gouache
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- noun
- /ɡwɑːʃ/
- Specialized
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gouache
- I paint in gouache, a non-plastic watercolor.
- gouache painting
Basically we did everything, speed drawing, life drawing, ink, pastel, gouache.
- Basically we did everything, speed drawing, life drawing, ink, pastel, gouache.
Examples
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Two Bears painted traditional Crow warriors exclusively in gouache.
Fiction book (1996) -
And right now I'm just testing the gouache opacity.
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Now I am working on paper with gouache.
Blog text (9) -
Here are my tubes of gouache and watercolor.
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I am mostly self-taught as a painter and developed my own way of using gouache over time.
Blog text (31) -
I love gouache because you can just mop up great areas of it and reconfigure the image.
Blog text (9) -
The work was to be published by Leonce Rosenberg and was to include twenty gouache paintings with a prose poem placed beneath each one.
Academic text (1994) -
I tried oil paint and acrylic, watercolor and gouache, large designs and small plain planes, and complicated juxtaposed planes.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the earlier iteration of the works in thin, watery gouache and erasable pencil, forms emerge transparently in sections between the uneven foreground color and the paper's bare surface.
Academic text (2014) -
Artists often choose gouache for its rich colors and matte finish.
How Opaque
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word gouache comes from the Italian guazzo, which meant a 'puddle' or 'mud' and was used for paint mixed with water. So think of gouache as a water-based paint like a 'wash' but thicker and more solid, which is why it makes rich, matte color.