The Faber-Castell watercolour pencils have rich watersoluble colours which transform into brilliant watercolours when brushed with water.

Colours blend beautifully to create unlimited shade options. Just release your imagination and check out some of the techniques below to create your masterpiece!

Pointillism

Draw an outline using a lead pencil. Wet the tip of the watercolour pencil with a wet brush. Press it onto paper and repeat with lots of dots to colour in (fill up) your outline. If you use similar tones close to each other, your eyes will mix the colours to form one colour. You should use this technique for lighting effects also, as you can see with the star drawing.

Palette technique

Sketch concentrated amounts of colour on separate sheets of paper. Activate colour with a wet brush and then transfer the paint in your brush to a blank sheet of paper. When you transfer it to dry paper the paint will stay still. When you transfer the paint to wet paper it will spread out across the area that is wet.

Trace and brush

Draw an outline using your watercolour pencils and "push" the colour to the internal part of your drawing with a damp brush. 

Landscape Background

Draw three bands of colour to suggest the land, sea and sky using watercolour pencils. Then, blend the colours with a wet brush; wait until it gets dry and your background is ready. All you have to do next is to add the details such as birds, clouds and sun with a dry pencil.

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