Body color

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School cover paint box from the brand Jolly by Brevillier Urban & Sachs

A top color is understood to be a water- suspendable color made of pigments and fillers , which can be applied to the substrate as a full covering. In color paint boxes together, those colors are especially in school art education related.

In contrast, the water colors used for watercolors are not opaque. They therefore require and enable other painting techniques than opaque colors and mostly use higher quality and more luminous color pigments. High-quality opaque paints are similar to gouache , which compared to opaque paints has fewer fillers (e.g. chalk) and preferably uses gum arabic as a binding agent .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bodo W. Jaxtheimer: Knaur's painting and drawing book Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich, 1976, ISBN 3-426-22207-8 , p. 315ff
2. ↑ Bodo W. Jaxtheimer: Knaur's painting and drawing book Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich, 1976, ISBN 3-426-22207-8 , p. 285