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LucyP
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Posted: Nov 30 2007 at 4:43am \| IP Logged

We have a box of watercolour pencils, that I want to use with ds aged 4 until we see if he gets watercolours for Christmas.

Thing is - what do you do with them? We're not getting the results shown on the tin, and we have no instructions - this tin was bought YEARS ago and we're stuck.

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Posted: Dec 01 2007 at 3:13am \| IP Logged

You can use them two ways. If you dip the pencil into water, you will get a thick, dark - and in my experience rather smudgy - colour. The way we usually use them is to use the pencils to colour as normal, then paint over the colour with a wet paintbrush. This makes it look as though the picture has been painted with watercolours. Very easy and very effective, though you need to be careful to paint the colours separately (unless you want them to mix!)

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Posted: Dec 01 2007 at 10:24am \| IP Logged

We do Kathryn's 2nd method as well.

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Posted: Dec 03 2007 at 4:54pm \| IP Logged

We use a combination of the two methods, depending on how much color we want to lay down.

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Posted: Dec 04 2007 at 7:20am \| IP Logged

Just wanted to add that if you intend to watercolor your drawing, you need to start with watercolor paper. It's very frustrating when someone works really hard on a masterpiece, then waters over it, and the paper crumples up and wrinkles and dimples because it isn't the weight to take the water. Ask me how I know.

You can find watercolor paper at almost any Michaels/Hobby Lobby craft store, and in several places on line. It is VERY heavy.

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