A short video showing how I use a waterbrush and watercolour pencils colour on a page. The video plays in a loop and I finish with nine colours on the page.

I am experimenting with swatches of different colours on the page.

I am using a waterbrush (basically a tube of water). I could be using a paintbrush and water container.

• touch the waterbrush to the page and move some of the pigment around. You can see that sometimes the colour becomes a lot more intense when the water is added.

• I then pull the brush across or down the page, spreading the pigment. You can see that it gets lighter as it bceomes diluted. This means that you can get a large range of colour from one pencil.

• I clean the brush between colours on a serviette.

• You don’t need to keep pumping the waterbrush. It is very easy to flood the page with water.

Colours used are from my daily sketch kit:

I hope that this post inspires and motivates you to put pencil to paper.

Any questions – just ask !