I tried both egg tempera and casein paint, they are quite comparable in my opinion. Cross hatching is not the only way to use it. It’s just a way to make a gradation. You can block a large part of your painting with a large brush. No problem. But unlike oil paint or acrylic paint and a bit more like gouache you cannot make a gradation by blending the colors on your panel or paper. So for blending you have to use other techniques, like cross hatching (which I personally don’t like because you should use tiny liner brushes for the tiniest strokes like colored pencil) or you can make gradations by mixing slight nuances of the color and putting them next to another on and on till you have the gradation from color 1 to color 2 (which I prefer). But if you prefer pointilism, that might work as well. You can also mix by glazing. You can glaze by using egg yolk mixed with only a tiny bit of your prepared egg tempera. Maybe it works as well if you mix the tempera paint with the sennelier egg tempera binder. Now you tried to make thinner paint by adding water, but it’s not watercolor or gouache. 😉 You’ll need the binder to paint. So to make it lighter in tone you add white and to make a transparant glaze you add egg yolk or the sennelier egg tempera binder. But if you use glazing for a gradation, you have to leave a stroke “unglazed” in every layer to make it from the one color to the other, because the basic principle stays the same: you cannot blend, you can only put colors or values of a color next to eachother. By layering (and layering and layering) your painting gets a glow like oil paintings do. There is a youtuber I’d recommend for egg tempera: Painting the light. He makes mostly icons, but also other work. He explains a lot about techniques. His English is not so good. Oh and for trying: in my class we used cardboard box (the brown ones in which packages are delivered) with acrylic gesso. I invited you on instagram to check my timeline for the portrait I painted on it: it works just fine. Just don’t make your masterpiece on it. 😉 Thank you so much for trying the egg tempera paint on your channel. You are such an inspiring teacher. I learned more from your other tutorials, but this was fun too! And maybe I do buy the sennelier egg tempera tubes as well, just for convenience. 😄 By the way I heard you can mix watercolor paint with egg yolk as well if you don’t have pigments. Never tried it though.
Thank you so much for watching-- you're right about that glow effect, it's something so unique to egg tempera, and I love it. This comment makes me want to explore a bunch of different application techniques! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Wowww que gran aporte. Sería genial que hicieras un canal explicando cómo usas gouache y cómo usas tempera al huevo sennelier. Sería genial porque esa información no está en youtube, y al ver tu comentario aprendí mucho y quede con ganas de más
I've been following Antonis at "Painting the Light" who paints in traditional tempera techniques. Still getting my set up together, but looking forward to just pigment/egg yolk/water. As simple as oil is complicated! Antonis is all about technique❤
Egg tempera is so so SO easy and inexpensive to just mix from scratch. Once you have your pigments (Kremer has a good starter set, just tell them to take out the acrylic binder that is included) you'll be set for years if not the rest of your life. Making the egg mixture is just a matter of separating an egg yolk from the white, puncturing the yolk sac, putting the contents into a small jar with less than half again added as water and shake. That's it. (I have never used tubed egg tempera and was curious so came to this video.) The Art Students League of NY has an AMAZING egg tempera class which is also offered online. The teacher Doug is amazing. Egg tempera is an incredible medium that deserves more attention in our modern times.
Egg tempera is for the patient, detail oriented artist. You can't fill the large space all at once. Good thing is, it is safe, healthy alternative. It requires more prep efforts.
I have used it and love preparing my palate. Colors can dry out in the palate and can be reconstituted. I saw a wonderful method. You can paint your entire still life in white n black. values and then add your local colors in an oil wash. The results are outstanding. Luminous, old world for realism and depth. I personally didn’t stick with it long enough cause I don’t stick to anything for any length of time. But I just loved that result on someone else’s work. I don’t carve marble either…..lol in case you were wondering. This is a great medium for a surrealist.
Missed this at the time. I like the way the marks are visible, it has character and I think used in a more finished way would show some of the way the image is built up. Intriguing!
Oh wow! I remember learning about egg tempra back in high school. Didn't know that they actually are selling these paints. I thought this medium was exstinct 😮
I have the Sennelier boxed set with a small bottle of the medium. I heard a suggestion of stirring the tubes with a toothpick. I bought a pastel board to try and a couple of tempanels from artefex to try. I have painted a pansy that was ok, but I didn’t do the amount of layers most proficient egg tempera artists say to use. I am currently studying botanical illustration and my prof loves egg tempera and will be teaching a class in it.
Oh man I think I've been following you at least 4 yrs it was around 2019-2020. You are really making me want to try egg tempera, it does sound like a wonderful sensory experience based on how much you commented on the silky-smooth texture.😊
Thanks for bravely testing this out. I just happened across this video looking for reviews on Sennelier Abstract acrylic matte, and was curious. With what one of your commenters says about not being able to blend much at all, without doing cross-hatching, I think it's a no go for me. I love easy blending and beautiful gradations. And even though you're loving ❤the easy and beautiful cross-hatching...the transparency, I think doing anything more than playing around with egg tempera would be about it for me...but I haven't seen the end of the video yet. 😊
I think this would be a whole new learning curve, egg tempera has always interested me, but seemed far too complicated, to me , (to make up the binder and preparation of colours, storage etc.). But it appears to be more user friendly now days, I am still struggling to teach myself watercolour at the moment, I would love to try them, but am thinking one thing at at time would be better, I believe the colours glow in temper ?
