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Why and Why Not to Use Egg Tempera

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How to Make Egg Medium

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This image is from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Anatomical studies got me interested in skeletons. Here I love the bizarre shapes of the prehistoric mammals' skulls, as well as the multiple shadows and reflections of the ribcages crossing each other like ghosts.

Miranda's Titanotheres, an egg tempera painting of a scene in the Field Museum of Natural History,Chicago
"Miranda's Titanotheres"
Egg Tempera on Panel
18"x24"


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