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

Hey ya'll! Jesse left town for a few days for function as well as I spent my evenings inward sweatpants, surrounded past times sleepy animals, watching 90's sitcom reruns, as well as playing amongst 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 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 amongst making my ain art, as well as receive got pretty much done thence for our entire solid (my fave examples here). Not because I'm that proficient at it, but because fine art is expensive as well as I'm frugal to a fault. Plus, there's something actually cathartic to me almost drawing as well as painting.
When the cat's away, the mouse makes art.

I ordinarily only brand abstract fine art because it's thence slow as well as you lot could basically describe a circle as well as tell ABSTRACT, but I've been actually curious almost watercolor pencils for awhile as well as 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 plough out, but I tin directly officially tell that I honey them.

I made four pieces (which are each going inward dissimilar rooms that I volition live sharing soon), thence for directly I'll only present you lot a couple. One of my faves is this one....the watercolor feathers.

What I honey almost these watercolor pencils is that they are thence precise, thence you lot tin describe or doodle anything you lot desire to. It's thence difficult to add together footling details amongst normal acrylic or stone oil pigment (at to the lowest degree for me, but my science score = two out of 10). So, amongst these watercolor pencils, you lot tin sketch something out similar you lot would amongst a colored pencil, as well as and then when you lot add together water, it softens the lines as well as makes it await to a greater extent than similar watercolor. Plus, you lot tin fifty-fifty larn your brush moisture as well as brush over the tip of the pencil as well as purpose 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 amongst the assortment of colors that came inward the set, as well as establish that it was all I needed to exercise only almost anything.

To create my feathers, I lightly sketched them amongst a grayness pencil as well as and then i time I was satisfied amongst them, I outlined them inward my base of operations color.

Next, I colored inward each plume as well as traced the outline amongst a darker color. I too shaded inward a few spots amongst some dissimilar colors. I establish using several dissimilar colors, mixed inward amongst some dark as well as chocolate-brown creates a lot of depth as well as interest.

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

Also, I am admittedly the WORST at shading, thence if you lot are an actual artist, delight only nigh your eyes as well as call upward that I'm only a overnice daughter drawing some feathers lonely inward my sweatpants.

After you've completely finished your drawing, it's fourth dimension to larn your feathers wet. I only used a footling mug of H2O as well as a modest arts and crafts brush. Just delineate all of the areas of your drawing, chip past times bit. You tin mix as well as blend some of the areas if you lot desire to. The H2O makes all of the colors a chip deeper as well as much, much prettier. You tin encounter where I had only painted some H2O on the plume inward the below pic...it makes the color much darker.

You tin purpose equally much or equally footling H2O equally you lot want. I left some areas precipitous on this piece, only because. Here is the concluding result.

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

I'll present you lot 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 you lot where all of these novel watercolor paintings ended up.
Seriously...Can't. Wait.

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My golden leafage art
My exceed 10 DIY fine art ideas
Remember that i fourth dimension I used my laundry room shelf for art?

Until side past times side time!