The egg, emulsified with fast drying damar varnish, can be used in making paint, making isolating varnish, and for laying in minute detail in wet oil paint.
Ingredients:
| equal parts of egg yolk and damar varnish |
- Discard the egg white and dry the yolk membrane by passing it gently from one palm to the other.
- Puncture and drain the pure yolk into a small jar and stir in the varnish, adding only a few drops at a time.
- When all the varnish has been incorporated, you may add water to thin the mixture.
How to use:
This medium can be added to pigment pastes ground in water for use in egg tempera painting or before an overpainting with oils. To add fine detail, you can apply it wet-in-wet to oil paint. Very much diluted with water, this medium serves as an isolating varnish. This medium dries very quickly. . . 15 minutes or less.
