15 results found for: egg tempera

I painted a portrait of Ada Lovelace holding an x-box controller

Egg Tempera I: Preparing the Panels

I love art. I particularly love old art, from eras past. Italian renaissance frescoes and panel paintings, oh my! Before oil came along as a binder […]

I painted a portrait of Ada Lovelace holding an x-box controller

Egg tempera II – transferring the picture

So I’ve ended up with four nice shiny clean flat panels, ready to go. The thing about tempera is that you have to lay down exactly […]

The image shows a close up photograph of an inked drawing on an egg tempera panel as part of a tutorial.

Egg Tempera IV – Inking

Egg tempera painting relies on there being a detailed under drawing in ink to paint over. So you transfer over from a cartoon (a preliminary drawing […]

Egg tempera III – grinding pigment

The next post in my Tempera series! One thing all the stuff I’ve read insists you do is grind your pigments. The best grinders are glass […]

Egg Tempera V – under painting

At last I get to introduce THE EGGS in this whole excercise.

I painted a portrait of Ada Lovelace holding an x-box controller

Egg Tempera VI – the first go at laying down the real colour

This is such a learning curve. I spent the entirety of the movie Random Harvest doing this little bit. First I got my pigments ready. I […]

Egg tempera VII – Completed painting

So I pulled my finger out and finished off this painting, my first attempt at teaching myself Egg Tempera. It is Ada Lovelace, who did a […]

Photograph showing palette for egg temera painting

Egg Tempera. Messy, difficult, addictive

A while ago I did a series of posts on painting with egg tempera.  I’d finished the first one – this portrait of Ada Lovelace holding […]

landscape painting of trees in egg tempera

Egg Tempera, work, bass – Sounds like a “coming of age” self journey book title, dunnit

Work Working again has spurred my creativity at the same time as removing the time I have to spend doing it. That is so annoying. Work […]