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watercolor

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Definition of watercolor

as in gouache

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Recent Examples of watercolor This maxi shirt dress in a watercolor gingham is an eye-catching twist on a classic Americana staple. — Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2026 Paul would need to be in his stone turret office on the idyllic watercolor of a campus five days a week. — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026 The movie, which reunites the gang in a battle against an iPad-like antagonist named Lilypad, has a strong premise, and its dynamic, watercolor-style rendering of playtime is a big step forward animation-wise. — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026 Baumann started creating and selling watercolor paintings and polymer clay jewelry on the side for extra income in 2018 and says her students’ parents encouraged her to keep at it. — Jennifer Liu valentina Duarte, CNBC, 14 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for watercolor

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The first iteration of the lottery was won by Jeffrey Gonano, a 25-year-old man from a suburb of Pittsburgh, who won a L’Homme au Gibus (1914), also a gouache on paper.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Ari Hodara, a 59-year-old software engineer from Paris, won Tête de femme (1941), or head of a woman, a gouache-on-paper portrait, according to Reuters.

— Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

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The oil-and-acrylic painting was created, in part, with the aid of artificial intelligence.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2026
The Johnson-Sea-Link was a research submersible with a clear acrylic sphere that gave its pilot and observer a panoramic view of the deep.

— Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

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