gouache

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Recent Examples of gouache With an airbrush borrowed from his job at an ad agency, Man Ray would blast droplets of gouache onto board or heavy paper and use stencils to organize the spray. Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025 Four Classic Designs Artist Denise Fiedler created the works with gouache and acrylic paint layered on vintage gardening book pages, then assembled on archival cotton board. Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025 Artist Don Carney has released a series of fine art prints of Lover’s Eyes created from his watercolor and gouache paintings. Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 The legendary artist and North Shore resident — who uses gouache paints to create lifelike depictions of Marvel and DC characters — is constantly creating. Kelly Haramis, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for gouache
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Noun
  • The artists shared a wide variety of techniques and mediums – pastel, watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed media.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • The paint is deftly mottled but its handling lacks the prowess of her later work (see, for example, Being Beamed, 1984, a fantasia of extraterrestrial teleportation in which the watercolor is sumptuous but perfectly controlled).
    Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The artists shared a wide variety of techniques and mediums – pastel, watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed media.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • Adam and Eve After Cranach, 1971, an acrylic diptych modeled on Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1526 painting of the titular couple.
    Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026

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“Gouache.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gouache. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.

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