Washable tempera paint is a popular school Craft medium.
Fashionable tempera can be purchased in liquid construction. It is again construct in powdered fashion and in dry cakes that are mixed with saturate and used in the corresponding way as watercolor cakes. The higher the pigment content of the tempera paint, the more color-stable it will be.
The fresh phrase "tempera" refers to poster distemper, which is a contour of gouache. Gouache is a type of opaque watercolour.
Types
Tempera is the oldest admitted type of gloss and was fix on the sarcophagi of decrepit Egypt and on Byzantine, Mediaeval and Renaissance works. Nowadays, tempera emulsion is regular as a "institution distemper" and is used by children in classrooms on all sides of the sphere.
Description
Washable
Generally, tempera paints are washable and can be cleaned from most surfaces with warm soap and water; however, paints with high pigment content may stain clothing. Wear a smock or protective apron when using tempera paints.
Cleanup
To make cleanup easier, a mild soap, such as liquid dish detergent, can be mixed with tempera paint. Use approximately one part soap to three or four parts paint. Tempera mixed in this manner will adhere to glass and can be used in decorative window painting.
Drying
Tempera dries very quickly. Thus, it is applied with small, quick brushstrokes to ultrasmooth surfaces.
Advantages
The advantage of using tempera as a painting medium is that clear, intense colors are produced. These colors are not subject to oxidation and as a result do not lose their integrity over time.
