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Thursday, October 23, 2014

WOW.

I wish I had more time in the day to post because I DIDN'T REALLY POST YESTERDAY!
What happened: Not really much except we had Advisory Lunch. ALSO, we:

  • cracked an egg,
  • let the white drip out,
  • put the yolk in a cup,
  • poked it,
  • stomped on sidewalk chalk,
  • popped the membrane of the yolk,
  • poured some yolk onto a paper plate,
  • put the chalk in it,
  • and painted with that.
It's called 'egg tempera' and it was apparently really popular during the Renaissance, because oil paints, the only other type of paint (they didn't have those Wal-Mart acrylics) cost so much and cracked more often. Plus, who wouldn't want to play with an egg yolk? It was a good oppurtunity for egg puns, too. Back then, they didn't have sidewalk chalk, so they used the next best stuff, like parsley and brick, as well as clay and regular chalk, not the sidewalk kind, but the kind that makes huge cliffs like these:
So yeah, that's what happened yesterday.
Best Wishes,
racartiara
-Gracc

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