Lily Pod
Because of yesterday's rose disaster, today I set out to work on watercolor pencils and its relationship with different papers.This lily pod is from Kristy Ann Kutch's Drawing And Painting With Colored Pencils (an excellent colored/watercolor pencil book, BTW); she uses it to demostrate the Pencil-Point-into-Wet Technique, which I did a mediocre job and we'll overlook it this time.
The lily pod on the left was drawn on 100lb cold-press watercolor paper, while the one on the right was on 70lb sketchbook paper. On the left the colors are intense and vibrant, while on the right they are all washed out. The watercolor paper allows the colors to dissolve and blend much better, and the small amount of water doesn't bother it.
From this experiment, I learned that I should leave wet media to watercolor paper unless I don't mind the washed out results and the buckled paper. Obviously there is a very good reason why people use watercolor paper to do watercolor painting.
Media: watercolor pencils.
posted by Amanda Chou @ 5:55 PM
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Yup, yup, but sometimes watercolor is necessary for my Nature Journal, as you can see in "David's 2nd Office." The large background area will look much better with watercolor.
Just did another experiment on my sketchbook: watercolor pencils vs waterolor paints. Watercolor paints are fine for my usage; the colors don't get washed out and no pencil lines show through (dudh).
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