Medium: Tempera Paint

A white bowl of eggs on a white surface has no color. If the background is also white, you will have to use artistic license to make an interesting painting, inventing color where there is none.

1. Lightly sketch the still life with a pencil. Your bowl of eggs should be quite large and may spill over the edges.
2. This is an exercise working with a limited palette of colors. Decide whether you want to have a warm or cool palette.
3. To darken colors, mix your chosen color with a touch of complementary color. Lighten by adding white. Using white as your main palette? Try blue and orange to darken it.
4. Squint through almost closed eyes to discern differences in value. Paint those shapes in the darkest value.
5. Paint what you see, not what you know!
6. Work over the entire picture as you go rather than doing one egg at a time.
7. You may invent a simple background as needed (still in same palette as eggs and bowls).
8. Optional: add a small bit of bright hue to add interest.