When you want to get a thick impasto from tube oil paint, an emulsion is often the easiest way to get the results. Egg yolk is a natural oil-in-water emulsion.
Ingredients:
| equal parts of egg yolk and Wax paste (basic) |
- 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 it, drop by drop, into the beeswax varnish.
- Stir vigorously to insure complete emulsification.
- This emulsion can then be diluted with turpentine.
How to use:
Mix this medium with tube oil colors on the palette, or grind with dry pigments made into a paste with turpentine. Suprisingly good for laying in fine detail or painting wet-in-wet into fresh oil paint. It dries almost instantly. Since eggs spoil easily, make this emulsion fresh as needed. A few drops of oil of cloves help to retard spoilage.
