I love drawing flowers and especially botanical drawings. What I have recently been trying out is water soluble pencil crayons. Watercolour or water-soluble pencils crayons are a unique cross-over between drawing and painting. You draw with them as you would with any pencil or crayon, but then you run a wet brush over your drawing. This disperses the colour which turns the “crayon pigment”on the page into a water colour wash. Watercolor pencils are specifically manufactured with a binder that dissolves in water, making this method possible. I use pentel brushes with a water reservoir to do my washes.
There are different shapes and sizes of reservoir brush allowing you to work with a range of broad strokes to very fine detail. This one is a medium and the size I probably use the most when using water soluble pencil crayons.
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These are fantastic. What is the second flower? The detail on the branch is awesome.
Thank you Andre
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Hey Tiny! Its a Rhododendron. We probably know them as a variety of the Azalea family. Done in the same technique I did your prickly pears.
Those new pencils sound very cool. Lovely botanicals.
I’m thoroughly enjoying experimenting with them Lyn. I have recently bought masking fluid that one usually uses with watercolours to experiment with when using these water soluble pencil crayons.