watercolor pencils

Soluble art crayons

Watercolor pencils are colored pencils with water-soluble pigment.

You draw with them dry, then brush water over the marks to blend and soften them into washes resembling watercolor paint.

They offer more control than a brush for initial linework: She sketched the outline in watercolor pencil, then wet it to create soft gradients.

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Opposites
medium permanence and water behavior

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Indelible writing implements

indelible ink · permanent ink · India ink · oil pastels · enamel paint

medium wetness and fluidity

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Aerosolized coating in cans

oil paints · encaustic · acrylic paints · house paint · airbrush

opacity and coverage

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Opaque water-based medium

acrylic paint · oil paint · tempera · house paint · poster paint

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Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G