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watercolor

Also known as aquarelle, watercolour, art of watercolor painting, art of watercolour painting

practice of applying watercolor to a surface

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Watercolor is the practice of applying water-based paint to a surface, typically paper, using brushes or other tools. It matters because it's a versatile and accessible artistic medium that has been used by artists for centuries to create paintings across many styles and subjects.

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Within Vinony's link graph, watercolor is referenced by 3,785 other articles, and connects out to gouache paint, Albrecht Dürer and J. M. W. Turner.

It sits within the topics Painting, Painting techniques and Paints.

Its subject is documented across 87 Wikipedia language editions.

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Commons category: Water color
Artsy gene: watercolor
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Encyclopedic overview

An artist working on a watercolor using a round brush Love's Messenger, an 1885 watercolor and tempera by Marie Spartali Stillman

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle ( French: [akwaʁɛl]; from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork.

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