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Fresco isn’t just a wall painting
Fresco isn’t just a wall painting
From the Palette
If you read “The Da Vinci Code” you probably saw the word “fresco” in reference to painting. But what exactly is a “fresco?”
If asked to define a fresco, most people would say that it’s a mural, or “wall painting.” True, but real fresco is a wall painting of a special kind. And murals are not frescos. A mural can be painted on a wall in any of several techniques, including acrylics (such as the one in downtown Van Wert) and oil paints. Most murals today aren’t painted right on the wall, but are painted on canvas or huge specially prepared boards and then glued or mounted to the wall. That makes them murals, but they are not frescos.
When people visit Italy for the first time, they are sometimes surprised to find that some of the paintings they are familiar with from reproductions in books actually cover enormous wall surfaces, the same surfaces into which they were originally painted. Notice that we use the word “into.” True frescos are actually painted INTO the wall, not onto it.
A real fresco is actually part of the wall. The painter works with pure pigment, using only water as a medium to hold the pigment. Timing is essential, because the artist paints directly on a fresh plaster coating as the plaster dries. If the wall is still too wet, it won’t accept pigment; if it’s too dry, the pigment won’t enter the plaster and will powder off later on. The painter must complete the work during the few hours when the surface is just dry enough to suck in the pigment and just wet enough to combine its own moisture with the water containing the pigment. During those few hours, the plaster will absorb the pigment a fraction of an inch below its surface, and will hold it there.
The fresco painter plasters only as much of the wall as he expects to be able to cover that day. The next day he has to chip away any unpainted dried plaster and lay on a fresh area next to the finished work. Every day’s work must be completed that day; it’s not possible to go back and make corrections or paint into yesterday’s work to unite it with today’s.
The fresco painter has to have the whole scheme visualized in detail before he works on any part of it. If the color of any area must be changed, even slightly, he has to chip off the offending part and start over again.
An additional complication is that the color changes as the plaster dries. The fresco painter is painting two pictures at once; one a picture in the colors he sees as he paints, and the other a picture in the colors he’ll see the next morning when the plaster has dried. He has to match yesterday’s colors by remembering how they looked before drying, an extremely difficult task.
Finished fresco paintings share the fortunes of the building itself. It may be neglected, abused, or cherished. If the wall cracks, the fresco cracks. A fresco is so organically united with architecture that you have to be present in the building to get the full impact of the painting. Mere pictures in a magazine or book do not give us a sense of the wall and location that are a vital element in fresco painting.
Ironically, the author of “The Da Vinci Code” was in error when he called “The Last Supper” a fresco. “The Last Supper” was an experiment by Da Vinci using tempera painting on DRY plaster. ON, not INTO. The painting took four years to complete and it was a disaster. Humidity caused the paint to separate from the plaster on which it was painted. Whole pieces of paint fell off the wall almost immediately, and it continued to flake and deteriorate for hundreds of years. After 20 years of effort, modern experts have managed to more or less stabilize the piece, but it is a faded, blurry replica of the original painting. If Da Vinci had used the true fresco technique, “The Last Supper”: would still be as gloriously brilliant as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling fresco is today.
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Date: 2009-10-04, 12:19PM PDT
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I did this, then I did that, and then this again
I guess when you live in another country your hourly play by play is interesting? But give him a break! He likes painting! Ok, Ok you dont have to read ALL of it.
Isaan Style!: Life is Good in Isaan Thailand, Beer and Painting.
Life is Good in Isaan Thailand, Beer and Painting.
As I just blogged I am officially on a months holiday from school and I need it. I did teach on the weekend but as of now I am totally a free man until the 26th of this month.
On Saturday I was up bright and early, just after 6am and put an undercoat on the bathroom walls before my first group of students arrived at 9am. I taught from 9am until midday and then had an hours break. In this time I taped in Benjawan’s bedroom as that was the next room I planned on attacking.
I could have paid some Thai people to come and paint the house for me, it would have been cheap as chips, but I have the time and I also enjoy painting. I don’t really enjoy taping and cutting in but once this is all done it is a breeze.
