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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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An accomplished watercolorist and muralist, Blair, like Crump, was handpicked by Disney to transition out of animation and into theme park design.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2023

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

Anyone can read “Mein Kampf” who has the stomach for the maunderings of a self-pitying, failed Austrian watercolorist.

From The New Yorker Dec. 16, 2019

Her mother is a watercolorist whose work is on exhibit at the Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, N.H.

From New York Times Sep. 28, 2019

Her husband, John Maslen, an architect and watercolorist, provided new line-drawing illustrations, and the books were published for several years by Portland State University before the Maslens struck out on their own in 1980.

From Washington Post Sep. 4, 2018

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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