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Watercolor painting's fancier French name, for when 'watercolor' feels too wet-sock plain.
means A painting method using thin, transparent water-based pigments, or a picture made this way — the delicate, washy cousin of opaque oil painting.
from Borrowed from French 'aquarelle,' which came from Italian 'acquerella/acquerello,' a diminutive built on 'acqua' (water) — itself from Latin 'aqua.' So the word is literally 'little watery thing,' a fittingly damp name for an art built on diluted pigment.
- word origin
- from Italian acquerella, diminutive of water
- technique
- relies on paper showing through for light
- pigment style
- transparent, not opaque like gouache
- fashion crossover
- also describes soft blended makeup or nail looks