT, but I've been actually curious virtually watercolor pencils for awhile in addition to decided to finally endeavor them out lastly night. You may receive got seen my footling sneak peak on instagram. I wasn't quite certain how it would plow out, but I tin straight off officially tell that I dearest them.

I made four pieces (which are each going inwards dissimilar rooms that I volition live sharing soon), thence for straight off I'll merely present y'all a couple. One of my faves is this one....the watercolor feathers.

What I dearest virtually these watercolor pencils is that they are thence precise, thence y'all tin depict or doodle anything y'all desire to. It's thence difficult to add together footling details alongside normal acrylic or stone oil pigment (at to the lowest degree for me, but my science marker = two out of 10). So, alongside these watercolor pencils, y'all tin sketch something out similar y'all would alongside a colored pencil, in addition to thence when y'all add together water, it softens the lines in addition to makes it await to a greater extent than similar watercolor. Plus, y'all tin fifty-fifty larn your brush moisture in addition to brush over the tip of the pencil in addition to role it similar y'all would a normal watercolor palette. Endless possibility, I tell ya.

For supplies, I used basic watercolor pencils and some heavy duty paper made for watercolors (links accept y'all to my Amazon affiliate shop). I was actually pleased alongside the assortment of colors that came inwards the set, in addition to establish that it was all I needed to practise merely virtually anything.

To create my feathers, I lightly sketched them alongside a greyness pencil in addition to thence i time I was satisfied alongside them, I outlined them inwards my base of operations color.

Next, I colored inwards each plume in addition to traced the outline alongside a darker color. I equally good shaded inwards a few spots alongside some dissimilar colors. I establish using several dissimilar colors, mixed inwards alongside some dark in addition to chocolate-brown creates a lot of depth in addition to interest.

The to a greater extent than the merrier, pretty much.

Also, I am admittedly the WORST at shading, thence if y'all are an actual artist, delight merely nigh your eyes in addition to recollect that I'm merely a squeamish daughter drawing some feathers lonely inwards my sweatpants.

After you've completely finished your drawing, it's fourth dimension to larn your feathers wet. I merely used a footling mug of H2O in addition to a small-scale arts and crafts brush. Just line all of the areas of your drawing, chip past times bit. You tin mix in addition to blend some of the areas if y'all desire to. The H2O makes all of the colors a chip deeper in addition to much, much prettier. You tin run into where I had merely painted some H2O on the plume inwards the below pic...it makes the color much darker.

You tin role equally much or equally footling H2O equally y'all want. I left some areas abrupt on this piece, merely because. Here is the terminal result.

And merely for fun, here's some other slice I created. This is how it looked earlier I added the water.

I'll present y'all how it turned out soon. :)

Well, that's all for today, ya'll! Thanks thence much for visiting! I can't hold off to present y'all where all of these novel watercolor paintings ended up.
Seriously...Can't. Wait.

For related posts, y'all tin banking concern represent out the following:
The gallery wall I created merely about the TV lastly week!
My aureate foliage art
My overstep 10 DIY fine art ideas
Remember that i fourth dimension I used my laundry room shelf for art?

Until side past times side time!