tempera

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For those, however, who take their painting with a dash of the occult, the tempera panels of Bu Shi at Sarahcrown will delight.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

The large tempera painting shows a group of colorfully clad people on a lawn, some eating or playing music, while others seem to be dancing.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

He preferred tempera, a medium he loved because it dried quickly and enabled him to achieve a feeling of decay.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration of egg tempera are too much for me.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood