Can you put watercolour paint in waterbrushes? 

Here's an update on the watercolour in waterbrushes. They clogged. :-/

I took Chinese black ink and diluted it 70% and 20% w water and filled three brush pens ( one straight black). It works terrifically! I love having grey scale values around so easily

Who r here watching this even without having this

I would steer clear of sedimentary paints and use transparent colours which are less likely to clog the brush.

Sometimes the water brush sucks in the color inside the tube anyway.

I though that's how they worked💀

Can you make an update video on this in a few weeks, to clarify whether the pigment will clog the brush or not? Because that's why I've never tried this before, I was too worried to ruin my water brushes that way.

I did this with my PH martins. Worked real well. I even made a couple with that pinata alcohol ink. Never with pan paint though.

looks sort of fun but I can just see me with leaky brushes everywhere lol

6:19 You made my day here buddy! When you spilled the yellow I felt your pain across the internet! Nice videos!

The pigments you chose are easily making your painting very muddy/contaminating your color in the brushes, I'd recommend using more vibrant colors if you wanna go for mixing a lot. RGB is not working well with paint. CMY is gonna get you much better results

Very interesting. I've considered doing this, but I don't have enough water brushes around. I think your final sketch looks very nice, but it looked challenging to regulate the amount of water on the page.

I appreciate this demonstration. Thank you! I tried Diamine glimmer ink in a waterbrush once and it was an epic fail! I really like that you are experimenting with using materials in different ways to see what you can achieve. It's always a good lesson, especially about not being timid to dive in and try something out to see what happens. Sometimes it's intimidating to worry how work will turn out. It can be discouraging to spend time on work and then get an unpleasant surprise. We can learn from others though, and you really give examples that allow a viewer to make an informed choice about their techniques and materials and apply them to their own art. Thanks for doing that! As for using these watercolors, it seemed to work better than the ink I tried, which had flow issues. To me, the convenience of using three water brushes with primaries doesn't seem worth the loss of control and flexibility one gets with decent brushes and differing pigment loads as the work progresses. When I think about the example you did recently with the Artgraf block shaped "graphite" primaries, or other limited pallette studies you do, the results seem far superior, and reliably so, than this technique did.

I’ve been wondering about this forever Teoh! Thanks for testing it out.

I liked it more than i thought. Lightfast waterbrushes (unlike many inks). I imagine least granulating would be best longterm. This is an excellent way to get artists who over-mix their colors on the palette to get a more variegated result :)

I use PH Martin's Hydrus with my water-brush, because it's already mixed and liquid. I have kept them for almost 6 months and no clogging has occurred yet. Oh yeah, my water-brush is Pentel Arts Aquash Water Brush.

Often wondered about this thanks! I have a few of these brushes filled with diluted ink which works really well but I'm pleased to see it work well with watercolour too.

I believe one waterbrush with grey would be more useful than one with black.

Why is this so calming? hehe, that's a really good sketch btw!

This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. I just picked it randomly, and I already learned so much. Subscribed.

I've diluted some inks and put them in a couple water brushes to try this, too. It seemed to work okay, although they were much wetter than a typical ink brush pen and weren't very good to use on regular sketch paper.

Simple line work with primary colour blends, this is really lovely

A thing that I know is going to help at least a little with the paint clogging or sticking to the walls of the water reservoir is putting a small screw or something alike, preferably that doesn't rust, in there to help mix the watercolor, it also helps with the paint and the water separating.

I really love the result, it has a lovely carefree feeling :)

This is so convenient and would be perfect for traveling!

It worked much better than I expected. I can see having certain commonly used colours in this form, but I think it creates as many problems as it might solve.

I have some water brushes I’ve put watercolor and ink in and I love them especially for big washes or on the go

I keep a rag with me when I'm using my water brushes, and when I need to pick up color, I dry my brush on the rag, then can pick up the wet color. It's not ideal, but it does work.

For some reason this really reminds me of the art in Roald Dahl books

Pretty cool - I will try this! Thank you for the time you give to share !

Amazing, I loved your sketch and Sky

So interesting to watch this. Thank you!

I really like the chromatic effect this painting had, I think I am going to try that out in the near future.

This looks like it would be fun to try. 🖌🎨

Wow what a challenge lol thank you for trying this!! I’ve been wondering forever

Fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing!

One good use is for shadow color and sepia. Tree trunks and shadows easy to layer with these. I have 4 of them, 1 sepia, 1 shadow, and 2 water filled. One waterfilled is a very wide flat for prewash. The other is a very thin for linework with colors as it naturally fade and make beautiful branches, grass, whispers. The sepia and shadow brush is medium size.

