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单词 watercolour
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Definition of watercolour in English:

watercolour

(US watercolor)
noun ˈwɔːtəkʌləˈwädərˌkələrˈwôdərˌkələr
mass nounalso watercolours
  • 1Artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder such as gum arabic, and thinned with water rather than oil, giving a transparent colour.

    a self-portrait in watercolour
    count noun the technique involved the use of watercolours
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Besides his work as an architect, Mockbee is an artist who uses collage, watercolor, and oil paint.
    • In the transparency of watercolor, the thin veils of color lapping the underlying white paper capture the city's luminosity.
    • There, in addition to painting in oil and watercolor and making sculpture and furniture, he often worked as a decorator of ceramics.
    • Caramelle uses ink, watercolor and metallic acrylic paint.
    • A demonstration is given on how to paint using black watercolor or slightly thinned tempera paint.
    • Only a handful of artists have ever used transparent watercolors as their chosen medium.
    • Singh has developed a unique process in her works on paper: she paints with watercolor and gouache on heavy paper, abraids the surface with sandpaper, repaints, sands and then paints again.
    • Another enhancement is the ability to use watercolors in more than one layer.
    • Working in oil paint on canvas and watercolor on paper, Mayhew never sketches his ideas but rather floods the surface with rich vibrant colors.
    • There are paintings on acrylic, canvas and handmade paper done with poster colours, watercolours, oil paints and even pens.
    • His fifty five evocative studies on paper in charcoal, ink and watercolor show the artist's process leading to the completed 7 by 9 foot screen.
    • She worked originally as a sculptor, later going into oil painting and has spent the last 25 years working in transparent watercolor and acrylics.
    • Painted in gouache, watercolor and acrylic, its surface varies from matte to shiny and its colors from transparent to opaque.
    • She was a life-long nonsmoker and an artist, painting with watercolor and acrylics.
    • Using watercolor, we captured a bit of summer with these functional tubes.
    • When you're creating a painting to be seen from inside the house things get a bit trickier than they do when you are painting with watercolor, crayons or oils.
    • According to company officials, Newcomb achieves his distinctive results by using multiple washes of thin acrylic glazes similar to transparent watercolor.
    • Trouble arose most frequently in maintaining the delicate visual balance between the engraved image and the transparent layers of watercolor applied over it.
    • In all the works shown here, Calabrese uses oil paint almost like watercolor.
    • Awareness of the smooth page clouds the difference between varnished and unvarnished oil paint, between opaque and transparent watercolour.
    1. 1.1count noun A picture painted with watercolours.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It will bring together almost all of the watercolours and sketches Mackintosh made at the picturesque Mediterranean waterfront of Port Vendres.
      • The deluxe editions had many of the original watercolors included.
      • When delicately colored, the resulting print resembled the original watercolor.
      • He gave me some watercolours he had painted and put up pictures.
      • A number of small watercolours and several large canvases all describe similar visual subject matter.
      • The tiny watercolour was painted 90 years ago by celebrated Victorian artist Helen Allingham, whose work is highly-sought after.
      • John Linnell commissioned Blake to paint watercolours of Dante's Divine Comedy.
      • He made oil paintings and watercolors and attracted some attention with local art exhibitions.
      • The watercolors depict the slugs engaging in melodramatic activities.
      • Blackadder is exhibiting watercolours and oil paintings.
      • To gain commissions he would return to England and visit country houses, taking his drawings and showing them to guests, who usually ordered formal watercolours or oil paintings.
      • She is planning one more major adventure, but after that has promised her family that she will return to her easel - she paints watercolours using Chinese inks and paper.
      • Crane held a public painting demonstration, producing an original watercolor from start to finish that day.
      • Those are just unfinished images and unframed watercolors or sketches.
      • The exhibition brings together for the first time finished works, watercolours and sketches by the landscape painter which illustrates just how innovative and influential he was.
      • A watercolour by Thundersley-born artist Richard Sorrell has made the collection.
      • It was also here where Heysen finished and altered many of his watercolours and oil paintings started on different locations, often years before.
      • Its moods are reflected in her watercolours and oil paintings, drawing the viewer in to experience the land, sea and sky in its various cloaks in places such as Belmullet and Tory Island.
      • Elegant oil paintings alternated with picturesque watercolours, while a number of acrylic paintings enlivened the display spread over two rooms at the gallery.
      • Family Copies recreates oil paintings or watercolors by using an image from a digital or photographic source.
    2. 1.2 The art of painting with watercolours, especially using a technique of producing paler colours by diluting rather than by adding white.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There, he has lived for the past 30 years, mastering lithography, oil painting, watercolor, gouache, drawing, engraving, sculpture and ceramics.
      • In the late 1920s he was introduced to watercolour by visiting artist Rex Battarbee, who later became his agent.

