- There are different ways to use a watercolour pencil:
- Use the watercolour pencil like a crayon: Without adding any water at all, you can use watercolour pencils like an ordinary crayon.
- First paint dry, then wet: You apply colour with the dry pencil tip, for example, on a dry paper. Then use a wet brush to spread the drawn strokes and mix the colours 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 brittle. Only the tip should be wet.
- The most suitable is special watercolour paper, which is very absorbent and on which the colours can be painted well.
- The answer to this question depends on what you want to do with the pencil. If you plan to paint what you have painted with a brush and, if necessary, combine it with watercolours from a paint box, then watercolour pencils are the best choice.
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