Saturday, August 11, 2012

Gouache

This work is called The Visitor.  The artist of this piece is Jacob Lawrence.  The medium used by the artist is Gouache.  Gouache is like watercolor.  The difference is it is opaque, not transparent. It is hard to blend brushstrokes. Lawrence uses complementary colors in his works. The artist was inspired by Harlem, which is where he moved at the age of thirteen. The shapes and colors that surrounded him reflect in his work.

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