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Recent Examples of tempera
Writing on a computer and MIDI just doesn’t translate the same way, like oil versus tempera versus digital painting.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
Oils, temperas and charcoals will mingle to create a distinctive depiction of Southern Chile.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
The scenery is similar in both kinds of paintings, but where the oils have an Olympian detachment, the tempera ones pull the eye across the vastness and into curves of land and curls of clouds.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
The artist works most frequently with diluted oil paints but sometimes shifts to fast-drying egg tempera.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
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Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
Oils, temperas and charcoals will mingle to create a distinctive depiction of Southern Chile.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
The scenery is similar in both kinds of paintings, but where the oils have an Olympian detachment, the tempera ones pull the eye across the vastness and into curves of land and curls of clouds.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
The artist works most frequently with diluted oil paints but sometimes shifts to fast-drying egg tempera.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tempera
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One of them was watercolor and one of them was done with opaque gouache — The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, all of these are gouaches.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 July 2024
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Her works are softly abstract; powdery colors form cloud-like shapes that might be superimposed with free-handed linear strokes in acrylic, gouache, oil stick, oil pastels, and graphite.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2024
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For 4 1/2 hours, the light becomes magical and the colors of everything are perfect pastel against the artic sky, with delicate and unreal shades.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Sort Clothes Properly Start by sorting clothing by color: light (white, pastel, light gray, and white background prints) and dark (black, red, navy, brown, and dark gray).—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
15 Jan. 2025
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His mother, Rhonda, was a fashion designer who sold watercolor drawings of her designs to clothing manufacturers throughout Manhattan.—
Chris Koseluk,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
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Desprez created a watercolor painting during that timeframe that depicts a feast taking place in the grotto.—
Caitlin Palumbo,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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In addition to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the stray dogs have been implicated in cases of dog bites and rabies in people, and parvo and distemper in pets.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
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For other diseases like parvovirus and distemper, vaccination rates were even lower.—
Simon F. Haeder,
The Conversation,
14 Jan. 2025
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Taking it back further, Flo Jo’s long acrylics in the 1980s broke barriers, while Lil’ Kim’s short squared look in the ‘90s, and macro French tips on Mary J. Blige in the ‘00s became certified classics.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
15 Jan. 2025
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The best and brightest superstars in tennis — such as Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and others — battle it out on cushioned acrylic hard courts during the 2025 Australian Open, which kicks off the new tennis season.—
Rudie Obias,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Jan. 2025
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At age five, his depiction of Tom Mix snagged him a gold medal in the John Wanamaker department store's drawing contest.—
Etelka Lehoczky,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2025
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The ticket matched five winning Powerball numbers and the Power Play multiplier, but not the Powerball, in the drawing Saturday, Jan. 18, the national Powerball site said.—
Don Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
19 Jan. 2025
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What's next: The city plans to install panels that reflect Indigenous history, along with etchings depicting native plants and their uses, in the area next year.—
Melissa Santos,
Axios,
6 Dec. 2024
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There are prism systems that bounce a projection off of a prism into your eye, and there are waveguide systems that use special etchings in a flat lens to guide the projection into your eye.—
Will Greenwald,
PCMAG,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Tempera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tempera. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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