Before photography was around to detail the natural world, there were watercolor paintings. A recently launched database has digitized 80,000 (and counting) works painted during the medium’s heyday, ...

The watercolor medium is probably the most difficult form of graphic art to master. To a woman who once asked Edgar Degas what sort of watercolor set she should buy her son, Degas replied that it ...

Watercolour is one of the oldest and respected medium in painting dating to the cave paintings of Palaeolithic Europe, and has been used for manuscript illustration since Egyptian times and also used ...

The mastery of materials is fundamental to the artistic process and the career goal of any artist in their chosen medium. Every method requires a different skill set and can evoke different reactions ...

We learn about the Museum of Fine Art Houston’s new exhibit John Singer Sargent: The Watercolors, which offers a rare collection of 100 watercolors by Gilded Age American master John Singer Sargent.

Jeff Hagen’s first winter watercolor workshop last month filled his studio with something he had hoped for but could not guarantee - enthusiasm. “The first class was really successful,” Hagen said.

BEDMINSTER -- Scheduled over two years ago, the Somerset Art Association is honored to welcome internationally-acclaimed watercolorist Judi Betts from March 31 to April 4 as part of its Visiting Guest ...

In the age-old history of artistic media, watercolors are relative upstarts. Though used for centuries to make illustrations, maps and other mostly utilitarian images, they attracted little interest ...

Watercolor is the medium of schoolchildren, of hobbyists, of amateurs. It evokes associations with plastic paint brushes stuck in a jam jar, of coloring within the lines. Even in the hands of a ...