How to Use gouache in a Sentence

gouache

noun
  • The gouache-on-paper was painted by the artist in 1941.
    — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most of his pictures at Hemphill are oils, and the others employ gouache, sometimes supplemented by ink.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • More common, though, are expressionist drawing-paintings that combine pencil marks with oil and gouache.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • Libecap uses watercolor and gouache to create her tiny masterpieces.
    — Julia Sayers, AL.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Also doodling some Bird Town characters for season 2, and doing some large-scale gouache paintings.
    — Dami Lee, The Verge, 14 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • A number of the pieces on display – including works in tempera, gouache, acrylic, oil, pencil, pen, and fiber – have rarely been seen outside private collections.
    — Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2025
  • Robertson’s gouache works on paper flank The Swell, continuing their exploration of sea-as-symbol.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The Opera Gallery says the gouache reflects a moment of introspection and concentrated studio work for the artist.
    — Jake McGowan, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Her works are softly abstract; powdery colors form cloud-like shapes that might be superimposed with free-handed linear strokes in acrylic, gouache, oil stick, oil pastels, and graphite.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The following day, Doja unveiled a second cover — this time of a gouache watercolor painting of two arachnids.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The original artwork, created by Andrew Jamieson, was hand-painted in watercolor and gouache.
    — Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Her drawings are notable for their variety and fluency, both of technique and imagination, whether the medium is pencil, watercolor, ink or gouache.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Preferring to use pen over pencil to avoid the need for erasing, Martinez begins with line work before adding color with bright watercolors, gouache, or alcohol markers.
    — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Made with gouache and pencil on paper, the work depicts a guitar and several everyday objects, including a bottle and a folded sheet of paper, arranged on a table in soft brown and gray tones.
    — Dragana Jovanovic, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2025

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