As early as the middle of the seventeenth century the term “water colours” came into use.
In it he states, “There are two ways of painting in water colours: one by mixing white with your colours and laying on a thick body; the other is only washing your paper or vellum with a thin water tinctured with colour.
John Robert Cozens, the son of Alexander Cozens, was the first artist at this period “to break away from the trammels of topography, and to raise landscape painting in water colours to a branch of fine art.
In 1859 he was elected a member of the Old Water Colour Society, and has since then devoted himself almost exclusively, and with great success, to painting in Water Colours.
They are painted in water colours, on a hundred and nine sheets of vellum, each thirty-four inches long by twenty inches high, and containing two of the engraved subjects.
In Water Colours, owing to the different quality of the materials employed, another method is adopted.
The practice in art, both in Oil and in Water colours, has been an imitation of the process of nature, and with similar results.
I also accomplished other smaller works and exhibited a great number of water colours.
I lost no time, and went off and established myself in a palm grove with my water colours.
Within the limits proposed to myself, I may here annex to my consideration of the painters in water colours and in oil, other less distinguished branches of the art.
Specimens of his labours exist in water colours, taken from pictures in fresco executed by Paolo and by Zelotti, in different palaces belonging to Venetian noblemen.
Notwithstanding the antiquity of painting in water colours, the creation of a School of Water-Colour Art, in the sense in which that term is now understood, belongs to this country.
The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours (Glasgow) grants the title R.
These in London are: The Royal Academy, the Royal Water Colour Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of Oil Painters, and the Royal Society of British Artists.
Aunt Louisa during her youth had painted in water colours, and she had several albums filled with sketches of churches, old bridges, and picturesque cottages.
Philip bought a cheap box of water colours, and in the evening while Bell, the noisy lad of sixteen, whistling three notes, busied himself with his stamps, he made one or two sketches.
The following letter alludes to his election into the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, one of the three pictures necessary to be sent in being "The Annunciation.
Pasquier, a very clever artist in black and white, and a skilful painter in water colours, contributed several appropriate designs.
It is principally employed in miniature painting, water colours, and to tint artificial flowers, because it is more transparent than the other colours.
A brown colour which is used in water colours, in the same way as China ink.
Painters in water colours, scourers of clothes, and many others employ ox-gall or bile, but when it is not purified, it is apt to do harm from the greenness of its own tint.
Definite recognition of the position he had gained among the younger water-colourists came at the beginning of 1864, when he was elected, with Fred Walker, an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours.
In January and February 1901, a similar exhibition was held at the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, London.
He exhibited on many occasions at the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, having been elected an honorary member in 1873.
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