Fresco School was founded in 1996 by fresco artist iLia Fresco. Fresco School is the only art school dedicated solely to buon fresco painting and sgraffito. iLia Fresco (Anossov) is the author of the Buon Fresco Foundations Tutorials (FrescoVideos.com) – a 5 volume video tutorials on the foundations of fresco painting. Fresco School offers fresco painting and sgraffito workshops, classes, courses and programs online (FrescoSchool.net), in studio, and on sites of our fresco and sgraffito projects in USA and abroad (FrescoSchool.org). Our instructors are practicing professional fresco artists, sgraffito artisans and plasterers.
 
 

 

What is a Personalized Fresco Painting Curriculum?

At the beginning and as you progress, it is next to impossible to know or guess which subjects are the most viable to you. And to define a sequence (order) they should be studied is even harder!

We Will Help!

Each student’s curriculum and study plan is individually crafted by Fresco School’s experts.
(for example – it is impossible to understand why the colors are “muddy” without first learning when the plaster is ready to be painted on – in other words if you get “muddy” colors that means that you have missed one of the plastering lessons).

List of Curriculum Subjects:

• Foundations of the Fresco Plaster
• Form and Value Range Principles, Fresco Cartoon.
• Fresco Pigments & Paint Foundations
• Foundations of Fresco Verdaccio
• Fresco Color Foundations
• Worldwide History of Fresco
• Byzantine Fresco Iconography - Canon
• Forms of Art in relation to Fresco (mural, ceiling mural, painting-panel, sculpture)
• Styles in relation to Fresco - their affect on the technical application of the medium of fresco
• Fresco Plaster Variations and Sgraffito
• Fresco Cartoon for Sgraffito
• Opaque, Transparent and Combined Fresco Methods
• Fresco PLASTER - for Opaque, Transparent, Airbrush and Combined (Renaissance) methods
• Fresco Cartoon for Opaque, Transparent, Airbrush and Combined (Renaissance) methods
• Transparent - fresco method (Rivera/Pompeii)
• Opaque - fresco method (Modern/Byzantine)
• Combined - renaissance fresco method
• Airbrush - fresco method (Siqueiros)
• Mezzo Fresco Techniques
• Support for Frescoes - Walls, Panels, Tiles, Clay Lath and 3d
• Strappo - fresco removal methods
• Secco Fresco methods

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