I've often thought of putting paint in my brushes but never did it. I think I'll try it now. Thank you.

Hi, interesting video. I fill three watercolor brushes with varying strengths of Neutral Tint and then use them on ink drawings for grayscale sketches. Very nice effect. The brushes do clog after a while, esp. the darker mixes, but little trouble to clean them with warm water. Thanks for all the instructive hours!

TFS, Teoh! Interesting! ✨👍🏾

Most awesome paint brush.... 🔥🔥🔥... Easy to use 👍👍

I like this look, it’s very colorful and harmonious. I can see the issue of having water control, and intensity.

That's a fun experiment, thanks for sharing Teoh :)

I just bought these, thank you for the video.

This looked like fun :) might give it a try

Very good tutorial. I was questioning myself how it will work. Now with your video I have an example. I think it limits the expression of a high quality watercolor paint. Very convenient though for run and gun sketching. For me it is preferable to have just water in the brush and then use a small portable box with 15 half pans and using one color at a time, because mixing even 2 colors gives less interesting result on paper. For instance you can obtain green color by mixing yellow and ultramarin but this green will never compete with pure factory green. This are my thoughts. Your video is excellent. Thank you very much for sharing. 😍

Ohh this looks interesting. I might have to see if I can try this and buy the supplies. I recently got some water color and these brushes look fun

I always wanted to know that but didn’t wanted to destroy any because they are not cheap in my country. Thanks! Still love your videos, you put so much work into them.

Is it just me or when I first got these type of brushes I did this and thought that's how you should do it?

Wow that little watercolor palette is so pigmented!

What a cool idea! I have seen this done with copic ink, liquid water color, and diluted ink. I have never seen it with pan watercolors though. I am really surprised it works as well as it did. Because you live in Singapore, do you have to worry about the bristles molding?

I use this technique very often with water brush pens and also with these brush pens which we can fill . In our fashion sketch rendering we use water color tubes, cakes and water brush pens, poster colors, acrylic colors, markers ink pens, gel pens , water soluble pencils, and other pencils like wax based or oil based like prisma pencils, Luna water pencils, Faber castle pencils polychromos etc. Glitter pens, metallic color pens, and even some times wr use nail paints for glitter also.

Interesting and relaxing to watch.

I've been looking for this for months!!! Now i can rest im peace knowing that i can put color on them💚

Will be interesting to see how they survive - if they settle much, clog or grow mould.

I'd imagine the color contamination between brushes would eventually leave you with 3 brown brushes.

I'm not sure of the long term effects on the waterbrush with watercolours, but I used to do this a lot with inks when I was at Uni. I found them the other day, and although some of them haven't been touched in almost 10 years none of them have clogged or dried out the brush itself. I mostly had them filled with Parker Quink (not diluted) in pretty much every colour that comes in, and a J Herbin fountain pen ink. The waterbrushes themselves were Sakura and Kuretake branded ones. I did fill one with Noodlers bulletproof ink once, and it leaked everywhere so never again xD

A very useful experiment

Been doing that for two years for easy and quick color in my sketchbook . I recommend, yet warn that once the color is in, you should keep the waterbrush to one hue as paint will stay inside long after you're done with it. ED: Don't paint with them on planes, as the airpressure will make them leak!

I did a video on this to. It works but clogs on some colors. It may be by company,

I just use them as regular water brushes, and sometimes they tend to suck up the paint from the bristles which settles in the compartment if I dont empty it overnight. If there was some kind of temporary lid you could screw on to replace the brush head and keep it separate from the compartment for long lengths of time you could probably just shake it up, screw the brush back on, and carry on when youre ready to use it again.

thank you, i was wanted to try that :)

I've tried one small sized cheap AliExpress waterbursh with Sumi ink. Didn't clog, but after adding some tap water to soften the ink when the tip had dried and hardened, got an unpleasant fungus surprise weeks later. It's clean now, as clean as a water brush filled with black ink can be, but haven't tested with water alone to see if it's clogged. But damn you Teoh, now I want to buy a cheap pack of 10 brushes from Ali and fill them up with my dye inks 🤣

Thank you so much! I was looking for tips and there it is!! I think those can also work as brush line art stuff?

wow man, made my life... nice one, subscribed...keep'em comin...

