a painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as wax or egg yolk.
A type of paint incorporating dry colour, usually chalk or powder, a glutinous substance, such as egg yoke or gum, and water. Tempera was the most commonly used medium until the introduction of OIL PAINT.
Pigments mixed with egg yolk and water. Also, a student-grade liquid gouache.
A water-based paint that uses egg, egg yolk, glue, or casein as a binder. Many commercially made paints identified as tempera are actually gouache.
Technique of painting in which water and egg yolk or whole egg and oil mixture form the binder for the paint. Used also as a term for cheap opaque paints used in schools.
Pigments of paint contained in a medium of egg yolk, mixed with, (or tempered by) water. It I fast to dry and gives a hard, translucent finish
painting technique on a dry wall (as opposed to a fresco).
a technique of painting where ground pigments are suspended in an egg based vechicle. Tempera is an opaque medium, which means that it is not as luminous as oil-based pigments (example: Botticelli's Birth of Venus).
This word actually means a type of binder added to powered pigment but usually refers to egg tempera painting which was popular until the late fifteenth century. Tempera painting, being a quick drying media, is difficult to work with but dries to an almost impenetrable surface.
Pigment mixed in a water medium, usually with a binder and adhesive. Tempera paints produce a luminous effect.
pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
Originally, all water-based paint, "tempered" with some form of gum was known as tempera, but the term is now used mainly for egg tempera, which was the main painting medium before the development of oils. Tempera is a tricky medium to use but can achieve beautiful effects, and after centuries of neglect it is now enjoying something of a revival.
Paint made using yolk or white of egg as carrier, mixed with pigment. Soluble in water. Used widely before the introduction of oil paint.
From the Latin word temperare, meaning to mix or regulate. Tempera is a type of painting medium used to bind pigments. The term may describe any combination of pigment and medium. Specifically, egg tempera describes a paint made using egg yolk as the binding medium. The egg (usually just the yolk) is mixed with water and pigment. Egg tempera dries quickly, first by evaporation of the water but then by the settling of the egg proteins, which form a waterproof film. Egg has probably been used as a binder for pigments since antiquity. It has been identified as the paint medium for some Roman portraits as well as for the icons of the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches. The technique of using egg tempera is particularly well known with Italian panel paintings from the 13th to 15th centuries. Some of the most famous painters who have used egg tempera in this century are Andrew Weyeth, Robert Vickery, and Paul Cadmus.
An inexpensive, quick drying artist’s paint that can yield bright solid colors. Early tempera, mixed with egg, was used by early masters and a precursor to oil paint.
A paint material mixed with egg white, casein or glue, to create an effect of luminescence.
painting technique utilizing egg yolk or egg white mixed with mineral pigments.
A process involving an emulsion of oil and water. It was used before oil colors were invented. Traditionally, it was created with an egg emulsion in which the pigments of color were mixed.
Pigments mixed with a water-soluble base such as casein, size, or egg yolk. Tempera dries with a flat, dull finish.
A painting medium in which the binder is egg yolk.
Tempera is a word used to describe any type of binder such as oil, water or egg that makes a pigment workable as a paint form.
Paint made using egg yolk as the binder. Water-soluble when applied, relatively insoluble when dried. Traditionally, the artist makes tempera paint up fresh at the beginning of each painting session.
A painting technique employing water and egg yolk.
Pigments mixed with egg yolk and water, widely used before the introduction of oils.
A paint made with pigments mixed with an albuminous or colloidal medium (as egg yolk) and water. Poster paint.
Tempera is a medium that is used for suspending the pigment. Traditionally, tempera is made by using eggs or egg yolk. However, this is not a rigid rule. Other substances such as milk, glue, or sap of the fig tree are also used at times.
A painting medium where the pigment are mixed with water or egg yolk. It is usually applied to board or panel.
A painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials. Also called poster color, poster print.
An inexpensive water-based paint sold primarily for poster and window painting and children's art
Originally this referred to any paint in which pigment was tempered with a binder such as an organic gum or glue to make it workable, but now it usually refers only to egg tempera. Egg tempera painting was the most important technique for panel painting in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, before oil paint began to grow in popularity. Egg tempera is tough, permanent, and dries very quickly. There was some revival of egg tempera use in the twentieth century. Return to Theme
A paint created by mixing pigment with water-soluble media such as eggs. Color must be applied in little strokes to blend colors on the canvas or panel, as tempera is opaque and, therefore, does not allow for layering in the way that more transparent oil paints do. Tempera produces a MATTE FINISH.
Pigment which is mixed with water or egg yolk and usually applied to board or panel.
A painting technique in which an emulsion of water and egg yolk, or egg and oil, is used as a binding medium.