The Beautiful Art of Watercolor Painting
TweetI always enjoyed taking a look at watercolor paintings galleries from various artists. They make me think of the early days of my childhood, when we had the “drawing” class in school. I loved that hour! I adored my cheap palette of watercolors and the way the colors blended with the paper. Actually, you would be surprised how much there is to know about watercolor painting.
In short, watercolor, or aquarelle (from French) is a painting method and the result artwork in which the paints are made of pigments soluble in water. Watercolors are most often transparent and they allow light to reflect from the surface of the paper, which gives the painting a luminous effect.
The thing about painting with watercolors is that, you are not allowed to make a mistake. The colors don’t have a coverage power like acrylics for example, so you can’t just add a color on another, to start over, like in the case of painting on canvas – the paper is delicate and can’t stand too much watercolor paint.
But if you love this type of painting, I encourage you to let your imagination run wild, to have the courage to experiment, and to try learning more about watercolor painting techniques.
Here are some beautiful examples of watercolor paintings I’ve come across, I’m sure you’ll love them:
Phantoms of Delight by Liza Corbett
Ink/Watercolor by Jason Graham
Old fishing boat by sunaysenturk
Watercolors of Dreams by Vassia Alaykova
Watercolor Paintings by Ben Tour
Watercolor Warmup-Split by saintshase
Fairy house, countryside Ukraine by Mariya Vergezova
“G Rated” – Watercolour, Pen and Ink by Darryl Graham
Watercolor: sleeping dance by muttiy
Watercolor Paintings by Molly Brill
Watercolor painting by Sonya-san
Which one is your favorite watercolor painting?
10 Comments
Leora Wenger
03.17.2011
I love the profile watercolors, the one by Ben Tour and by Molly Brill. Watercolor is such a fun medium – it takes a lot of work to master, but the results can be tantalizing.
Unmana
03.17.2011
Ooh I love these! Especially like the one by Molly Brill, Wake up, the fairyhouse, watercolors of dreams and the old fishing boat.
J. Hendrix
03.21.2011
Wow, thanks for sharing these. Very beautiful artwork.
Barbara
09.18.2011
These are wonderful examples for my students who are just starting the watercolor unit in the painting class I teach in a public high school. Thank you!
Ali Froghi
03.30.2012
nice work
Admassu Alemu
07.27.2012
so beautiful…i could see life through water..flowing.
Ilonka Bognár
07.31.2012
Very nice
Gowhar Ahmadi
09.02.2012
very very good.
kapil
09.26.2012
very nice paintings I mysel an artist
Derek McCrea
04.19.2013
Gorgeous watercolor paintings!
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