Masters of Water-Colour Painting

excerpt from the book..The earliest form of painting was with colours ground in water. Egyptianartists three thousand years B.C. used this method, and various mediums,such as wax and mastic, were added as a fixative. It was what is nowknown as tempera painting. The Greeks acquired their knowledge of theart from the Egyptians, and later the Romans dispersed it throughoutEurope. They probably introduced tempera painting into this country fordecoration of the walls of their houses. The English monk