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Available in an astounding range of colors, Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors are made by hand in Seattle, Washington. This superior-quality waterco...
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Available in an astounding range of colors, Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors are made by hand in Seattle, Washington. This superior-quality waterco...
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Today, the Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor range benefits from continued advancements in pigment technology and production methods, building o...
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Prang Semi-Moist Watercolor Paint Pans and Refills are still manufactured according to the true, semi-moist formula that's made Prang famous. The resu...
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Item #: 00305
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Prang Semi-Moist Watercolor Paint Pans and Refills are still manufactured according to the true, semi-moist formula that's made Prang famous. The resu...
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Good for fine detail work, such as lettering and scrolling. Colors retain their clean, crisp, brilliant characteristics. No dispersants to inhibit opt...
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Good for fine detail work, such as lettering and scrolling. Colors retain their clean, crisp, brilliant characteristics. No dispersants to inhibit opt...
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Blick Liquid Watercolors are easy to dispense and perfect for classroom use! These dye-based watercolors can be used directly from the bottle for inte...
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Blick Liquid Watercolors are easy to dispense and perfect for classroom use! These dye-based watercolors can be used directly from the bottle for inte...
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Blick Liquid Watercolors are easy to dispense and perfect for classroom use! These dye-based watercolors can be used directly from the bottle for inte...
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Cotman Watercolors offer a selection of good-quality watercolors for the beginner or intermediate artist or student. The Cotman line includes both tra...
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Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolors offer artists the widest and most balanced choice of pigments with the greatest possible permanence. These pa...
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Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolors offer artists the widest and most balanced choice of pigments with the greatest possible permanence. These pa...
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Imagine traveling to an exotic and beautiful landscape, carrying everything you need with you for an afternoon of plein air painting. Watercolor pans ...
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M. Graham Artists' Watercolors are manufactured in small batches with pure honey, gum arabic, glycerine, and the finest pigments available. Each color...
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Horadam colors can be lifted from a dried palette without forming small bubbles. Colors flow evenly and are fully intermixable. Horadam helps the arti...
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The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors artists know and love — now in half pans! Portable and easy to use, Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Half Pa...
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Excellent quality and competitive pricing make Blick Artists' Watercolors the perfect choice. All 63 colors are formulated using rich, premium pigment...
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Continuing its traditional color palette used by French Impressionist painters, Sennelier has now expanded the Sennelier Artists' Watercolor line to i...
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Made using an exclusive binder that provides more pigment with every stroke, QoR Modern Watercolors have all the subtlety, transparency, and flow of a...
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Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors are handcrafted, professional-quality Japanese watercolors with a highly blendable, creamy-smooth consistency. The c...
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Schmincke has a reputation for using only the highest-quality natural gums, water-soluble resins, and pigments for its line of Horadam watercolors. It...
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Maimeri was founded in 1923 by noted Italian impressionist painter, Gianni Maimeri, who was searching to satisfy his own desire for artistic excellenc...
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Van Gogh Watercolor Tubes and Sets offer students and professionals alike the flexibility to create larger-scale works and intense, highly expressive ...
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Da Vinci paints are exciting, intense, and rated among the best in the world for quality. The paints are permanent, with the highest tinting strength ...
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Daniel Smith Luminescent Watercolors employ miniscule particles of titanium-coated mica to achieve their dazzling properties. Use them alone or mix th...
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Fine pigments, finely ground and evenly dispersed, produce vibrant washes and subtle gradations. Tubes. Also sets with brush, mixing tray, and waterco...
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Sennelier French Artists' Watercolor Half Pans come in a range of 48 vivacious colors inspired by the original palette of the French Impressionists. T...
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Designed for educational use, Crayola Educational Watercolor Pan Sets are perfect for beginners and students. Shop sets of vibrant colors.
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Make a splash with watercolor paints! Choose from watercolor tubes, watercolor pans, and liquid watercolors. Find the best watercolor paint for your skill level and technique. Watercolors can be used on paper and other absorbent surfaces that have been primed to accept waterbased paint.
Watercolor Paint Tubes contain a full pigment load suspended in a watersoluble binder, generally natural gum arabic. Use them on paper and other absorbent surfaces that have been primed to accept waterbased paint.
