Aquarelle Pencils
Here are some websites that give tips and techniques on how to use aquarelle pencils.
How to Paint Watercolor with Aquarelle Pencils
Painting with aquarelle pencils is similar to watercolor painting with brushes, but aquarelles give the artist more control than do brushes. Aquarelle artists choose what they will paint and pick out the right colors; they will then draw the picture using aquarelle pencils and fill in the colors of the objects and background. After this is done water is applied with a brush to the entire painting. Aquarelles are excellent for beginner watercolor artists because they allow so much control in drawing and provide training with paintbrushes. If you would like to learn how to watercolor then start with aquarelles and easy and fun way to begin!
Coloured Pencil Topics - Aquarelle Pencils techniques 1 basics
Watercolour pencils can be used dry or ‘wet’ – which is to say that the pigment can be moistened with water in several ways. The point of the pencil can also be sharpened in different ways to achieve different results. Many pencil pigments used in water soluble pencils are totally permanent once dry, so be cautious about the amount of colour you apply to the paper – particularly if you plan to wet the pigment later. Do check your colours dry and wet before you start using them.
About.Com - Drawing / Sketching: Drawing Gallery - Pencil Wildlife Drawing - Linda Weil
'I believe most people have an affinity with nature and seek it out in even the most desolate suburban wasteland. One of my favourite subjects is the nature in your backyard, the falcon on the power pole, the echidna in the park, the silvereyes coming home each spring to your garden, the ducklings in the suburban park. By showing the natural environment in my own backyard, I hope to motivate others to seek it out in theirs.' - Linda Weil
Illustration Bernhard Oberdieck - Illustrated Children’s Picture Books
Right now my preferred medium is aquarelle. This way I have the chance to work very precisely and in great detail, befitting the time requirements and my style of illustration. I will get to other work techniques later.
I usually put my sketches and the aquarelle paper on a light-table and redraw the entire illustration onto the aquarelle paper. Sometimes I render the drawings onto the aquarelle paper without preliminary sketches, but in these cases I must be very sure what I want to draw. For this pre-drawing I use a hard lead, so it won´t get smudged.A number of changes often come to me at this point. Then I rework everything again with pen and ink using a very fine drawing pen, and instead of black ink I use a diluted sepia ink.
The entire aquarelle paper is wetted and fastened to a hard surface with masking tape. This is done so that the paper won´t curl during painting and so large areas can be painted evenly.
Only now is the painting finished with aquarelle paints.
Aquarellista - A movement for all artists who use aquarelle as their main technique! Our objective is to promote the beautiful, subtle art of aquarelle - to be taken seriously.
Everytime I meet artists who use aquarelle as their main technique, I notice that we share that enthusiasm and motivation for the medium. We all try out other types of paint, and other media, but most of us come back to using aquarelle. I have already written a couple of posts about "why that is the case" and I am pretty sure more will follow, but to avoid the impression that this is a new religion - I'd like to point out a couple of drawbacks! The first is one that I have encountered -many times: Aquarelle is transparent and therefore "light" and subtle. This is a BIG disadvantage if you show your work together with oil, acrylic and other paintings with opaque media. Nobody will notice your work when it is hanging between an oil and an acrylic…
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