Today I started researching for the chemistry portion of the (Art)iFacts project. We have to write a report on tempera paint and pigment. I have chosen to do two seperate one page papers on each of the subjects. Today I started researching on tempera paints, which was a very hard subject to find information on!
I did find a couple websites that were helpful but nothing really amazing. I found one website on the history of tempera paints which was my resource for the history aspect of the paper. It gave me useful information about the history of tempera paints as well as when oil paints began to take the place of tempera paints. It was helpful but could have been a bit more clear... I wasn't exactly sure the approximate year that people began using tempera paints. (http://www.vanaken.com/history.htm)
Another website that turned out to be pretty helpful was the Society of Tempera Painters. It was especially helpful on information about the pigments and how toxic they were. This website will be helpful when writing my paper on pigments as well. I did have a few question such as... What was their view on oil paints? Was there a reason they chose to join a Society of Tempera Painters? Or was there a reason that they preffered tempera paints? Unfortunately, there was nothing on their webiste that answered these questions so I was not able to get them answered. I was hoping to get their opinion on the differences between oil paints and tempera paints. I emailed them on the email that was listed on the website but I doubt that I will get a message back. Oh well... (http://www.eggtempera.com/index.html)
I spent a lot of time researching today, but I can't say that I really got much done. So far this has been a very hard topic to research. I did not get the whole tempera paper done but am very close. I seem to be having trouble finding any misconceptions about tempera paints... I'll have to keep looking and hopefully I can find something that will help me next time I research. Bye for now.
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