It’s time to gather up all the watercolor pencil tutorials into one beautiful collection! I’ve linked a few general ones at the beginning, then went by brand – Inktense, Albrecht Durer, Supracolor, Museum Aquarelle. Most tutorials can be recreated in any brand though! Pick one and get out your pencils to try it out.
Click on any photo to go to that post and watch the video!
Watercolor Pencil Brand Comparison
Comparing papers for watercolor pencils
Unboxing and swatching Altenew watercolor pencils and watercolors
Inktense Pencils
5 ways to apply Inktense Pencils
Tips for Coloring with Inktense Pencils
RV Camper Trailers
DIY Mermaid Background Paper
Whimsical Architecture
Crazy Birds Craft Together
Color a simple mason jar
EASY Peekaboo Critter Card
Color a foxy valentine card – Inktense + watercolor
Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencils
Tips to choose colors
Pink Amaryllis
Cats by a fence
The Great (Dog) Pumpkin
Color Vintage Easter Bunnies
How to color a Gnome in a Forest
Using watercolor pencil shavings to make sea foam
Watercolor Pencils, Tulips – and a cute bunny butt!
Bokeh floral background in watercolor pencil
Coloring an Iceberg in Watercolor Pencils
Museum Aquarelle Watercolor pencils
Animal Nativity Scene
Speed coloring – Marching band mice
Snowy birch tree background – Museum Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils
Supracolor watercolor pencils
Testing Supracolor for Crafts & Fine Arts
Snowy Candy Store Scene in Supracolor watercolor pencils
Recently I shared a “Watercolor Basics” compilation with over 20 video tutorials about the medium itself. The projects shared below are beginner level painting projects – pick one to get started with! Just tap on the picture to go see the tutorial.
Acetate Coffee Card
Artist Encouragement Cards
Pet Themed Shaker Card – Easy watercolor
DIY watercolor patterned paper
Watercolor Mini Tryfold Cards
Watercoloring bright tropical fish
Watercoloring on black paper
How to watercolor a simple brown bunny
Make a Card – with an interior POP UP for a gift card holder!
Easy Tape-Stripe Watercolor Backgrounds
Masking while embossing – then distress ink watercolor
Watercolor a fuzzy bunny
How to Watercolor Coffee Cups
Super Easy Mondo Watercolor Succulents
What to do with practice watercolor paintings?
Watercolor puffins on a rocky coast
How to watercolor with a “Dot” Card
Watercolor a set of Pet Cards (Guinea pigs)
How to Watercolor snow spray
Simple watercolor leaves for a ladybug
Watercoloring onto stamps
Mixing off-primaries in watercolor
Easy Breezy Watercolor Cards – Distress Oxide and Watercolor
Water-based markers are everywhere -a bazillion brands! And they can do so much. Below are a whole bunch of ideas for you – mostly Zig Clean Color and Tombow, but a few others at the end of the list!
Click on any photo to go to the post with video tutorial!
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
Zig Clean Color Blending – Watercolor Hibiscus
Combine Zig Clean Color Pens + Daniel Smith Watercolor
Mixing Skintones with Zig Clean Color Pens
Ballerina Recital in Zig Clean Color Markers #thehumanrainbow
Bird Feeder Shaker Card (zig clean color markers)
Creating Sea Foam (Clean Color Pens)
Gumball Shaker Card + 7 tips for Clean Color Pens
Artists’ Coloring Books + Free Clean Color Pen Labels
Watercoloring flowers with Clean Color pens
Wet on wet stamping – Clean Color markers
Interactive Woven Tab Card (Zig Clean Color Pens)
Zig Clean Color Pens on Letterpress Paper
Making your Zig Clean Color Markers last just a little longer
Rainy Get Well Cards in Zig Clean Color Markers
Interactive Art Studio Card
Art & Graphic Twin Markers
Related to Zigs in color and behavior but with a plastic brush nib.
Tombow Dual Brush Pens
Make a Set of Hummingbird Thank You Cards – Tombow markers
Precoloring Stamped Images with Tombow Dual Brush Markers
Today, since it’s my birthday (go to my YT channel at 11am Pacific and join in!) I thought I’d share what I feel is “me” – my fine art! Yes I do love my crafting….but where I find myself growing is trying new things beyond that little A2 sized surface! A bunchof these have only music without voiceover. Lots of times when I’m trying new things I have zero idea how to explain it…sometimes looking is the best way to learn, too!
These are not, of course, my only or best works. They’re just the ones on YouTube! The most amazing things always seem to happen off camera. But if you’d like to explore more of my fine art works, or choose any to purchase for your own art collection, please see my Fine Art site.
You’ll find a couple sections below…..click on a picture to go see the blog post with video!
Watercolor
My Plein Air Watercolor Setup: a trip to Hylebos Park
Coastal Watercolor – on canvas with a flat brush
6 tips: Mesmerizing Yupo Watercolor Landscape
Watercolor a Tropical Paradise
Watercoloring in Sketch-a-day Sketchbook
More watercolor sketchbooks
Reef Shark Watercolor on Black
Expressive Watercolor: Painting a Cat
31 Speed Paintings
Black Capped Chickadee watercolor
Painting just one petal
Watercolor poinsettia
Watercoloring in Sketch-a-day Sketchbook
One color watercolor painting (Lunar Blue)
Winter Cardinal – with a story
Pietá in watercolor (one of my earliest paintings, eeep)
Streets of Rome Watercolor Painting (another early one!)
Ink Painting
Ink and Bleach CItyscape
Copic marker
Copic Marker Tulip
Drawing Scrat in Copic Marker
Tribute Drawing: Robin Williams
Drawing a Copic sundae
Copics on Yupo paper
Betta Fish
Drawing T-Rex
Copic Poinsettia Sketch
Beaker
Copic Spring Bokeh
Lion drawing, Copic marker
Spring Hedgehog in Copic Marker
Drawing Mannie the Cat
Neytiri from Avatar
Drawing King T’Challa in Wakanda: Chadwick Boseman Tribute
The “no line” look can be done with about any medium; you just need to have an ink that will “disappear.” I love the no-line ink from Ink on Three for all three of the mediums below; sometimes I use distress or distress oxides for watercolor if I want the lines to fully wash out.
You can also try “second generation” stamping – stamp once on scrap, then again without reinking on your main paper. That should give you a tinted look to the stamp lines. Be careful that whatever ink you use, it doesn’t bleed with the medium. Test appropriately!
Posts below are collected by medium. Click on any photo to go to the post with video tutorial.
No-line Copic coloring animals (plus a little MISTI trick)
Inks for no-line coloring (several mediums)
Copic Marker
First, let’s prove I was doing no-line coloring in January of 2016 before the craze…..lol.
Shiny Metallic Robots in Copic marker
Coloring a no-line Golf Cart Card
Coloring a realistic bee – no line copic + pencil
Draw a crate for a fuzzy little pet
No-line coloring a girl: Copic on Kraft with Colored Pencil
No Line Copic Hack: Adding Graphite Pencil Accents
