dear ilia,

thank you so much for your message...i promise you did not offend me at all and i as always so much appreciate your input and the time you give me directly and through this site with advice and encouragement...that is truly a wonderful service to all of us. i hope to learn more about all different techniques in fresco painting and am moving forward in it with great enthusiasm...i will be traveling to italy on thursday, then on to nepal....in italy one of the things i will be doing is spending some time at san servolo for a 2 week course in fresco, including some training in restoration techniques (which is my background). i hope to come away with a more solid feeling of what is possible in fresco painting and to have a lot stronger sense of how to work with the materials.
as i said before i am really grateful to you for all of your help, and i will continue to seek it i am sure!
with warmest regards
karla refojo