Watercolor Paintbox

Watercolor Paintbox Starter Kits

The Starter Kits contain the following materials

  • Travel Palette with 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
Starter Kit $130

Watch the unboxing video here:

Unboxing Video

Watercolor Paintbox Subscription

A monthly box designed to get you started on your creative journey. Whether you’re an experienced painter, someone who’d like to start back up again or if you’ve always wanted to but didn’t know where to start, this is the perfect place.

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 practice watercolor paper and fine papers to create four hand-painted note cards. Follow along with the video tutorials and watch each lesson at your leisure. Join us “live” in the Zoom session for critiques and Q&A.

Share your paintings in our private Facebook group with a friendly and supportive community of artists and see what everyone else is painting.

The monthly subscription is $49 and includes shipping. You may cancel anytime. Each month you’ll receive:

  • A New Video Tutorial
  • Live Zoom Session
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Watercolor Paper
  • Kit for 4 Note Cards & Envelopes
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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.