Watercolor

Watercolor is available in two different forms: liquid paint in tubes and watercolor cubes. I personally mix all kinds of materials, but I love working with watercolor in cubes the most.

Watercolor cubes can be purchased in small and/or big sets, where the small sets are often very suitable to take with you if you want to paint outdoors.

Brush pens, indian ink and ink pens

I frequently combine watercolor with other materials like Brush Pens, Indian ink, Chinese ink blocks and art pens. The common factor in all these materials is that they all can be diluted in water and used on paper. When combining all these materials you have to take into account that some inks will fade (faster) when exposed to direct sunlight.

Brushes

I use high quality Chinese brushes, a thin pencil, watercolor paint in cubes and several kinds of ink (fluid Indian ink and Japanese ink sticks). I prefer watercolor blocks, but I also use watercolor tubes and watercolor pencils to create special effects. I paint on heavy smooth white drawing paper and I use small strips of paper as a painters palette. I use a simple piece of paper cloth to absorb spilled water or paint.

Watercolor paper

Watercolor paper is available in a wide variety of  qualities, some structured, some smooth. You can purchase paper based on for example wood, cotton or rice. And you can find bright white paper and off white paper. All of these different qualities highly influence the result as these papers differ in their ability to absorb water. When you start using watercolor, I highly recommend to experiment with different kinds of paper to find out what you love best.

Additional material

Other additional materials you need are simple things like, of course, drawing pencils, an eraser, cups of clean water and a piece of paper cloth.