Do you have to paint with chicken eggs ?

[lotus]

Do you have to paint with chicken eggs ?

https://hyperallergic.com/435242/egg-tempera-painting/

[JJWilliamson]

The old masters all but abandoned eggs for oil. After that, da Vinci put a load of weight on eating cheese omelettes.

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JJ

[lotus]

The old masters all but abandoned eggs for oil. After that, da Vinci put a load of weight on eating cheese omelettes.

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JJ

back in the day when i was doing wood engraving
i used egg whites to seal and varnish the Turkish Boxwood end-grain letter press wood blocks

btw did da Vinci die from high cholesterol ?

[JJWilliamson]

back in the day when i was doing wood engraving
i used egg whites to seal and varnish the Turkish Boxwood end-grain letter press wood blocks

btw did da Vinci die from high cholesterol ?

That's very interesting, lotus. I know egg whites were used historically for binding but I didn't know it was still common practice.

da Vinci might have had an egg related death, given that he died of a stroke. I think the egg myth is slipping into obscurity now,
with eggs being firmly back on the menu.

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JJ