Fresco Lime Putty

Fresco lime putty, lime paste, Marmorino Venetian plaster, Italian plaster, decorative stucco products and applications New York, USA and Europe.

Slaked lime paste - aged lime is also one of the main ingredients in fine Venetian plaster products and polished plasters. Our aged calcium hydroxide Fresco high calcium lime in a putty for faux paint finishes is imported from the UK and is also used for very fine ornamental plaster and decorative plasters. We will have a new Italian lime shortly.

Lime Putties for Faux and faux paint finish - 24 kg

Fresco pictures, faux finish painting and al Fresco information supplied here is courtesy of Kim Darling, a painter who lives and works in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. She and her husband artist R. William Darling operate River Studio. 

 

Kim Darling’s student Jesse Proia learns the art of bon fresco using Fresco lime.

 

 

 

"Before" and  "After"

“Lemone” by Kim Darling

Fresco faux painting in Fresco lime putty painted on the wall of a Vermont home using Chalk Hill putty. We are very pleased to bring Chalk Hill Traditional slaked lime calcium hydroxide for faux painting and faux paint finishes to the US through our partners in the UK Ryedale Conservation. We have spent a great deal of time searching for a fresco putty of the highest quality and have found this putty to be the best when very fine faux painting Fresco results are expected. Slaked lime paste may be used for ornamental plasterwork, al fresco painting, Venetian plasters, renders and white washes. Slaked from chalk and produced in North Linconshire, UK, where the chalk has been quarried since Roman times. Our current stock of slaked calcium hydroxide putty is guarantee aged for at least 36 months. Available in 24kg tubs.

A few words about FRESCO: By Kim Darling

A well-executed fresco is a vital, immediate form of expression. Colors are fresh and pure and the calcium hydroxide slaked lime into which the fresco is painted lends a reflective brightness unmatched by other painting mediums. 

Fresco may be the earliest form of painting used by humans. Pigment, usually naturally colored earth, is ground in water and painted on a fresco prepared surface with calcium hydroxide and sand. 

The earliest “fresco's” were cave faux paintings, where the dissolved lime of the cave walls crystallized over the pigment, forming a binder that permanently adhered the paint to the wall. 

Pompeii, China, Tibet, Italy and Mexico are only some of the cultures that have for centuries practiced this painting onto man-made walls. The principle behind Fresco is basically the same as that utilized by our ancient ancestors who painted on cave walls, but aged calcium hydroxide fresco putty is the material on which the painter works. “Fresco” means “fresh” in Italian, and bon fresco (“good” or “true” fresco) can only be painted into calcium hydroxide that has not yet dried. (If another binder, such as animal glue or egg is used to paint onto a dry plaster wall, the term used is “secco” – and it’s not the same in appearance, technique or permanence as fresco.) 

The fresco artist has just a few hours, while the fresco preparation of lime and sand putty is at the proper stage of drying take in the pigment, to complete the painting. Once the mixture has set and the crystallizing lime has locked the pigment into the wall, fresco is a very durable form of painting.

Thank you Kim!

Marmorino Venetian Plasters USA!

 

Chalk Hill Lime Fresco Putty for Fresco painting and fine plaster work.

Marmorino Venetian Plasters will have a new Italian lime shortly for Fresco painting and Fresco art!

Please contact us via email or at (914) 760-1119 regarding any questions you may have. Thank you!