Ooh La La! How To Use Watercolor Pencils - Tips and Techniques {FSJ}

Hands down, one of my favorite items from Fun Stampers Journey are the Color Splash Sheets (watercolor paper) and our Journey Color Splash Watercolor Pencils. I can't STOP with the watercoloring. Today I have two cards to share with you, featuring my favorite new items, and three different ways to use them.

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Make Watercolor:

My go-to way to use watercolor pencils is to actually MAKE some watercolor, and then paint it onto my project. I use an acrylic block, (any nonporous surface will work) and squeeze a few drops of water onto it from my water brush (Journey Blending Brush). Then I use a watercolor pencil and scribble onto the water until the color becomes the intensity I'm looking for. As I'm working, sometimes I add other shades in, or make the color darker. All of the images on today's cards were colored that way.

Watercolor Smooshing:

On today's first card, I used a slightly different technique to get that big coffee "spill" in the background, but it starts out the same. I mixed the color on my acrylic block, but instead of using a paintbrush, I just placed my Color Splash watercolor paper face down on top of the puddle. It's always a surprise what it will look like when you pick the paper back up! This technique is especially fun if you blend a variety of colors together and they swirl and blend together. In this case, I just went for brown, because I was thinking about coffee!

Watercolor Splatter:  

Splattering with watercolor is always a fun finishing touch. It adds to the loose and laid back feel to a watercolored project. And there are two different techniques to try. On my first card, you can see that some of the splatters bled and ran a little bit - that effect is achieved when you flick your painty brush across a wet surface. If you flick the brush across an already dry surface, the splatters will hold their shape and be a more intense color, like you see on this second card. Two splatter effects - both lots of fun!

Do you have questions about watercolor pencils? Do you have a project you'd like to share? Post a question or link in the comments - I'd love to chat with you about it! Thanks so much for stopping by! xoxo

Supplies used on today's projects:
Journey Color Splash Watercolor Pencils
Color Splash Sheets
Journey Blending Brush - Large
Le Cafe Stamp Set