The Line And Wash Kit

With this new sketchbook I have switched out some of my sketching kit. I am a big fan of Derwent art supplies and for my previous sketchbook I was working a lot with the Derwent Graphitint pan set. This is a watercolor pan set with graphite mixed into the color pans making for muted colors. I have now changed this out back to the Derwent line and wash paint pan set, which is the first paint pan set I got from Derwent.

I am giving the line and wash pan set a solid recommendation. It provides an extremely well chosen set of colors and varieties of paint for urban sketching. Specifically, it has 6 Inktense pans (sun yellow, mango, poppy red, bright blue, Payne’s gray, and natural brown), 4 Graphitint pans (meadow, autumn brown, port, and ocean blue), and two pastel pans (artichoke and storm gray). The Inktense pans provide dashes of brilliant color, the Graphitints give more muted colors, and the pastel pans are opaque and gouache-like. The kit also comes with a couple of black waterproof fine point line markers.

The sketch here of a jug in our living room shows a wash with the Inktense sun yellow and the Payne’s gray.