I finished teaching at 4pm and then went back to the bathroom and put the first coat on the walls and ceiling. I then ventured into Ben’s room and did likewise in there. I finished up around 8pm and then had the horrible task of cleaning up.
After all the hard work was done I was felt really good and decided I deserved a beer, I don’t drink very often and this is a big treat. I jumped on the motorbike and went the 1 minute ride to the local shop and bought 3 bottles of Archa beer and a few bottles of soda to mix with it.
I returned home hopped onto the sofa and didn’t plan on moving again. I had 3 English Premier League football matches to watch. I relaxed and enjoyed a few snacks and only one bottle of beer before retiring to the bedroom to watch the last match of the night between Manchester United and Sunderland and as soon as that game finished I hit the hay.
This morning, being Sunday; I was up early again and put another coat on the bathroom which is simply white. The walls before this were an off green sort of colour and the paint had been applied paper thin onto a rendered wall, no undercoat and it looked like just one top coat.
The walls were really dirty and probably hadn’t been painted since the day the house was built. These sorts of things bug me; I could have long ago scrubbed the walls but the paint being so thin I would have just had bare render.
I had broached this with Miss Noot before and was met with an angry glare and told not to waste money. So when Miss Noot went away to see her grandfather, I got to play and do whatever I liked for the past 4 days and I hope for a few more yet. I will face the retribution when she returns, hopefully not for another few days yet.
Bathroom
Bathroom
Bathroom
So the walls and ceiling in the bathroom are now white. I had some trouble as reaching the high part of the ceiling and had to improvise as I don’t have a ladder but in the end the result is okay.
Pink Bubble Bedroom
Pink Bubble Bedroom
Ben’s room, I thought that ‘pink bubble’ was the perfect colour for a Thai girl. It isn’t a bright shocking pink but a soft pink, I just hope she likes it when she arrives home in a few days or I could be doing some repainting.
I will put Ben’s room back together tomorrow morning as all her stuff in now in the lounge room, when this is all back in place I will empty our bedroom into the lounge room and then start on my new project. Miss Noot is in for a real shock when she arrives home as our room is going to be ‘blue stone’.
So tomorrow morning I will be up early again, undercoating and then applying the first coat of blue stone around 11am I hope. I will then apply the second coat hopefully late afternoon. That is the plan anyway.
Archa Beer, Lemonade and Ice
Now I am again rewarding myself with a cold beer, mixed with lemonade tonight. I had a really delicious pizza for dinner from Peppers Bakery and also some sweets as well.
I have another half of the Chelsea V’s Liverpool game left to go, I just opened my second beer of the night, the first beer took about around one and a half hours to drink, so I will have to try and knock this one off a little quicker as I want to get to sleep as soon as the game finishes, but there is also a Real Madrid game on so I could watch some of this game as well. I will just take my time and keep enjoying this hard earned reward.
Please mix me 2 gallons of any color I like
colour fo house – Webmaster Forum
hi everyone
I am going to paint my house.but I am confused which colour or combination of colour i hv use??? please suggest me the outer colour for my house.I m thinking for combination of dark choclate and light choclate and light cream colour is it o.k. or some outher colour.
What if I can paint, rub, and recite?
Bartering is back – The Irish Times – Mon, Oct 05, 2009
Irish users of Craigslist have yet to follow suit, however. The bartering section on the Irish Craigslist had only three entries last week. One man from Galway was looking for someone to finish painting his house in exchange for free accommodation in the house – he’s emigrating. A 55-year-old masseuse wanted somewhere to live in exchange for daily massages (she does stress there’ll be no funny business) and then there’s a “proactivist” in Vermount who is “working to change the paradigm” and wants somewhere in Ireland to crash for 10 days this autumn in exchange for “art, news and life from Putney”. Don’t all rush now.
Two colors from one can of paint?
When painting an exterior door, the more paint you paint on will make it darker? | Cost to Paint a House – Answers
When painting an exterior door, the more paint you paint on will make it darker?
PostDateIcon October 4th, 2009 | PostAuthorIcon Author: admin
I am painting an exterior metal door the color clay pot. I am wondering if the more coats I paint on it will the color get darker. I have painted two coats on it already!
Hi,
On exterior metal, you should use a bonding primer first since the paint may not stick well or adhere appropriately.
