water·colour watercolours in AM, use watercolor1. Watercolours are coloured paints, used for painting pictures, which you apply with a wet brush or dissolve in water first. a collection of rich paintings in watercolour, acrylic and oil
Paint mixed with water that is more transparent than gouache (a thicker water-based paint) Watercolours are applied on paper or board with a large soft-bristled brush Since the colours are really thinned down, they produce a light background that allows the white of the paper to show through, thus acting as another colour Close
A watercolour is a picture which has been painted with watercolours. a lovely watercolour by J. M. W. Turner. Painting made with a pigment ground in gum, usually gum arabic, and applied with brush and water to a surface, usually paper. The pigment is ordinarily transparent but can be made opaque by mixing with a whiting to produce gouache. Transparent watercolour allows for freshness and luminosity. Whereas oil paintings achieve their effects by a building up of colour, watercolours rely on what is left out, with empty, unpainted spaces being an integral part of the work
Giorgio Ferrari's etchings are normally printed in just one colour Subsequently, each copy is coloured by hand This means that there will always be slight differences between the different copies and that each print is in effect an original