egg tempera painting: koo schadler

July 9 – 13, 2008
Five-day workshop, limited to 12 participants
Tuition: $800 (includes materials)
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Old as the Egyptians and most famous during the Renaissance, egg tempera painting is becoming increasingly popular with artists today.  Tempera has unsurpassed luminosity.  Dozens of glazes and scumbles can be applied in a day, and yet the medium also allows for meticulous linear detailing.  In this comprehensive five day workshop taught by an internationally recognized tempera painter, students will learn all aspects of the medium: egg tempera's rich history, how to make genuine gesso panels starting from scratch, the characteristics of powdered pigments, how to mix fresh paint, dozens of ways to apply the paint, how to finish an egg tempera painting (including oil glazing over tempera), as well as some of the design principles that underlie old master painting.  Each student will receive a copy of Schadler's acclaimed book on Egg Tempera Painting.

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Koo’s exquisitely detailed egg tempera paintings are in more than 350 private, corporate and museum collections worldwide.   She is a board member of The Society of Tempera Painters, writes and lectures on egg tempera painting, and has taught dozens of egg tempera and old master painting workshops around the country.  She is represented by the J. Cacciola Gallery in New York, NY, the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and is a master painter of the Copley Society of Art in Boston, MA.  Her 108-page egg tempera book has been described as "one of the most concise and useful books on the art of egg tempera painting. It should be on the bookshelf of every serious artist".