I am thrilled that I found you. I started to get intersted in Fresco many moons ago. Nowdays The word "Fresco" is used by the faux finishing industry for whatever looks old. Quite frankly I resent that. LOL especially that some of the teacher can't tell you what a "true fresco" is and means. 3 years ago I took 12 decorative artist to Nice. We took a class from an goverment approved teacher. I loved every minute of it. Since years I have booked teachers from Europe to teach Fresco here at the academy. I always had to cancel the workshop. I was not aware of any fresco teachers here in the US. Thank you Lord for the "PC" Alas internet makes it possible. So I am hoping to find help and teachers to teach fresco here in the U.S. I Any suggestion and help would be greatly appreciated

Happy Painting

Heidi
www.fauxacademy.com

Dear Heidi!

You did come to the right place, next two years of my life I am planning to spend teaching Fresco Workshops. The goal of our new Nationwide Fresco Painting Workshop in Your Town program is to see frescoes being painted in every town!

Our workshop offers the indepth itroduction into the Buon (true) Fresco painting and Fresco plastering techniques, Best in Class Awards, Internet presentation for the students and organizers, and the copy of video tape that will be taken during the workshop.

For the detailed information about the Fresco Painting Workshop in Your Town program, please see the official workshop pages at

http://www.truefresco.com/workshop

Additional questions about the fresco workshop should be posted in the Fresco Painting Workshop conference (accessible from the main lobby or use the pull down menu at the bottom of this page).

Ilia Anossov.

PS. Heidi, it was a pleasure talking to you in real-time!

To learn more about the real-time communication feature from "Human Click", located at the bottom of every page in this site go to the Announsements forum in the "Suggestions and Feedback" conference. Look for thread titled - "Talk with Ilia Anossov" or click the link below.
http://www.truefresco.com/dcforum/DCForumID36/5.html#

To use this feature right away, click the icon on the bottom that says "Questions? Click for live help". If the icon reads something other than that it means that I am not available at the moment, but you can still click it and email to me.

These traveling workshops Ilia is providing will be of excellent value to anyone who attends. I also have been doing fresco for a number of years, mainly in secco fresco. I am one of the workshop organizers, and being able to be a part of this is fantastic. Tell all your friends and students about it!

Where can I get the pigments you are talking about? Currently I get mine from Le Trois Matons, and have been happy with them. However I would like to find other sources and see the differences. Anyone who can help me with this would be great!

Thanks
Ciao
Carter Averbeck
www.TrompeArt.com

You should ask the manufacturer for the technical names and compare the two. I am sure if Michelangelo would have had the chance he would go for $5 rather than $500 and he perhaps did -
Yellow Ochre is Yellow Ochre regardless who sells it Kremer, Masonry yard or me:P. I've heard that the pope was very tight.
You will have to clean it though, get rid of rocks, dibree, etc.
It will also take a lot more grinding to get the color to work.
But it does not mean that every art store will sell you proper pigments, certain colors they do not carry anymore altogether.
I know about a fresco painter, Byzantine style - father Sergei, he has his favorite color called "green" (green was all that was written on the bin in masonry yard). I have my favorite blue, from the "same bin" (from a bag that looked like a bin and read blue to be exact), both of us do not want to think about what each of us is going to do when the stash runs out. Green has already been sent to Cyprus to be examined, blue is soon to follow. I was promised the sample of this green as soon as I mail the sample of my blue.

Ilia

Best regards,
Rebecca E. Parsons