Revision: The Key to Success

Tempera paints and pigments are two things that most people don't usually know a lot about. But thanks to projects at school now I am not one of those people. I've studied all different aspects of tempera paints and pigments from their history to health risks. I'm writing an essay about pigments and tempera paints and I am now on my second draft. Revising this paper has really opened up a lot of new ideas and given me better ones. The feedback I have gotten has helped the process as well. 

When writing an essay, I believe that the most important part is the revision process. The first step of this would be to get feedback. Usually getting feedback from multiple people is even better. After getting their feedback, you take it into consideration when reading over your essay again. In the places that they ask content questions you can answer these by looking for more resources. In a lot of cases, like mine, you will find more websites that are even more helpful than the last. As far as pigments and tempera paints, writing the actual essay was very challenging. Like I mentioned in previous blogs, I couldn't seem to find any website that helped me or even had any valuable information at all. Heres one that I found in my second process of revising... 

http://www.sinopia.com/paint.html

This website helped me answer questions that people had about my paper such as: What is a binder? What are different kinds of binders? And what is the difference between oil and tempera binders? This was the only website that told me anything about binders, but it also explained all aspects of what paint is. If you have any questions about paint in general, this website should be very helpful. I'll end with a little picture that has come up in almost every pigment search that I've made...

Until next time!