Stockmar watercolours are ideal for transparent painting and for wet on wet painting. The colours can be mixed to obtain the required shades. Stockmar paints are made from gum arabic and fine, light-resistant colour pigments. For younger children, why not have a go at the technique of ‘wet on wet’. You merely have to dampen a good quality cartridge paper, and then as explained in the write up upon the colouring blocks, using just the three primary colours of yellow, red and blue, and with your brush just allow them to flow onto the wet sheet. The colour mix that results can for the child be an exciting and inspiring experience. Each sheet they do will be unique to itself. 51 Circle RED 55 Circle YELLOW 59 Circle BLUE These 3 colours have been formulated to give the perfect three primary colours and from which all the others arise. On the pricing of water colour, you will find that Cobalt Blue is more expensive. This arises from the special pigments used in its creation Water colours come in 20ml jars at £5.95 and 50ml at £11.50 (except cobalt). At £33.50, the preselected colours of the pack of 6 give a saving of £2.20.
