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Watercolors were used by the Egyptians and later in Medieval manuscript illuminations. Although a few artists, such as Albrecht Dürer, made use of the watercolor medium in earlier centuries, only in the 18th century was watercolor adopted by English landscape painters as an independent art form.
Watercolor is usually painted on a white linen paper which may be smooth or rough in texture. Camel-hair brushes are used. Although either wet or dry paper may be used, most watercolorists paint wet to obtain blended coloring effects. The paper is moistened with water and stretched onto a flat surface. Light washes are laid on the surface and carefully built up so that colors have depth without losing the luminous qualities of the white paper showing through the paint. The artist must work extremely fast and cannot make many changes once they have put down the color since overworking risks muddying the colors. Watercolor may also be applied very broadly and freely instead of using a series of layers.
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Source- Anne Bromberg, "Painting: Materials and Techniques," DMA research document, Education files, 1986-1987.
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This is a set of watercolor paints that has been used. When you apply water to the paint it becomes a liquid.
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General Description
Watercolors were used by the Egyptians and later in Medieval manuscript illuminations. Although a few artists, such as Albrecht Dürer, made use of the watercolor medium in earlier centuries, only in the 18th century was watercolor adopted by English landscape painters as an independent art form.
Watercolor is usually painted on a white linen paper which may be smooth or rough in texture. Camel-hair brushes are used. Although either wet or dry paper may be used, most watercolorists paint wet to obtain blended coloring effects. The paper is moistened with water and stretched onto a flat surface. Light washes are laid on the surface and carefully built up so that colors have depth without losing the luminous qualities of the white paper showing through the paint. The artist must work extremely fast and cannot make many changes once they have put down the color since overworking risks muddying the colors. Watercolor may also be applied very broadly and freely instead of using a series of layers.
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Source- Anne Bromberg, "Painting: Materials and Techniques," DMA research document, Education files, 1986-1987.
This note was routed and revised by Sue in October 2016. Those changes have been applied and the note is being tagged #routed until the updates are shown in GDocs. At that point, this note can be tagged #complete.
As of March 7, 2017 I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for her review.
I have cataloged this image in Piction and am removing the %pictionJP and %UMOpending tags from this note. 2/27/2017.
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