Rieko Fujinami: Artist Technical Statement - Fresco Secco
- the past fifteen years I have developed my own fresco technique
- as follows: I attach a wire mesh to a panel and cover it with a
- mixture of plaster, sand and latex paint. Rather than smoothing
- the surface I purposely make it rough and textured. Before the
- plaster mixture dries I paint over it with persimmon tannin as a
- base color.
- After that dries, I add a mixture of pigment and acrylic color
- highly diluted with water, then remove much of it with water spray.
- I then begin adding the figure with brush or air-brush, washing and
- sanding selected areas, and repeating the entire process again
- and again, gradually building up many layers of an image.