Martin de Vore

I work in egg tempera, acrylic and pastel. My first art event in Houston was at Yale Street Arts Market in June 2005. I was at the first First Saturday in March 2006 and the first White Linen Night in August 2006.

Martin will be painting live near the Market booth!

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Egg tempera was the primary painting medium for nearly every painter in the European Medieval and Early Renaissance period up to 1500. For example, every surviving panel painting by Michelangelo is egg tempera. Egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera paintings are very long-lasting, and egg tempera was a primary method of painting until after 1500 when it was superseded by the invention of oil painting. I use egg tempera because it is water soluble like acrylic, it is very fast drying and — in my opinion — it has the lustre of oil without the mess.