April 23, 2021Published by avrilejean at April 23, 2021Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperaHow-to tutorialRobots, Einstein, Mushrooms and Landscapes All Have One Thing In CommonGetting around to posting some older egg tempera paintings.
March 5, 2019Published by avrilejean at March 5, 2019Categories avril e jeanegg temperalearningLife events and musingpaintingsoftware developmentwatercolourSo much learning – Rails and Watercolour TutorialsLearning Ruby on Rails and doing watercolour tutorials, all while drinking red wine, going to the gym, and contemplating my career.
June 30, 2018Published by avrilejean at June 30, 2018Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperalearningLife events and musingpaintingEgg Tempera, work, bass – Sounds like a “coming of age” self journey book title, dunnitWork 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, 2016Published by avrilejean at December 3, 2016Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperaguitarlearningpaintingportraitEgg Tempera. Messy, difficult, addictiveA 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, 2015Published by avrilejean at December 30, 2015Categories art boy galleryart showAustralian Landscapeavril e jeanavril jeancoloured pencildinosaurdrawingegg temperagalleryglueillustrationlandscapelearningoil paintingpaintingpastelpen and inkpencilqueenregina rexsewing and embroiderySock MonkeywatercolourThe Ubiquitous 2015 RetrospectiveI 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, 2015Published by avrilejean at July 3, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperaHow-to tutoriallearningpaintingportraitEgg tempera VII – Completed paintingSo 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, 2015Published by avrilejean at May 23, 2015Categories avril e jeanegg temperaHow-to tutorialpaintingEgg Tempera VI – the first go at laying down the real colourThis 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, 2015Published by avrilejean at May 20, 2015Categories avril e jeandrawingegg temperaHow-to tutorialEgg Tempera IV – InkingEgg 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, 2015Published by avrilejean at May 20, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperaHow-to tutoriallearningEgg tempera III – grinding pigmentThe 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 […]