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TEMPERA AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO WATER-COLOUR

Although tempera is scarcely to be counted as a true water-colour medium it is well worth the attention of the water-colour painter, because it has certain qualities which he will be able to appreciate and certain executive capabilities which he can turn to good account. Tempera, in fact, occupies a kind of intermediate position between water-colour and oil; it has some of the characteristics of both with, in addition, definite peculiarities which are all its own. It can be used, too, for a wide variety of subjects both out of doors and in the studio, and it presents no special technical difficulties which cannot be mastered by the worker who gives the necessary amount of thought to the mechanism of his art.

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