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Thursday, February 6, 2020

Egg Tempera Grassa: A Study

A study of an egg tempera grassa paint formulation:

egg yolk, castor oil, water, commercial water-based car wax and commerical watercolor pigments:

ACEO art 3.5" x 2.5" on bristol.
The paint dries very quickly, as expected. Eye, brush and paint work together and the commercial car wax provides smoothness.
The egg yolk should be free of the egg white and the so-called 'eye'. This is the small whitish material on the egg yok sac. The sac should not enter the paint formulation demonstrated here.

Developmental Egg Tempera Grassa

1. Egg Yolk. 2. Castor Oil 3. Small amount of a commercial water-based car wax  4. Water 5. commercial watercolors as pigment source.

The car wax allows some thickness and smoothness of paint off the brush.


Sunday, February 2, 2020

The Ocean & Artwork"

"Waves and troughs are components of the ocean. They are surface expressions of the underlying reality and the underlying power is always there to be drawn upon- just as in artwork."- David S. Soriano


The Primary Colors & Convention. ACEO Art by Soriano

Red and Yellow and Blue= Brown

3.5" x2.5" ACEO art on bristol. Egg tempera gassa.