Chapter 4
Larry came back from work one day and told me he’d been teaching his students about tempera, and had I ever tried painting with it? And I said no, so he said we should mix some up and I could give it a try. He had a recipe and everything.
Tempera’s what they used to do paintings with in the old days, back before they invented proper paints and paint shops. You make it with eggs, but the paintings don’t smell bad or nothing. So we got some eggs and some pigments, and on my day off we had a go at making tempera. It was kind of like cooking, except the eggs stayed raw. We had to separate the yolks from the eggs, ‘cause you don’t use the whites, and then squeeze them out into a bowl. You dry them off with kitchen towels first so they don’t slip out of your fingers. I laughed a bit
