I start by doing a watercolour warm up in my coil art journal , aka my Canson 98lb Mixed Media paper journal. I use my watercolours from Beam Paints, The Ocean Paper, and The Stoneground Paint Co.
We paint loose botanicals and shapes with our brushes to create a page for an under layer of a future painting or for collage or whatever you wish. Or you could just use this practice as art therapy, or a mindfulness exercise.
I recommend 90 or 98 lb paper if you hope to make collage papers by cutting around your shapes once they are dry as these are best for collage.
In this video, I also demonstrate how I create new colourful and textured collage papers by painting over unfinished work on paper. I use an old gift card for this, however, a piece of hard cardboard would work as well.


Mention:
Paper:
Canson XL mixed media coil book, 9x12"
Arches 140 lb paper on block

Round 12 Princeton watercolour brush

Studiogel .5mm permanent black pen (Dollarama Canada)
Staedtler Lumocolour permanent black pen in chisel tip (Amazon Canada)

Stoneground Paint Co
https://stonegroundpaint.com/

Beam Paints
https://www.beampaints.com/collection...

Ocean Paper
theoceanpaper.com

Watersoluble pencil crayons by Faber Castell
Posca paint pens in fine white and medium bronze.

A variety of acrylic paints including :

Artist Loft (Michael's in house brand)
Holbein
Golden
Liquetex

Book , Calendar, Oracle deck mention:

Allison Dawrant 71 card art deck:
"Art Poetry" for insights and inspiration (oracle deck)
https://www.allisondawrant.com/shop

"How to Be More Tree"
Illustrated by Annie Davidson

The 2024 Artist Almanac
(Search this group on Facebook to learn more).