New Techniques in Egg Tempera

by Robert Vickrey and Robert Vickery

Book Overview

A famous contemporary artist shows his revolutionary new techniques for painting in a centuries-old medium, egg tempera. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823031705
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful how-to for egg tempera technique...

I still have my 1973 first printing. Why? Because it has 157 pages of wonderful detail about the egg tempera technique. Use distilled water? What about tube watercolors in lieu of powdered pigments? Mr. Vickrey separates fact-from-dogma about brushes, panels, gesso, pigments, making egg tempera, applying paint, painting textures and making corrections. The strength of this book is the amount of detail and specifics about painting with egg tempera. Highly recommended.

A worthwhile book.

This book provides an excellent alternative method of using egg tempera to the traditional methods detailed in Daniel Thompson's book. The author shows that egg tempera is a lot more flexible medium than many people believe. Mr Vickrey attempts to show how some of the myths about egg tempera are self limiting. Vickrey's paintings themeselves have at times the air of whimsical magical realism tinged with a nostalgia for lost childhood days. They may or may not be your cup of tea, but if you are interested in Tempera painters and the techniques and materials required to paint this way then I highly recommend this book.

An American Classic Artist

I found this painter sometime in the 1970's where Purdue University gave him a show. Fascinated by his "clown" picture I soon found a large print of his "Parakeet" and not being able to afford the price of that print, I did it anyway. Vickrey is simply a classic American Artist. A major artist of that century. Glad he's still living and hoping to see more of his work in a new book.