Water-soluble pigment

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.