Painting Through Ages: History Of Watercolour Watercolours or
watercolor has been around for a long time. It remains to be one
of the most popular medium. People of all ages have been using
watercolour to create wonderful art works. It is common for
children to have watercolours in their school bags. For the
French, watercolours are referred to as aquarelle. Aquarelle is
a painting technique where the colours are transparent. It was
quite popular during the 18th to 19 century in Europe. Most of
those who paint using this technique were French and English
landscape artists. It was 18th century when more and more
artists were using watercolours for painting such as J.M.W.
Turner and John Sell Cotman. They are both known in history as
great artists, especially Cotman, who was created unique works
of art. But the use of paint did not start during this period.
Human has been using paint and colored pigments to illustrate
human life as early as the time of the primitive man. Egyptian
tombs and temples are also deco