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Recent Examples of tempera
In egg tempera and gold leaf on wood, Santiago with an Apostolic Man shows a figure at right-hand staring at the viewer.
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John Oseid, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Two works of egg tempera on calfskin from New York painter Altoon Sultan-Dark Corner (2021) and Lines and loop (2021), adorn the walls.
—Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
The three were a match: they were all made using egg tempera and oil paint, along with two coats of gesso used as a base.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Layered hues from green through shades of golden ocher down to umber—in classic tempera painting, this would be exactly the understructure for (white) skin tones.
—Moritz Scheper, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
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John Oseid, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Two works of egg tempera on calfskin from New York painter Altoon Sultan-Dark Corner (2021) and Lines and loop (2021), adorn the walls.
—Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
The three were a match: they were all made using egg tempera and oil paint, along with two coats of gesso used as a base.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Layered hues from green through shades of golden ocher down to umber—in classic tempera painting, this would be exactly the understructure for (white) skin tones.
—Moritz Scheper, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tempera
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The images were created using a collage technique, combining gouache and acrylic paint on vintage gardening book paper, then arranged on archival cotton board.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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One of them was watercolor and one of them was done with opaque gouache — The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, all of these are gouaches.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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The great debate that has already raged for centuries and surely will for centuries more: do pastel colours belong on a football shirt?—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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Another example is the pastel pink (e.g. the preppy attire, bow ties)—which has long been deemed as a 'feminine' color—and societally associated with romance and sweetness.—
Tiffany Leigh,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Visual Arts: Experiment with watercolor, sketching, pottery or digital art.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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The open-air art show brings together more than 150 local and regional fine artists with works ranging from watercolor, oils, mixed media and photography to glasswork, woodworking, jewelry, pottery and sculpture.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 June 2025
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Two likely causes are an increase in food availability due to the recent wet winters (more rain leads to more plants and seeds, which lead to healthy rodent populations), and a cessation of the distemper epidemic that has decimated the populations of these animals in the Bay Area in recent years.—
Alison Hermance,
Mercury News,
17 June 2025
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Remember that raccoons can transmit rabies to people and pets and distemper to unvaccinated pets, so they should never be handled alive (or deceased).—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
7 May 2025
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Back at the Metro station, Karina Mitchell set up her easel and finished an acrylic painting as Brown played his sax.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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And much like your favorite acrylic manicure, your hair is a representation of you.—
Akili King,
Essence,
16 June 2025
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The event will feature 25 healthcare vendors, area restaurants, games, prizes and drawings.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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In among the newspapers, drawings and journal entries, Grigery found something that was tinged with sadness.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Indoors, Maureen would allow Lilian to study and admire the Modigliani and Matisse etchings on the wall before drawing Lilian’s attention to the collection of rare books.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
15 June 2025
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In several of their respective etchings, both George and Isaac Cruikshank personified that affliction as menacing blue demons.—
Amanda Fortini,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Tempera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tempera. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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