Art Supplies for Watercolour

Art Supplies for Watercolour

Art Supplies for Watercolours

1. Pencil – B or 2B, pen for writing and drawing as needed

Watercolour Pencil or Water Soluble Pencil – optional

2. Eraser

3. Paper – pieces of watercolour board or 140 lb+ watercolour paper, or watercolour paper pad, cold press type is recommended. A4 or A3 is a good size to practice, you may cut a full sheet to smaller size to start.

4. Watercolour paints – 12 colour set is a good start.
The 12 colour pack should include two sets of primary colours – warm yellow, red and blue, and cold yellow red and blue.

Quality and brand: Top quality – Daniel Smith, Da Vinci, Schminkcke…. You may also get Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours, Van Gogh Watercolours ….. of course there are many other names in stores you may choose from.

5. Brushes – You don’t need every brush to start. A good suggestion for large, medium and small sizes of flat and round watercolour brushes, plus a rigger brush for details would be a good starter kit.

Synthetic watercolour brushes are good to start, sable brushes will be the best.

6. Palette – for mixing colours, white palette or dishes would be the best
If you buy a palette with pan form watercolour included, it means you have watercolour paint and palette together. If you buy tube based watercolour paint, you will need to get a white palette for loading paint in it.

7. Water jar – Any yogourt, or glass, or plastic container will be good enough to wash the brush in.

8. Board – to rest the watercolour paper on

Stencil card board, book covering, foam board, plastic board, wood board whatever you have one

If you buy watercolour paper block, you don’t need this board

9. Tape – to stable the watercolour paper on board, gentler masking tape is a good choice.

10. Stencil cutting knife – whatever you have

11. Paper towel or old cloth

12. Sponge – optional, natural preferred.

13. Masking fluid – optional

14. Additional – salt, fine and rough from kitchen use.

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