Example sentences for: watercolor

How can you use “watercolor” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • New York urologist Edward Moses employs the same overheated rhetoric on his Web site: "For many men, life without sex can be likened to a watercolor painting that should possess all of the vibrant colors of life, but which has been reduced to sterile black and white."

  • The wall captions in this show are much more entertaining than those things usually are, viz.: Odalisk (1955-58), a combine that includes "oil, watercolor, pencil, crayon, paper, fabric, photographs, printed reproductions, miniature blueprint, metal, newspaper, glass, dried grass, and steel wool, with pillow, wood post, electric lights, and Plymouth Rock rooster, on wood structure mounted on four casters."

  • The computer can “watercolor” the sketch and produce the storyboard for presentation.

  • Similarly, Japanese calligraphy has a great artistic tradition, no less great than that of Japanese watercolor painting or Japanese costume, and beautifully brushed poems may appear next to watercolor images similar to those that often appear on clothes.

  • The Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki, who spent three years on Princess Mononoke and is reported to have done 70 percent of its paintings himself, seems to work from the outside in: to begin with the curve of the earth, then the mossy hills, the watercolor foliage, the nubby stones, the whorls on the wood, the meticulous carvings on a teacup.


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