The Best Watercolor Sets for Trying Your Hand at a Long-Celebrated Style

Dip your toe in the rewarding and versatile medium of watercolor. With a history as rich as its pigment, it is one of the oldest mediums; watercolor’s origins date back to the Stone Age and the ancient Egyptians. In China, artists began using watercolor around 4000 BCE and developed watercolor landscape painting in the 4th century CE. Watercolors were used in the Middle Ages to illuminate manuscripts and to color wash maps, and old master Albrecht Dürer popularized the medium during t