watercolor

He visited every bookshop that carried melancholy German poetry in translation, and every art gallery that showed sentimental watercolors of mountain lakes and alpine meadows.

Alexander had drawn a map of the nursery, tinted with watercolors and oriented according to the compass, with all the furniture drawn to scale, down to the last footstool.

Instead, she brought a small kit of watercolors with her into the hay maze and painted arrows on the hay stalks at each right or left turn.

As the title promised, the volume was lavishly illustrated with thumbnail-sized watercolor paintings, most of which depicted wildflower meadows and snowcapped mountain peaks.

Funny how even in the dead of winter the West Virginia sun rises like a watercolor painting over the hills.