1. Monochromatic Painting Monochromatic in Tempera Paint

2. Review What is hue? What do you mix with a color to achieve a tint? What do you mix with the color to achieve a shade? What do you mix with the color to achieve a tone? What is chromatic? What is achromatic? What is monochromatic?

3. Tempera Paint Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk. Modern tempera paints are made with a synthetic binder.

4. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist. Egg tempera was a primary method of painting until the 1500s when it was superseded by the invention of oil paint. Madonna and Child by Duccio, tempera and gold on wood, 1284, Siena

5. A paint consisting of pigment and glue sizing commonly used in America as poster paint is often referred to as "tempera paint“. However the binders and sizing in this paint are different from traditional tempera paint. The quality of the pigment and the binder vary greatly.

6. Tempera Tips Paint on a firm surface or tape down the edges to prevent curling – Most tempera paintings are done on wood panels primed with chalk gesso Apply in thin layers and allow each layer to dry to minimize cracking

7. Other Painting Concepts Background – farthest from the viewer Middle Ground – appearance of space between the background and foreground Foreground – Objects closest to the viewer

8. Monochromatic Paintings

10. Your Assignment Create a monochromatic painting using the skills you learned mixing tints, shades, and tones. Painting should contain a background, middle ground and foreground. Painting must be original in content. Will be graded on originality, complexity for artist level and neatness.