Thank you so much master Stand . I'm hope that you can remember me that I've had seen you in Thailand and ask this question .

Normally egg tempera is painted on a sold surface, a panel. But when I do my egg tempera on paper, the paper is quite thick and I use the paint fairly thin. Thicker technique would crack on paper but a thinner technique on thicker paper I believe works. I also do egg tempera on untempered masonite panel. Oil painting and acrylic paint can also be done on paper but again, if using these mediums on paper, the technique should be thin to avoid cracking. My approach on paper is experimental...so no certainty as to how it will hold up over the years.

@@Stanleylestermiller understood thanks!

Glad my lessons are helpful!

You're kindly master . Thank you so much . So nice to met and saw you working hope to meet you again . bye bye.

Egg tempura is food. Egg tempera was the primary medium artists used before oil painting was invented in the 1500's.

I did not know that! thanks.. very cool!

It doesn't work well on canvas, type Egg Tempera into search and it will tell you how to use egg tempera.

You are most welcome.

I have used untempered masonite coated with acrylic gesso...then sanded down. I also more recently have purchased prepared panels for egg tempera, from Tru Gesso....type that into google and you can order panels.

Fantastic, thank you!

Has to be a traditional gesso, most common gesso for tempera is casein gesso. You can buy it online. Most people do not understand how to properly prepare a tempera surface, I dont trust any of the websites because a lot claim they are using a traditional gesso but it's just a variant of an acrylic.

Never heard of using egg white as a sealant. Egg white flakes off when it dries.

I buy prepared panels from Tru Gesso.

@@Stanleylestermiller You know an easy way to do it much cheaper, there is a website from san francisco that sells Casein gesso premade and ready to use and bottled. It is the same gesso they used in the 50's and Wyeth used it as well exclusively. Size it and apply as I'm sure you already know how to do. But far cheaper and you dont have to wait a long time for orders of panels to get in

I have worked in gouache, it is quite opaque. The particular way I use egg tempera, usually on paper, I achieve a semi gloss (somewhat like an oil) when finished (gouache has no shine), and I get a transparency, a depth that nearly makes parts of my painting look three dimensional...nothing in gouache gets close to that sheen and depth. The depth of egg tempera can't be experienced when looking at a reproduction unfortunately. And...egg tempera arguably holds up even better then oil through the ages...at least when done on panel.

Thanks for that, Stan. Looks like I have yet one more method of painting to try!

It was a big miss understood about egg yolk , It because of I had seen a Japanese artist he mix egg yolk with vinigar and linseed oil to paint oil colors so I thought that egg yolk was the name of painting medium . So funny and so shy ha ha

Egg tempera can be used in as many different ways as oil painting. Thick, think, photorealistic, impressionistic, whatever way one desires. The way I use egg tempera is "my" technique, not necessarily the official approach to egg tempera. For me, with my approach to egg tempera, I achieve a "look" that appears to be something in-between an oil painting and a watercolor. Not as thick as most oils, not as fluid as most watercolors. Egg tempera when finished, has a simi-gloss sheen, it has more depth then watercolor, the dark colors are richer and more like oil. The brush technique is the same as watercolor, but with much less water. Hope that helps Judy.

That does help. Thank you.

Look at the works of Andrew Wyeth. He also worked in watercolor and egg tempera, with very different results.

Mona Mahmoud you can add a drop of vinegar to the yolk

The layers of egg yolk/water/pigment are VERY thin. They dry almost instantly. There are egg tempera paintings hundreds of years old and they don't rot.

Yes, I've used egg yolk with acrylic, worked very well.

Once it dries, it isn't water soluble so you can apply all the layers you want.

If you desire to learn the egg yolk technique, yes, you add egg yolk (as prepared in the video) to your paint as you paint, as shown in the lesson.

​@@Stanleylestermiller Gouache is a well-covering paint and does not need modification in this respect. Watercolor is less opaque paint, this yolk helps. Unless it's about the other benefits of yolk.

All paints have a binder. egg yolk is the worlds most popular..in the past, binder used in paint. It helps the paint stick to the paper. Using egg yolk with watercolor makes the painting look more like an oil painting...if one desires that.

egg yolk can be added to a number of mediums. Traditionally it's used with dry pigment, but one can mix it with watercolor.