Watercolour

A topic within Drawing & Painting, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.

Reading on Watercolour

2 works

Book1814

A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours

David Cox

Argues watercolour landscape depends on committing to broad washes of effect before any detail, working from the whole impression down rather than building a picture up from finished parts.

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Visual Arts · Drawing & Painting

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Book1855

The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours

George Barnard

Sets out watercolour landscape technique as a discipline of controlled transparency and timing, arguing that the medium's difficulty is really about sequencing washes correctly rather than raw skill with the brush.