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Title: The Luminous Brush: Painting With Egg Tempera by Altoon Sultan ISBN: 0-8230-2888-7 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Introductory Text
Comment: This book is an excellent modern alternative to Daniel V. Thompson's useful, but dated book, which I find mired in 'thirties philosophy and art theory. Ms. Sultan lays out the materials and techniques well, not only her own preferences but also other possibilities. I was pleased to see a small but handy section in the back where a number of diverse egg tempera painters with widely varying styles spoke briefly about their own approaches. This is a very good introductory text.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Only Current 'How-To' for Egg Tempera Painting
Comment: While I own and have read Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.'s book The Practice of Tempera Painting I'm glad I have Sultan's book as well. I don't know how hatching and cross-hatching can be construed as "uninspired" since this is the traditional method egg tempera artists employ to create paintings. Neither is Sultan's book a "dumbed-down" instruction manual of Thompson's book. The Luminous Brush is a complete book on egg tempera painting itself. The one main technique Thompson's book covers which The Luminous Brush doesn't is gilding.
The Luminous Brush will appeal to people who appreciate the many step-by-step photos showing how to prepare your own grounds, the amount of pigment paste to egg yolk to water ratios, etc. The author provides exercises for the reader using ink and/or gouache for practicing egg tempera painting techniques so the transition to egg tempera itself will be easy. There are chapters on painting landscapes, skies, rough and smooth textures as well as a chapter showing new experimental approaches to egg tempera painting by guest artists. There is a bibliography and sources selling pigments, grounds or other materials for use in egg tempera painting.
Unless you are planning to employ gold gilding in your egg tempera paintings or want to read chapters on which paint pigments to buy that were current as of 1936 (some now known to present health risks and made obsolete by safer, lightfast alternatives) The Luminous Brush will be just fine for anyone wanting to get started.
Rating: 1
Summary: Keep Looking!
Comment: This book by Altoon Sultan is basically a dumbed-down version of Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.'s excellent introduction to the medium in his book The Practice of Tempera Painting. While photographs abound, they are most useful in displaying Sultan's uninspired use of hatching and cross-hatching. If your looking at acquiring this book because you are a Sultan fan, it might be just the thing to help you understand how her images are made. If you want a good instructional book on egg tempera, keep looking!
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Title: The Practice of Tempera Painting by Daniel V. Thompson ISBN: 0486203433 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1962 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson ISBN: 0486203271 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Craftsman's Handbook: "Il Libro dell' Arte" by Cennino d'Andrea Cennini, Jr. Daniel V. Thompson ISBN: 048620054X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1954 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: New Techniques in Egg Tempera by Robert Vickrey, Diane Cochrane, Robert Vickery ISBN: 0823031705 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: An Iconographer's Pattern Book: The Stroganov Tradition by Christopher P. Kelley ISBN: 0961854537 Publisher: Oakwood Publications Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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