Color Names

Mauve Aquarelle

Faded watercolor mauve, like a flower left in the rain.

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Mauve Aquarelle is a pale grey, close to pink.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Mauve Aquarelle

Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor or watercolour, also aquarelle, is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork.

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mauve

Noun

  1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
  2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective

  1. Having a pale purple colour.
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aquarelle

Noun

  1. A watercolour (painting)
  2. A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.
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