Watercolor and colored pencils sketch // testing a new brush

I’m testing a mop brush while doing this little sketch. No voiceover .
✏️ Find me on Instagram: / yolandablazquez.art
Materials:
-Hahnemühle 100% cotton sketchbook
-Watercolors: yellow ochre, burnt sienna, magenta, ultramarine, sap green and burnt umber.
-Brush Raphael softaqua petit gris imitation number 0
-polychromos
-white luminance pencils
Music: Pair Piano
#watercolorsketch #watercolorpainting #coloredpencils

[@karlalikestoread]

So beautiful 😍 Really inspiring me to try mixing my watercolors and colored pencils. Don't know why I never have!

[@YolandaBlazquez]

Thank you! I think they work so so well together. Since I started incorporating colored pencils I have not used watercolors on their own ever again 😅

[@dianefuchs7567]

@@YolandaBlazquezYou just answered my question! I recently saw another artist use the two mediums together and I want to try it! Do you usually use mostly watercolor and just add a little detail with the colored pencil? Or do you use the colored pencil more extensively in a regular painting (not a sketch)? I used to use colored pencil first then use Dr. Martin concentrated watercolors on top of them, as taught by an instructor when I was in college. (But I haven’t done that in years!)

[@YolandaBlazquez]

@@dianefuchs7567 I usually leave the colored pencils for touch ups and details. I’ve tried doing 50-50 but colored pencils on their own are quite slow so now I do like 75% watercolor and 25% colored pencils. At the end I bring back watercolor for highlights and make to darken something small. How did you use those watercolors after the pencils?

[@dianefuchs7567]

@@YolandaBlazquez I worked on cold press illustration board and did the illustration in colored pencil, then I would use the Dr. Martin's (we called them Dr. Martin's watercolor dyes, but it doesn't say "dye" on the bottle) and paint on top of all the colored pencil. It would fill in, very nicely, all those little white holes left by the colored pencil. This technique was taught by a guy who was a professional illustrator and was also a part-time faculty member at the School of Art at Kent State University back in the 1970s.

[@YolandaBlazquez]

@@dianefuchs7567 thank you for the explanation! It makes me want to grab my paints again :D When I combine them I usually paint in hot pressed paper but I imagine that with cold press you would get more empty dots.

[@cristina8928]

Wow! It is mesmerising to watch... Beautiful, thank you.

[@YolandaBlazquez]

Thank you Cristina!

[@Mi_Ni_sketch]

Love your work please do oil pastel tutorial ❤

[@YolandaBlazquez]

I haven’t gotten yet to record oil pastels in RUclips format but I’ll try to do it soon 😊

[@juliaschneeflocke9208]

So beautiful! I love it!

[@YolandaBlazquez]

I’m happy that you like it, Julia 😊