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| Margaret Gere The Pharaoh's Dream 1911 tempera on canvas The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
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| John Currie Some Later Primitives and Madame Tisceron 1912 tempera on canvas The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
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| Bernard Sleigh The Pleiades ca. 1920 tempera on canvas Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth |
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| Frank Brangwyn Arrival of St Paul in Rome ca. 1920 tempera on canvas Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex |
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| Louis Reckelbus Canal near Bruges, Autumn ca. 1921 tempera on card Touchstones Rochdale, Lancashire |
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| Christopher Nevinson London, Winter 1928 tempera on board Museum of London |
There are six major painting media, each with specific individual characteristics:
* Encaustic
* Tempera
* Fresco
* Oil
* Acrylic
* Watercolor
All of them use the following three basic ingredients:
* Pigment
* Binder
* Solvent
Pigments are granular solids incorporated into the paint to contribute color.
The Binder, commonly referred to as the vehicle, is the actual film-forming component of paint. The binder holds the pigment in solution until it's ready to be dispersed onto the surface.
The Solvent controls the flow and application of the paint. It's mixed into the paint, usually with a brush, to dilute it to the proper viscosity, or thickness, before it's applied to the surface. Once the solvent has evaporated from the surface the remaining paint is fixed there.
Tempera paint combines pigment with egg yolk binder, then thinned and released with water. It dries quickly to a durable matte finish. Tempera paints are traditionally applied in successive thin layers, called glazes, painstakingly built up using networks of cross-hatched lines.
– excerpted from course materials issued online by SUNY
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| John Duncan Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay ca. 1929 tempera on board Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |
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| John Downton Hilda Downton ca. 1930 tempera on panel Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull |
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| Charles March Gere The Blue Lake at Sierre 1938 tempera on silk, mounted on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Armstrong A Stately Dance 1945 tempera on board Scarborough Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Edward Wadsworth Dahlia 1945 tempera on panel Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| John Luke The Rehearsal 1950 tempera and oil on canvas, mounted on panel Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Eliot Hodgkin Three Quinces 1964 tempera on panel Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| John Barnicoat Carnival IV 1977 tempera on paper Government Art Collection, London |
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| Nilima Sheikh Fire and Smoke from the Kitchen 1984-85 tempera on paper New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester |