Leaping Trout
Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaping Trout

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) · 1889

watercolor over graphite
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Noted for his technical variety in watercolors, Homer used a technique called scraping—removing softened paint and paper fibers by taking a blunt or sharp object to the paper’s wet surface—to produce the pond’s two glistening white highlights.

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