Top 5 Techniques for Using Watercolor Markers!

5 Tips and Techniques for Using Watercolor Markers!
Today I am going to share my top 5 techniques for getting the most from your water based markers! The markers I am using are the 60 dual tip watercolor marker set from Ohuhu: http://amzn.to/2GuUNe4

Techniques:
1. Coloring directly with the markers and blending dark to light
2. Using a tile as a palette by scribbling swatches of marker then applying with a water brush or water based blending marker.
3. Coloring directly with the markers and then blending with the water brush or blending pen.
4. Use it like an inkpad: Coloring with markers directly on a rubber stamp, breathing on the stamp and stamping.
5. Dragging color with a wet brush (from step 4) and filling in the design for a painterly look.

Bonus tips!
*Use the fine tip end to add detail over colored image (after the image is dry)
* Scribble the marker on a tile and pick up the ink with a sopping wet brush and spatter on color

These techniques work best on watercolor paper or bristol but as always you can try with what ever you have. I used the smooth side of this watercolor paper by arteza for today's projects:http://amzn.to/2nqpo3F
I have also had good luck with the following papers:
Canson XL watercolor paper: http://amzn.to/2npFDOo
Strathmore XL Bristol: http://amzn.to/2Envzxt
Strathmore Bristol: http://amzn.to/2Gw19tM
Fabriano Studio hot press: http://amzn.to/2BAPNkh

I use the above papers for watercolor stamping projects because they are inexpensive yet are high enough quality to give beautiful results. Those papers are not what I would use for paintings which require lifting and scrubbing or many layers by they are ideal for the techniques I showed in the video.

Stamps!
Pretty poppies Stamps (Stampendous) http://amzn.to/2DZHu6X
Pretty Poppies Dies: http://amzn.to/2EltNgk
Pretty poppies die and stamp bundle: http://amzn.to/2Epng4s
Stampendous feather stamps: http://amzn.to/2EksRJ7
Waterbrushes: http://amzn.to/2FpBRft
Blender pen (make sure to get a waterbased one) http://amzn.to/2FsFXU8
Ohuhu Set of 60 Watercolor Markers for $22: http://amzn.to/2EmAxuB
Archival ink pad: http://amzn.to/2Gv1gFS and reinker: http://amzn.to/2DKocza
*If you need glycerin to revive your clear blending pen you can get it here: http://amzn.to/2DNSXTK or at a health food store or pharmacy

5 Tips and Techniques for Using Watercolor Markers!

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