"Our goal is to see fresco being painted in every town"
The Fresco School
Established in 1996 in Los Angeles by
fresco artist iLia Anossov (fresco), formerly known as "Nationwide Fresco
Painting Workshop Program". Hundreds of students have
attended our workshops enrolling from US, Canada, Europe. Fresco School
is the only Art School that offers ongoing fresco curriculum throughout
the calendar year. Our buon fresco technique programs have
traveled to many US cities.
If this is your first visit,
please learn about the school and our programs by visiting the link below:
"In order to succeed in fresco, the one should understand it's medium."
Michelangelo
Our curriculum explores The Medium of Fresco where pigment is bound to the surface via
the process of carbonation of calcium hydroxide in the wet plaster.
It is focused on the
traditional buon (true) fresco technique (What is Fresco? - Fresco Painting Introduction article). Fresco School offers a full
spectrum of boun fresco workshops and classes from introductory level lessons
to advanced fresco programs and private fresco tutoring as well as DVD Video Fresco Painting Tutorials. Our curriculum
also includes
supplemental fresco restoration and mural painting seminars.
Fresco = Green
The True Green & Organic Method of Painting. As Applied and Fine art industries in modern society move more toward the use of green products, fresco stands as the original and truly pure "organic" method of painting. Fresco painting uses no petroleum-based solvents, glues or synthetic materials, therefore, none of the toxic fumes associated with volatile organic compounds (VOC's) are created. True frescoes are made of slaked lime (calcium hydrate) and paints prepared from natural pigments. Pigments, a ferric oxides, ochres, umbers are made of minerals and various clays. Calcium hydroxide, or lime patty, is not only a crucial element for plaster, but also has been used in agriculture as soil conditioner since the beginning of written record. Any plaster and paint debris from fresco painting can be dispersed safely and harmlessly into the ground since it contains only natural elements that directly benefit the earth, came from the earth and essentially "the earth itself" (clays, ferric oxides, calcium carbonate, sand).
Enrollment
Enrollment is open year around for
everyone, class limits, schedule, descriptions, fees and availability
are listed on corresponding pages of this site (see menu on the left).
You can choose from:
Private Programs - predefined sets
of private (one-on-one) classes and assisted studio sessions spread
over time with customizable schedule.
Workshops - grouped
together sets of consecutive classes offered periodically with fixed
schedule.
Classes -
segments of programs and workshops that can be attended
individually.
Supplemental Seminars -
conference style lectures on fresco painting related topics
conducted by expert professionals.
Why Fresco?
Paintings as well as drawings created in oil or other non-fresco mediums have a relatively short life time. Examples of which can be traced back only for a several hundred of years. Historically frescoes were the only remaining "records", references to the techniques, methods and styles serving artists as the ultimate "study books". Since the Renaissance Fresco is referred to as "The Mother of All Arts".
Even a brief experience in fresco will dramatically improve your work in other mediums. The fresco experience an artist receives using our "Buon Fresco Foundations" video tutorials and/or attending a fresco workshop is invaluable for a better understanding of the classic principles of visual arts as it applies to painting and drawing. During just a few days of a hands on fresco class, intricate and refined technical details of any medium become evident to the student, while it can take years to understand the same principles when using other mediums.
The time constraints dictated by the chemical reactions that occur during fresco painting demanded efficiency and precision. Classic Painting system/techniques developed through fresco are the most efficient and refined painting methods in visual art.
Contact
To contact Fresco School use
Contact Form or call:
(310) 779-5079 10 AM - 6 PM PST