Our Favorite Watercolor Supplies
You may have picked up that we LOVE watercolor painting! With all the crafty paint time we’ve clocked in over the years, we’ve tried out a few paint sets, brushes, and other supplies we think you should know about. Read on for more on what we love and why we love it!
Watercolor Paint Sets
Arteza Watercolor Paint Set, 25 Colors
Bright, opaque colors in a convenient box set. Use the inside of the cover as a paint palette to mix colors!
If you don't want to commit too much mulah, go for a kid's watercolor set! This one has great reviews and tons of fun colors.
Watercolor Paint Brushes
THE BEST round brushes! Now, these are all one shape (round) so you may prefer a set with more variety of shapes. But these brushes are well made and make the most beautiful lines, thick or thin, making them especially great for painting things like leaves and flowers (and mushrooms, and bees, and moons, too.)
This looks like a great little starter pack of brushes, with a combo of round and square brushes.
Watercolor Paper
Strathmore 5x7 Watercolor Paper
We love having a pack of these small 5x7 watercolor pages around, perfect for small projects, travel painting, and gift giving!
For paper you can practice on plus use for finished pieces, we go for medium-thick 140 lb paper. 9x12 is a great size for both practicing and final paintings!
Other Supplies We Suggest:
Two water cups are better than one! Use one for cleaning your brush and one for mixing colors.
Pipettes are super fun and a great way to collect small amounts of water for color mixing! Glass water droppers will totally work, too.
Paper towels - for dabbing up extra water and making cool, spongy effects on your paint
Salt - just for fun, the salt soaks up the water and makes super cool, moon surfac-y effects on watercolor paints
And finally, a pencil! Find one with an eraser that actually works :) And always sketch lightly when you plan to paint over your pencil lines.
Well, that’s it! Super simple, we hope this helped you get closer to having a little watercolor set up of your own for unplugging and tapping into your creative spirit.
What supplies can you not live without? Happy painting!