How to Use gouache in a Sentence

gouache

noun

• Artist Anamaria Morris will take a photo of your loved one and translate it into a graphite and gouache work.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
• This small collage and gouache on paper carries bright tones often seen in Conran’s shop and home.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 13 Dec. 2022
• Baez depicts Laveau as a vision of abundance, defined by the billowing kinks of her hair, which fill the 61/2 -foot-tall gouache and graphite picture to its wavy edges.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
• Later gouaches tend toward the symbolic rather than the factual, with fewer specifics of time and place and crime.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• Among the items on the wall are an antique water-buffalo skull, 19th-century French gouaches and a drawing by Jean Cocteau.
  — Peter Terzian, ELLE Decor, 7 Feb. 2017
• His more intimate works, such as his chalk-and-gouache Portrait of Prince Octavius (1783) were minor in their time but are charming today.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Qu, who has two master’s degrees in fine art, uses a mix of Asian gouache, ink and traditional Chinese brushes in her work.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• Words are at a minimum as, in gouache paintings, Mr. Estellon presents five colors (along with black and white) as they are expressed in nature.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
• In her gouache illustration on a digital print background, Ruth Burotte portrays a wide-eyed young woman in hard hat and boots.
  — Elisa Turner, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2022
• Around them swirls a carnival of riotous color and grotesque creatures, rendered in a dynamic mix of blocky pastel marks and smooth gouache strokes.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• His sources are as varied as his modes of rendering and his materials: charcoal, gouache, pastel, gold leaf, oil paint.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 6 June 2018
• The look was based on the comic book covers of her run, which have this beautiful painterly sort of gouache watercolor look and a very specific palette.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
• More than 80 of those works—in ink, pastel, watercolor, gouache, and pencil, most of them never seen before—offer a glimpse into the imagery that has inspired Brown for the past two decades.
  — Rachel Corbett, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2016
• Also doodling some Bird Town characters for season 2, and doing some large-scale gouache paintings.
  — Dami Lee, The Verge, 14 June 2019
• These watercolor-and-gouache illustrations often portray the creatures alone or in pairs on white backdrops, sometimes with hints of sky, sea or grass.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
• More common, though, are expressionist drawing-paintings that combine pencil marks with oil and gouache.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• Tintin creator Hergé crafted the elaborate design—intended to grace the cover of his 1936 comic book The Blue Lotus—with ink, gouache and watercolors.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2021
• The Strathmore’s Visual Mixed Media journal comes with a hardy 190 gsm paper, which works well for wet and dry media including pencil, pen and ink, gouache or watercolor, and acrylics.
  — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2020
• The following day, Doja unveiled a second cover — this time of a gouache watercolor painting of two arachnids.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2023
• Baya used gouache as her primary medium, depicting a world without men but full of bright images of women, nature, and animals.
  — Jane Drinkard, The Cut, 18 Mar. 2018
• His artwork, much of it in gouache, a thicker, more opaque form of watercolor, was featured in numerous exhibitions.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• Working small to save money, Diebenkorn’s prolific outpouring of graphite, gouache and ink on paper studies provides some of the meatiest work in the exhibition.
  — Julia Couzens, sacbee, 26 Oct. 2017
• The frontispieces are prints augmented with gouache and colored pencil, which is characteristic of Wolfe’s eclectic approach.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• Libecap uses watercolor and gouache to create her tiny masterpieces.
  — Julia Sayers, AL.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Antique gouaches of erupting Vesuvius glowed against a lilac wall; Victorian taxidermy and pastoral dog paintings kept the men company after guests went home.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
• This early transition is made tangible in the first few rooms of the exhibition, as the angular monochromatic shapes of Oiticica's gouache-on-cardboard paintings pop off and begin to hang in midair.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• The original artwork, created by Andrew Jamieson, was hand-painted in watercolor and gouache.
  — Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
• Michelangelo fleshed out the child’s torso and right arm with brown wash and gouache highlights as well as red and black chalk, thereby endowing him not with an infant’s pudgy flesh but with a decidedly statuesque musculature.
  — Catesby Leigh, National Review, 20 Jan. 2018
• The reference books show how Schorn uses not only colored pencils, but other materials and media such as pastels, ink and gouache to create certain effects in his art.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• In her lighthearted watercolor, gouache and ink drawings, a menagerie of foxes, hedgehogs, turkeys and other woodland creatures share the canvas with smatterings of flowers and leaves.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019

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