Tools & Materials
“Paints and brushes are good servants, but bad masters.”
- William Collingwood
Watercolor is a beautiful medium because it can be as simple or elaborate as you want it to be. With minimal materials, you can explore and complete all the projects in this book. Sometimes it can even be helpful to limit your materials as you begin. This forces you to become familiar with how they work together and can provide some natural limits on your choices to avoid decision fatigue!
The following supplies are the most essential.
PAINTS
Here you have a choice between watercolors in a pan or watercolors in a tube. Watercolors in a pan often have a palette (the mixing surface) built into them. If you choose watercolors in tubes, you will also ...
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