Watercolor Starter Kits are available for $130, including shipping. They contain:

• Travel Palette & Pans, $15
• Travel Brush, $24
• 3 Tubes of Professional Watercolors, $44
• 10 pack Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper, $10
• Paper Case, $3
• Plexiglass Support, $10
• Spritzer, $3
• Sponge, $2
• Pipette, $1
• Pencil & Kneaded Eraser, $3
• Shipping & Handling, $15

Watch the unboxing video here:

Watercolor Paintbox

A monthly subscription box designed to help get you started on your creative watercolor journey. Whether you’re an experienced painter, someone who’d like to start back up again or if you’ve always wanted to but never had the time, this is the perfect place to be.

You’ll learn about the best tools and supplies, how to use them and practice various techniques. Fundamentals such as value, color and form will provide the foundation needed to depict various subject matter convincingly.

Each month you’ll receive a new tube of professional quality watercolor paint with archival watercolor paper, fine materials to create four hand-painted note cards and practice paper to follow along with the video tutorial. Watch the lesson at your leisure and join us in the live Zoom session for critiques and Q&A.

Ask questions and share your pictures in our private Facebook group with a friendly and supportive community of artists and see what everyone else is painting.

The monthly subscription is $89 and includes shipping. Cancel anytime. You’ll receive:

• Video Tutorial, $50
• Zoom Session, $50
• Private Facebook Group, Free
• Paint Tube and Archival Paper, $20
• Card Kit for 4 Note Cards, $15
• Decorative Paper Pouch, $15
• Shipping & Handling, $10

That’s a $160 value ~ you save $71!

Your Instructor, Leslie Watkins

Leslie Watkins with color wheel, value strip and sphere

Leslie Watkins is a plein-air landscape painter who’s inspired by nature. Her botanical watercolors and nature studies have decorated note cards, placemats, textiles, Battersea enamel boxes, and educational materials. Her illustrations have appeared internationally on postage stamps, and in books and magazines. Clients include Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Tiffany & Co., Caspari, Disney’s Animal Kingdom and Nickelodeon.

Leslie has instructed enthusiastic watercolor students for over 35 years. She’s taught at the Wethersfield Academy for the Arts, The Lyme Art Association, the Washington Art Association, the Garrison Art Center in NY, the Berkshire Botanical Garden, the Housatonic Valley Art League and Noble Horizons in Salisbury, CT.

Watkins has exhibited at The Columbus Museum, The Lyman Allyn Art Museum, The
National Arts Club, The Salmagundi Club, The Union League Club, The Hudson Valley Art Association, The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, The Lyme Art Association and elsewhere, including Japan.

Watkins is the founding director of the NWCT-Berkshire Plein Air Painters and offers
plein-air painting and watercolor workshops throughout New England, the Berkshires and in and around Norfolk, CT.