Notebook

Notebook, 1993-

MATERIALS & METHODS - Painting - Fresco

Limitations & Advantages - Painting Procedure - The Wall - Sketches, Cartoons, Transfer - Secco Painting - Brick Walls - New Walls - The Aggregates - The Lime - The Mortar - Making the Lime Putty - Mixing the Mortar - Intonaco - Brown Coat - Plastering the Wall - Rough Cast / Trullisatio - Sand Finish

Pigments - Brushes & Tools - Bianco Sangiovanni

Fresco - The Wall


The wall that supports the plaster for fresco painting is usually made of either brick or metal lath. It should be separated by an air space from the outside wall of the building and so constructed that no moisture seeps through it to the painted plaster. It must be evenly absorbent and rough enough to afford a key or mechanical bond to the mortar that is to be put on it.

[Kay, Reed. The Painters Guide to Studio Methods and Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. p. 172]















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