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🎨 A type of paint 🖼️ A painting 🖌️ The painting method 🎨 To paint with watercolors
to watercolor

to watercolor

1 3.8
To paint with thin water-based paint on paper
  • verb
  • /ˈwɔːtərˌkɑːlər/
  • US
translation icon : pintar con acuarelas
  • She decided to watercolor a beautiful landscape of the mountains during her art class.

Examples

  • ♪ Memories ♪ Like a corner of my mind ♪ Misty watercolored memories ♪

    Big (1988)

  • To dye the wood and get the most vibrant colors, I used Ecoline inks, which are typically used by artists for watercolor painting and illustration work.

  • The children enjoy learning how to watercolor their favorite scenes from storybooks.

  • He prefers to watercolor his illustrations instead of using oil paints for a softer effect.

Synonyms

to paint
vsto watercolor
417 1.0

To make a picture using coloured liquid on a surface

uses water based pigments as the specific medium

Surface Forms

watercolor infinitive
watercolored past
watercolored past participle
watercoloring present participle
watercolors third person singular

Morphology

watercolor = watercolor (transparent) = water + color

The verb is a straightforward conversion from the noun 'watercolor', which transparently denotes the medium used for painting.

Etymology

Watercolor comes from water and color, and as a verb it means to paint using colors mixed with water. So to watercolor a picture is to paint it 'with water-based color'.