Today ...

I've painted with egg tempera. It's the first layer, before I'll work with oil-paint. I've changed the ingredients of the egg tempera a little bit. First I used only egg and oil in it, but it was so viscous. I wasn't pleased with the result, even the pigments were bright.

Today I've put linseed oil, dammar varnish, some drops of the ethereal oil of clove and water in my shaken egg. Now my arm hurts from shaking ...
It was definitely a good decision to change my ingredients. It was easy to paint and not so erratic. I even could paint a second layer over it without disturbing the first one. That's good! Most of time I'd wait some days - and then the egg tempera is spoiled most of time. And that really smells terrible *coughs*