I think the colors do radiate when using egg tempera! I'm always someone who learns a billion things at a time, so I say go for it :D - Mia, Art Prof Staff
I've heard about egg tempera and that it's very different from children's tempera, but it's never interested me enough to research it over-much. I have watched a few videos on casein though.
Mostly, it does not reactivate & dries so quickly, layering thin coats & cross hatching is the best use of it. A bit finicky for me but thinking of using it as first layers for gouache pieces (bought the Sennelier set, 5-6 years ago, did not like it, pulled it out recently & have a better idea how I might enjoy using the medium).
I didn't, I was just using water! From what I read, they said you don't want any surface with acrylic gesso, which is what canvas boards are generally primed with. They recommend a rigid panel, Ampersand makes Claybord which works too. I've listed supply links of things I mentioned in the video in the description. -Prof Lieu
That is acting strange. Not like traditional egg tempera. Egg tempera is a combination of real egg yolk and powdered pigment. Add a bit of water and it turns into something like gouache. (Goo- ash). It is opaque, not that see through thing ya got there. I’ve seen a beautiful exhibit of several tempera paintings. They are small, about 8”x10”. Yupo seems to me like a plastic paper. Everything slides on it. Oil paint will stay in place and dry strangely smooth. Not impasto..maybe That Flashe you showed would be nice on yupo I think. Like enamel paint. I’m getting old. I should make a huge painting , put all my mediums on it and … I always said that I can’t die until I use up all my art supplies. Considering that I never say no when people offer me their old stuff. I think I’ll stick around till the sun burns itself out. I’ll still-be printing in heaven. Or little corny watercolor flowers. So if you see spray painted clouds roll by, you’ll know I died with some unused art supplies.
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I tried both egg tempera and casein paint, they are quite comparable in my opinion.
Cross hatching is not the only way to use it. It’s just a way to make a gradation. You can block a large part of your painting with a large brush. No problem. But unlike oil paint or acrylic paint and a bit more like gouache you cannot make a gradation by blending the colors on your panel or paper. So for blending you have to use other techniques, like cross hatching (which I personally don’t like because you should use tiny liner brushes for the tiniest strokes like colored pencil) or you can make gradations by mixing slight nuances of the color and putting them next to another on and on till you have the gradation from color 1 to color 2 (which I prefer). But if you prefer pointilism, that might work as well.
You can also mix by glazing. You can glaze by using egg yolk mixed with only a tiny bit of your prepared egg tempera. Maybe it works as well if you mix the tempera paint with the sennelier egg tempera binder. Now you tried to make thinner paint by adding water, but it’s not watercolor or gouache. 😉 You’ll need the binder to paint. So to make it lighter in tone you add white and to make a transparant glaze you add egg yolk or the sennelier egg tempera binder. But if you use glazing for a gradation, you have to leave a stroke “unglazed” in every layer to make it from the one color to the other, because the basic principle stays the same: you cannot blend, you can only put colors or values of a color next to eachother.
By layering (and layering and layering) your painting gets a glow like oil paintings do.
There is a youtuber I’d recommend for egg tempera: Painting the light. He makes mostly icons, but also other work. He explains a lot about techniques. His English is not so good.
Oh and for trying: in my class we used cardboard box (the brown ones in which packages are delivered) with acrylic gesso. I invited you on instagram to check my timeline for the portrait I painted on it: it works just fine. Just don’t make your masterpiece on it. 😉
Thank you so much for trying the egg tempera paint on your channel. You are such an inspiring teacher. I learned more from your other tutorials, but this was fun too! And maybe I do buy the sennelier egg tempera tubes as well, just for convenience. 😄
By the way I heard you can mix watercolor paint with egg yolk as well if you don’t have pigments. Never tried it though.
Thank you so much for watching-- you're right about that glow effect, it's something so unique to egg tempera, and I love it. This comment makes me want to explore a bunch of different application techniques! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
I tried it with a fresh egg, water and a tiny bit of vinegar. That really brings out the glow that egg tempera is known for.
Wowww que gran aporte. Sería genial que hicieras un canal explicando cómo usas gouache y cómo usas tempera al huevo sennelier. Sería genial porque esa información no está en youtube, y al ver tu comentario aprendí mucho y quede con ganas de más
I've been following Antonis at "Painting the Light" who paints in traditional tempera techniques. Still getting my set up together, but looking forward to just pigment/egg yolk/water. As simple as oil is complicated! Antonis is all about technique❤
Yes prof lieu, art prof is responsible for a lot of my purchases 😂I’m cool with it lowkey ❤❤
Egg tempera is so so SO easy and inexpensive to just mix from scratch. Once you have your pigments (Kremer has a good starter set, just tell them to take out the acrylic binder that is included) you'll be set for years if not the rest of your life. Making the egg mixture is just a matter of separating an egg yolk from the white, puncturing the yolk sac, putting the contents into a small jar with less than half again added as water and shake. That's it. (I have never used tubed egg tempera and was curious so came to this video.)
