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
It includes “The Ghost of a Flea,” Tate’s rarely loaned, murky miniature painting in dark tempera and gold on hardwood panel starring a monstrous, human-insect hybrid looking hungrily into a bucket of blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Once the primer dried, she painted over it with metallic silver tempera paint.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
At the Farnsworth, an exhibition focusing on four of Wyeth’s first tempera paintings created from 1937 to 1939, alongside multiple studies, underscores a turning point in his career.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Egg tempera is difficult and messy, painstaking and, at first, heartbreaking.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing tempera
Visual Arts - High School
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Visual Arts - Middle School
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