I've decided I want to try stepping out of the studio and painting on the go a little. I use several palettes and watercolor in tubes in the studio, so I thought I'd try a more portable option. I found this cute little
Art Philosophy Inc. Watercolor Confections Pan Set and a
Pentel Water Brush Pen. I bought The Classics set which comes with 12 colors: white, pinky, red, orange, yellow, green, icy blue, blue, purple, cocoa, grey, and black. The paints seem to be a little more opaque than what I am used to with my mixture of tube paints:
Sennelier Auarelle,
Winsor & Newton and
Winsor & Newton Cotman,
Sakura Koi, and
Grumbacher. But I'm having fun with them. I'm truly not used to painting with a water brush and a pan set, so it's going to take a lot more practice before I'm really comfortable with this change.
This is a good basic color set. I think I want to try the
Pastel Dreams or
Vintage Pastel set next. And I might get a couple of different sizes of the
Pentel Water Brush.
The first piece I tried to paint with these supplies was an utter failure. I'm using it as a paint tester paper. It's hard to judge how much you need to squeeze the pen to get just the right amount of water out. Plus I reflexively try to dip the brush in a non existent water jar out of habit. More practice needed!
A little Autumn doorway doodle.
Another little doodle of a black gown.
I'll keep on practicing with this pan and water brush and hopefully I'll get used to painting this way.
