Botticelli's Technique - Egg Tempera 

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I think he would be pissed to see someone able to do this painting as good. It means that his painting are easy to paint. The ultimate insult to the artist. It's a good thing it's from a different era.

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Thank you Kotis. I studied painting at the Athens school of Fine arts and the San Francisco State University. So yes! :)

Thank you so much Valerie. Let me answer. 1 Yes but you cannot paint with egg tempera on that. You can paint with acrylic, or oil. If you want to oai t with egg tempera the (preferably) wood board, or the lines has to be prepared with rabbit skin glue gesso. 2 I plan to upload part 2 of mona Lisa video at some point in the future! Thank you for asking Stay creative!!

@@PaintingtheLight That’s great, thanks for your reply, I’ll look forward to Mona Lisa pt2 😁

You can buy gum arabic (powder or crystals) and some basic pigments and do your own watercolors (look for videos online to see how it is done). Once you do it once, it's very easy. Use them while still wet, freshly made.They will be thicker than comercial watercolors (which are extrafine because of machine grinding but do not have much covering power). They will be almost like egg tempera and you can paint them thinner or thicker. Look for the "dry brush" technique as well, it's important for this kind of work.

I wonder what you mean by fine transitions? What are you trying to accomplish? I have never had any problems with acrylic not blending or being easy to use. It is also the easiest medium to paint over compared to tempera and oil. Maybe an acrylic medium will help you? There are glazing mediums for acrylics that make the paint more transparent and mediums to slow down the drying time which both help with blending. Water helps too if you don't want to use a medium. It can be mixed in acrylic to glaze and blend. Matte mediums gives more of a tempera finish btw, without the need of using eggs. I don't think eggs are good with acrylic.

@@nonalolagirl I am thinking of subtle transitions between similar shades and values ​​of light and shadow. in the meantime i bought a glazing medium and a drying medium for slow down drying. When I reach a certain level what i can do with acrylic, i keep doing with oil paints. It is much easier for me to achieve that more sophisticated look and stronger color intensity with oil. I avoid oil paints because of the smell, but I plan to buy white spirit and slowly switch to oil painting.

@@kafa82 Ohh that is fascinating! Because am the opposite lol. I started off with water mixable oil paints and then decided to mostly use acrylics in school because the drying time is so much more convenient. By the time I learned proper oil techniques, I couldn't do them on my own outside of class because I'm surrounded by acrylics. I am a master with acrylics. I find it harder to transition my technique from acrylics to oil because with acrylics you don't really need layers. It's easy to work from one or two layers and get amazing transitions and blending with less efforts. It's like a shortcut and maybe that's why you are struggling. You are using it like oil but it was created to remove many steps in the painting process. The only thing I can't do with acrylics is get very realistic effects because oil is just so effervescent! It's like bringing life to a picture. Even those who use acrylics to do photorealism still don't capture that light and life. Since the masters started with tempera before oil, I find these layering techniques so useful on learning how best to make those oil transitions. They literally used tempera techniques when they first started using oil and all of the things they added to oil to speed the drying process is meant to replicate tempera. But I would never apply these techniques to the acrylic ones that I've mastered. Although, I will admit it can work well for acrylics if you are working from a black and white reference photo. Using those base tones and building the color up with these glazing techniques really helps you fake a realistic and natural color without ever seeing it in the original reference

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