Gouache Definition

gwäsh, go͝o-äsh
noun
A way of painting with opaque colors ground in water and mixed with a preparation of gum.
Webster's New World
A pigment of this sort.
Webster's New World
A painting made with such pigments.
Webster's New World
A painting executed in this manner.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Gouache

Noun

Singular:
gouache
Plural:
gouaches

Origin of Gouache

  • French from Italian guazzo from Latin aquātiō watering from aquātus past participle of aquārī to fetch water from aqua water akw-ā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French.

    From Wiktionary

Gouache Sentence Examples

  • Students should have some basic ability in observational drawing skills and painting, but no previous experience of using gouache is required.

  • My pictures can be realistic or imaginative using watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache, pen and wash or mixed media.

  • With neat white gouache representing perhaps waves or foam, drag the paint in a broken brush stroke method over the dark surface.

  • Her many paintings, just over 400 in total, were sketched in pencil and then painted with gouache.

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Words Starting With

GGOGOU

Words Ending With

EHECHE

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