yesterday checking the dictionary I found this: Tempera: a kind of paint in which the colour is mixed with EGG! and water.
…I do not known that…
Here’s something funny. I don’t even know what EGG is. I guess the fumes are getting to me. What is it?
i’m pretty sure it’s those things that chickens lay, no?
LOL.
I just checked my BesTemp bottles and they don’t have an ingredients list. But I also have some Tempera poster paints from Hobby Lobby ($1.69 a pop) that claim to be completely non-toxic, but I’m sure they are not the quality of surfboard paints and the ingredients probably differ at least slightly. I didn’t see egg or anything related in the list. That’s all I have to go on. At first I thought you might be refering to a chemical with the initials EGG, like EthyleneGlycol-Something.
…Ozzy, check your dictionary, may be yours say other thing to add here…
I think #2 is the definition referred to in the name of the paint.
1: a process of painting in which an albuminous or colloidal medium (as egg yoke) is employed as a vehicle instead of oil
2: Poster Color
Reference: Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary
…may be both, remember the non toxic issue,… so you need a vehicle and I suppose that and egg is less toxic than the oil…
Yes, it may very well be. I don’t know.
Interesting thread though. Maybe others will chip in with their 2 cents also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempera
I remember in the early 1980s making up some plywood panels that I painted with lots of coats Gesso (rabbitskin glue and whiting(chalk)).This gave a fantastic smooth surface (once you got the technique to do away with air bubbles) on which I did some tempura paintings. Made my own paints by grinding pigments and adding egg yolk and smidgin of water. Got all the practical info from a book by Ralph Mayer (The Artists Handbook) which was a great read about the methods by which the famous painters throughout history made their paints,canvases etc with lots of ancient recipes. Still remember the fantastic smells of all the materials. When I got to Art College we had to use crappy mass produced materials and painting from life was still frowned on with Video and Performance Art taking over.Still they had a great Sculpture department where you could cast in bronze,stone carve, model in clay etc. If you have access to major art gallery/museum there are bound to be painting in tempera.
The pigments in Tempera poster paints are likely to be non permanent. Here they are marketed for kids paints in little blocks used with water on the brush and for painting on paper. Very unsatisfying.