Koo Schadler, born 1962 in Litchfield, Connecticut.
Master egg-tempera artist Koo Shadler utilizes the simple pre-Renaissance, pre-oil painting medium of egg yolks and powdered pigment to create astoundingly detailed, intensely colored, high-clarity paintings of the natural world around her. Her workshops in egg tempera, one of the oldest painting techniques, are internationally attended. Used by artists from Botticelli to Wyeth, egg tempera is admired for its preservation of colors and brilliant surfaces. Egg tempera paint is generally applied in diluted, thin, often transparent layers of color with each layer building the image. The result of interacting colors creates the rich, luminous look unique to tempera paintings.
Schadler introduces you to three schools of egg tempera painting: Greek, Italian and Northern. Working on small, gessoed panels, you paint studies from life under the guidance of this celebrated artist. Workshop participants also receive Schadler’s acclaimed manual, Egg Tempera Painting.