[Artemisia] mixing paint

[Elaine]

Greetings everyone:
Lady Aurora asked with trepidation:
Most important: How can I teach grade-schoolers to blend tempera paints from
the raw materials without getting caught in the middle of a gooey egg fight?
:P

And Caryn replies:  Use gum arabic.

Or make glair from the egg whites (egg yolks don't do well in manuscript
painting) and they cease to resemble eggs at all. You have to do this anyway
before you can use them for binder.

Stickily yours,
Caryn