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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
watercolour
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
paint in oils/watercolours etc (=paint using a particular type of paint)
▪ He paints mainly in acrylics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
painting
▪ Either way, all of this is contrary to the popular understanding of the overall build of a watercolour painting.
▪ They included taking lessons for her advanced driving test, watercolour painting and gardening.
▪ I am teaching myself watercolour painting from books.
▪ It certainly isn't a new invention: Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s.
▪ In this way, the paper contributes to the illuminating play of colour and light found only in watercolour painting.
▪ For good measure, some of these ideas have been worked up into watercolour paintings.
paper
▪ I always use Langton watercolour paper, which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour.
▪ Papermakers use a variety of synthetic resin, starch and organic gelatin sizes in the manufacture of watercolour papers.
▪ On watercolour paper, graduated effects are easily achieved by wiping back colour with the blender.
▪ Stretching watercolour paper How do I stretch watercolour papers so that they remain completely smooth during use?
▪ The Kurecolor markers gave good results on watercolour paper.
▪ The finest quality watercolour papers are either hand-made or mould-made.
■ VERB
use
▪ I have just started using the medium of watercolour, struggling along and producing paintings of a particular subject.
▪ Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting, with bristle mainly for oils.
▪ I always use Langton watercolour paper, which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour.
▪ The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied, it dries to be water-resistant.
▪ Although only using watercolour it appears that Green imitates the technique of painting boulders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I always use Langton watercolour paper, which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour.
▪ I have just started using the medium of watercolour, struggling along and producing paintings of a particular subject.
▪ Other watercolour and drawing papers are available.
▪ Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting, with bristle mainly for oils.
▪ Stretching watercolour paper How do I stretch watercolour papers so that they remain completely smooth during use?
▪ The acrylic is not effective to use in the traditional opaque sense, it must be treated as a watercolour.
Wiktionary
watercolour

a. Pertaining to the methods or products of watercolor. alt. 1 A water-soluble pigment. 2 A painting made by using such pigment. 3 This kind of painting as a genre. n. 1 A water-soluble pigment. 2 A painting made by using such pigment. 3 This kind of painting as a genre.

WordNet
watercolour
  1. n. water-soluble pigment [syn: watercolor]

  2. a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists [syn: watercolor]

  3. a painting produced with watercolors [syn: watercolor]

  4. v. paint with watercolors [syn: watercolor]

Wikipedia
Watercolour (song)

"Watercolour" is the first single from the third album Immersion by Australian drum and bass band Pendulum. This song has been remixed by dubstep artist Emalkay and by progressive house artist deadmau5. The video was shot on 16 March 2010 at a studio in East London featuring around 70 fans as extras. A behind the scenes video was released on the official Pendulum website. The music video was released as a MySpace exclusive on 31 March. Watercolour debuted number 4 on the UK charts making it the band's highest charted single in the United Kingdom to date. The song also featured on F1 2010 and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. The song was also used in a promo during the 2011 A-League Grand Final. It featured in the 2011 series of the BBC programme Traffic Cops. Pendulum performed Watercolour at the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards at Belfast City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom during the Backstage Show on November 6, 2011.

Usage examples of "watercolour".

Leaning against the chair there was a half-completed watercolour painting of bougainvillaea flowers.

Succumbing after their midday meal to the heat of the afternoon they had returned to their cabins, leaving her alone on deck with her watercolours.

At the start of that hot, thundery summer I leaned out of my window watching the world pass below, convinced that somebody somewhere would still need watercolours, gouaches and pencil sketches, and that I could produce them from my penthouse eyrie.

They walked in silence down to the quiet rooms where the Turner watercolours hung.

Sketches in watercolours of the scenes she had visited adorned her walls, and a pair of pistols, that she had found useful, she affirmed, lay on the writingdesk in her drawing-room.

I have a fondness for watercolours although I would say my talent is small.

After breakfast, she took her watercolours down to the lake and sat in the summerhouse trying to paint, but somehow she could not transfer the pretty pastoral scene onto her paper and tore up her efforts in a fit of temper.

Mackintosh looks at the tasteful Victorian watercolours in their gilt frames.

The rain began at ten, transforming his watercolours into abstracts which evolved even as he threw plastic sheets over them.

The default watercoloured lilies and sea serpents melted away, replaced by tables of numbers, sinuous graphs and trembling histograms.

To her surprise, it was still active: instead of the usual watercolour patterns the display showed the messages she had been scrolling through earlier.

A big bottle of Lily of the Valley perfume for Nancy and a manicure set in this pink leather case for Sarah, a doll with long blonde hair that shuts its eyes and ' makes a baby noise when you turn it upside down for little Colleen, a pocket knife in a leather pouch that fits onto your belt for me, a pair of Stamina boxing gloves for Bozo, and a set of pencils, a sketchpad and a box of Windsor & Newton watercolours and brushes for Mike so he can do his fashion designs.