Best Watercolors For Adults

Hello friends! Today I am sharing with you a list of the Best Watercolors For adults that I have used over the past few years and enjoyed! Sometimes having the right tools just helps simplify and improve your art.

On my blog here you will find lots of Easy Watercoloring Ideas to explore like this Watercolor Salt Technique or these Watercolor Flowers Easy! I would recommend that you read this post to begin your watercolor painting journey and then we can explore the best watercolors for adults.

best watercolors for adults

You will need Watercolor Paints, Watercolor sketchbooks, and other tools! Here a few of the best watercolors for adults:

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1. Watercolor Paints:

1. Kuretake Gansai Tambi: My first gift for myself was this paint set. The color pigment in these is of amazing quality. Pure and rich in color. I love their color palette and that comes with silver, gold and copped colors too. A must buy! Read my full Gansai Tambi Watercolors review.
2. Sakura Koi Watercolor Fieldset: A set of colors, compact in size, comes with a nice travel water brush and color mixing palette. Not my favorite of colors, they are very basic and rainbowy but great to travel with.
3. Dr.Ph Martin’s Bombay ink bottles: My most recent buy. My first liquid watercolors. Working with liquid watercolors is a whole new world and I am enjoying the learning curve.
4. Winsor & Newton Cotman Water Colour Paint Sketchers’ Pocket Box: The smallest watercolor set I own. I have been well used and loved a lot. It is compact, perfect to take on a plane or a long car ride. The color palette is again mainly the primary colors but the travel paintbrush it comes with is amazing. It breaks apart and fits in the small box and is great to paint with and even brush letter with.
5. Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor Tubes : These are my first tube watercolors, I got them mainly because I wanted to explore this form of watercolors and they weren’t too expensive. I use these in the Airtight watercolor palette that I recently bought.
   

2. Watercolor Sketchbooks:

I love my Moleskine Watercolor Sketchbook, but you can always make your own DIY Watercolor Sketchbook at home too! The Canson Montreal books are great as are the Strathmore 400 series. Read my Tested Strathmore Mixed Media Sketchbook Review

3. Watercolor Paint Brushes:

A Water Brush tor this Watercolor Brushes Professional set has everything you need to start off with. I also prefer the silver brush series.

4. Other Watercolor supplies

1. Best Masking Tape: Tape is used to create fun effects and also to add page borders.
2. Watercolor Masking Fluid: A great way to creative negative spacing in your art.

My Watercolor Wishlist:

Here are a few more items to add to my list of best watercolors for adults

• Arches hot pressed watercolor paper
• Prima Marketing Watercolor Confections
• Winsor & Newton Designers’ Gouache Set
• Blend Squirrel and Risslon Brush, Round Size 6
• Silver Brush Watercolor Set

You can also check out this comprehensive list of all the best watercolors for artists, that I have used, tested and recommend: https://amzn.to/48sUwE9

best watercolors for artists

Finding the best watercolors for adults really comes down to how you love to create. Whether you enjoy loose, relaxing washes, detailed botanical paintings, or experimenting with color mixing, the right watercolor set can make painting feel joyful instead of intimidating. When you invest in quality products, you will see the difference in the art you create.