Watercolor Painting Quotes

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Water colours are wet colours in water.

I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment.

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.

Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?" For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?" But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.

I love very much to draw animals.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.