--Started our first fresco today! We are painting on a 9 by 9 inch tile. Fresco means “fresh” in Italian because fresco painting involves painting onto a wet/fresh of plaster (a mixture of water, sand, and lime—not the fruit!). The paint that is used is actually just colored pigment, that is similar to fine, colored sand. You mix these pigments with water, and then paint onto the fresh layer of plaster.
For our first fresco, the assignment was to make a geometric design. We completed half of the piece today, and will complete the other half next week.
my tile (left), my painting sketch (top), colored pigments on palette (right)
my tile with half of the fresco plaster
the first completed half of my fresco
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