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The new Daniel Smith Watercolor Confetti Dot Card Set is easy to carry and take along from the coffee shop to the mountain top and everywhere in between! Watercolor dot cards were designed for watercolor beginners to play with color and create small art projects. Over the years, artists have discovered that this is an excellent way to travel with your watercolors, without having to bring whole tubes. Just take a wet brush, touch the watercolor dot to release the beautiful color and you are …

A whole new world of possibilities has opened with Van Gogh's Black Watercolor Paper Pads. These pads have all the qualities you would expect from a high-quality watercolor paper, and they come in black! The paper is 360gsm, has a cold pressed surface and is acid free. The paper has a matte finish that works well with watercolors, acrylic inks, gouache, and even pencils. This dark paper is designed to be used with opaque, metallic, and interference watercolors. The dark surface highlights the sh …

Like the name infers, these brilliant portable sketchbooks fold out accordion style! No matter if you're painting a giraffe with the longest neck, a panorama landscape, or an Instagram-style pictorial, with the ZigZag book you can do it all. This is a great travel sketchbook. Open the book and see a story unfold across the pages.The watercolor paper features a fine-grain surface on both sides and is perfectly suited for all wet painting techniques with brush or pen. The 300gsm weight ensures sta …

Watercolor markers or brush pens have the versatility of a traditional watercolor packed into an easy to take-on-the-go form. They are the perfect tool for hand-lettering but can also create beautiful washes, gradients and drips. With so many brands coming out with their own version of a watercolor marker we decided to do a comparison of our most popular three: Kuretake's ZIG CLEAN COLOR Real Brush pens, Faber-Castell's Albrecht Dürer watercolor markers, and Royal Talen's ECOLINE brush …

Jacquard just introduced 5 new colors to their line of alcohol inks!Piñata Colors are highly saturated, fast-drying alcohol inks for any hard surface, including glass, metal, plastic, ceramic, stone, leather, resin, polymer clay, YUPO® and more. Indelible and impervious to water, Piñata Colors clean up with alcohol and re-wet themselves, allowing for unique effects and techniques not easily achieved with water-based inks. As a dye-based, highly transparent ink*, Piñata Colors are unparalle …