Experience the classic merger of buon fresco and sgraffito in this two-week long fresco workshop in Peruga, Italy Summer 2023!

Workshop with renowned fresco master and director of the Fresco School, artist iLia Fresco (Anossov). We focus on studying the details of both wall and panel preparation as well as classic fresco and sgraffito techniques. In addition, students will further their understanding of the perspective, value range principals, the verdaccio under painting and its consequent effect on the painting process.

In the course of the two-week workshop, students will create at least, one small-scale work, individually exploring the buon fresco and sgraffito technique. We will complete a “fresco bodega” project – an eight by four foot wall fresco in the buon fresco technique, adorned with classic sgraffito elements. Students will explore classic techniques of buon fresco, sgraffito, preparatory stages and final wall painting stage.

The unique structure and location of ICA will allow us to travel to distinct locations in Italy as day trips. We will view masterworks in techniques of various schools, in order to illuminate and inform our hands-on projects. During this workshop we will travel to Pompeii, Ravenna and Florence.

iLia is one of the very few artists in the world who are the masters of the art of traditional fresco painting. His extensive knowledge of the techniques of this unique art form are much admired and sought out. He is widely exhibited in Russia, Europe and the United States.

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