I've been thinking about taking up painting, and was looking at starting with watercolors. Any advice for a beginner?
Well I think that before you actually start painting, you should understand the history to better educate yourself. The watercolor paint has pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
Aw man, I was never good at art history. What if I just watched some Bob Ross videos? I bet I could make something pretty great!
Watercolor painting
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin "aqua" "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. "Watercolor" refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork. Aquarelles painted with water-soluble colored ink instead of modern water colors are called "aquarellum atramento" (Latin for "aquarelle made with ink") by experts.
Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont; Rockland Gallery, Maine; and the Ford Foundation and International Business Machine Collections.
On December 20, 1974 Sevens died at his home in the colonial Mexican Silver town of Alamos. Mexico.
Philosophy.
Stevens wrote in his published “Notes for a Painting Class.” In 1956 “Most of watercolor painting is done best before you start to paint, that may be true of any form of art, but I think it applies most to watercolor. It is what you do