Body Colors or Gouache before it was called Gouache
“Gouache isn’t period.” It’s a statement that was often said to me as I started painting scrolls in the SCA and I hear it continue to be repeated to this day. Certainly, the word ‘gouache’ is a more modern invention – the term being applied to opaque watermedia for the first time in 18th CE France; however, the paint itself has been in use for centuries beforehand, just referred to under different terms. But let’s start from the beginning, what…