Today we're working with the Koi watercolor field set from Sakura
I'm going to show you how I use it share my thoughts about it and I have another
coloring page to share
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about this pan or disk set of watercolors from Sakura I have the 48
pan set so we're just gonna talk a little about the product itself it's
something that I've had for a while and I really like and I also have a coloring
page to share with you guys and it's a watercolor coloring page well it's any
kind of coloring page but I printed it on watercolor paper so we'll get to that
later but for now here's the set it's really compact as you can see and it has
a little pallet on top that you can place wherever you like and it'll stay
put which is really nice if you are painting outside I'll place mine to the
side there and it also comes with a water brush and if you haven't painted
with the water brush before they're really fun it has a cap so that the
bristles stayed protected and straight and then to use it you just unscrew the
bottom bit here and fill it up with water this particular brush does have a
reverse thread which is a little tricky for unscrewing and whatnot but it's not
a big deal and yes let's talk a little about the
actual paint's so this is the 48 pan set which is the largest one I believe they
go from 12 all the way up to 48 and the pigment quality of these paints is
really nice it's I would say student quality which is sort of in between the
lower craft quality and the much higher artist quality but for the price point
these are really nice watercolors I love painting with watercolor discs or pans
I just find there's no setup or it feels to me like there's no setup you can just
start painting a few tips for using this set or using any pans really are you
never want to you never want to mix your colors on the
pans so always use the palette when you're mixing and when it comes to the
water brush if you haven't used one there are a lot of fun to use as well
you just squeeze the handle gently and the water will come out through the
bristles so you can squeeze the water onto the palate or you can squeeze it
onto the page and get a really nice translucent paint so they're fun to play
around with now this is the 48 set of colors you can see there's a great
variation of color here it goes well beyond the primaries and you have some
very sophisticated shades which is sort of nice and actually when we get to the
coloring page I'm going to show you that you can actually use some of these
colors straight out of the pans of course a set like this you can also use
with regular brushes there's no reason that you have to use a water brush and a
couple tips for using regular brushes always have two jars of clean water
nearby the first jar you're going to use to wash your brush so if you've got one
color on there and then you don't need that color anymore
you wash your brush off with the one jar of water and then when you go to use
your next color use the clean water so you're always putting clean water on to
your pans now if you do get the pans mixed up and dirty as you're painting
that's not a big deal just make sure to wash off each disc or pan with a
clean brush before you put the set away and these paints will last you a really
long time because they are quite good quality or
I've had a lot of I've had a good experience with them okay now let's put
this set to use and grab our coloring page you can print this page off at my
blog I'll put the link in the description I was actually able to print
it on watercolor paper and they did that for me at Staples and it cost me 12
cents I took my watercolor paper with me and it was no trouble at all so to start
painting here as I said I'm gonna use some of the greens straight out of the
pans now I'm a big proponent of always mixing your paints you just don't want
to paint with basic primary colors but when you do have a variety of color like
48 pan that's quite a bit of variation and
variety you you can get away with using some of them straight as they are so
here I'm using this sort of minty green for the eucalyptus leaves on the page
and it is really a sophisticated color I'm very happy with that and that is one
of my favourite things about having the 48 pan set now for the next leaf here
I'm using a bit of a warmer green but that is still one of the shades that is
directly from the koi set for the next bit I'm gonna start mixing up some of my
own green so I'll get a little bit of a different color here and you can see
that's what I'm laying down on the little pine sprig here I hope you guys
will try printing the coloring page on watercolor paper it was really fun and
different to sort of tackle a watercolor coloring page is just something
something sort of cool yeah and I'm just sort of filling in what I'm doing with
this base layer is just laying down nice little washes of color and then as I
often do I'll go back in later and layer some darker colors on top of this
initial wash so I'll do a wet on dry even though it is a coloring page I'm
still gonna try to use proper sort of painting technique so here now that I've
let that first layer dry a little bit I'm going back in with some darker
Browns on the acorns and adding a bit of darker purple and burgundy to my berries
here you can see I'm adding quite a bit of blue to my leaves and to the veining
of the leaves and that's gonna make everything look cool and minty and
Christmasy and it gives a look that I very much like if you're interested in
the koi watercolor set I will have an Amazon link in the video description so
just check the video description for the link if you're interested in purchasing
this and of course there's also a link to my blog where you can find the
downloadable coloring page and I hope that you'll be able to print it on
watercolor paper and try this fun of watercolor coloring pages because I
quite liked it they you guys so much for watching today if
you didn't see last week's tutorial check it out because I had some free gift
tags as well as a little Amazon giveaway and make sure you go over to the blog as
well because there are a ton of holiday printables like coloring pages and
whatnot I'll see you Friday with the new tutorial don't forget to subscribe