Tips and Techniques
Albrecht Durer Artists' Watercolor Pencils
Albrecht Durer artists' watercolor pencils provide artists with great versatility of expression when drawing, shading and painting in watercolors. High-quality materials, combined with Faber-Castell's experience, have resulted in pencils that produce unsurpassed watercolor effects. The colored surface can be transformed with only a few fine or broad brushstrokes to reveal the full and unique power of the colors. Depending on the paper being used, the pigments can be colmpletely dissolved and will then behave in the same way as classic watercolor paints. The paint becomes permanent when dry, enabling other layers of color to be superimposed without causing it to dissolve again. For this reason, many watercolor artists choose to use the pencils for the fine details in their watercolor paintings , as well as for watercolor sketches while travelling.
Here are some of the great techniques to try with the Albrecht Durer Artists' Watercolor Pencils:
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Running and dissolving with water: Paint over a colored surface on the paper with a damp brush. The more often the surface is painted over, the more the strokes will dissolve.
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Dissolving the color with a spray bottle: Spraying the colored surface with water from a spray bottle will make the colors especially intense and cause them to merge into interesting transitions, based on the structure of the paper.
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Drawing on wet paper: The artists' watercolor pencils release a great deal of pigment when used on dampened paper. The pencil tips become very soft and glide smoothly across the paper.
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