The concept of "watercolor" has several meanings. The first is a type of painting with water-soluble paints. In other words, paints that dissolve in ordinary water, forming a translucent substance with a small amount of coloring pigment. This allows you to create an incredible effect of lightness and subtle gradation of color. From this came the name of a certain process in the painting technique - watercolor.
Still consider watercolor, directly, the work that is done with water-based paints. A characteristic feature of such a painting is that whitewash is excluded during writing. This function is performed by the white color of the paper, which is not painted over at all or covered with a translucent paint layer.
Watercolor paints, due to their features, allow you to create unique paintings. Their distinctive feature consists mainly in a transparent thin layer of paint that remains after the water has dried on paper.
With all the variety of types of existing materials, watercolor paints are rightfully considered one of the oldest and most painters and graphics of various schools. Art historians are aware of works coinciding in time with Egyptian papyri and hieroglyphs. In the art of ancient Byzantium, with the help of watercolors, liturgical and church books were illustrated. Over time, they began to use it for painting and painting drawings on boards. Renaissance painters used this type of paint for sketches for fresco and easel works. A large number of works painted with watercolors have survived to our time, such masters as Rafael, Rubens, Lessuer and many others.
Due to the relative ease of use, watercolor paints are widely used in the visual arts.
These paints, like many others, contain finely ground pigments, and various types of plant-based glue are added in a small amount as a binder. Even in certain proportions, honey, wax, glycerin and some types of resins are included in the composition. Thanks to these components, paints have ductility, hardness or softness and other necessary properties. Often, such paints are available in the form of hard handkerchiefs placed in a special container, and semi-liquid or soft ones in tubes. You can buy watercolor paints for professional painting in any art store.
Among the domestic manufacturers of paints, it is especially worth highlighting Gamma and ZKH Nevskaya Palitra. The latter among the artists were called as "watercolor paints" Leningrad "". They are available in 2.5 ml cuvette containers or in 18 ml tubes. The assortment of this brand includes the White Nights, Ladoga and Sonnet series. The best colors for Gamma are the Studio series. The product quality of both factories meets high standards and is not inferior to many foreign manufacturers.