Study in green
NSFW
Gouache is impossible to pronounce. No one has ever said the word in my presence. A4 mixed media paper.
Syndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.
View original on lemmy.blahaj.zoneView original on lemmy.blahaj.zone
12 replies
Um, are you by any chance colourblind?
I guess I'm colour world blind where I can't tell the difference between red and green as written.
Not to be a critic. Um, I don't see the green.
You're right, the full title is "Study of a model studying something green that you the viewer cannot see(in red)"
The shadow might be a blue-green? Could be my monitor. Or the green might be intentionally left out. I suppose you could also make it green if you stared at it long enough and then looked at a white screen ;p
Yeah, that also struck me right away. Maybe it's a choice by the artist in order to make us study their art in more detail.
Oh yea, totally no judgement. I'm just being a smartass.
Very nice! I believe it's pronounced "gwash."
Yes, this is how you pronounce it (in french anyways 😁), gwash/goash.
Checked Larousse's text to speech, and it sounds pretty close to that indeed. Also pretty close to Portuguese, just without the compensatory -e or -i that is used at the end of foreign words ending in consonants that cause a strong stop.
That's a useful first approximation. I'd say pick any French video on painting with gouache and listen closely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvxNOrTYWfQ
If you watch that and think: hey, that totally sounds like gwash, all good. Let's all remember this exists:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/vdkd6wgbzhI