How to Paint Pen and Wash Pansies - Easy Beginners Tutorial in Watercolour

Join me (and my cat and dogs) in my garden where we find pretty pansies to paint in a little ramble across the paper today. Using a loose pen and ink style together with watercolours and pencils, we create a delightful floral with an original touch.

I used the followng materials for this painting:

Watercolour Paints:
Cadmium Yellow:https://tinyurl.com/4kxrrw6y
Cobalt Blue: https://tinyurl.com/hrbmjtt8
Quinacridone Gold https://tinyurl.com/2b53nta5
Black: https://tinyurl.com/fxsm9ffy
Quinacridone Purple https://tinyurl.com/4bzy7t3r

I also used the following brushes:

Prolene round size 12 https://tinyurl.com/bem677ev
and size 7 https://tinyurl.com/nbbtm5n9

Watercolour Pencils:
Grey-Green
Dark Violet Blue

Staedtler Pigment Liner Pen (waterproof) https://tinyurl.com/yrcnhzux
HB pencil and eraser
140lb watercolour paper, preferably stretched, eg Bockingford https://tinyurl.com/w89h7k8b

Scroll down for my other recommended materials - paint, paper, brushes etc.

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If you are looking for suggestions as to what to purchase as a beginner, here are my recommendations. If you use these links I will receive a small commission from Amazon which will help to support my channel.

PAINT
Here is a link to a Winsor and Newton starters' paint box which would be ideal for a beginner.
12 colours: https://amzn.to/3a1IVko​

This is a link to a Winsor and Newton Artists' quality box, which is ideal for a serious student.
24 colours: https://amzn.to/3tHJTKI​
12 colours: https://amzn.to/3rC0IVj​

TUBE PAINTS
I always have a tube of White Designers Gouache on hand for lights and corrections
https://amzn.to/2MZnqYK

These colours are very useful and don't usually appear in the sets the manufacturers make:
Naples Yellow
https://amzn.to/2NhAxEy
Quinacridone Gold
https://amzn.to/3qb3FMs
Permanent Rose
https://amzn.to/3d27oYK
Indigo
https://amzn.to/2Zl1YAl
Sepia
https://amzn.to/3jHnHvG

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PAPER
Winsor and Newton Watercolour paper pad 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques.
https://amzn.to/3cTf3Zu​

Canson MONTVAL watercolour paper block 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques. Exceptional resiliance and easy to work with.
https://amzn.to/2Z0iOnM​

BRUSHES
Princeton do a good range of synthetic squirrel brushes. This is a size 10 round.
https://amzn.to/3q6Y35F​
And Winsor and Newton Cotman brushes are also good. This is a size 10 round.
https://amzn.to/36Xn8Zb​

I often use a rigger brush (called script liner in the US) and this is a link to the Cotman range of riggers, this is size 1.
https://amzn.to/3a0nikC​
A size 3 would also be useful.
https://amzn.to/3q4O14Z

Staedtler Noris Karat Aquarell black watercolour pencils
https://amzn.to/3d24Bie

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