For painting needles and spines, I will be using Dr. You can either use a white ceramic plate or a plastic folding palette to mix your colors, a jar of clean water and tissue to dab excess water and pigment. Other than brushes, paper and paints, we will also need a mixing palette. You have a benchmark to choose the closest possible paints.

It is not necessary to have the exact same sheets or brands, but I'm listing what I use. At the same time, it is okay to practice with student grade paints till you understand your supplies. Your painting will surely speak volumes if you use good quality supplies. I always recommend using professional grade water colors because it really shows the difference. I will be using legend StoneHenge, Aqua Cold Pressed 140 lb Block. For paper, I recommend using a 100 percent cotton paper to get beautiful bleeding effect and texture for your cactus and succulents. Princeton Heritage Synthetic Sable series, Round 0 and 1 for all the detailed work. I will be using Princeton Neptune series, Round 4 and 6 to welcome my washes and color mixing.

Supplies: For watercolor brushes, I recommend using two sizes. Are you ready to paint some spines, needles and some thick succulent branches? I promise you will love your cacti and succulents collection that you will paint with me in the class. While painting each of these cactus and succulents, we will mix a variety of shades of green and each cactus and succulent will be unique in its own way. We will also paint some fun that easy succulents like the sweet hot onions and the snake plant. In this class, we will sketch and paint three different types of cactus, the suguaro cactus, the prickly pear and the dwarf chin cactus. This class is all about sketching and painting watercolor cactus and succulent.

I welcome you to my fifth Skillshare class. I'm a watercolor artist and so based out of India. I'm Pooja, the artist female by the Lake Side R-Studio.

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