Description
Overall, this Fresco Workshop in Italy will focus on studying the details of both wall and panel preparation as well as classic fresco and sgraffito techniques. In addition, students will further their understanding of the perspective, value range principals, and the verdaccio under painting and its consequent effect on the painting process.
In the course of the two-week workshop, students will create one small-scale work, individually exploring the sgraffito technique and one group “fresco bodega” project, an eight by four foot, wall fresco in the buon fresco technique, which will be adorned with classic sgraffito elements. Students will explore classic techniques of buon fresco, sgraffito, preparatory stages and final wall painting stage.
Included Excursions
Ravenna or Rome (TBD)
We will also visit Ravenna in order to observe techniques as practiced in Byzantium and presently in the Orthodox Christian tradition as well as the details of wall and panel preparation. Students will consider specific methods of applying color and painting principles of the “canon” as well as discover merging points and crosspollination with Italian frescoes.
Florence
In Florence, we will look at one-layer and two-three layer classic sgraffito systems with lime-paint and plaster top coats as well as masterworks in the exterior classic buon fresco tradition and its combination with sgraffito.
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FrescoShop –
special curriculum