How to Paint with Egg Tempera 

Thank you very much! Hope you will love playing with it :)

Браничевац , Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you for your thank you! :)

I did, - it gives an interesting effect. But since I do not know, how my oil will behave in 10-2-30 years, I prefer to use egg without it.

Ina, I was taught this way, and I am sharing what I was taught. I do not see there any mysterious components, and do not see any reason, why should there be any air... Maybe if people make a thicker emulsion, it is important?

Hi I find that shaking the egg emulsion introduces air bubbles into my first layers of thin paint and I end up with a spotty pin pricked first layer rather than a smooth ‘veil’ so I stopped shaking and just stir, then I tried a different mix using white wine half to half egg and the alcohol seems to reduce the amount of air bubbles

I doubt it is a good idea to us egg on glass.. Why? Egg is good when it can penetrate. On glass you use other binders, harder and more transparent ones..

I would first use a very rough sand-paper (something like #40 or even #20 if you find, - to make surface as rough as possible. Then I would glue the cloth on both sides the same way I did on wood... I need two sides because while it's bending because of glue would compensate one another...

Well, I think the main thing is the overall ratio. Besides, vinegar has an acid, which, I have read, destroys the egg with time. I am not sure, but I try to reduce the amount of vinegar. I know some people use white wine, beer, or even some drops of vodka ;)

Sacred Murals Studio I know they use vodka to put the gold on. By the way I happen to have studied a master of fine arts in Greece and my teacher showed me to use vinegar. All of the people that make icons here use vinegar. But not much . One egg yolk and one soup spoon of vinegar. Well the result is more maybe thick of a base but if you change the amount of pigment in it you can always create transparencies

I find if no water the paint dries very shiny and the next color you want to put on just slides around like painting on glass.

@@sukumac9013 put more egg in it .

@@sukumac9013 and maybe more pigment.

Hi, Nidal! I am not using Dammar varnish, neither I use Linseed oil, so, I am not sure: what you are talking about?

@@sacredmurals Hello ms. if you look at the recipe Schmincke company the are use linseed and dammar.

Which tube you mean if we are using eggs from egg shells? And yes, you can add a drop or some drops of linseed oil to egg tempera, - some iconographers of 17-18 centuries practiced this.

@@sacredmurals use the oil paint from tube rather than grind by self I mean.

how interesting! what effect should I expect?

@@sacredmurals you should be able to just lift the yolk,t he white will relent, there are RU-vid videos on this very thing.

Well, as I anyway need to wash the yolk to get rid of any egg white, I don;t need this. Thank you though!!!

@@sacredmurals yes you do, the white vaporizes and peels away, you wash because you mixed them together, i dont need to wash, mine is near pure yolk without that step.

Немного уксуса, - в качества консерванта. Кто-то добавляет вместо этого белое вино, кто-то лаванду, кто-то пиво или квас.

@@sacredmurals спасибо) Главное пиво и вино в себя не добавить в процессе)

@@user-fz3nx1kx2x Ну, в конце рабочего дня даже по рецептам некоторых древних товарищей это просто рекомендовано :)

@@sacredmurals и я вас в этом поддержу) И если вам не сложно можете подсказать пожалуйста где вы берете пигмент и фурнитуру для его растирания?

@@user-fz3nx1kx2x Пигменты вы в каком городе будете брать? А "Фурнитуру" в химических магазинах :)

wet on wet May cause cracks in drying process. or what did you mean?

@@sacredmurals i personally hate overlap colour change, when I paint, I hate that I have to have enough paint and motion to get it in one shot.