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Payne's Grey Color 708 - #536878

Payne painted in watercolors and oils, and was also an etcher. He hit upon certain methods which considerably increased the resources of watercolor art, especially in the rendering of sunlight and atmosphere. His 'style,' as it was called, was one which was not only new and effective, but could be learnt without much difficulty, and he soon became the most fashionable drawing-master in London.

Among the innovations with which he is credited were "splitting the brush to give forms of foliage, dragging the tints to give texture to his foregrounds, and taking out the forms of lights by wetting the surface and rubbing with bread and rag."