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watercolorist

American  
[waw-ter-kuhl-er-ist] / ˈwɔ tərˌkʌl ər ɪst /

noun

  • watercolorists
    plural
  1. an artist who paints with watercolors.


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One woman, whose open journal makes clear that she is a talented watercolorist, has detoured by camper van into McCarthy during a move out of Alaska.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2022

Carrie Waller, whose style is the most distinctive, is a watercolorist.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022

According to Pancake, Gorodetsky was “a bon vivant, ladies man, crack shot, big-game hunter, watercolorist, jewelry designer and lover of airplanes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he traveled to Europe and worked as an illustrator before striking out on his own, first as a watercolorist and then as an oil painter.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

The son of an amateur watercolorist, Derek was aware of the look of things and how to describe what things looked like, including memory.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 17, 2017

Ashleigh, Lacey and Alexis have managed to catapult over what you usually find in the Catskills with hobbyist artists, weekenders and watercolorists, that is to say a kind of realism tied to the landscape.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2012

Here, the German artist may have remembered the cloud studies of the English school, from late 18th-century watercolorists like John Cozens to Richard Bonington and Constable.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2011

The surprise of the show was the work of 26 modern Japanese watercolorists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some highlights: John Marin, 76-year-old dean of U.S. watercolorists, opened his paragraph bravely enough, but his description dwindled off into a thicket of punctuation dashes.

From Time Magazine Archive

To capture it he works even faster than most watercolorists, using fluid and staccato strokes of vibrant color, but unlike more abstract moderns he never lets "the gesture of the thing" obscure the thing itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

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