Today the term
bodycolor is loosely used interchangeably with gouache.
Giovanni da Udine. Study of a Rock Dove. Musée
du Louvre, Paris
by Michael Miller
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| Opaque
lead white pigment was mixed with color to make bodycolor, or gouache. This
opaque paint first appears in drawings in the early sixteenth century, when
Dürer used it for nature studies. As in this study by Giovanni da Udine,
artists often combined bodycolor with transparent washes and watercolors. In
the eighteenth century landscapists used it by itself for small paintings on
paper or leather, and in the nineteenth watercolorists combined it with
watercolor for richness and depth. After 1834 Chinese White was often
substituted for lead. Today the term
bodycolor is loosely used interchangeably with gouache. |
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