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Students working with Professor Hiromi Okumura. They are using small plastic cups of yellow egg-yolk mixture and various pigments to paint butterflies and portraits on white panels. A color wheel is projected in the background.

Close-up bird's-eye view of the workstation. You can see the handmade tempera paint in cups, vibrant color studies, and detailed paintings of landscapes, tigers, and floral patterns in progress.

A wide shot of a bright, modern art studio at Virginia Tech. High school students sit at long tables covered in brown paper, looking at a projector screen that reads "Complete the Incomplete Drawing."

High school students huddled together and sitting at long tables, using markers and colored pencils to brainstorm and sketch initial designs on paper.

March 16, 2026

Andrew Webb

Our MCPS All-County Honors artists spent Saturday at Virginia Tech getting hands-on with history! Under the guidance of Professor Hiromi Okumura, students learned the ancient secret of making egg tempera paint from scratch.

From collaborative sketches to a stunning final installation, these high schoolers showed incredible talent and teamwork.

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