Distemper is a decorative paint and a historical medium for painting pictures, and contrasted with tempera. The binder may be glues of vegetable or animal origin. Soft distemper is not abrasion resist
Dirk Bouts' Entombment, distemper on linen, 1450s
Distemper being used to paint a room, 1939-1945
19th-century Mongolian thanka in distemper
The distemper winter camouflage paint on this Soviet MiG-3 fighter aeroplane shows severe erosion due to weathering.
Whitewash, calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, asbestis or lime paint is a type of paint made from slaked lime or chalk, sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are sometimes used.
Distemper (paint)
…pigments, and animal glue. Hard distemper is stronger and wear-resistant and can include casein or linseed oil as binders. Distemper is an early form of whitewash, also used as a medium for artistic painting, usually made from powdered chalk or lime and size (a gelatinous substance). Alternatives to chalk include…
Three different brands of kalsomine
Whitewashers, photographed by Nicolae Ionescu [cs], 1928
White-painted trees in Turkey
A whitewashed langhuis (long cottage) in rural Verloren Vlei, Western Cape region of South Africa