opaque watercolor

Is Watercolor Paint Opaque?

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Is Watercolor Paint Opaque? Before that I’d never thought about this quality of paint, I had assumed that all transparent watercolour was the same. Watercolour is never truly opaque; we call opaque watercolour ‘gouache’ and it is its own medium with its own techniques. However some pigments are less transparent than others. Which watercolour paints

Is Watercolor That Has Been Made Opaque By Adding Inert White Pigment To It?

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Is Watercolor That Has Been Made Opaque By Adding Inert White Pigment To It? Impasto is watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it. What is the water based paint media that adds white chalk to create an opaque paint? Compared to watercolors, gouache has larger particles of pigment, and