Watercolor Painting

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Artists Watercolor

Painting in watercolor was generally started by famous Baroque easel painters to make sketching in their paintings, copies or small scale design drawings. Among notable early artists of water painting were Van Dyck, Claude Lorrain, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and many Dutch and Flemish watercolor artists. In 20th century the prosperous period of painting watercolour is brought by many famous artists in their important paintings such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Charles Burchfield and American watercolour painters such as Edward Hopper, and more of them whose water color art can be found on Toperfect website are Thomas Gainsborough, water color artist Thomas Rowlandson, Joseph Mallord William Turner, watercolors artist Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, John LaFarge, watercolor painter John Singer Sargent, painter watercolor Winslow Homer, Eugène Delacroix, artist water color Henri-Joseph Harpignies, Paul Cézanne.

Watercolor Paintings for Sale

Most suppliers use cheap even bad materials for painting business in order to chase cut-throat competition and catch profit.

But Toperfect Art is distinctive. For painting watercolour in high quality and Museum-Collection by Famous Artists, we use art materials in high quality including French Barbizon water colors paper branded "Canson" and certified pigment, which is guarantee water painting to get elegant artistic results and hundred years to collect carefully.

To buy painting in watercolour, please check Toperfect Catalogue to select painting and choose painting type as "Watercolor, wax crayon, gouache, pastel", then email us that you want it as painting with watercolors. You're welcome to order portrait and custom painting from photos.

Watercolor

Watercolor is the mix of water and colors, and generally it can be classified into opaque and transparent according to the characteristics. Watercolor painting is an expressing method with water as the media and mixed with paint. The changing in the moisture and thickness of water melts color as well as its osmosis in the paper improve the expressive force of watercolour painting and produce a transparent and fresh vision effect, at the same time the beauty from its harmonious with nature constitute the characteristics of paintings of watercolour.

Techniques of Watercolour Paintings

The techniques doomed to be suitable for the production of small fresh and lively paintings such as landscape paintings, but not for large watercolors. Compared with other medias, water color pay special attention to the techniques of expression. In excellent water color paintings for sale, it is hard to see the trace of modification, because to fill their own features of purity, transparence, clearness and natural in the first stroke is the characteristics of art watercolor.

Painting of Watercolor

The subjects of water color painting are very broad, and the subject of landscape painting is quite common in watercolor gallery. Each artist watercolor of ours is deeply in love with nature of the never feel tired to express their world of color via watercolor landscape. Still life is also common used by watercolour painters, they can create meaningful still life paintings according to their intentions. By contrast, figure have a higher demand for watercolour artist, so it is not the best choice for beginners.

Watercolour Art History

Painting with watercolours was not recognized at the beginning. In the early phase of water color history, people don’t think it is as rich as oil painting, and it is only a subsidiary genre of painting to take the color down in shorthand or draw a sketch. Then, after watercolours painting getting rid of the effects from oil painting techniques completely, they gradually formed an independent genre of painting.

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By the 18th century and 19th century, British watercolour artists felt that watercolour seems to be particularly suitable for depicting British natural environment. Painting with watercolor developed rapidly in Britain, and in the18th century and 19th century, Britain became the birthplace of the modern watercolor art.
Jon Constable watercolors are of significant wealth in the British painting history. Now, Constable was known as the pioneer who created famous watercolor landscapes in the world.
There are many modern and contemporary water color artists who chose the abstract form to express their art philosophy, and they have created a large number of outstanding painting watercolours.

-- Author: Lewis L., Toperfect Director.

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Feel free to contact us if you need watercolor painters or in the business of watercolours wholesale, all paintings on Toperfect website can be ordered as water colors.