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gouache
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gouache \Gouache\ (gw[.a]sh), n. [F., It. guazzo.] A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1882, from French gouache, from Italian guazzo "water color," originally "spray, pool," from Latin aquatio "watering, watering place," from aquatus, past participle of aquari "to bring water for drinking," from aqua (see aqua-).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context painting English) A thick, opaque watercolour paint made with gum containing an inert white pigment to make it opaque. 2 (context painting English) A painting made with this paint.
WordNet
n. an opaque watercolor prepared with gum
a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum
Wikipedia
Gouache (; ), body color, opaque watercolor, or guache, is one type of watermedia, paint consisting of pigment, water, a binding agent (usually dextrin or gum arabic), and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be used with opaque methods of painting. The term, derived from the Italian guazzo, also refers to paintings using this opaque method.
Gouache has a considerable history going back over 600 years. It is similar to watercolor because it can be rewet and the paint can become infused with its paper support. It can also form a superficial layer like acrylic or oil paint. Also like watercolor, gouache dries to a matte finish. It is similar to acrylic or oil paints in that it is normally used in an opaque painting style. Many manufacturers of watercolor paints also produce gouache and the two can easily be used together.
Usage examples of "gouache".
Two panels were entirely hidden under pen-and-ink sketches, Gouache landscapes and Audran engravings, relics of better times and vanished luxury.
She mentally shook herself, gloved hand gripped tightly about the carved ivory sticks of her gouache fan.
Rubens spent many hours in museums looking at paintings, he painted hundreds of gouache pictures and was famous among his school friends for his caricatures of teachers.
He was given a set of gouache paints by an aunt when he was a boy, and painted a geranium, and then a fish-tank.
Seurats, with an occasional Cremonesi miniature gouache inserted for balance.
Le Sueur, gouache, the ceremony of the patriotic oath in the Paris districts.
Maigret, left on his own, paced slowly up and down the room, and stopped in front of an easel holding a gouache sketch.
Paul Jenkins gouache and must have cost upwards of ten thousand dollars.
I stared at the Jenkins gouache and tried to imagine what the artist must have been thinking when he painted it.
Oscar Dominguez, a leading member of the surrealist group in Paris, invented the technique of crushing gouache between layers of paper.
From behind this facial gouache, created by wind and sun and salt spray, a little, suspicious, angry mind peeps out on the summer passengers.
At the start of that hot, thundery summer I leaned out of my window watching the world pass below, convinced that somebody somewhere would still need watercolours, gouaches and pencil sketches, and that I could produce them from my penthouse eyrie.
At the start of that hot, thundery summer I leaned out of my window watching the world pass below, convinced that somebody somewhere would still need watercolours, gouaches and pencil sketches, and that I could produce them from my penthouse eyrie.