A means to achieve soft, melting color gradations by brushing or rubbing the edge where two tones or colors meet.

Paint that is applied smoothly onto wet paper leaving no streaks or visual texture.

A technique in which thin, transparent washes of color are laid on successive layers of dried colors, such as many sheets of colored tissue paper.

This technique creates an area of color that moves gradually from dark to from light to dark, or from one color to another.

A technique where certain areas of a painting are covered up with a paint-resistant surface, so that they can be freely worked over without marking the surface.

A dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle or medium becomes a paint or ink.

The use of plastic wrap placed onto a wet wash or watercolor to produce textures and effects.

The use of salt sprinkled into a wet wash of watercolor or ink to produce textures and effects.

This is an exciting and unusual effect that can be obtained by laying different colored washes side by side so that they melt into each other wet-in-wet.

Large flat areas of paint, watercolor, or ink that are diluted with water and applied by brush onto a surface covered in water.

Watercolor applied onto dry paper.

Watercolor applied over or into each other while they are wet, leaving them partially mixed on the paper.

Paints that consist of extremely fine, transparent pigments in a medium of water or gum and are available in tubes or sectioned pans (tabs). They result in transparent effect that distinguishes this medium from other, more opaque paints.

A type of water-soluble paint that is opaque so the white of the paper surface does not show through.

A style of nineteenth-century French painting in which colors are systematically applied to canvas in small dots, producing a vibrant surface.