Winslow Homer was an American painter, journalist, and illustrator. Homer was one of the first artists to create and sell watercolor paintings. Homer liked to paint the outdoors and the sea and was a master of outdoor painting scenes. He used watercolors for perspective, that is, to create the feeling that some things in a picture look far away while other things look closer. For example, bright colors make things appear to be very near.
Faded colors make objects like mountains look farther away.