- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S. (1 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0823028887
- ISBN-13: 978-0823028887
- Product Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.8 x 0.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,231,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This guide examines the use of egg tempera to achieve luminous effects in painting. Complete with step-by-step photographs, the book illustrates all stages of preparation, development and completing of paintings and discusses issues of light, colour and form.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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The Only Current 'How-To' for Egg Tempera Painting,
By hamsterdance (TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Luminous Brush: Painting with Egg Tempera (Paperback)
While I own and have read Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.'s book The Practice of Tempera Painting I'm glad I have Sultan's book as well. It's a complete book on egg tempera painting. The one main technique Thompson's book covers which this one doesn't is gilding.The Luminous Brush will appeal to people who appreciate the many step-by-step photos showing how to prepare your own grounds, the amount of pigment paste to egg yolk to water ratios, etc. The author provides exercises for the reader using ink and/or gouache for practicing egg tempera painting techniques so the transition to egg tempera itself will be easy. There are chapters on painting landscapes, skies, rough and smooth textures as well as a chapter showing new experimental approaches to egg tempera painting by guest artists. There is a bibliography and sources selling pigments, grounds or other materials for use in egg tempera painting. Unless you are planning to employ gold gilding in your egg tempera paintings or want to read chapters on which paint pigments to buy that were current as of 1936 (some now known to present health risks and made obsolete by safer, lightfast alternatives) The Luminous Brush will be just fine for anyone wanting to get started.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A long awaited 'How to' book on tempera,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Luminous Brush: Painting with Egg Tempera (Paperback)
Lavishly illustrated with paintings from the pre-renaissance till the current day. The book takes you step by step through materials, making gesso panels and painting techniques. In addition to Altoon's paintings and methods, other artists, George Tooker, Stan Berning, Carol Mothner and Michael Bergt outline their techniques.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An easy introduction,
By blofeld (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Luminous Brush: Painting with Egg Tempera (Paperback)
The method of painting that this book outlines is essentially the one covered in Daniel Thompson book on egg tempera. For the complete beginner I would recommend it as it is copiously filled with photographs showing how to prepare the grounds and paints, something that the Thompson book doesn't. It gives plenty examples of the authors work and her way of painting. It also has a small gallery of paintings ( and how they were done) by other egg tempera artists.My complaints are that is isn't as detailed as the Thompson book and , in my opinion, the authors paintings highlight one of the problems with the outlined method. The paintings are done over an initial ink monochrome. When done badly, the result is what looks more like a tinted photograph...with a very cold tonality. Many Tempera painters think that this is the "correct" methodology and consequently make tinted pitures rather than paintings. Also, Ms Sultan's handling of the paint does not have the most finesse. That having been said, I'd recommend it as an easy guide to the medium but I prefer Thompson's and Robert Vickreys' "New techniques in Egg Tempera".
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