📚 Watercolor Painting

Pigment, paper, and the control of water: materials, technique, and the landscape tradition the medium is best at.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject water-color painting in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Water-colour painting in Britain	Martin Hardie	1966	25
	Painting with watercolor	Mario Cooper	1971	6
	Chinese watercolours	Josef Hejzlar	1978	5
	The camera	J. Hassell	1823	4
	The content of watercolor	Edward Reep	1969	4
	'Upon a painted ocean'	Whitworth Art Gallery.	1982	3
	Cotton's catalogue of drawing materials, stationery, valuable engravings, drawing copies, etc	Nathan Davies Cotton	1850	2
	Catalogue of Roberts & Sons' annual collection of oil paintings and water color drawings	Roberts & Sons Art Gallery	1898	2
	Starting with watercolour	Rowland Hilder	1966	2
	Watercolour, history and technique	Walter Koschatzky	1970	2
	Flower painting in watercolour	Mario Cooper	1972	2
	Flower painting in watercolor	Charles Reid	1979	2
	Watercolours	Holden, John	1979	2
	Realist drawings & watercolors	John Arthur	1980	2
	Painting flowers in watercolour	Sarah Jane Coleridge	1981	2
	Outdoor watercolorworkshop	Tony Van Hasselt	1982	2
	Guide to Sketching and Watercolour Painting	Jason Partner	1982	2
	Water-colour painting	James Fletcher-Watson	1982	2
	The joy of watercolor	David Millard	1983	2
	Catalogue of oil and water colour paintings, statuary, bronzes, and other works of art	Art Association of Montreal	1870	1
	Traite methodique de l'aquarelle et du lavis appliques a l'etude de la figure en general, du portrait d'apres nature, du paysage, de la marine, des animaux, des fleurs et des papil	Goupil	1876	1
	Catalogue of original oil paintings, water-color drawings, and sketches from the easel of Mr. F.A. Verner	M. Hicks & Co. (Montréal, Quebec)	1888	1
	Catalogue of paintings and water colors	Unknown author	1898	1
	Quan guo shui cai su xie xuan ji	Zhao hua mei shu chu ban she, Peking	1955	1
	The joys of watercolour	Hilton Leech	1973	1
	The many ways of water & color	Leonard Brooks	1976	1
	Watercolor	Arthur J Barbour	1978	1
	Dong Kingman's watercolors	Dong Kingman	1980	1
	Experimental watercolor techniques	Bud Shackelford	1980	1
	Painting the seasons in watercolor	Arthur J. Barbour	1980	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 04 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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