Derivatives

  • watercolourist

  • noun ˈwɔːtəkʌlərɪst
    • Primarily a watercolorist, Dixon also works in oil and acrylics.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was born at Blackrock, near Dublin, into a cultured family: his father (a solicitor) and his brother (an architect) were good amateur watercolourists.
      • When pursuing a bachelor's degree in art, she was introduced to watercolor and has been a watercolorist ever since.
      • Fifty watercolours spanning the illustrious fifty-year career of this prolific printmaker, designer, muralpainter and watercolourist are available for sale, including topographical scenes from India, Italy, Paris and London.
      • Moreover, as the exhibitions of his work this autumn prove, he was an outstanding draughtsman and watercolourist.
 
 

Definition of watercolor in US English:

watercolor

(British watercolour)
nounˈwädərˌkələrˈwôdərˌkələr
also watercolors
  • 1Artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder such as gum arabic, and thinned with water rather than oil, giving a transparent color.

    a self-portrait in watercolor
    count noun the technique involved the use of watercolors
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Singh has developed a unique process in her works on paper: she paints with watercolor and gouache on heavy paper, abraids the surface with sandpaper, repaints, sands and then paints again.
    • Working in oil paint on canvas and watercolor on paper, Mayhew never sketches his ideas but rather floods the surface with rich vibrant colors.
    • Only a handful of artists have ever used transparent watercolors as their chosen medium.
    • There, in addition to painting in oil and watercolor and making sculpture and furniture, he often worked as a decorator of ceramics.
    • She worked originally as a sculptor, later going into oil painting and has spent the last 25 years working in transparent watercolor and acrylics.
    • When you're creating a painting to be seen from inside the house things get a bit trickier than they do when you are painting with watercolor, crayons or oils.
    • Using watercolor, we captured a bit of summer with these functional tubes.
    • His fifty five evocative studies on paper in charcoal, ink and watercolor show the artist's process leading to the completed 7 by 9 foot screen.
    • Another enhancement is the ability to use watercolors in more than one layer.
    • A demonstration is given on how to paint using black watercolor or slightly thinned tempera paint.
    • Painted in gouache, watercolor and acrylic, its surface varies from matte to shiny and its colors from transparent to opaque.
    • According to company officials, Newcomb achieves his distinctive results by using multiple washes of thin acrylic glazes similar to transparent watercolor.
    • She was a life-long nonsmoker and an artist, painting with watercolor and acrylics.
    • Caramelle uses ink, watercolor and metallic acrylic paint.
    • Trouble arose most frequently in maintaining the delicate visual balance between the engraved image and the transparent layers of watercolor applied over it.
    • Besides his work as an architect, Mockbee is an artist who uses collage, watercolor, and oil paint.
    • There are paintings on acrylic, canvas and handmade paper done with poster colours, watercolours, oil paints and even pens.
    • In the transparency of watercolor, the thin veils of color lapping the underlying white paper capture the city's luminosity.
    • In all the works shown here, Calabrese uses oil paint almost like watercolor.
    • Awareness of the smooth page clouds the difference between varnished and unvarnished oil paint, between opaque and transparent watercolour.
    1. 1.1 A picture painted with watercolors.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • To gain commissions he would return to England and visit country houses, taking his drawings and showing them to guests, who usually ordered formal watercolours or oil paintings.
      • He made oil paintings and watercolors and attracted some attention with local art exhibitions.
      • John Linnell commissioned Blake to paint watercolours of Dante's Divine Comedy.
      • Its moods are reflected in her watercolours and oil paintings, drawing the viewer in to experience the land, sea and sky in its various cloaks in places such as Belmullet and Tory Island.
      • It was also here where Heysen finished and altered many of his watercolours and oil paintings started on different locations, often years before.
      • A number of small watercolours and several large canvases all describe similar visual subject matter.
      • The deluxe editions had many of the original watercolors included.
      • Blackadder is exhibiting watercolours and oil paintings.
      • A watercolour by Thundersley-born artist Richard Sorrell has made the collection.
      • Those are just unfinished images and unframed watercolors or sketches.
      • The exhibition brings together for the first time finished works, watercolours and sketches by the landscape painter which illustrates just how innovative and influential he was.
      • Crane held a public painting demonstration, producing an original watercolor from start to finish that day.
      • He gave me some watercolours he had painted and put up pictures.
      • The watercolors depict the slugs engaging in melodramatic activities.
      • It will bring together almost all of the watercolours and sketches Mackintosh made at the picturesque Mediterranean waterfront of Port Vendres.
      • Family Copies recreates oil paintings or watercolors by using an image from a digital or photographic source.
      • When delicately colored, the resulting print resembled the original watercolor.
      • She is planning one more major adventure, but after that has promised her family that she will return to her easel - she paints watercolours using Chinese inks and paper.
      • The tiny watercolour was painted 90 years ago by celebrated Victorian artist Helen Allingham, whose work is highly-sought after.
      • Elegant oil paintings alternated with picturesque watercolours, while a number of acrylic paintings enlivened the display spread over two rooms at the gallery.
    2. 1.2 The art of painting with watercolors, especially using a technique of producing paler colors by diluting rather than by adding white.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There, he has lived for the past 30 years, mastering lithography, oil painting, watercolor, gouache, drawing, engraving, sculpture and ceramics.
      • In the late 1920s he was introduced to watercolour by visiting artist Rex Battarbee, who later became his agent.
 
 
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