Sunnyside Up!
I recently learned that during the Byzantine period, people had to make their own paint. They would take colored minerals and grind them up into a powder. Purple was a hard color to make since it came from special minerals. Royalty were the only people who could afford purple paints. Artists mixed in egg yolks and water to make paint! I mixed paint with egg yolks and strangely enough, it made the paint shiny!
I painted a picture of a sun and called it Sunny Side Up. When my picture dried and I felt the paint, it felt like wax! It was very smooth, and shiny. Painting with egg yolks was a lot of fun. Why don’t you try it? It’s a fun art, science, or just for fun activity!
Lizzie Marie
