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The Rack

Hedda had taken her 35 cents back (it was used to pay the sales tax on a pack of Twizzlers), but the remaining money easily covered the beer and a variety pack of tempera paint. Marco directed the execution of his vision, and soon the box was blue and white and silver, just like he imagined. Hedda was surprisingly adept with the brush, and Marco wondered if there was more to her than he’d thought.


 
On Making Tempera Paint

copyright 1997, E. Boucher

The tempera paint sold in stores today is not the same as the tempera paint of the Middle Ages--or even the tempera paint used by modern artists working in this medium. It's easy to be fooled by the name; I certainly was when I first started. The stuff called tempera paint sold in the United States is also called ( and more accurately, too), poster paints.¹ This paint is a mixture of synthetic pigments, chalky fillers, and a weak binder. It has some very unfortunate properties; it's difficult to achieve any sort of lasting, attractive result. Perhaps, as a beginner, you decided to go with poster paints as an inexpensive paint to begin practicing with, and that's okay. It's valuable to get the feel of your brushes, to discover your work pattern, and to develop good habits (such as proper care of your brushes) without blowing lots of moola on tube after tube of cadmium colors that would be wasted on learning the beginnning steps. On the day you decide to do a piece of illumination for real, or even to begin your study in ernest, however, throw those poster paints away and don't ever lok [sic] back.