Gouache
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Gouache, body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent, and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Goua
Gouache paints come in many colors and are usually mixed with water to achieve the desired working properties and to control the opacity when dry.
Jacob Philipp Hackert, Lago d'Averno, 1794
12th-century Buddhist manuscript, India
Exeter and the Canal Basin by John Gendall between 1835 and 1840; watercolour and gouache on paper
Gum arabic
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Gum arabic is a tree gum best known by two most popular species of Acacia sensu lato: Senegalia senegal and Vachellia seyal; although there are over 900 species of trees in the genus. However, the ter
Gouache
…Gouache (; French: ), body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent (usually gum arabic or dextrin), and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Gouache has a long history, having been used for at least twelve…
Acacia gum, pieces and powder
Acacia senegal, pictured in the medicinal handbook Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887) by Franz Eugen Köhler
Gum arabic exuding from Acacia nilotica