Since 2006 I paint with egg tempera. Tempera is a handmade painting medium. The colors are very bright. Sometimes it looks like velvet.
Egg tempera paintings are among the most durable in art history. There are some very old egg tempera paintings (nearly two thousand years, in fact) Tempera is more transparent than oil and holds less pigment. This lets the light penetrate through it and reflect off the white surface of the primer beneath it. Another advantage of egg tempera is that, unlike oil paint, it is resistant to light, and its colors do not darken or change with age.
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