Zoha Rashid
Museo de Vida
Chemistry Exhibition 2014
Please use this document to assist in structuring your Exhibition Inquiry Experiment. Remember, you are compiling your Lab Notebook every day until Exhibition. In addition to your Lab Notebook and Lab Report, you should have some sort of product from your Inquiry Experiment.
Inquiry Experiment Design Process
You should begin by creating a document that responds to the following prompts:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
12/8
Start egg tempera experiment
12/9
Continue egg tempera experiment
12/10
Finish egg tempera experiment and start watercolor lab
12/11
Finish watercolor experiment
12/12
Making documents listing how the experiments went and what was/wasn’t successful
12/15
Create documents about experiments to add to exhibiton binder and
12/16
Research more about famous painters of the 1930’s in Spain and art in that time period
12/17
Practice with Charlotte for exhibition
12/18
Exhibition Runthrough
Museo de Vida
Chemistry Exhibition 2014
Please use this document to assist in structuring your Exhibition Inquiry Experiment. Remember, you are compiling your Lab Notebook every day until Exhibition. In addition to your Lab Notebook and Lab Report, you should have some sort of product from your Inquiry Experiment.
Inquiry Experiment Design Process
You should begin by creating a document that responds to the following prompts:
- Project Design:
- Restate your Inquiry Question -How do different paint binders react to hold together pigments?
- Restate your Hypothesis -I believe that in most situations, watercolor will prove to be more dependable than egg tempera paint.
- What is the Purpose of your project? -The purpose of my project is to show not only the differences between egg tempera paint and watercolor, but also show the pros and cons of each in order to prove which paint acts better and more reliable than the other.
- Please provide an outline of what you would like to investigate with your project.
- I will be investigating how both paint are made and how each paint reacts differently when placed onto a canvas.
- I have two experiments set up, one is creating watercolor and the other creates egg tempera paint.
- I chose this investigation mostly because of my interest in paints and painting and art.
- Please include a day by day schedule of what you will work on each day for the following time period:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
12/8
Start egg tempera experiment
12/9
Continue egg tempera experiment
12/10
Finish egg tempera experiment and start watercolor lab
12/11
Finish watercolor experiment
12/12
Making documents listing how the experiments went and what was/wasn’t successful
12/15
Create documents about experiments to add to exhibiton binder and
12/16
Research more about famous painters of the 1930’s in Spain and art in that time period
12/17
Practice with Charlotte for exhibition
12/18
Exhibition Runthrough
- What are the step by step Procedures you will take to investigate your Inquiry Question? -See experiment directions
- What Materials do you need? -gum arabic, honey (maybe), pigments, boiling water, pestle, mortar, muslin or cheesecloth, watercolor pans, glycerine (if needed), eggs, mixing bowls, paintbrushes, food color/liquid watercolor (maybe), cardstock/heavy weight paper
- What Safety precautions do you need to take? - The only precautions I really need to take are gloves, goggles, and an apron.
- How will you make your Observations and record your data? -I have an entire day dedicated to reflecting on my labs and recording my data and observations
- What do you hope to Conclude? - I hope to conclude that watercolor is easier to make, easier to use, and more dependable than egg tempera paint
- What will your final product be? - My final product will be two different sets of paints, one watercolor and one tempera
- What will you Exhibit on Thursday December 18th? - I will have my watercolor out with the painters because egg tempera doesn’t have a long shelf life
- What Research are you basing your Project off of?
- While it was once a popular medium that reached its peak during the Renaissance, egg tempera fell out of favor with the rise of the more versatile oil paints
- homemade egg tempera can only be used for a single painting session
- In some ways, egg tempera shares more commonalities with pastels or colored pencils than with acrylics, oils, or watercolor paints
- Egg tempera dries quickly, making it difficult to blend edges. Instead of blending the paint softly with a brush — as with oil painting — the different values of color must be mixed and applied near or on top of one another to create transitions in hue or value
- Please provide a sketch of your Experimental Setup (Please consider and explain the amount of space you will need to conduct your experiment. Draw it out and list all items you will need: 1 table, 2 chairs, 3 beakers, etc)