“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. Our curriculum 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.

 Paintings as well as drawings created in oil or other non-fresco mediums have a relatively short life time and examples can be traced back only several hundred years, reproductions and photographs even less. Historically frescoes were the only remaining “records”, references to the techniques, methods and styles used by the artists of the past becoming the ultimate “test books” serving artists through tenth of thousands of years. 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 visual arts mediums. The fresco experience an artist receives using our “Buon Fresco Foundations” video tutorial 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 fresco study, the 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 most efficient drafting and painting methods and systems ever known were ultimately discovered through fresco techniques because of the precision necessary and the time constraints dictated by the chemical reactions that occur during fresco painting. Known as the Classic Painting system/technique, these are the most efficient and refined painting methods in visual art.