What are watercolor pencils?
Watercolor pencils are colored pencils with a special lead that makes the pencil watercolorable or aquarellable.
How do I use a watercolor pencil?
There are different ways to use a watercolor pencil:
- Use the watercolor pencil like a colored pencil: Without adding water at all, you can use watercolor pencils like a regular crayon.
- First paint dry, then wet: You apply color with the dry pencil tip on e.g. a dry paper. Then use a wet brush to spread the drawn strokes and mix the colors as desired.
- Painting with a wet pen tip: Dip the pen tip in water and then paint with the wet tip on dry paper. This creates very thin lines, but they look as if they were painted with a brush. But be careful: do not dip the pencil too deeply into the water, otherwise the wood can become wet and thus brittle. Only the tip should be wet.
