June 10. 2007
I have just returned from a two-week trip to the Tuscany area of Italy. It is truly a fairy-tale land. While there, I learned the egg tempera technique of painting from Fred Wessel. Egg tempera predates oil painting and is used in the fresco paintings and icons from the Renaissance. We saw some beautiful images in area churches and museums. Egg tempera requires building layers of thin paint by hatching and cross-hatching.
I did have time for some quick watercolor sketches of the areas where we stayed. I will post some of them after I get my images shot!
Ciao!
Durinda
