Egg Tempera

RESOURCES

Below is a downloadable PDF book that summarizes my experience of working with Egg Tempera for my “Hidden Children” series during the Pandemic.

 

If you are interested in continuing with egg tempera and want more detailed information I heartily recommend my dear freind Altoon Sultan’s book “The Luminous Brush: painting with egg tempera”, publisher: Watson-Guptill, 1999 – she has made the entire book freely available online through this link.

Resources

  1. Altoon Sultan, “The Luminous Brush: painting with egg tempera”, publisher: Watson-Guptill, 1999
The book is available on line here >
  2. Egg Tempera – Why Artists Are Embracing This Ancient Medium link >
  3. Rebecca Wall , Media in focus: egg temper, ArtWeb, September 4, 2020 https://blog.artweb.com/how-to/egg-tempera-medium/
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempera
  5. Elizabeth Gamillo Egg Yolk Gives Tempera Paint Its Enhanced Coverage and Spreadable Properties : The paint has been used throughout human history and is featured in iconic art pieces, like Michelangelo’s ‘Manchester Madonna’, Smithsonian Magazine, December 9, 2021 link >
  6. Teresa Nowakowski, Why Did Old Masters Use Eggs in Oil Paintings? : A new study explores how artists may have added yolk to alter the properties of their paints, Smithsonian Magazine, March 30, 2023 – link >
  7. “Creating Smooth Transitions in Egg Tempera,” Natural Pigments, https://www.naturalpigments.com/artist-materials/creating-smooth-transitions-in-egg-tempera
  8. Louise “Egg tempera and iconography – a learning experience”16 June 2021 – https://artnitso.com/painting/egg-tempera-iconography/
  9. Radding, Kelly Leahy. “Ingredients For Inspiration.” The Botanical Artist, vol. 23, no. 1, 2017, pp. 20–23 JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48502750. Accessed 23 Apr. 2023.
  10. Daniel V. Thompson Jr., The Practice of Tempera Painting: Materials and Methods, Dover Publications, 1962 google books preview link >
  11. Cennini, Cennino. The Craftsman’s Handbook, Dover Publications, June 1,  1954. internet archive link >
  12. Thompson, Daniel V. Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting, Dover Publications, June 1, 1954 link >