Sunday 19 May 2019

Painting a dragon in homemade egg tempera.

This dragon is painted on Kelmscott vellum using handmade egg tempera paints.
This is painted in the manner and using the techniques and materials from the medieval era.
Using yolk from my own hens eggs I made the paint mixing it with pure pigments, ochre, malachite, vermillion, cobalt, ultramarine, lapis and others.
Finally details were gilded using 24ct gold.







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