How to Use tempera in a Sentence

tempera

noun

• Someone had crudely daubed the keys with red and yellow tempera paint.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• The work is mostly made with tempera, but oil paint has been used for the background and some secondary elements.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
• So, what made tempera reign supreme among the Renaissance giants?
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• On view in the show are 79 prints, watercolors and paintings in tempera on paper.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2021
• Mark Rothko, Red and Pink on Pink, c.1953, tempera on paper mounted on board with acrylic painted surround.
  — Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2022
• These were spurred in part by the growing use of oil paint over egg tempera, which allowed for more lavish colors and textures — all the better to depict the one percent.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 24 June 2021
• For these experiments, the researchers made their own egg tempera.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• The painting, in vivid red, gold and brown tempera on hardboard, shows two women draped in shawls flanking a man in a broad-brimmed hat, their heads bowed and oversized hands clasped toward the center of the image.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• Painted in 1445 in egg tempera and gold, this wooden panel was once part of an altarpiece — known as the Guelfi altarpiece — the main part of which is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• Using the classical egg tempera method of painting, de la Hoz explored a range of concepts and characters in the series.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
• Holi Hands Gather a variety of colored tempera paints and a few paintbrushes.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 24 Feb. 2023
• The penguins dip their feet into the washable tempera paint and run amock over the canvases, adding their personal, creative touches.
  — Kelsey Grey, idahostatesman, 19 June 2018
• Other songs are presented in cut-paper collage and tempera paint.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
• The 1893 version in the Oslo museum’s collection, painted in tempera with pastels, is the original.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
• Because Giampietrino used oil paint on canvas, as opposed to Leonardo's tempera and oil paint on a dry wall, the proxy has withstood the test of time much better than the original work.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2020
• The large tempera painting shows a group of colorfully clad people on a lawn, some eating or playing music, while others seem to be dancing.
  — Kirsten Grieshaber, Fortune, 13 June 2023
• This morning, while my partner took a work call, my children dumped six large bottles of tempera paint all over our rug, sofa and dining table, extending to the bathroom and kitchen.
  — Kevin Noble Maillard, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• Acrylics, watercolors, and tempera paint are also suitable for kids.
  — Jennifer Blair, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• Parents can turn prevention into a fun family project by taking a chalk pen or tempera paints and drawing on windows.
  — Christina Tkacik, Howard County Times, 3 May 2018
• In Andy’s studio, a bowl of deep purple mussel shells stained with paint sit on a table next to an easel; Wyeth mixed his delicate egg tempera pigments in those shells, which lent them their preternatural tones.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Artists can bring other art materials such as pastels, tempera paint, tape, stencil.
  — Kristi Nix, Houston Chronicle, 22 Aug. 2019
• They were known as masters of the new medium of oil painting, which allowed unprecedented levels of refined detail, as compared to the older medium egg tempera.
  — Benjamin Lima, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2023
• For this Easter egg painting project, simply find several colors of washable tempera paint and ½-inch-wide flat paintbrushes, then go wild with designs!
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022
• Trumbull created the effect in a huge aquarium tank filled with fresh and saltwater and by injecting white liquid tempera paint to create the strange cloud formations.
  — Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2022
• Art will be judged in two categories: drawing (pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, or pastel) and painting (oils, watercolors, tempera, acrylics or pastel).
  — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• The team's egg tempera also provided more coverage and elasticity as well.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• So understated are these frames that one’s attention remains firmly on the works themselves, with their bright egg-tempera colors and their first steps toward naturalism.
  — Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018
• Most spectacular is a watercolor and tempera plan of the library’s floor mosaic, a consummate study in the adjustment of color values, coming to rest on a central disk of antique porphyry.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• Available classes include tempera painting for children ages six to 10, an outdoor photograph workshop on Sept. 24, watercolor painting and acrylics.
  — Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2022
• Transcendentally rendered in tempera on board—in an earthy palette of brown, blue, mustard, and green, almost always violently disrupted by red—each work compresses the dynamic sweep of a history painting into a modest twelve by sixteen inches.
  — Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024