Choosing Your Painting Materials
I REALLY ENJOY going to art stores and browsing through the huge selection of supplies, looking at all the beautiful paint colors and feeling the different brushes. But how do you know what to buy? My advice is to buy the highest quality materials you can afford. It’s better to have just a few professional-grade supplies than it is to have many student-grade items. High-quality materials will last longer, be easier to use, and help create better works of art. I will cover the basics of choosing materials here, but for further information, refer to Watercolor & Acrylic Painting Materials by William F. Powell in Walter Foster’s Artist’s Library series.
Paint Preferences
I have two different sets of watercolor paints: ...
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