St Innocent of PM Face I - Original Sgraffito Fresco

Original St Innocent of PM Face I  - buon fresco sgraffito icon on 12x12 ceramic tile with marble intonaco, 2025  Created (hand painted and carved) by iLia in preparation for the Sgraffito-Fresco iconography cycle at the Project Mexico & St Innocent Orphanage Summer Prayer Pavilion. (using the same slaked lime we produce at the orphanage to paint housed for the Homebuilding) Proceeds are distributed as follows 50% towards orphanage needs and 50% towards Sgraffito-Fresco iconography Cycle at the Project Mexico & St Innocent Orphanage Summer Prayer Pavilion. What is Fresco Painting?Affresco (In English usage, “fresco”), Buon Fresco (true fresco). Painting done on freshly laid wet plaster with pigments dissolved in lime water. As both dry they become completely integrated. In true fresco (ital. – buon fresco) the artist must start applying his colors on the wet (or fresco) intonaco as soon as it has been prepared and laid on the wall. The colors can thus be absorbed by th