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May 13-14, 2006 Hands on Fresco Demonstration  Workshop

Artist Jesse Demolli helps students to create a fresco painting of San Joseph.

Painting a fresco is not romantic work, its dirty, its wet, its physical labor and it takes more than one person to create a true fresco. Fresco in Italian, literally means fresh and in art it means wet plaster.

Applying the the Scratch coat directly on the wire mesh. (preparing the arriccio)
The final  coat, (Intonaco) made of  very fine sand and lime putty is applied on top of the arriccio
preparing the cartoon by using the traditional method of scaling-up proportionally with a grid.
The cartoon is a drawing of the image that will be transferred to the Intonaco
Once the cartoon is done, a needle is used to prick holes around the sketch in a process called  "punteggiare"
Students preparing the cartoon
This technique allows the image to be transfered into the fresh intonico.
A small bag of powered charcoal is dusted over the holes in the paper. This process is called "spolverare" .

Sara working on the background

Joe Patch filling shades of San Joseph

Anne Feinestein working on the details
   Jesse Demolli Highlighting the Fresco
Luba Piergola and Anne Feinstein
 works on a small  fresco

To truly understand the fresco,  you have to do one.


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Artist Jesse Demolli with Honorable Stefano Mistretta, The Consul General of Italy.
May 12, 2006, Wheaton Arts and Culture Center, Millville, NJ.

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