Andrew Wyeth dead at 91

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Now, I was HONESTLY surprised to find out he had still been alive! I can remember seeing his pictures since I was pretty young, but he was already in his 50's probably by that time. Well, I don't really remember when I learned about him, but I remember hearing that he painted some of his most famous works in tempera paint and watercolors. Now this isn't the tempera paint you used to use in school, this is the kind of tempera paint that the ancients used to paint icons 2000 years ago. It, like watercolors, is an unforgiving medium, you can't paint over like with oils or acrylics, all the colors, except for white, are basically transparent, you can see the colors below. It is called egg tempera, and they use the egg yolk as the binder instead of water. Now, Wyeth wasn't my favorite artist, Maggiepie is my favorite artist, but he's up there in my top 20 probably. So, who's your favorite artist? What medium do they use? If you paint, what medium do you use? (I like watercolors.) Do you like realism, impressionism, cubism or abstract? I like realism and some impressionism. I've even seen an abstract or 2 I could live with.