A QUESTION OF BALANCE and DELICATE BALANCE
An experiment in mediums
This is pair of paintings was done as an experiment to see how readily my acrylic painting style would work in the egg tempera medium. Both paintings are compositions using the same symbolic elements: an egg, an ammonite fossil, and the leaf of a ginkgo tree.
In my work, the ammonite fossils are symbolic of extinction while the Ginkgo is a symbol of survival and endurance against all odds. In these paintings, they are used in symbolic opposition, with life—symbolized by the egg—poised between. It was a private joke on my part to make an egg the central object in my first-ever egg tempera painting.
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I'm clearly a fan of these two :)
Wonderful! Egg tempera clearly suits you. I've done a bit of egg tempera years ago, then put it away, but still have all my powdered pigments. I gessoed a bunch of wood panels and still have many of them. Making them was a lot of trouble. Have you tried the new tempera medium? You just paint it on your support, and you're ready to go.