Ways to Use Watercolor Pencils

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Add water to a colored illustration

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Gradients

Yellow Star Yellow Star Use water to blend 2 colors to create a gradient.

Touching the tip of the pencil with a wet brush creates a watercolor effect.

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Drop color into water

Yellow Star Yellow Star Add water to the paper and use a watercolor pencil to add drops to the water. Learn more

Draw on wet paper

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color a palette

Yellow Star Color a spot with watercolor pencil and lift the color with a wet brush.

Wet pencil on wet paper

Yellow Star Apply a wet watercolor pencil to wet paper.

Add details with a pencil.

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Get more tips for using watercolor pencils on the post!

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