The color should be what is advertised – it does not matter how many coats you apply. However, if it is a deep base color you are using you may need several coats to cover the door properly.
Ask your paint store for the bonding primer and if the color you are using is considered deep base.
If you need any other help, you can ask me any questions you’d like for free by going to my blog at blog.ezpaintinginc.com and clicking on “Ask Mike”.
Sincerely,
Mike
E-Z Painting Inc.
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Sharper Impressions Painting
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The Sky’s the Limit!
Things just got a little greener here at Sharper Impressions Painting… and I’m not talking about a new color of paint. The new skylights installed in our 3,000 square foot office and warehouse are another step we’ve taken to operate our business in a more environmentally friendly way.
In the past year, we’ve implemented several other green initiatives that have had a huge, positive impact on the environment.
* We erased our carbon footprint by joining Carbonfund.org
* We are a nearly paperless office thanks to our Intranet database
* All Sharper Impressions Painting products continue to be Low or No VOC
* Our bee boxes support the local honey bee population’s struggling pollination efforts
* Newly installed insulation increases energy efficiency and reduces costs
* All possible office waste is recycled
* Finally, our new skylights are installed!
With the skylights, we’re saving money by harnessing solar energy, replacing over 800 watts of office and warehouse lighting used each year. Not only was our old lighting system costly, with warehouse lights on the same circuits as other office lighting, but many times they were left on without need, especially when only one late-night worker was in another part of the building. A big waste!
We anticipated saving the use of only four large high bay lights. However, after installation, we are surprisingly proud to announce, that NO lighting needs to be turned on in the office during the regular work day. The skylights have been a great addition to our green efforts.
Aside from the economic and financial positives, the skylights improve our office atmosphere. There’s an outdoors-y feel and a calming view of clouds passing by. Employees who work on the second floor no longer have to contend with the bright, glaring electric light and all of us have noticed the absence of that annoying “buzz” from rows of fixtures. Overall there’s a cozier, more natural feeling to our workspace. Stop by to see us, anytime!
While the profit from electrical cost-savings won’t be seen for about 8 years, we feel pretty good about doing our part to help operate an eco-friendly business and… getting closer to nature at the same time.
interior of restaurant wall paint color may be change automatically and continuously,
Ultra Modern Switch Restaurant Arabic Interior Design – newhouseofart.com – Home Decorating and Accessories For Your Dream House
Most excellent and futuristic restaurant interior design located in Dubai, UAE by Karim Rashid called Arabic Switch Restaurant with ultra modern and luxury design. This is new innovation idea for modern and minimalist interior design for a restaurant. Why it is called “Switch”? Because the interior of restaurant wall paint color may be change automatically and continuously, from time to time it colorized in violet, yellow, green even blue. The designer want switch to be a physically powerful, regular vision collected of a permanent, rolling wall that wraps approximately the room. The restaurant interior design makes an attractive texture for light and shadow, suggesting the sand dunes in the desert. It is an exclusive environment of regularity and steadiness that totally encloses the guests. Each experience is calm of smells, views, tastes and sounds; here, the mind makes personality backgrounds for a really astounding worldwide dining experience. The backlit ceiling artwork consists of stylized inspiring Arabic expressions. The incessant wave seating offers a special efficient and lively working scheme. Here is the best photos of restaurant interior design from Ultra Modern Switch Restaurant Arabic Interior Design.
Tile Fraud…Painter in the doghouse
Deseret News | Home improvement: Fixing ugly tile
By Al Heavens
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 4:19 p.m. MDT
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A couple of weeks back a reader asked me about painting bathroom tile a different color instead of spending thousands of dollars to replace it.
I have a comment: painting tile is for rentals, apartments, or old painters like me ” Yes! Really hunny, I can paint the tile and it will save us thousands, and it will look great!” never mind my wife knows better its been 26 years.
House paint = Body paint?
Paint not enough to quell Storm | Tweed Rugby League | NRL Rugby in Tweed | Tweed Daily News
With bodies painted in blue and gold house paint, the boys found themselves in the middle of the Melbourne supporters area of the grandstand.
Jackson admitted they had struggled to get it off (the paint) yesterday morning before they headed out…
