Holiday Gift Guide: Watercolor Artists

Holiday Gift Guide: Watercolor Artists

Posted by Marker Supply on Nov 16th 2023

These watercolor supplies are the perfect way to encourage artistic creativity in both beginners and those with experience. Provide a boost of inspiration with guidebooks or by helping switch to a new painting medium such as gouache or soluble pencils & markers!
Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days by Jenna Rainey - For those who are interested in watercolor painting and want an extra boost to get started, this book gives a great overview of understanding basic techniques with plenty of beautiful visual examples across 30 days of practice projects.

Nicker Poster Colour - Nicker Poster Color is versatile, unique, and absolutely gorgeous. Made with superior quality pigments in Japan, these inks are much different from anything marketed as "poster paint" in the American art supply market. Similar to gouache, this dense pigment ink can be thinned to be used with pointed pens, broad pens, brushes, and water brushes for gorgeous calligraphy, painting, lettering, and design work.

Tombow Dual Brush Pen - Tombow Dual Brush Pens are double-ended markers for hand lettering, drawing, coloring, journals, cardmaking, rubber stamping, and more. Water-based ink is easily blend able for neat effects!

Derwent Inktense Watersoluble Colored Pencils - Derwent Inktense Watersoluble Colored Pencils can be used alone as a dry color, or blend them with water to create a much more vibrant tone! After the color has dried, it becomes a fixed permanent ink that can be worked over the top of. These pencils can even be used to color fabrics!

Derwent Graphitint Paint Pan Set - This travel-size paint set includes 12 half pan (1/2" square) watercolors with the same formulation found in Derwent's Graphitint pencil range. Graphitint are a unique blend of graphite paint mixed with color to create subtle, muted tones. Fine particles settle into the paper grain, leaving a look of granulation in the color, along with a graphite sheen.

Gansai Tambi Watercolors - Individual Pan - Gansai Tambi Watercolors introduced individual color pans this year, and we never grow tired of building our own custom palettes! These rich and intense watercolors are highly blendable, with a creamy-smooth consistency found only in traditional Japan. Control the opacity by experimenting with different amounts of water and choose from 100 colors.

Holbein Artist Watercolors - Originating in the early 1920s, Holbein Artist Watercolors have always held high standards in paint and pigment quality. They are now available in 108 highly concentrated colors that are each designed to be easily re-wet and long-lasting in the tube, on a palette, or for creating a solid pan. Use them to create powerfully dark color and/or more subtle-yet-brilliant transparent washes. Creamy texture gives excellent brush control.

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens - Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens are perfect for drawing, sketching, lettering, coloring, and design. The real bristle brush tip makes it easy to create both narrow and wide lines. Ink is super easy to blend for color mixes, fades, shadows, and color gradation effects. Super popular pens among illustrators, card makers, decorative lettering artists, watercolor painters, and more!

Canson XL Watercolor Pad, 9 x 12 in - A 9x12" paper pad with 30 sheets of 140lb Cold Press watercolor paper from Canson. Perfect paper for layering wet media such as watercolors, acrylics, and more. Markers, pencils, and mixed media techniques also work well with this durable paper pad!

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