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2 unusual facts about Watercolor painting


Alexandre Miniac

Alexandre Miniac (5 July 1885 – 3 December 1963) was a French architect and watercolorist.

William Somervell

Somervell was reported to have had some skill in painting in water-colours and pastels.


Jean-Jacques Champin

Jean-Jacques Champin, a French painter in water-colours and lithographer, was born at Sceaux in 1796.

Josef Eduard Teltscher

He was one of the best Viennese portrait lithographers and watercolourists of the first half of the nineteenth century in Central Europe, and as a miniaturist, according to his contemporaries, he was an no less than Moritz Daffinger himself.

Kafil Ahmed

His artworks with water color and acrylic have long been considered as new trend setters in modern art of Bangladesh.

Leo Hershfield

After moving to Bradenton, FL in 1958, Hershfield continued to illustrate books and articles for the St. Petersburg Times and Sarasota Herald Tribune, spending his spare time sailing the Manatee River and documenting Florida through watercolors.

The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne

The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne is a pencil drawing and watercolour on paper by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake.


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Aldo Raimondi

Specializing in watercolor painting, an exclusive piece of his repertoire, in 1939 he was appointed a professor of watercolors at the Academy of Brera, a chair he left immediately after the war to devote himself full-time to making films.

John Salminen

John T. Salminen (born January 18, 1945) is an award-winning American watercolor painter who is well known for his realistic urban landscapes.

Owl Woman

It was while at the fort in 1845 that topographical engineer Lieutenant James W. Abert asked Owl Woman to sit for him as the subject of a watercolor painting.

Wilson Lee Flores

Wilson Lee Flores spent his two years preparatory schooling at Chiang Kai Shek College in Manila, where he won a prize in a watercolor painting competition with his painting of a tiger.