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