The Art Students League of NY has an AMAZING egg tempera class which is also offered online. The teacher Doug is amazing. Egg tempera is an incredible medium that deserves more attention in our modern times.
Egg tempera is for the patient, detail oriented artist. You can't fill the large space all at once. Good thing is, it is safe, healthy alternative. It requires more prep efforts.
Watching and enjoying. Presenter gives me great confidence in her opinions.
I have used it and love preparing my palate. Colors can dry out in the palate and can be reconstituted. I saw a wonderful method. You can paint your entire still life in white n black. values and then add your local colors in an oil wash. The results are outstanding. Luminous, old world for realism and depth.
I personally didn’t stick with it long enough cause I don’t stick to anything for any length of time. But I just loved that result on someone else’s work. I don’t carve marble either…..lol in case you were wondering. This is a great medium for a surrealist.
Thank you, Professor Lieu!
Cross hatching with tempera - at Painting the Light - Michelangelo Technique with Egg Tempera - - I may just give up watercolor and gouache!
Missed this at the time. I like the way the marks are visible, it has character and I think used in a more finished way would show some of the way the image is built up. Intriguing!
Oh wow! I remember learning about egg tempra back in high school. Didn't know that they actually are selling these paints. I thought this medium was exstinct 😮
I have the Sennelier boxed set with a small bottle of the medium. I heard a suggestion of stirring the tubes with a toothpick. I bought a pastel board to try and a couple of tempanels from artefex to try. I have painted a pansy that was ok, but I didn’t do the amount of layers most proficient egg tempera artists say to use. I am currently studying botanical illustration and my prof loves egg tempera and will be teaching a class in it.
That's awesome! Thanks for watching :) - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Oh man I think I've been following you at least 4 yrs it was around 2019-2020. You are really making me want to try egg tempera, it does sound like a wonderful sensory experience based on how much you commented on the silky-smooth texture.😊
That is awesome! You should totally go for it :) - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Thanks for bravely testing this out. I just happened across this video looking for reviews on Sennelier Abstract acrylic matte, and was curious. With what one of your commenters says about not being able to blend much at all, without doing cross-hatching, I think it's a no go for me. I love easy blending and beautiful gradations. And even though you're loving ❤the easy and beautiful cross-hatching...the transparency, I think doing anything more than playing around with egg tempera would be about it for me...but I haven't seen the end of the video yet. 😊
I once tried to make a full piece in egg tempera and it was so frustrating-- like you said, fun for playing but not much more! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
I would knead the tube a bit.
I think this would be a whole new learning curve, egg tempera has always interested me, but seemed far too complicated, to me , (to make up the binder and preparation of colours, storage etc.). But it appears to be more user friendly now days, I am still struggling to teach myself watercolour at the moment, I would love to try them, but am thinking one thing at at time would be better, I believe the colours glow in temper ?
I think the colors do radiate when using egg tempera! I'm always someone who learns a billion things at a time, so I say go for it :D - Mia, Art Prof Staff
I knew about the paint, but never really understood what it was.
I've heard about egg tempera and that it's very different from children's tempera, but it's never interested me enough to research it over-much. I have watched a few videos on casein though.
Mostly, it does not reactivate & dries so quickly, layering thin coats & cross hatching is the best use of it.
A bit finicky for me but thinking of using it as first layers for gouache pieces (bought the Sennelier set, 5-6 years ago, did not like it, pulled it out recently & have a better idea how I might enjoy using the medium).
Would egg t reactivate with water or egg wash,? Like guasche. Joined you on lastbhalf year. Good luck learnt a lot tonight
I don't believe so! It dries so fast it's sort of a one-and-done type material. Thanks for watching! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Just pondering, do you mixed the binder in with paint ? Can you use on a primed canvas board ?
I didn't, I was just using water! From what I read, they said you don't want any surface with acrylic gesso, which is what canvas boards are generally primed with. They recommend a rigid panel, Ampersand makes Claybord which works too. I've listed supply links of things I mentioned in the video in the description. -Prof Lieu
I think Andrew Wyeth used egg tempera as his primary medium.
That is acting strange. Not like traditional egg tempera. Egg tempera is a combination of real egg yolk and powdered pigment. Add a bit of water and it turns into something like gouache. (Goo- ash). It is opaque, not that see through thing ya got there. I’ve seen a beautiful exhibit of several tempera paintings. They are small, about 8”x10”. Yupo seems to me like a plastic paper. Everything slides on it. Oil paint will stay in place and dry strangely smooth. Not impasto..maybe
That Flashe you showed would be nice on yupo I think. Like enamel paint.
I’m getting old. I should make a huge painting , put all my mediums on it and … I always said that I can’t die until I use up all my art supplies. Considering that I never say no when people offer me their old stuff. I think I’ll stick around till the sun burns itself out. I’ll still-be printing in heaven. Or little corny watercolor flowers. So if you see spray painted clouds roll by, you’ll know I died with some unused art supplies.
Egg tempera is just egg and pigment...