word of the day: gouache

The word of the day is gouache:

Etymology:  French, < Italian guazzo.

A method of painting with opaque colours ground in water, and mixed with gum and honey so as to form a sort of paste. Also, a painting executed in this way, and the pigment itself. (OED)

"Tamimi writes poetry, in Arabic, and paints.  There is a haunting gouache on his living-room wall - lines of script painted over with bright-yellow flowers and green leaves.  The poem, he told me, is 'about the things you're supposed to remember and the things you have to forget'; the flower are 'the way I felt after it was written'."

 - Jane Kramer, "The philosopher chef: Yotam Ottolenghi's ideas are changing the way London eats", 3 December 2012 The New Yorker