Watercolor Pans, available in professional and student grades, offer pigment and binder in a dry form. Apply water with a brush to moisten the pan and lift pigment. Use a palette with indentations to mix colors. Watercolor pans are ideal for field or outdoor painting and small-scale work.
Liquid Watercolors contain dyes as well as pigments, suspended in an aqueous medium. Because they are moist and fluid, they're suited to thin washes and airbrush application as well as conventional brushwork. Many of the more brilliant colors are fugitive (not lightfast), so liquid watercolors are often used for illustrations that will be scanned for reproduction.
Student Watercolors have working characteristics similar to professional watercolors but with lower concentrations of pigment and a smaller range of colors. More expensive pigments are generally replicated by hues.
Kids' and Classroom Watercolor Pans contain inexpensive pigments and dyes suspended in a synthetic binder. Washable formulas feature colors that are chosen to be non-staining, easily washable, and suitable for use by young children with proper supervision. They're an excellent choice for teaching beginning artists painting techniques and basic color theory.
Access our Swatch and Pigment guide for details on our individually-painted color swatches and where to locate pigment information.
Watercolors are waterbased, so they dry very quickly. This makes painting at a variety of indoor and outdoor locations more convenient. And because they're watersoluble, watercolors are easy to clean up — you just need soap and water in most cases.
Blick offers many books and DVDs to help you get started watercolor painting. Visit our Books and Media - Watercolors page to see our selection.
Watercolors are made of finely ground pigments mixed with a watersoluble binder and sometimes other additives. Common binders are gum arabic or synthetic glycol. Other common additives may include glycerin as a plasticizer, honey as a humectant, and ox gall as a wetting agent.
Watercolor pans are solid blocks of watercolor paint. Just wet them and they're ready to use. Pans are perfect for location painting, outdoor sketching, and small-scale works — they're very portable.
Watercolor tubes have a pasty consistency and should be diluted with water on a palette for easy mixing. If watercolor tubes have dried on a palette, they can be rewet with water on a brush or from a spray bottle. Watercolor pans can be made from watercolor tubes by filling a pan and letting it dry. Watercolor tubes are great for large-scale works or big, saturated washes of color.
Absolutely! Just as with watercolor tubes, both student and artist quality are available in watercolor pans. Watercolor pans are very popular with plein air painters and travelers because they're so easy to transport - perfect for painting landscapes.
Thinning or diluting watercolors is the key to creating the flow and transparency that is characteristic of watercolor painting. Also, because of the weakness of the binder, it's important to thin out watercolors to some extent. They'll crack if applied too thickly.
Traditionally, white paint isn't used in a watercolor work. The white in the painting comes from the white of the paper.
If you do choose to use white watercolor, Chinese White, made from zinc-oxide pigment, and Titanium White are the two most common colors. Artists use white watercolor to add highlights and to dull bright colors. Chinese White tends to be translucent or semi-opaque, while Titanium White is more opaque.
Watercolor is transparent and gouache is opaque. Gouache can be applied in solid colors, allowing an artist to paint in layers from dark to light. Like watercolor, gouache can be rehydrated and reworked.
The most common is watercolor paper, but other surfaces such as vellum, parchment, clay mineral panels, sumi rice paper, or thin fabrics such as silk can be used.
Three characteristics are used to evaluate the performance of a watercolor brush: how much water/color does the brush hold; does the brush have and maintain a sharp point or edge; and does the brush snap back to its original shape.
Traditionally, the best watercolor brushes are made with Kolinsky Sable. Kolinsky is regarded as the best grade of sable hair. Another option is squirrel, which holds more color than sable but has less snap. Camel hair (which is really pony or goat) is a more economical choice.
Today, better quality synthetic-hair brushes and synthetic-sable combinations can be as good, if not better, than many natural-hair brushes. Synthetics are a more durable, and sometimes a more affordable, alternative to natural hair and still provide a high-quality performance.
Professional-grade paints have a higher pigment concentration and less filler, and generally use a wider variety of pigments, resulting in a larger color range. Usually made with a single pigment, they mix more cleanly and have better tinting strength than lower-grade paints.
Student-grade paints have working characteristics similar to professional paints but with lower concentrations of pigment and a smaller range of colors. More expensive pigments are generally replicated by hues, which may not have the same mixing characteristics as pure colors. They don't cover as well as artist-grade paints, but they're usually more affordable.