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Author: Chen Yongzhong
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Watercolor painting, as a form of color painting, features simple tools, easy portability, and strong expressiveness, making it widely adopted by art enthusiasts and artists. As a painting enthusiast, using watercolor for collecting creative materials and outdoor sketching is convenient and quick. It allows for painting anywhere and anytime, carrying effortlessly. It possesses the same expressive power as oil painting, capable of both highly summarizing and deeply depicting. It can not only dry paint and carve, showing rich color layers similar to oil painting, but also render wet coats, expressing the lively and unrestrained atmosphere akin to watercolor painting. Currently, many art colleges in China, especially those of applied arts, complete their color foundation training through watercolor painting. Watercolor is also widely used in applied art design, stage design, advertising, and comic strips, among other fields. To this day, watercolor painting is extensively used as one of the methods for color sketching in the entrance exams of art colleges in China.