Yes! Feel free to blend as you please with paint from tubes or pans to create a variety of washes and effects. Winsor & Newton Watercolour PromarkersĬan I use Promarker Watercolour with other traditional Winsor & Newton watercolour paint (tubes and/or pans)? You can then blend the colours just as you would traditional forms of watercolour. The sooner water is applied, the better the resulting washes. The real transformation occurs when you apply water to what has been drawn, turning it into a watercolour painting. The Promarker Watercolour range is versatile in that you can use the markers for drawing and sketching, just as you would with regular Promarkers. Thinking about incorporating this new form of watercolour into your practice? Read on for answers to some of the most common questions about Promarker Watercolour and learn how to get the most out of this contemporary twist on a classic medium.

The precision of the marker nibs is ideal for adding the finest of details and the flexible brush tip perfect for soft washes, allowing you to experiment with various textures and effects. Please see the About page for more details.Promarker Watercolour are precise, highly pigmented, and seamlessly mixable with traditional watercolour. The Well-Appointed Desk is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon. Other items in this review include affiliate links. Pens: Royal Talens Ecoline Watercolor Brush Pen ($3.40 each) Winsor & Newton Water Colour Brush Pens ($84 for set of 12) or ( $3.69 each from Blick – much better deal and now sold under the name Winsor & Newton Pro Marker Watercolor Marker)ĭISCLAIMER: The Ecoline Pens included in this review were provided free of charge by JetPens for the purpose of review.Paper: Bee Paper Super Deluxe Aqua Bee 6×9 sketch pad ($21) and Col-o-ring Folio (coming soon!).That said, the Ecoline is a solid option. While both pens, the Ecoline and W&N do similar things and work pretty consistently but I’m inclined to recommend the W&N over the Ecoline because of the dual tip and I have more history with the brand in general.

Some “staining colors” from W&N also had some issues blending smoothly but both of my sample blends were not done on pre-wet paper so your results may vary with different techniques. When blending, the Ecoline colors did not lift as easily with water or rewet as smoothly. W&N colors also show more granulation like traditional watercolors. If you prefer to layer colors when color is dry, this may not be a deciding factor. Considering that the W&N have dual tips (the brush tip on one end and the fine tip on the other) the extra 20¢ per pen seems reasonable.īut the biggest advantage is that, when wet, the W&N pens blend much more easily and the amount of pigment in each color is much more intense and saturated. Originally, I thought the W&N brush pens were very expensive but after some investigation, the prices for the W&N Water Color Brush Pens compared to the Ecoline, are pretty similar. While this is probably not a fair comparison, I think both pens are competing for the same type of user. I had similar colors in both brands - not exact matches but close. I compared the Ecoline Brush Pens to what I consider to be the “Cadillac of Watercolor Brush Pens” - The Winsor & Newton Water Colour Brush Pens. Testing on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook

I like to do florals and silly doodles so I focused on colors I thought might be good in these uses. If you are considering purchasing these pens, consider what you might want to draw, paint or color and choose your colors accordingly. The colors range from bright and vivid to light and subtle. The physical pens are wide, like most brush pens, but lightweight and easy to hold. I did want to have a full range of colors. I got individual pens so I could choose colors I thought I would use more than the sets. Testing on Col-o-ring Folio (soon to be available) Col-o-ring Paper is similar to multimedia paper in a lot of way but may curl or “taco” more easily when wet than watercolor or multimedia paper. Multimedia paper (Strathmore, Bienfang and Canson all offer versions of this type of paper) is the next best. Watercolor paper, which is designed to be used with a lot of water will be more successful in more painterly experiments. How successful blending is will depend largely on what kind of paper you are using. The colors in each pen can be blended or faded by adding water like pan watercolors. The tip is firm enough to allow both thick and thin lines. Royal Talens Ecoline Brush Pens ($3.40 each or sets available at various price points) feature a large, soft, flexible fiber tip and each of the 30 available colors features Ecoline’s liquid watercolor ink inside.

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