Aqua Fresco

Fresco

Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh", and may thus be contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting techniques, which are applied to dried plaster, to supplement painting in fresco. The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.

Aqua (color)

Aqua is a variation of the color cyan. The normalized color coordinates for the two web colors named aqua and cyan are identical. It was one of the three secondary colors of the RGB color model used on computer and television displays. In the HSV color wheel aqua is precisely halfway between blue and green. However, aqua is not the same as the primary subtractive color named process cyan used in printing.

aqua

Noun

1. Water (as a compound).
2. A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green, most often similar to the colour cyan, though also sometimes closer to turquoise or aquamarine.

Adjective

1. Of a greenish-blue colour.

fresco

Noun

1. A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade.
2. An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.

Verb

1. To paint using fresco.