egg tempera

Series of discussions and tutorials around using Egg Tempera painting by Avril E Jean

April 23, 2021

Robots, Einstein, Mushrooms and Landscapes All Have One Thing In Common

Getting around to posting some older egg tempera paintings.
March 5, 2019

So much learning – Rails and Watercolour Tutorials

Learning Ruby on Rails and doing watercolour tutorials, all while drinking red wine, going to the gym, and contemplating my career.
June 30, 2018

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 […]
December 3, 2016

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 […]
December 30, 2015

The Ubiquitous 2015 Retrospective

I guess it’s inevitable so I will bow to it – what’s my year been like, art-wise?. What skills, highs, and lows, has this year brought […]
July 3, 2015

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 […]
May 23, 2015

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 […]
May 20, 2015

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 […]
May 20, 2015

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 […]