Fresco Painting by Fleur Kelly

• Introduction: What is fresco? Why use fresco?
  The need for buildings to "breathe". Properties of lime.
  The carbonation of lime.
• Mortars, pigments and mediums
• The work: Stud frames and portable surfaces for painting in fresco.
• Mortar layers: arriccio, intonaco.
• Buon fresco painting
• Mezzo fresco
  
• Secco painting
  
• Procedures: giornate.
  cartone, sinopia and spolvero.
  
• Further techniques: stucco lucida and sgraffito.
  
• Incised and impressed three-dimensional work
  
• Specialist suppliers
  
• Basic equipment
  
• Brief history of the use of fresco
  
• Useful background reading on technique
  Cennino d'Andrea Cennini: 7he Craftsman's Handbook (II Libro dell'Arte), translated by D.V. Thompson Jr (Dover 1954). Vasati on Technique, translated by Louisa Maclehouse (Dover 1960). Ralph Mayer, The Artist's Handbook of Matetials and Techniques (4th revised edition, Faber and Faber 1982).