{"id":236,"date":"2010-01-12T11:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jacksonsart.co.uk\/?p=236"},"modified":"2020-03-20T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:34:58","slug":"sennelier-egg-tempera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/sennelier-egg-tempera\/","title":{"rendered":"Sennelier Egg Tempera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This post was updated on 20-03-20)<br \/>\n<Big>Egg tempera is a semi-opaque, water-soluble and permanent painting medium wonderful for fine art painting, restoration and icon painting. It is perfect for oil painters who need a highly pigmented, fine art colour alternative to oil painting and its solvents, with the lasting luminosity and beauty of Renaissance paintings. Sennelier make this marvellous ready-prepared egg and pigment mixture with just a touch of oil to allow it to be stored.<\/big><\/p>\n<h1>Sennelier Egg Tempera<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sennelier.fr\/\">The Sennelier paint makers in France<\/a> make their egg tempera paints with the authentic formulation used since the Renaissance. Much of the religious panel painting done between the 12th and 15th century was done in this delicate and subtle medium, which is capable of detailed and complex effects. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/colour\/gouache-tempera\/tempera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sennelier Egg Tempera<\/a> is famous as the medium used by Marc Chagall in many of his most spectacular works.<\/p>\n<p>This ready-prepared egg tempera paint emulsion is a water-soluble and highly archival painting medium for fine art painting, restoration, and icon painting. It is perfect as an underpainting for oil painters, or for artists seeking a highly pigmented, professional alternative to oil paints and solvents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/brands\/sennelier\/sennelier-egg-tempera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/eggtempera.jpg\" alt=\"sennelier egg tempera paint\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/eggtempera.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/eggtempera-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/eggtempera-340x210.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sennelier uses the same premium quality pigments in this line of egg tempera as they do in their oil paints, assuring the same unequalled vibrancy and brilliance as in the Sennelier oils. The pigments are bound with a centuries-old egg emulsion recipe, giving a satin-matt finish that is water-resistant when dry. Sennelier egg tempera has working qualities and a finish that is only found in authentic egg tempera made in the traditional manner. These delicate colours hold their brush strokes and do not change when dry. Egg tempera can be worked with a brush or a palette knife (diluted with water) on non-greasy supports like acrylic primed canvas or paper.<\/p>\n<p>Impasto techniques are not recommended for egg tempera. It is better to paint in thin layers. Use varnish over egg tempera paintings for an oil painting like appearance. Sennelier recommends giving a finished egg tempera painting a coating of charcoal or pastel fixative before applying a final oil paint picture varnish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/etsset.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/etsset.jpg\" alt=\"Sennelier\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1406724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/etsset.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/etsset-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/etsset-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/etsset-620x620.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/?s=egg+tempera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read these earlier posts about egg tempera on the blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/colour\/gouache-tempera\/tempera\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sennelier Egg Tempera is available in 32 colours in 21ml tubes and a starter set.<\/a> <\/h5>\n<p><big>Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jacksonsart.com<\/a> is free for orders of \u00a339.<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This post was updated on 20-03-20) Egg tempera is a semi-opaque, water-soluble and permanent painting medium wonderful for fine art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1392677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[68,2730],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-painting-art-technique","tag-egg-tempera","tag-sennelier"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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