Word: watercolored
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Scornful of watercolors at first (he called them "whoring," compared to the "married state" of oil painting), he became increasingly fond of them as he grew older. But he still deprecated himself: "A watercolor is nearly always a fluke. If you go on doing them, flukes will happen a little oftener...
...youngsters, responding in numbers beyond the fondest hopes of ECA, worked out the theme in oils, watercolor and gouache. Some of the subjects: builders reconstructing homes and churches, porters unloading ships and trains, farmers planting their fields with U.S. grain. In successive judgings, the original entries were cut to 1,500, then...
Breathing Hill. By 24, Wyeth was on the road to fame. His draftsmanship was skillful and his watercolor landscapes (which look thin and sloppy compared with his later work) had been exhibited and sold out more than once in Manhattan. More important, he had found and married a striking brunette named Betsy James, the daughter of a summer neighbor, who had made up her mind to be a helpful wife. They built a summer place at Gushing, near Port Clyde, took over an old schoolhouse in Chadds Ford for winter living...
...pair explained how they had "taken care of" the padlock on the door which led to the tower's lower level. They then removed the orange lenses from seven floodlights and painted the bulbs with watercolor paint...
Warm Embrace. The only topnotch painter shown at peak performance was Buffalo's Charles Burchfield, who had somehow managed to slip a watercolor into an exhibition of oils. His Dark Ravine was menacing as an abyss by Fuseli, but richer, and lacking all pretension...