tempera
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Reproductions now hang in place of the original temperas and watercolors that once hung here every summer.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022
Andrew Wyeth, in his brooding watercolors and egg temperas, gave us landscapes that were sometimes vacant but never empty — his weather-beaten farmhouses and barns became emblems for the lives lived in and around them.
From Washington Post
For 15 years, from 1970 to 1985, Wyeth had labored in secret on an enormous collection of works: 246 in all, including sketches, studies, drawings, 32 watercolors, twelve drybrush paintings and five temperas.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a result, he stopped using photographs for material, began making big. semi-abstract temperas with such titles as Beatitudes, Cybernetics and Everyman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence, originated the borax medium—remarkable property of which was its capability of being used with water as a diluent or with oil,—thus being a kind of union of the earlier temperas and the oil medium.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
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Visual Arts - High School
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Visual Arts - Middle School
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