Watercolour is an English word with synonyms like watercolor or painting. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Watercolour meaning
- A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- A painting made by using such pigment.
- This kind of painting as a genre.
Synonyms of Watercolour
Using Watercolour
- The main meaning on this page is: A water-soluble pigment or paint. | A painting made by using such pigment. | This kind of painting as a genre.
- Useful related words include: watercolor, water-color, water-colour, painting.
- Possible Dutch translations are: waterverf, aquarel.
- In the example corpus, watercolour often appears in combinations such as: watercolour of, and watercolour, the watercolour.
Context around Watercolour
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Watercolour
- In this selection, "watercolour" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, used, poignant, pressed, painting, studies and cows stand out and add context to how "watercolour" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1963 a watercolour cows in and and the watercolour of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "watercolour" sits close to words such as absolve, acceptability and acetic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with watercolour
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is the Spot, watercolour by Vic Dohar, Inspirations 2024 artist. (11 words)
Noel McKenna, Homes, Mt Keira, 2002, ink, pencil and watercolour on paper. (12 words)
And that’s probably because it wasn’t a watercolour at all. (12 words)
In the first, a lacquered and silver-leafed frame standing on the floor carries six watercolour paintings on silk extending the environmental fables of the film – a boy caring for a beached Irrawaddy dolphin, young pioneers spraying insecticide. (38 words)
Dhawan suggests using three of the hues in the collection for mixing and matching — Transcend, a mid-tone sandy brown; Big Cypress, a shaded ginger with persimmon undertones; and Misty Aqua, a watercolour cerulean blue. (35 words)
Mr Sutcliffe, who is also an art teacher, was struggling to recover from a heart attack in 2017 when his brother gave him a set of watercolour paints and it changed his life. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The earliest works on show are watercolour studies for stained glass from 1963, a watercolour Cows in Landscape from 1963, and oil painting titled Holme Village.
I have the parrot that won him the national competition at the age of eight and the watercolour of the Dunfermline wall, every brick given the attention of a Dutch painting.
I’ve learned that watercolour can be unpredictable as the colours layer and spread across the canvas.
Moira Tapster, a member of the watercolour painting group had three of her paintings exhibited.
Moreover, new drawing tools like a watercolour brush, calligraphy pen, highlighter, variable-width pen and ruler, will be added to the Freeform app.
Noel McKenna, Homes, Mt Keira, 2002, ink, pencil and watercolour on paper.
Watercolour nails (sometimes known as stained glass nails) are set to be the next big mani trend.
Among the sporting art, a watercolour gouache by British wildlife artist Nigel Artingstall, titled Highland Red Stag, sold for £800.
Grade 10, Art 10 student Madina Sharkawi used watercolour, complimentary colours and a wet-on-wet technique to bring summer days to reality.
Mr Sutcliffe, who is also an art teacher, was struggling to recover from a heart attack in 2017 when his brother gave him a set of watercolour paints and it changed his life.
On the latest instalment of Antiques Roadshow at Ulset Folk Museum, expert Frances Christie was presented with the poignant watercolour portrait, and as always, began by discussing it with the guest.
The book is more than 25 years old, but the price the watercolour commanded shows just how influential and longlasting iconic covers can be.
The illustrator – who was among the first to read the Philosopher’s Stone manuscript – concentrated watercolours on cold-pressed watercolour paper and outlined with black Karisma pencil to create the iconic piece.
The painting he is referring to is a watercolour he made in 2018, that is also part of the exhibition.
This is a great opportunity to try out, or develop, watercolour painting skills in an inspirational environment with all materials provided.
This is the Spot, watercolour by Vic Dohar, Inspirations 2024 artist.
And that’s probably because it wasn’t a watercolour at all.
Dhawan suggests using three of the hues in the collection for mixing and matching — Transcend, a mid-tone sandy brown; Big Cypress, a shaded ginger with persimmon undertones; and Misty Aqua, a watercolour cerulean blue.
In the first, a lacquered and silver-leafed frame standing on the floor carries six watercolour paintings on silk extending the environmental fables of the film – a boy caring for a beached Irrawaddy dolphin, young pioneers spraying insecticide.
They included acquisitions the museum has made in recent years, including 73 portraits by Damien Hirst, and a previously lost watercolour by Rossetti.
Common combinations with watercolour
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- watercolour of 6×
- and watercolour 6×
- the watercolour 5×
- watercolour painting 4×
- watercolour paintings 4×
- are watercolour 2×
- of watercolour 2×
- watercolour by 2×
- painted watercolour 2×
- in watercolour 2×