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Art TRADER m a g a z i n e fine control you can get with them, your designs can become very, very intricate! Layering of Paint and Other Media One of the neatest things about watercolor pencils is that since you can use so many techniques with them, they take well to layering of those techniques. So start with a wash, for example, and then use a wet pencil for bold lines! The techniques will complement each other. I also encourage you to use these pencils with other media. I’m very fond of using watercolor pencils with ink to create more contrast. You can also use both regular pencil and watercolor pencil in a design—the watercolor pencil will turn into paint but the regular pencils will stay put! Crayons or wax resist also produce very interesting combinations. Experiment and have fun! end up much brighter or deeper than you intended. If you want muted tones, only use the smallest amount of pencil—what it looks like before and after you have added the water can be strikingly different indeed! One of the techniques I like to use is to make your edges darker and your interior lighter. This is something that is more difficult to achieve with regular watercolors, but is relatively easy with watercolor pencils. You’ll see it on my finished piece on page 21 — simply add double the pigment around the edges and be mindful when you are applying your water to the page. You should pay attention to your brush strokes when applying the color—different patterns can end in different designs. I apply color to one section of color at a time, always rinsing my brush with water before moving to a new colored section. You have to work very quickly—if you let the paper dry on one section, you will get a cloudy line or splotch where the wet and dry sections meet. Its better to keep a section slightly wet as you go along, or to work your way along a complete section. This is more of a problem with larger sections of color than with smaller sections of color. When you are filling in your color with your brush, you may also find that the brush has too much paint and the colors are getting too saturated. Simply dunk your paint brush back into your water and swish it around and then you will have a clean brush to work with. If you want consistent color in places, this is a very important technique. I often dip my brush back into my paint after every two or three strokes or so to maintain my color consistency. Wet Paper Technique Another technique you can use is the wet paper technique. With this technique, you begin by wetting a blank piece of watercolor paper. After wetting the paper, begin drawing with your pencils. How much water you use will impact how far the watercolor pencils will spread. This will give you soft lines but still fairly bright colors. This technique can be used with the wet brush technique, but only very carefully and AFTER you have done your wet brush work. Once you do the “painting” part of the wet brush technique, your paint is adhered to the paper quite well and could take on a bit more water. You might get some muddy results depending on how much pencil you used, however. -20-
Art TRADER m a g a z i n e Wet Pencil Technique You can also choose to wet your pencil and apply it to dry paper. You can wet your pencil with water or with solvent for different types of effects. The wet pencil technique produces very brilliant lines of solid color. This technique works very well in conjunction with the wet brush technique. Let your paper dry out completely after painting the color in with the wet brush and then draw with the wet pencil to add deeper, more brilliant hues. Watercolor Pencil Painting Walkthrough The following is a walkthrough using some of the techniques I described above. The image was a fantasy piece I created for my significant other for a Christmas gift—two fairies, myself and him, playing our musical instruments! 1. Pencil Drawing: First, I started with a pencil drawing of the final image I wanted to produce. The drawing was done on watercolor paper with a little bit of roughness, but not too much. -21- 2. Watercolor Pencil Application: I have started to apply the watercolor pencil to the figures in the center. You can already see how I’ve added more pigment to the outside areas to get shaded edges.
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