So I was wandering around Senayan City waiting for my mom two days ago. I went to my usual waiting place – bookstore. The only bookstore in Senayan City was Toko Gunung Agung. This bookstore is quite rare actually and I guess it’s the only store I found in Jakarta. They don’t have much collections on English books and the price is more expensive than even Kinokuniya (I wonder).

Anyway, I couldn’t find any books interesting so I turned to stationary corner. And I stopped at the art area. This corner is my favourite after the book area because I could see lots of art equipment from crayons, acrylic paints, watercolour, oil paints, in all colours, and sketch books and canvases. Then I found this tiny box. It turned out to be a collection of watercolour in blocks with various colours and brush. The first time I saw this was when I was in Kinabalu High School where my Korean friend brought a box of watercolour and I had been searching for this box forever but couldn’t find any. So when I found this I immediately bought it without thinking twice.

There are 3 kinds of watercolour box collection with different number of colours – 12, 18 and 24 colours. I bought the 24 colours because it was on discount (this girl can never refuse discount). Here’s what it looks like:

Inside the box you’re gonna have 24 blocks of different colours and you just need to water it a bit with the brush to make the paint. Here’s the interesting one. The brush provided from the box looks like a syringe where you could fill it with water. When you fill it with water, you can press the brush and a dollop of water will come out at the tip of the brush. So you don’t need to water your brush separately like normal brushes and you can actually adjust how much water you want to let out by the pressure you put on the brush.

I tried the paint on a paper and it turned out great. I’m not an expert at watercolour but I guess for a starter it was not bad. Here’s my first painting. I tried to paint Elsa from the movie Frozen but only the silhouette.

I always like the way watercolours blend. Unlike acrylic or oil paint where you can be generous, you have to be careful on the ratio of paint and water to get the colour you want. Furthermore you can’t put many layers on the paper because it will drench the paper. I guess I still need more practice on using this box but so far I’m quite satisfied of the result :)

Cheers,

Medina