Dip your toe in the rewarding and versatile medium of watercolor. With a history as rich as its pigment, it is one of the oldest mediums; watercolor’s origins date back to the Stone Age and the ancient Egyptians. In China, artists began using watercolor around 4000 BCE and developed watercolor landscape painting in the 4th century CE. Watercolors were used in the Middle Ages to illuminate manuscripts and to color wash maps, and old master Albrecht Dürer popularized the medium during the Northern Renaissance. Contemporary watercolorists attribute the popularity of the medium to the 18th- and 19th-century English school of landscape painters that included names such as JMW Turner and Thomas Girtin. Subsequently, “watercolour societies” sprang up all over Europe and America at the turn of the century, and the medium remains popular both for drafting initial and making final works. Highly pigmented, portable, quick drying, and well suited to both beginners and experts, watercolors produce beautiful marks and color washes sure to bring life to compositions of any style.
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