Egg Tempera Painting
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Egg tempera is a painting technique that’s been around for hundreds of years. Today, we mainly know two types of painting: acrylic and oil paintings. Acrylic paint is water-based. Oil paint is, well, oil based (hence the long drying time - oil takes more time to evaporate than water). Egg tempera is, like acrylic paint, water based, but the medium isn’t a synthetic chemical: it’s egg yolk! Egg yolk is actually an excellent medium for preserving pigment, and it dries clear (completely clear after a few weeks).
Egg tempera produces high quality results, as you can see with the portrait shown above. Durable too: that painting dates back to the XIV
Egg Tempera Painting [link] [another link]
