At the end of last week I finally made a decision and bought some watercolour pencils.
I rummaged through my sketchbook and found this fuchsia sketch
Unfortunately as I copied the sketch onto my watercolour a paper I was also looking at a photo of the flower and leaves, but it was at a slightly different angle, so my drawing ended up a bit squiffy. Unfortunately I was drawing in the watercolour pencils, so couldn’t rub out and correct it.
I then shaded it in.
Then for the exciting part…
I added water…
Parts of it weren’t quite dark enough, so I coloured and added water again, then drew the veins in…
I’m pleased with it, but it does look a bit too much like coloured pencil in places and the leaves to look a bit blotchy and greasy. I wondered of this was because I coloured it twice, so tried again, colouring only once and comparing with a watercolour of the same leaves…
Comparing my results, I think the blotchyness is actually down to the rough surface of the paper. I think next time I’ll try to draw something more textured on this paper and save drawing flowers until I have some smoother paper.
Until next time,
Bekki x
Dartmoor Creative 
Ha, ha! Love the title 🙂 I love my Inktense pencils and haven’t used them in ages ….. you’ve made me think I must get them out again – they are fun aren’t they. If you are doing just one layer of colour and minimal water you may get away with 180 lb paper which has a smoother surface. On the heavier papers you can use either side and one is smoother than the other. Personally I prefer using either Strathmore Bristol Smooth or Mont Marte 300gsm mixed media paper. We all eventually find the paper that works for us.
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Thank you. That’s a lot of useful information. At the moment I’ve spent so much on art supplies, I’m going to use what I have for now. Loving playing with the paints too, so might put the pencils down and play with the paint for a bit. I did see somewhere a pack of mixed papers aimed at letting you try them and see which you preferred, which seems a good route to possibly try.
Thanks again for your thoughts, will definitely keep them in mind.
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Great drawing & watercolot
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Thank you 🙂
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Sheer magic. It looks very exciting to do.
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Oh Very 🙂
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Ah, so that’s how they work. Looks like fun.
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Well that and a little bit of magic.
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