LAST EDITED ON 05-Dec-00 AT 09:54 AM (PST)Hi Yoram!
I also use lime for the whites Bianco San Giovani to be exact (dried lime patty ground into powder mixed with water). But I do it differently. As I understood you paint the giornata like watercolor and then add white as a highlights? am I right?
I paint like it would be with the tempera or oils - add white into the colour mixes throughout the process, then on highlights at the end of the day. I grind "bianco" right before starting to paint and then in the middle of the day - lime "swells up" in a few hours and this is not good if mixed with in my colour tones. They become to "fat" and "drag".
The bottle rolling is a quite interesting method - it should work the same as pressing the fresco with the trowel after the painting? I am a bit hesitant to do this. Can you write more about it?
I would like to see your frescoes. Can you post an example at the "Gallery in the Cafe al Fresco (Art by Medium)" under "Frescoes" exhibition?
Here is a direct link.
http://www.truefresco.com/dcforum/DCForumID43/1.html#
Ilia Anossov