Identifying the type of mint. Just to confuse the picture even more, there is a chocolate mint which has purplish stolons. There are, in fact, hundreds of varieties of mint, some of which are commercially grown for oil extraction or for leaf drying, and a lot of which haven't even been given names, being known as Mint 341, etc.
Simply put, watercolor is a painting compound using water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque. Because of the medium itself as well as the paper to which it is applied, watercolor is frequently thought of as a fugitive medium.
Like mud, gouache is wet and opaque. The topic is also muddied by different definitions of what gouache is or how it should be used. And many artists react to gouache in watercolors as if it really were mud â it's probably the most vehemently controversial technique in watercolor painting. The technique has a long and complex history.