Cymbidium. Egg Tempera & Oil 9x 12" WIP.
I came to the situation of being in need to have several finished works what will not require any glazing. Yes, those are future show works and fact of "no glass is needed" will make shipping much less stressful. I do not do acrylics, so my options are tempera and oils. After I finished with my "Orchids in Ruby" I started another Orchid painting, but this time it will be combination of oils with egg tempera. It is a slow process what is done in a few stages. I started from transferring of my drawing to Claybord on imprinting outlines with India Ink. Then I proceeded with Egg Tempera underpainting in gray scale. After that was done I had to put first (most complicated) sealing layer of oils to cover up tempera underpainting before starting with multi-layer oil stage. So far so good, but now it has to dry for a few days before I can continue. Most of fun is just starting, meanwhile I'm returning to work on my pastel, what naturally doesn't have to dry and will be perfect "fill in" in between oil painting sessions.
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7 comments:
This is going to be beautiful, Tatiana.
I hope so, Claire. I wasn't working oil over tempera for God knows how long. So it is almost totally new experience to me. Few things to watch for... but usually at the end those paintings are turning out beautiful. Let hope it will be the case with this one too.
Really nice to see your process Tatiana.
wow, great values!
Thank You, ladies!
You are a wild woman. I would never have thought that those mediums were compatible.
Thank You, Patricia! :-) No, not my idea... very old painting school. Van Eyck was perhaps known the best for using of this method brilliantly. It still known in Europe our days and few people in United States use it too... what is good. It would be too bad, if we all one day will just switch to acrylics. I love weird old things... makes me feel like I'm doing something 'real".
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