tempera

Example Sentences

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For those, however, who take their painting with a dash of the occult, the tempera panels of Bu Shi at Sarahcrown will delight.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

Once the primer dried, she painted over it with metallic silver tempera paint.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022

He preferred tempera, a medium he loved because it dried quickly and enabled him to achieve a feeling of decay.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood