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Forum Name: Fresco Workshop Program
Topic ID: 19
Message ID: 7
#7, RE: Fresco painting PROBLEMS explored!!!
Posted by Arty Clay Forever on 30-Apr-04 at 05:16 PM
In response to message #6
Well, I don't see any other messages here.so , I guess no one else is having problems but me!!!! That's terrific!
I am still experimenting...and the stuff is still cracking. I looked over your site again. I understood that the fresco would be quite thick...like almost an inch. Howver I notice in the panel the Ilia is painting of the woman and child in the sun that it very thin.
The cracking I am experiencing may come from being applied to thick. So I will change that....and see what happens.

QUESTION: if anyone is out there.....
Is their a physical way ..by eye or touch ...that one can tell the correct change has happened and that the colours are sealed in.

Since I work with clay I find it very difficult to keep my fingers off...even the ones that are finally very dry to see if the colour rubs off. Some of it does.
My studio while I painted last week was between 60 and 70 degrees F. I would forget to put more wood on the fire and it would drop a bit....then heat up. I found I could wait 2 hours before applying colour because it remained sticky. The last one I cut down on the water and it still cracked but it was really thick.

ONE MORE THING: while I was in Italy I saw what was called pieces of fresco for sale, they looked two inch thick and had a kind of "cheesecloth" between one of the layers (I don't think it was the bottom, seemed in the middle)...why would they use cloth?