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Recent Examples of tempera
Writing on a computer and MIDI just doesn’t translate the same way, like oil versus tempera versus digital painting.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
Oils, temperas and charcoals will mingle to create a distinctive depiction of Southern Chile.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
The scenery is similar in both kinds of paintings, but where the oils have an Olympian detachment, the tempera ones pull the eye across the vastness and into curves of land and curls of clouds.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
The artist works most frequently with diluted oil paints but sometimes shifts to fast-drying egg tempera.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
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Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
Oils, temperas and charcoals will mingle to create a distinctive depiction of Southern Chile.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
The scenery is similar in both kinds of paintings, but where the oils have an Olympian detachment, the tempera ones pull the eye across the vastness and into curves of land and curls of clouds.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
The artist works most frequently with diluted oil paints but sometimes shifts to fast-drying egg tempera.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tempera
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One of them was watercolor and one of them was done with opaque gouache — The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, all of these are gouaches.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 July 2024
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Her works are softly abstract; powdery colors form cloud-like shapes that might be superimposed with free-handed linear strokes in acrylic, gouache, oil stick, oil pastels, and graphite.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2024
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Wearing a custom pastel blue JW Anderson gown with feathers and pearls and her signature blond hair in a cloud of curls, Carpenter, arrived at the Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles for the 67th Grammy Awards ceremony.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
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Color: Warm colors such as reds, yellows and oranges create an energetic space, while a cool palette of pastels, lavenders and whites creates a serene, calming, restful garden.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2025
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Art and home décor from her Santa Ynez estate, such as a Richard MacDonald bronze sculpture and her own watercolor paintings, add a personal touch to the collection.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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The watercolor paintings Boy and Girl at a Well (1879) and Boy and Girl on a Swing (1879) were consigned to the auction house and sold after being appraised on the popular PBS program.—
Karen K. Ho,
ARTnews.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Ultimately, distemper went from being a widespread killer to a preventable disease.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Jan. 2025
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Democratic dysfunction goes hand in hand with democratic distemper.—
John Micklethwait,
Foreign Affairs,
29 May 2014
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Purchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the oil and acrylic work on canvas is an example of Hendricks’ life-sized portraits of Black Americans.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
2 Feb. 2025
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Made from 100 percent acrylic rib knit, the unisex Carhartt Knit Cuffed Beanie was first designed in 1987 as a workwear staple, but has since become as much a fashion statement as a practical choice for warding off the winter chill.—
Jessica Macdonald,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2025
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Tickets cost $2 and can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times vary by state.—
Don Sweeney,
Miami Herald,
2 Feb. 2025
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The tickets matched four of five winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, Feb. 1, the California Lottery said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacramento Bee,
2 Feb. 2025
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What's next: The city plans to install panels that reflect Indigenous history, along with etchings depicting native plants and their uses, in the area next year.—
Melissa Santos,
Axios,
6 Dec. 2024
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There are prism systems that bounce a projection off of a prism into your eye, and there are waveguide systems that use special etchings in a flat lens to guide the projection into your eye.—
Will Greenwald,
PCMAG,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Tempera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tempera. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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