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- noun art
Gouache .
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The method of mixing concentrated watercolor pigments with a vehicle that is made with fish gelatin (isinglass jelly) or animal gelatin (size) — without the addition of any white pigment — is traditionally called bodycolor (or distemper in England).
Archive 2008-05-01 Hermes 2008
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In keeping with Hyundai's high-value approach to standard equipment, the Accent GS offers standard automatic transmission, air conditioning, tilt steering wheel, maplights, rear wiper, and bodycolor mirrors and door handles.
Autoblog Green 2009
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This is not a black-and-white issue -- one can apply watercolor thickly enough to render it opaque, or scumble a bodycolor lightly enough to make it slightly transparent.
American Artist 2008
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This is not a black-and-white issue -- one can apply watercolor thickly enough to render it opaque, or scumble a bodycolor lightly enough to make it slightly transparent.
American Artist 2008
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Clearly, a bodycolor was used to obscure the dark of her shoulder.
American Artist 2008
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Here she is working with both bodycolor and watercolor, in particular gouache, which is watercolor made opaque through the addition of an opacifier -- typically chalk -- which allows it to cover whatever is painted underneath.
American Artist 2008
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Clearly, a bodycolor was used to obscure the dark of her shoulder.
American Artist 2008
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With bodycolor, light bounces off the paint's surface.
American Artist 2008
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Here she is working with both bodycolor and watercolor, in particular gouache, which is watercolor made opaque through the addition of an opacifier -- typically chalk -- which allows it to cover whatever is painted underneath.
American Artist 2008
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This is not a black-and-white issue -- one can apply watercolor thickly enough to render it opaque, or scumble a bodycolor lightly enough to make it slightly transparent.
American Artist 2008
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