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Egg tempura

Egg tempura

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Bogdan Luca
Sep 28, 2024
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I wanted to tell you about egg tempera, the ancient way of painting. I teach this technique in a course that deals with a variety of historical painting media. Despite all my efforts, students inevitably start to refer to this old school technique as “tempura” - the Japanese deep fried food.

Tempera is a paint made from pigment mixed with egg yolk, the …

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