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Fresco or Bust: 09_Fresco with marble dust
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Monday, September 21, 2009. 09 Fresco with marble dust. Painted a fresco on with marble dust and high quality fresco lime, aged 2 years, from Sinopia. On 14 September, 2009). That combination made a beautiful intonaco. Marble dust and fresco lime from Sinopia:. Soaked Hardibacker cement tile for 15 minutes:. Half scoop of marble dust:. Half scoop of Sinopia lime:. It seemed too dry to mix at first:. Thoroughly mixed, the marble dust fresco plaster made a nice paste:. Troweling polished the intonaco.
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Fresco or Bust: 03_Fresco_resources
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Sunday, September 20, 2009. I found 3 books on fresco in the University of Arizona campus library:. Fresco Painting: Modern Methods and Techniques for Painting in Fresco and Secco - Olle Nordmark. ND 2470.N6 1947. Fresco Painting - Gardner Hale. ND 2470.H3 1966 MN. Art of Fresco Painting - Merrifield. ND 2470.M5 1952 MN. Also I found the following links online about fresco:. Buon Fresco technique online tutorial, step by step guide. Fresco School at Blogger. September 24, 2009 at 1:31 PM.
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Fresco or Bust: Preface -- The adventure begins
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Preface - The adventure begins. Tanya and I drove down to Nogales, Mexico to buy a 50 pound sack of lime from the tortilla factory to make buon fresco. Fortunately, we found the tortillera,. Practically in front of the port-of-entry back into Arizona, on Buenos Aires street. I met Tanya, my co-conspirator and fellow artist, on Craig’s List). Intersection of Buenos Aires street and railroad. In Nogales, Mexico. SRC - 640 N. Stone Ave, near downtown Tucson. Fresco or Bust - Part 2.
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Fresco or Bust: 15_New School for the Arts and Academics in Tempe
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Saturday, October 31, 2009. 15 New School for the Arts and Academics in Tempe. The final quick trial sketch on fresco:. I mixed the sand and lime, one to one, in Tucson the day before, on a plastic cutting board. Then I stored it in the airtight round tub on the lower right, and further sealed the lime plaster in plastic. Here I laid out the supplies I needed to carry to Phoenix. Lime plaster in tub, trowel, Hardibacker. Cement tile, plastic box, Masterson. Light stokes in dark pigment to define form:.
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Fresco or Bust: 04_Sand_support_and_pigments
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Sunday, September 20, 2009. 04 Sand support and pigments. Fine 30 grit marble sand, bought from ATKO. In Tucson. Nordmark. Says to use washed, angular sand. I think this commercial product complies:. We are using Hardibacker. Which I bought at Lowes. I scored the board with a knife, and then broke it off, to make small tiles:. It might be easier to cut the cement board with a circular saw, to get cleaner edges. Wet the board first:. We ground Mayan Blue with a glass muller. A variety of gro und.
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Fresco or Bust: 16_Fresco in Albuquerque
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009. 16 Fresco in Albuquerque. After driving up to Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the 11 th. Of November (Veteran's Day), I discovered more fresco activity than I expected in my hometown (like the surprise of finding the Maroger. Medium experts - Siegfried Hahn and Harold Wexler. In Albuquerque a decade before). I visited with Frederico Vigil, who is painting fresco in the Torreon. Frederico Vigil learned the traditional buon. Fresco method in 1984, from Lucienne Bloch. I have previo...
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Fresco or Bust: 07_Ed fresco
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Monday, September 21, 2009. Ed did this fresco on 10 September, 2009. He spread the lime plaster on thin, and we had almost no cracks. We did leave it in a covered plastic box to dry:. We soaked the Hardibacker. Cement tile in distilled water for 15 minutes:. One lime to one sand:. Mixing with putty knife (this was Ed's innovation):. Waited until the surface of the tile dried and no longer. Glistened, before putting plaster on it:. Spreading fresco plaster on tile:. Troweled plaster on thinly:.
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Fresco or Bust: 18_Slaking -- a tale of two limes
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Friday, December 4, 2009. 18 Slaking - a tale of two limes. Time to slake more lime. We ran out of lime putty (which we slaked last March, from the hydrated lime. That we bought from the tortilla factory in Nogales. This time I wanted to slake quicklime. Ultimately I bought 2 kinds of lime in Tucson - a sack of quicklime. And a sack of hydrated lime. First, I should emphasize the basic goal of fresco - to convert natural limestone into a limestone painting. Fundamentally, it is mostly a shapeshifting.
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Fresco or Bust: 08_My fresco
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Monday, September 21, 2009. Final fresco. I don't always draw what I see:. Tile for 15 minutes in distilled water:. One scoop of sand:. One scoop of fresco lime:. Ready to mix with putty knife:. Waited for the surface water to evaporate:. Tile no longer glistened:. Mix stiff, but could be drier:. Put fresco plaster on tile:. Troweled tile. Did not treat edges, and this became a problem later on:. Tile glistened when I put it in the Masterson. Went to The Drawing Studio in downtown Tucson:.
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