How To Role Watercolor Pencils (Aka My Favorite Novel Trend To Brand Art!)

Hey ya'll! Jesse left town for a few days for operate together with I spent my evenings inwards sweatpants, surrounded past times sleepy animals, watching 90's sitcom reruns, together with playing alongside arts and crafts supplies. Because my life is wildly fascinating.
If you lot were a wing on my wall, you lot would wing away. Because you lot would last bored.
Anyways, from all that excitement came 1 actually awesome discovery...watercolor pencils! They are quite mayhap my novel favorite thing.

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

I commonly only brand abstract fine art because it's hence slow together with you lot could basically describe a circle together with tell ABSTRACT, but I've been actually curious almost watercolor pencils for awhile together with decided to finally elbow grease them out finally night. You may receive got seen my piddling sneak peak on instagram. I wasn't quite certain how it would plough out, but I tin directly officially tell that I dearest them.

I made iv pieces (which are each going inwards dissimilar rooms that I volition last sharing soon), hence for directly I'll only exhibit you lot a couple. One of my faves is this one....the watercolor feathers.

What I dearest almost these watercolor pencils is that they are hence precise, hence you lot tin describe or doodle anything you lot desire to. It's hence difficult to add together piddling details alongside normal acrylic or crude pigment (at to the lowest degree for me, but my science score = ii out of 10). So, alongside these watercolor pencils, you lot tin sketch something out similar you lot would alongside a colored pencil, together with and hence when you lot add together water, it softens the lines together with makes it await to a greater extent than similar watercolor. Plus, you lot tin fifty-fifty larn your brush moisture together with brush over the tip of the pencil together with role it similar you lot 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 you lot to my Amazon affiliate shop). I was actually pleased alongside the assortment of colors that came inwards the set, together with institute that it was all I needed to exercise only almost anything.

To create my feathers, I lightly sketched them alongside a grayness pencil together with and hence in 1 lawsuit I was satisfied alongside them, I outlined them inwards my base of operations color.

Next, I colored inwards each plume together with traced the outline alongside a darker color. I too shaded inwards a few spots alongside some dissimilar colors. I institute using several dissimilar colors, mixed inwards alongside some dark together with chocolate-brown creates a lot of depth together with interest.

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

Also, I am admittedly the WORST at shading, hence if you lot are an actual artist, delight only near your eyes together with think that I'm only a dainty daughter drawing some feathers lone inwards my sweatpants.

After you've completely finished your drawing, it's fourth dimension to larn your feathers wet. I only used a piddling mug of H2O together with a pocket-sized arts and crafts brush. Just delineate all of the areas of your drawing, fleck past times bit. You tin mix together with blend some of the areas if you lot desire to. The H2O makes all of the colors a fleck deeper together with much, much prettier. You tin run into where I had only painted some H2O on the plume inwards the below pic...it makes the color much darker.

You tin role every bit much or every bit piddling H2O every bit you lot want. I left some areas abrupt on this piece, only because. Here is the finally result.

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

I'll exhibit you lot how it turned out soon. :)

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

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The gallery wall I created approximately the TV finally week!
My golden leafage art
My transcend 10 DIY fine art ideas
Remember that 1 fourth dimension I used my laundry room shelf for art?

Until side past times side time!