bodycolor

The method of mixing concentrated watercolor pigments with a vehicle that is made with fish gelatin (isinglass jelly) or animal gelatin (size) — without the addition of any white pigment — is traditionally called bodycolor (or distemper in England).

Archive 2008-05-01 Hermes 2008

In keeping with Hyundai's high-value approach to standard equipment, the Accent GS offers standard automatic transmission, air conditioning, tilt steering wheel, maplights, rear wiper, and bodycolor mirrors and door handles.

Autoblog Green 2009

This is not a black-and-white issue -- one can apply watercolor thickly enough to render it opaque, or scumble a bodycolor lightly enough to make it slightly transparent.

American Artist 2008

This is not a black-and-white issue -- one can apply watercolor thickly enough to render it opaque, or scumble a bodycolor lightly enough to make it slightly transparent.

American Artist 2008

Clearly, a bodycolor was used to obscure the dark of her shoulder.

American Artist 2008

Here she is working with both bodycolor and watercolor, in particular gouache, which is watercolor made opaque through the addition of an opacifier -- typically chalk -- which allows it to cover whatever is painted underneath.

American Artist 2008

Clearly, a bodycolor was used to obscure the dark of her shoulder.

American Artist 2008

With bodycolor, light bounces off the paint's surface.

American Artist 2008

Here she is working with both bodycolor and watercolor, in particular gouache, which is watercolor made opaque through the addition of an opacifier -- typically chalk -- which allows it to cover whatever is painted underneath.

American Artist 2008

This is not a black-and-white issue -- one can apply watercolor thickly enough to render it opaque, or scumble a bodycolor lightly enough to make it slightly transparent.

American Artist 2008