Because I am constantly adjusting my water-to-paint ratio as I paint, this method would be far too limiting for me. I'm also not a big fan of waterbrushes in general, so I won't be trying this, but I appreciate the information you provided. Additionally, I like to mix colors to make unique combinations, and this method of painting would make this more difficult. Thanks, Teoh, for another very informative video! Have a great day!

I've always wanted to know this. I like this technique, I would love to try this but I only have two waterbrushes.

Liquid watercolours may be better and definatly more than one clean water colour brush. For to try this out now 😊 Thank you 😍

Not a bad idea. I think one would want to experiment a little first and then plan out there choices. Thanks Teoh. 👍 😃

Oh wow, I have the exact waterbrush lmao-

I appreciate you so much. You have dared go where I was too afraid of the mess I would make! Not planning on filling my waterbrushes because I use them constantly with mixed media pieces. So I’m happy that you did this experiment! 🙏 Thank you

very interesting idea!

Here's a stupid idea: put ink in them, maybe it'll work 👌🏼

I remember buying watercolour-filled brushes from a stationery shop ~15 years ago as a kid.

Would love to see you review the new Sennelier Ink brushes. Same concept but preloaded with Sennelier ink. I have a few, but haven’t figured out the refill options yet. 😊

I have done this as well, but with ecoline liquid watercolour, since they are dye based watercolours they don’t clog up the brushes and you get really intense colours.

Very educational...Thank you

Awesome clever way watercolor pen brilliant job :D

Your drawing is very surprising and very alive but a little "psychedelic », it is difficult to respect true colors with this technique. The color concentration in the water of each brush is impossible to manage. But the result is interesting ... 🥳

I have a few I use for ink washes. The ink does tend to come out much stronger if I don't keep them with the bristles up though.

How brilliant it is

This was actually my question hood thing you made a video about them😁

You just earned a new subscriber pal!

very funky and cool

Inspiring video!

I tried this with watercolors and India ink a few months back and after a week with regular use the pigment separated from the water in not only the tube part but the feed and in the bristles. It was completely blocked and took me several hours over a few days to clean out and even when I filled it back up with water there would be little particles that sneaked past the cleaning and onto the paper, completely ruined my brush. so if yous wanna try this id only recommend keeping it for a couple days max. (I feel like this experience has scarred me and I literally never use brish pens anymore, absolutely despise it)

I have trouble mixing violet, so I would add that. It would also help with mixing darker colors and shading. 😊

The sennelier baby palette was a birthday gift to myself. A splurge as it were. For you it’s a messing about palette. Oy. I do want to try this, but obviously with cheaper paint. Maybe I’ll do a red and a diluted red and a nearly-fully-clear - I’ve been doing a lot of roses recently.

For storage with paint; wash your "brush section" and while holding your brush "upside down" - meaning vertically with paint section down- screw the brush back in & store upside down so that the paint will not penetrate the brush portion. Alternatively- buy very small plastic containers with lids, like the ones they give you at restaurants to take-away salad dressing. You can store your used paint in these for re-use later, while you keep your "entire" water brush clean, and have the paint to use later. These small plastic containers can be found at the $ store. The good thing about the water brushes is that the entire thing is made of plastic & rubber, all synthetic materials, so that can be cleaned if the paint gets stuck in the handle, just soak it for a while in water.

OMG Imma try this thanks mate

Seems cool! I tried it before I saw this video but I think my watercolors are bad quality because what came out was just water and most of the color got filtered into the filter. The watercolors I used were pretty cheap so I didn't expect much

Very cool!

It works pretty well with inks. Have mine full since 1 year and no clogging.

funny enough, i've never thought to put watercolour in the pens haha. I do fill mine with ink though. The PH Martain Bombay ones. I've noticed after a while the ink starts to come out in a way that is just too much.. like there is pressure to push more out even when its not needed and im not squeezing the pen. weird. I think ill try this with watercolours too. Thank you for posting this

Mine clogged with ink so I was always thinking this could not be done without risking the brush. Thank you so much for your videos, very well done and I appreciate the work involved in the videos you creat (because I also have a RU-vid channel.) Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!!

I might use this trick for watercolor brush lettering😅😅😅

be careful with water because if it stays, it starts sapping and smells badly after two days. you may use sterilised water instead of tap water. these brushes or so usefull for some techniques when you dont want to move your hand a lot, or when making repetitive moves. i 've always used them that way, i didn't know that people also use them with plain water 😂

Smaaaaaart love the idea

Fascinating.

OMG WAIT WHAT I NEED THIS LIKE,.. RIGHT NOW