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Is tempera paint the same as poster color?
Not too much anymore. Tempera used to be made with an egg base to help bind the pgment. Poster paint is a water-based synthetic. However, I would say that today most tempera is probably synthetic as well.
Can fresco painting be drawn with tempera paint?
I suppose if you were doing a faux fresco you could use tempera paint, but this wouldn't be done using plaster but on paper in the same style. On plaster I don't think the tempera would work.
A water based paint whose color is mixed with egg yolk?
Egg tempera is a terrific medium with many advantages. It is safe, non-toxic, and permanent. Unlike oil paint, it will not yellow, change in color, or grow transparent over time. Unlike acrylic, it has a proven track record going back hundreds of years. Egg tempera shows the beauty of pigments off to great advantage. Colors are clear, bright, and pure. This is a terrific site that explains what-why-and how to make your own: * http://www.alessandrakelley.com/eggmedium.html
Can you mix acrylic paint with egg as in tempera?
No! Don't do that! Acrylic and Tempera paint don't mix whatsoever. Although both paints are water based, tempera contains chalk, casein (a milk product), and often times egg making the product more loose and easier to use. Acrylic on the other hand is a thicker more stable paint that contains a plastic blinding ingredient that makes it oilier and more permanent! Don't mix the two, it will turn out bad I assure you.
How do you make your own eggshell paint?
Egg tempera requires another ingredient besides egg yolk and pigment to prevent it from drying too quickly. This other ingredient could be vinegar or wine.
What is an egg portrait?
You may be referring to portraits made in "egg tempera." Egg Tempera was a European method of painting that used ground pigments mixed with egg and applied in fine thin layers. Egg Tempera portraits are most always small in size and rendered in fine and delicate detail. Many will crack over time.
Prior to the Renaissance and the widespread use of oil-based paints with what substance were images created A Gesso B Tempera C Chalk D Ink E None of the above?
Egg Tempera is the oldest paint known. A mixture of powdered pigmentation and egg yolk.
What substance interacts to form the bond in tempera painting?
egg
If you were painting with tempera what would you be using to bind together colour pigments?
Egg yolk. Tempera is a type of paint that uses egg yolk as a binding agent to hold together the color pigments.
What was the tempera paint mixed with?
honey, glue, water, milk, and egg
'Tempera' is a painting term true or false?
Its true. It is because the word "tempera" means, a process of painting in which an albuminous. Such as an egg yolk.
What materials did giotto use?
Giotto used tempera type paints - pigments with a binder of egg yolk or sizing. He painted wet plaster (fresco) or on wood.
Is tempera paint the same as poster color?
Not too much anymore. Tempera used to be made with an egg base to help bind the pgment. Poster paint is a water-based synthetic. However, I would say that today most tempera is probably synthetic as well.
What does the egg tube do?
.an egg tube gets people up the duff..
What type of matertail was it on the last supper table?
It's painted with "tempera", water and egg based paint.
What is egg Tempera?
It was the artists painting medium favored by such Masters as Michelangelo. More recently it has been popularized by artists such as George Tooker and Andrew Wyeth. In it's simplest form egg tempera is a type of paint that is made from dry colored pigments, egg yolk and distilled water. The paint dries fast and is very brittle. It must be painted thinly and in short strokes and must be painted on a rigid absorbent surface. More information and a demo can be found here: http://www.alexgarciafineart.com/fineart/egg-tempera-demo.asp
Why did Medieval artists add egg yolk to their tempera colors?
They used egg yolk as the binding agent to stick the colored pigment to the wooden panel, since egg dries quickly.
