This Spring and Summer our classes in Los Angeles Will be held at the following dates:
May 13th, Fri. - 17th, Mon
June 3rd, Fri. - 7th, Mon
June 17th, Fri. - 21st, Mon
These courses consist of up to five days of intensive instruction where you will learn how to create true (buon) fresco as artists have done for centuries. At the end of June we are scheduled to go to the Fauxcadamy Awards in Las Vegas to hold a "Fresco Painting - Contemporary Tradition" demonstration, seminar/lecture, and to judge the Awards' entries. Soon after the conclusion of these events we will begin a large scale fresco project in a church in Baltimore. These events will unfortunately keep our regular workshops schedule unclear for the rest of the summer and fall. Unfortunately, we will be able to enroll only 20 people for this set of classes - it is our policy to deliver the maximum undivided attention to each by keeping our workshops within 5-7 artists per class.
Workshop configurations consist of 1 to 5 day classes:
To enroll and/or learn more - click here
To see and hear via downloadable video interviews what others have to say about our program - use this link.
or start at our Fresco Workshop's home page http://FrescoSchool.com
"I recently attended Los Angeles fresco workshop that was a whirlwind of education. Both fast paced and entertaining, it was an experience that I found invaluable. Coming to the workshop with a limited background in painting, and even less experience in fresco, iLia quickly transported us into a world that I thought only existed centuries ago. After several years of research on my own and a lengthy period of trial and error, I was finally given the answers to the questions that I was unable to find in the limited resources available to those of us who are seeking to learn the secrets of this age-old art form.
Thank you iLia, Ian, and Glenn. I learned a great deal, and had a wonderful time!"
Mitchell Nussbaum
iLia Anossov believes that most efficient way to introduce artists to a new and complicated medium such as Fresco as well as explain and demonstrate techniques of the Masters is to allow students to work from the images of their own selection. Images and styles that each student feel comfortable with and had painted in other mediums. During the workshop Mr. Anossov is working individually with each student. His guidance and advice are targeted specifically to the individual student and his/her personal style. With this approach each student has an opportunity to learn the techniques of the Great Masters within the comfort of their own style and/or their own selection of the image.
Although during the class students paint small-one day frescoes, iLia explaines in great detail the process of creating a large composition, using his original works as well as specialy prepared displays. As a result every student completes the workshop inspired to continue, achieving the result they did not think was possible on the first try. Many students come back again and again to explore and practice more or to take an advanced, "multiple giornata" class.
As a student you will go through all the steps of buon fresco painting: design and preparation of the cartoon, mixing colors and grinding pigments, building plaster coats and laying of the intonaco as well as learning the methods of trimming and joining giornatas and climate/moisture control. You will practice building of the color and working with values and shadows. Verdaccio - underpainting that gives depth to frescoes of the Great Masters will show you the way to achieve richness of color with transparent fresco paints as well as it will demonstrate that "classic" ways of painting in fresco as well as other mediums is not limited to a classic style.
It is hard to underestimate the role of correctly prepared and applied fresco plaster for the successful fresco. "My father never talked about other fresco artists, all we could hear was about his plasterer" - said Mr. Zakheim about his father WPA fresco artist and activist Bernard Zakheim. iLia Anossov pays the same respect to his - Ian Hardwick. Students will find Ian extremely fit to get them ready to work on their own after the workshop. Every little detail will be explained and demonstrated.
There is a highlight of Los Angeles Buon Fresco Weeks - lecture on fresco relocation/restoration Nathan Zakheim, a leading fresco restorer/conservator.
Removal of the fresco required custom engineering and building of heavy-duty crates as well as supports, coatings, and removal techniques designed and invented by Nathan Zakheim to safely "cut" the fresco off the original wall-beams pack and transport to his studio. Fresco painting is a family tradition for Zakheims, Bernard B. Zakheim, Nathan's father, was a renowned fresco artist of WPA era, and one of the organizers of Coit Tower Fresco Project in San Francisco. Nathan Zakheim begun his career as a restorer at the age of 22 when the building with three frescoes by his father was declared to be unsafe and scheduled for demolishing. At that time there was little knowledge and experience in relocating frescoes in America and even less people to do it. The building demolishing timeframe was near. Bernard Zakheim almost gave up hope to save his frescoes. "I had to do something to save my father's work!" - Nathan Zakheim.
Learning the foundations of Fresco Painting not only enables you to paint in true (buon) fresco technique but also clarifies many areas of mural painting and faux techniques and applications providing you with know-how of the old masters. As reference, see our studio's latest project - over 27,000 sq. feet of hand painted "trompe fresco" decor for this year's Academy Awards® Governors Ball. More pictures from this project available here (iLAdesigns.com)
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