BASIC TECHNIQUES OF EGG TEMPERA PANEL PAINTING

Sean Kramer, 10 Weeks
SA 6 A Monday 9 – 12 February 1 – April 4
SA 6 B Wednesday 6 – 9 February 3 – April 6
Tuition $300 Materials Fee $120
Sanctuary Arts, Eliot, Maine
www.sanctuaryarts.org

In this course you will learn painting techniques originating with the Egyptians, practiced throughout the Middle Ages, and continued into the present by artists such as George Tooker, Andrew Wyeth, Michael Bergt and others. We will first work on a number of small projects to learn and practice the basic techniques of egg-tempera panel painting. Then students can work on a painting either of their own design or based on a prototype. We will begin by learning multiple methods of preparing panels: using 'true gesso' made from marble dust and chalk, as well as other plasters. Then we will make our own paints from earths, semiprecious stones and modern pigments. The making of other paints (oil, acrylic, distemper, watercolor) from the same basic pigments will also be demonstrated. We will learn a number of methods for using gold leaf and other kinds of metal leaf in paintings (gilding, assist, patination, painting over metal leaf). Multiple techniques of applying egg-tempera will be learned: dry brush, petite lac, glazing and scumbling. This will be craft-based painting course.http://www.sanctuaryarts.org/sa_6.html

Icon of Prophecy

sketches

Papa Legba

egg-tempera and gold leaf on wood (29 inches high)

Flower painting based on Norwegian style folk art

Artist in Studio

a drawing game

I did these with patterns, but you can do it with other images-- figures, colors, etc.
you start by filling in the top horizontal squares and the left vertical squares. You can make those up, take them from somewhere, or have someone else to fill them in.
In the inner squares, you have to make an image that combines the vertical above on top, and the horizontal from the left. If you look at these you can probably figure it out.
One person could start by filling in the top horizontal row, and another person could give the left vertical ones – and each could see how they come up with the combinations.