Genre de peinture oů l'on emploie des couleurs détrempées avec de l'eau mêlée de gomme.
ETYM French, Italian guazzo.
Or body color; Painting medium in which watercolor is mixed with white pigment. Applied in the same way as watercolor, gouache gives a chalky finish similar to that of tempera painting. It has long been popular in continental Europe, where Dürer and Boucher were both masters of the technique. Poster paints are usually a form of gouache.1. A work executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum.
2. An opaque watercolor prepared with gum.
Opaque watercolour paint; painting with pigments mixed with gum.