Some of the color cubes are very dark, so you might not know what pigment you are picking up until you mix it on the pallete.

Free time is rare and short, and there are no shortage of things vying for a slice of it: Books I should read, shows I want to watch, games I want to play, episodes of a certain pen podcast I want to listen too. Little sponges are inserted along the side for dabbing your brush onto, or for blotting your painting. This might look like a very diluted layer of paint, but remember the objective with a glazing technique is to build up transparent layers of color a bit at a time. It’s easy to get carried away and put down too many brush marks which risk hiding the base layers and you’ll wind up with something that looks over-worked. I think with my goal of using my watercolors every few days and deciding to use my watercolors for the 2-year blog anniversary post, I’ve had plenty of time to form some opinions about the Koi Watercolor Sketchbox.If you took the sponge ring off, you can either put it back on before you replace the fibres or after - just make sure you gently pull and tease it up abit at a time, over the 'teeth' and next to [NOT on] the base the bars of the frame connect to - REMEMBER it sits between the 'teeth' and base it does NOT go half on anything! Colours included: Chinese White, Lemon Yellow, Permanent Yellow Deep, Brilliant Yellow, Vermilion Hue, Crimson Lake, Purple, Cobalt Blue Hue, Cerulean Blue Hue, Ultramarine Deep, Prussian Blue, Viridian Hue, Permanent Green Pale, Permanent Green Deep, Yellow Ochre, Light Red, Burnt Umber and Ivory Black.

It contains 72 Half pans of vibrant watercolours with two Koi refillable Water Brushes, two sponges and a removable mixing tray. After laying dormant for a couple of weeks, I decided to break it out and start practicing with watercolors.Personalization cookies These cookies are used to tailor advertisements to your interests, both on royaltalens. When you compare to Copic markers, when you over lay the markers even by the tiniest bit, you will see the tones get darker. The sponge is of a decent length, is very easy to clean [run it under a tape or droplets of water, a little bit of soap for the more stubben stains] but it is of the type of material that if you're too rough you can easily tear it in half! I found the pans to be too close together, and I had to pay more attention to where I was putting my paintbrush. this will give you extra water on the paint blocks, but again you'll have to use more paint then normal for a large area BUT doing large flat colour is easier this way BUT!

Unfortunately, Koi only sells 12 and 18 tube sets, which obviously won’t have all the same colors as the 48 half-pan set. Studio Set – Due to the popularity of our Koi Pocket Field Sketch Kits Sakura expanded the Koi collection to include a wider color selection in larger Studio Sets.I thought this watercolor tutorial by Ekaterina Smirnova would work well for the sample painting because of the layered mountain effect, and stay my heavy-handed tendencies. After some time I thought it was far too big, so I got the Cotman one, removed the paints for my own, and now I use that.