WW INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Last year I ran a tempera workshop.  We used minerals to paint with and prepared our boards and papers for painting and used tempera.  It takes a bit longer, but we are in this way independent from art shops.

Prior to the workshop I was asked "could I do a vegan variety of tempera".  The answer is “no” until we can get vegan eggs.   You can use honey, and I am told egg white.  I am sure they will work, but I can't know they will last lifetimes as egg yolk tempera does.

Tempera is an ancient  technique, also used by Andrew Wyeth in his famous painting "Christina’s World”.  I used it in the miniature painting below.. a copy of Vincent Van Gogh's painting of his chair
"The Yellow Chair".

*TEMPERA
             Tempera is the method of using egg yolk to bind powdered minerals to create paint.  
*MAKING PENS
              from split bamboo and bird feathers
*MAKING INKS
              from berries, soot and plants
*MAKING BRUSHES
              from almost anything plant and animal based
*MAKING CHARCOAL & holders
              from willow and grapevine trimmings
*MAKING PIGMENTS & PAINTS
*MAKING INK CONTAINERS 
              from clay and bone

These will be small hands-on classes, please  contact me if you are interested.
Email: yogafirst@netcon.net.au