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Yes, it is. It's made with gum arabic and chalk (which makes the color opaque, i.e. you cannot see through the color). When dry, it has a unique, velvety texture and rich, deep color. Years after a gouache painting has dried, it can still be blended and re-worked with a wet brush. It was the standard medium in fashion illustration and popular with illustrators until the introduction of commercial design markers.
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What is the name of a painting technique using watercolour paint pigment bound with glue?
Gouache
Why is gouache used?
It is a kind of watercolor, but gouache is heavier and more opaque, with greater reflective qualities.
What is the water-based opaque paint similar to school-quality tempera?
gouache. Gouache has more body and dries more slowly than watercolor paint. It is a good medium for creating bright colors and meticulous details and is often used for design and fine artwork.
Can I use gouache paints on a canvas?
Gouache is thinned with water to the consistency of condensed milk, then applied with a natural hair (sable...) brush to illustration board. Building up layers isn't a good technique with gouache because any wet paint will interact with existing layers of already dried paint.
Type of paint consisting of a pigment suspended in water?
Gouache (from the Italian guazzo, "water paint, splash") or bodycolor (the term preferred by art historians) is a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water. Gouache differs from watercolor in that the particles are larger, the ratio of pigment to water is much higher, and an additional, inert, white pigment such as chalk is also present. This makes gouache heavier and more opaque, with greater reflective qualities.
