All artwork on this page are traditional egg tempera paintings. The method is to break the egg and use the egg yolk with powdered pigments. It is one of the oldest methods of painting used. It was a method that the Ancient Egyptians and the Greeks used that still survive today. 

Egg Shell. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Egg Shell. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Sea Stars through my Heart. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Steady Shell. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Shell with a Red Bean. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Shell with Red Net. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Orange Strands over Shell. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Eye of a Shell. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Horn Shell. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Shell with Red Coils. Egg Tempera on                   Flower Swirls. Egg Tempera on wood                       Bleeding Heart. Egg Tempera on wood
wood panel 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote                     panel 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote                                   panel 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Blue Coils. Egg tempera on wood panel.
8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Soundwave. Egg Tempera on wood panel. 8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

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Blue Shell. Egg Tempera on wood panel.
8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote

Starstruck. Egg Tempera on wood panel.
8" by 10" BCalnon-Buote