gouache

Speech parts

1. gouache - Noun

2. gouache - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

water oil painting picture illustration canvas illumination brush chalk coloring fresco enamel distemper colouring watercolour
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Antonyms

upsetting

Hypernyms

watercolour watercolor water-colour

Anagrams

couhage

Examples

What the eye can see won't get us very far. And what it can see is so limited, so restricted. But a gouache or an oil painting can be seen at a glance, can take in a whole world at a single glance. Bram van Velde

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints. Maira Kalman

‘Freycinet midden,’ Julie Bradley, 2018, mixed media gouache and collage. Source: Internet

Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash heightened with white gouache (Getty Museum description). Source: Internet

The Adoration of the Shepherds (Metropolitan Museum of Art), a free and painterly sketch in gouache, was long considered a preparatory sketch for Madame de Pompadour’s private altarpiece La lumière du monde (ca. 1750, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon). Source: Internet

And we can't forget the incredibly exuberant illustrations, done in gouache and ink, by two-time Caldecott honoree Zin! Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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