Aerten Art

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This is the second of the tempera paintings I did.  There’s a lot of texture in this one, which I think was achieved by using plastic wrap to dab some of the paint onto the paper.
And forensic scientists would definitely be able to life my [...]

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Well goodness.  Apparently, there are a number of people out there who don’t know what tempera paints are, so I thought I ought to share that information with all of you.  I’m thoughtful that way.
Tempera (also known as egg tempera) has been around for centuries.  In [...]

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I have a friend who paints almost all her paintings with tempera paints.  I think she’s even painting on newsprint.  Talk about impermanent!  (She does scan them and sell the prints, so I guess there’s some permanence in that.)  Because she obviously enjoys the temperas, [...]

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I love painting with watercolors.  They’re just so darn much fun.  They have a mind of their own, I think.  They just go where they want to go on the paper most of the time.  To get these amazingly vibrant colors, I use highly concentrated [...]