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Gouache is a continental European invention transplanted to England via French and Italian decorative and landscape painters in gouache, working in London in the 18th century. Like mud, gouache is wet and opaque. Many artists react to gouache in watercolors as if it really were mud — it's probably the most vehemently controversial technique in watercolor painting.

The technique has a long and complex history. It first appears in the decorative and pictorial embellishments to medieval illuminated manuscripts. The earliest modern examples are nature paintings by the 16th century German artist Albrecht Dürer

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