#caseintempera

Playa Area de Secada, Illa de Arousa (Galicia). Casein on Ampersand clayboard. 12x16 in. • If you have questions about my painting approach, I have written a few painting guides that are available for free download at www.lenarivo.com • My original paintings can be purchased at www.lenarivo.com/shop • Giclee prints of different sizes are available at www.lenarivo.com/prints • • • #tempera #caseintempera #casein #caseinpaint #painting #pleinairpainting #fineart #impressionism #gouache #gouachepainting #art #sketch #allaprima #traditionalart #impressionism #gouachepainting #landscapepainting #pleinairpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMRLAoMLYz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Today, I tried casein tempera for painting on location. I wanted to see how quickly the paints would dry. All the colors in my storage palette contained a bit of W&N watercolor blending medium, but the titanium white was straight from the tube. It’s hot today and the paints did surprisingly well. I did have to mist the palette once in a while but it was comfortable to work with the colors. I also decided to use this opportunity to try my alla prima pochade box that I had bought two years before for oil painting and hadn’t used it. I attached my storage palette to the auxiliary palette of the box using velcro and I placed the cup with water into the drawer of the box. I also used my natural hog oil brushes this time. Because of that the finished painting looks like an oil painting and because of the matte finish it also looks like a gouache painting :) I didn’t use water to dilute the paints to achieve a better flow, instead I used casein emulsion which is sold separately. For the support I used a board with Arches hot pressed watercolor paper mounted on it. I made many of those boards a year ago for gouache. So this is just a test piece done from our veranda. I wanted to test this setup and the paints before taking them to paint outside. I loved the experience. So far, casein tempera looks like a nice replacement for oils for me. You can see the setup in my previous post. • If you have questions I have written a few painting guides that are available for free download at www.lenarivo.com • My original paintings can be purchased at www.lenarivo.com/shop • Giclee prints of different sizes are available at www.lenarivo.com/prints • • • #tempera #caseintempera #casein #caseinpaint #painting #pleinairpainting #fineart #impressionism #gouache #gouachepainting https://www.instagram.com/p/ChhhwRFMfXT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The local shipyard in the evening sun (O Grove, Spain), casein tempera on clayboard, 5x7 in. My experiments with the casein paints continue. Yesterday, I finally received my Ampersand clay boards and did this painting on the smallest one of them to see how the clay surface took the casein paint. It turns out that these boards are absolutely perfect for casein tempera and I am sure they will work beautifully for goache as well (especially for when you are going to varnish your gouache painting to frame it without glass). The clay surface is as smooth as hot pressed watercolor paper but it is less absorbent which is good (that's why you can see some marks in this study that are similar to the marks oil paint leaves on a gesso panel). I absolutely loved using these boards with the casein paint. Softening edges is harder on this surface because if the paint layer is thin it is easy to lift the color, but if the paint layer is normal (not too thick, but also not watercolor-like thin) then softening edges is not a problem with these boards. In any case, for my painting technique, this smooth surface works much better than the rougher surface of canvas (that I tried a few days ago). • If you have questions about my painting approach, I have written a few painting guides that are available for free download at www.lenarivo.com • My original paintings can be purchased at www.lenarivo.com/shop • Giclee prints of different sizes are available at www.lenarivo.com/prints • • • #tempera #caseintempera #casein #caseinpaint #painting #pleinairpainting #fineart #impressionism #gouache #gouachepainting #art #sketch #allaprima #traditionalart #impressionism #gouachepainting https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch90GGWsK8J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"Summer in Seixal", tempera on canvas, 5x7 in. Today, I tried my Richeson casein paints on canvas. This is a medium-grain linen canvas. It was primed with a clear primer, so the color of the canvas wasn't white; it was natural. Richeson casein is very opaque so the canvas isn't seen through the paint layer at all which I love. As for the canvas's texture, I think I would have liked fine-grain linen canvas better. I have lots of boards with fine-grain canvas, but somehow I picked the one with a rougher surface today 🤦🏻‍♀️ • If you have questions I have written a few painting guides that are available for free download at www.lenarivo.com • My original paintings can be purchased at www.lenarivo.com/shop • Giclee prints of different sizes are available at www.lenarivo.com/prints • • • #tempera #caseintempera #casein #caseinpaint #painting #pleinairpainting #fineart #impressionism #gouache #gouachepainting https://www.instagram.com/p/ChrzfTesKfp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Today, I tried casein tempera for painting on location. I wanted to see how quickly the paints would dry. All the colors in my storage palette contained a bit of W&N watercolor blending medium, but the titanium white was straight from the tube. It’s hot today and the paints did surprisingly well. I did have to mist the palette once in a while but it was comfortable to work with the colors. I also decided to use this opportunity to try my alla prima pochade box that I had bought two years before for oil painting and hadn’t used it. I attached my storage palette to the auxiliary palette of the box using velcro and I placed the cup with water into the drawer of the box. I also used my natural hog oil brushes this time. Because of that the finished painting looks like an oil painting and because of the matte finish it also looks like a gouache painting :) I didn’t use water to dilute the paints to achieve a better flow, instead I used casein emulsion which is sold separately. For the support I used a board with Arches hot pressed watercolor paper mounted on it. I made many of those boards a year ago for gouache. So this is just a test piece done from our veranda. I wanted to test this setup and the paints before taking them to paint outside. I loved the experience. So far, casein tempera looks like a nice replacement for oils for me. I’ll post the photo of the finished painting in the next post. • If you have questions I have written a few painting guides that are available for free download at www.lenarivo.com • My original paintings can be purchased at www.lenarivo.com/shop • Giclee prints of different sizes are available at www.lenarivo.com/prints • • • #tempera #caseintempera #casein #caseinpaint #painting #pleinairpainting #fineart #impressionism #gouache #gouachepainting https://www.instagram.com/p/ChhgWUCsc_9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Red #flowers In this season, after raining at night Some of bright red flowers on the way to studio. TSUBAKI 100x148mm Casein tempera on board 2021 #caseintempera #temperapainting #ancienthistory #ancientpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CMa6HelsfE1/?igshid=e97pn7w9t6s7