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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Gary Genther is a 20th century artist who has claimed for his own a medium that was the favorite of ancient Egyptian masters.
His gentle landscapes of the Pennsylvania and Virginia countryside glow softly with the muted colors of egg tempera paint. Each inch of masonite hoard is painted with every color in the rainbow but that is apparent only on close inspection. Step back a few paces and the colors of the old barns, farm houses and rolling hills blend into a cohesive whole. Earth tones predominate, the same array of soft shades that mark Andrew Wyeth’s paintings of similar Pennsylvania locales and Remington’s scenes of the Old West.
Compared to the effect of egg tempera, oils are harsh with an unrealistic manmade shine never found in nature.
“It’s tempera paint, just like you used in kindergarten, only much finer,” said Genther, whose paintings go on exhibit this weekend at Washington’s Middle Street Gallery. “You add the raw egg yolk to bind the paint. You know how egg sticks to dinner plates? It’s almost impossible to get off. It does the same thing to paint on gesso,” (the surface Genther applies to masonite board.)
"Egg tempera is the old
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