Thesaurus results for TEMPERA

tempera

noun

as in gouache

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Recent Examples of tempera The final lot, a tempera painting by Jacob Lawrence from 1958, failed to sell, providing a rather awkward round of applause to close the evening. —

Robb Report, 18 May 2025 A number of the pieces on display – including works in tempera, gouache, acrylic, oil, pencil, pen, and fiber – have rarely been seen outside private collections. —

Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2025 Use a paintbrush or your finger to cover the egg with tempera paint. —

Annabelle Canela, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025 The most monumental pieces, simply called the Ten Largest, were dramatic tempera pigment works on paper more than ten feet tall and had been completed in a frenzied nine-week period in 1907. —

Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tempera

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Made with gouache and pencil on paper, the work depicts a guitar and several everyday objects, including a bottle and a folded sheet of paper, arranged on a table in soft brown and gray tones.

— Dragana Jovanovic, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2025
With an airbrush borrowed from his job at an ad agency, Man Ray would blast droplets of gouache onto board or heavy paper and use stencils to organize the spray.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025