Tools For Watercolor Painting. Palette, Credit Card, Masking Tape, Plastic Spoon, Etc.

 

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Art Lessons by Captain Watercolor

There are just a few tools you need for watercolor painting.

 

A palette is some kind of rig where you set out your paints, and mix them together. There are lots of them on the market, and there a a few ways to create them with stuff around the house.

 

You absolutely need a pencil and eraser, but only one kind of each is good for watercolor.

 

We watercolorists do a lot of lifting and scraping of paint. The best tools for this are a plain old credit card and a plastic spoon.

 

I will show you what you need to get started.

Watercolor palette showing a warm and cool paint for each of the primary colorsThis is a map of the captains color
palette.
See materials list below.

PAINTS

........( sedimentary )

0 - Red

1 - Yellow

2 - Green

3 - Blue

.......( non sedimentary )

4 - Cool Blue

5 - Warm Blue

6 - Warm Red

7 - Cool Red

8 - Warm Yellow

9 - Cool Yellow


PAPER
BRUSHES


For an explanation of the properties of the paints, ( Like warm and cool ) see the lesson on paints in the materials section.

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