Using Watercolor Pencils and Oil Pencils
If you are braving enough to try watercolor painting or oil painting, grabbing some of
those watercolor pencils and oil pencils will give a good start on another painting
medium.
The use of both watercolor pencils and oil pencils helps define your drawings.
Watercolor Pencils
Just like your ordinary pencils and colored pencils, you
can sharpen and erase drawings you make from
watercolor pencils. The difference lies in the not applying
the dried colors in these pencils but by adding water to
these pencils. The followings drawings employ some of
the techniques of using watercolor pencils.
- Wetting your watercolor pencil tips, either by
dampening it with a wet brush or by dipping it in water,
before drawing for you to draw intense colored lines.
Later on you would see that lines become lighter and
thinner as the pencil dries out; or
2. Brushing the drawing
surface with enough water
and then drawing with your pencil; or
3. Using a brush to pick
up color from the pencil
and then brushing on the
drawing surface as the
colors; or
4. Drawing on the surface
with watercolor pencil
and then brushing the
surface with water so
that water dissolves the
lines of the pencil; and
5. Scraping the colors
from the pencil and sprinkling it on the drawing surface
and dripping, enough water to allow it to spread.