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Water on cartridge paper can be employed - but with great care! Or indeed, havoc, of a peculiarly moist character, is what you end up with. Watercolour pencils can be used with watercolour paints, by the way - on the heavier paper you'd normally use - and often are: get the best of both worlds.I have four Conte Aquarelle pencils which I bought some forty years ago from a superb art shop in Menai Bridge and was impressed. But then I joined a drawing life class run by a brilliant sculptress and succumbed to charcoal and black ink washes. She insisted on us using old newspaper for warm up sketches and I've never been daunted by a sheet of empty paper since. It was the loose grip and big arm movements that she cultivated which gave me the confidence to enjoy what I was doing and worked when switching to small sketchbooks. I'm hoping the class I've recently joined run by someone who is an illustrator by trade will do the same for me with colour. I will buy a few more Conte pencils and follow your advice. Thank you.
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