Category:Water color

Wa"ter col`or. (paint.)

1. A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a Color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from Oil color.

Note: it preserves its consistency when dried in a solid cake, which Is used by rubbing off a portion on a moistened palette. Moist water Colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little Metal tubes or pans.

2. A picture painted with such colors.