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Answer for the clue "Technique of painting ", 7 letters:
tempera

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A medium used to bind pigments in painting, as well as the associated artistic techniques.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tempera (March 12, 1999 – April 28, 2002) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tempera \Tem"pe*ra\, n. [It.] (Paint.) A mode or process of painting; distemper. Note: The term is applied especially to early Italian painting, common vehicles of which were yolk of egg, yolk and white of egg mixed together, the white juice of the fig ...

Usage examples of tempera.

He painted in oil, tempera, and for glass, and is supposed to have gained his brilliant colors by using a gilt ground.

The panels were done in tempera with figures in light colors upon gold grounds.

He painted a most moving picture of a greathearted, pleasure-loving, tempera- mental man, suddenly overtaken by a passion for a lovely young girl, conscience-stricken, yet unable to resist.

She watched the way his muscles moved beneath his skin as he matched Racer's gait with a gentle up-and-down and she felt a glow of warmth that was not from the tempera- .