10 essential BRUSH PEN techniques | STAEDTLER Art Class

In this brush pen tutorial, Nadja shows you 10 techniques to achieve great colour results and effects using brush pens. Our watercolours expert shows you how to easily create watercolour paintings with brush pens by applying these 10 basic brush pen techniques. Also suitable for beginners!
The following watercolour techniques are shown:

00:00 Introduction Nadja
00:37 #1 Dry-on-dry technique
01:06 #2 Dry-on-wet technique
02:05 #3 Flat wash
02:42 #4 Gradient wash
03:13 #5 Colour gradients
04:29 #6 Layering
05:20 #7 Mixing colours
07:30 #8 Colour application with fine tip
08:06 #9 Tip-to-tip blending
08:27 #10 Textures with a mixing palette

The following products are used:

► Double-ended watercolour brush pens: Item no. 3001 TB36
► Water brush: Item no. 949 BK-1-C

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[lauraalvarado]

Thank you, I have this exact same pens and I was using them very wrong, more like markers, but now I see they're totally just like watercolours. Thank you!!

[krissybooth]

Wow I am so excited about this course. I am clueless and have been watching so many videos how to get started and what I need. Having now purchased some supplies and sat staring at them avoiding making a start with a mindset of I cant do that, well after watching your step by step tutorials I am buzzing to get started. Thank you so much for popping up on my youtube and sharing the tutorials and even giving access to the templates. I am a 69 year old retired lady in UK and if nothing else this new challenge will stop me falling into the afternoon nap syndrome 😂😂. Today is the day I will start and again thank you for giving me the inspiration to get going. I have like and subscribed have a lovey day ❤ xx

[kelptheseawing]

very underrated video, i didn't know how to use my brush pen set until now! i had no clue it acted so much like water color

[Lori]

Excellent introduction to using these pens. Thank you ! ❤

[gertietheduck]

What paper are you using for this? Interested because the pen strokes seem to dissolve well when water is applied and I have found that a lot of paper (even watercolour paper) is prone to staining from felt tip pens and the original pen strokes are always visible after water is applied.

[donnamonticello]

I feel it is important to point out how the pens react on certain papers.

[LisaSchaffner-pqul]

Is the paper printout, that was used for the mixing, available as a download? If so, can you please share the link? Thank you!

[unboundedandfree]

Noticing that these videos, including this one, do not say anything of the type paper being used. This, I'm guessing will make a difference with how moveable the ink is after it is applied to the paper. Or am I wrong?

[juststartingover]

I just tried a set exactly as you are using in this video (new purchase after watching this video last week). So this time I tried them on 300gm 140 lb cold press watercolor paper by Canson and Arches. I also tried them on a 270 gm watercolor paper. I could not get them to blend out very much at all and tried everything you demonstrated. I was so disappointed-again! I returned them today. I do not understand why I have no success with these. I did buy a Staedtler waterbrush and it works fine. I

[adriennea]

Where could one get the mixing thing shown at 5:30? Does it come with one of the sets?

[gorota]

違う色のペン先を　合わせて　色を　混ぜてるけど
ペン先　染まっちゃわないのかな？
次使う時　混ざった色にならないですか？

[Dave_MustaineLover]

Hey do you have to use a watercolor brush or can you use just a paintbrush?

[iKadaj]

my set doesn't come with the clear one so do i just use a normal brush/water for that?

[ladedadesigns]

Can you tell me the best way to store the brush pens? Is it best to store them on there side or standing up?

[toolfreak]

Today i got my package of brush pensils but im already in love. I draw graffiti's and these pencils are awesome to colourize the graffiti. But this what i see now helps me a lot. But question, what is the best paper for it? I use nnow marker pads. Love ur vid.

[nancysonavane]

The third method
Where she was using water brush pen 😢😢, dont use it such way plzz, , ,

[manaloola]

What happens when the pens run out of pigment? Can you refill them. Seems a huge waste if you can’t