Fresco Painting for Home & Garden

by Sarah Hocombe

Book Overview

In this text, artist and teacher Sarah Hocombe aims to demonstrate how even an inexperienced beginner can achieve stunning results from the start.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715308386
• ISBN13: 9780715308387
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Permanently beautiful art

I am an iconographer and work in egg tempera. I became interested in fresco because the same pigments are used. I have been looking for a tutorial for this art form for years. This book is not only readable, it is informative and does not take the ingredients and methods lightly. Working in the old techniques, such as encaustic, tempera and fresco, is slow, meditative and rewarding. This book is simple and beautiful enough for my grandchildren to enjoy and technical enough for me to use successfully to teach myself. Only problem is British material sources. There are a couple of suppliers in the USA.

finally a correct book about the "affresco" tecnique!!!

I've been trained as a professional artist in Italy and currently I run a studio in San Francisco where I am an instructor at the Academy of Art College. There is a great difference between an 'affresco' and a generic 'mural' that can be acrilic or tempera. 'Fresco' is a very simple but extremely precious tecnique.I heard people calling a 'fresco' the Leonardo's "Last Supper" wich is not. The Leonardo's painting is a 'tempera', for that reason it did not last.The real 'fresco' last practically for ever (look the great 'fresco' painters like Michelangelo, Raffaello, etc. Their works still shine after centuries). Anyway, this book gives clear and unmistakable instructions to everyone who wants to learn this fascinating tecnique.Well done! By the way:knowing how the great masters did their work does not means automatically joining the Club. Got it?