The watercolor medium is probably the most difficult form of graphic art to master. To a woman who once asked Edgar Degas what sort of watercolor set she should buy her son, Degas replied that it ...

Landscape Watercolor for Relaxation” features weekly lessons throughout April. Registration deadline is March 26.

We learn about the Museum of Fine Art Houston’s new exhibit John Singer Sargent: The Watercolors, which offers a rare collection of 100 watercolors by Gilded Age American master John Singer Sargent.

The Big Local Names involved are mighty big: Mark Tobey, Alden Mason, George Tsutakawa and Z. Vanessa Helder (whose 2013 retrospective of “precisionist watercolors” at the Tacoma Art Museum turned ...

The Art Institute’s “accessible, gorgeous, and challenging” John Marin show delivers all the trappings you’d expect from an earnest tribute to a talented painter, said Laura M. Browning in ...

In the survey course on art history she teaches at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Camille LaPoint Lyons makes a point of stressing watercolors amid all the talk of oil paintings and ...

BEDMINSTER -- Scheduled over two years ago, the Somerset Art Association is honored to welcome internationally-acclaimed watercolorist Judi Betts from March 31 to April 4 as part of its Visiting Guest ...

Before photography was around to detail the natural world, there were watercolor paintings. A recently launched database has digitized 80,000 (and counting) works painted during the medium’s heyday, ...

In the age-old history of artistic media, watercolors are relative upstarts. Though used for centuries to make illustrations, maps and other mostly utilitarian images, they attracted little interest ...