The drawing surface would be delineated using gridded guidelines, snapped onto the wall using string coated in red pigment dust (very much like chalk lines used by modern carpenters). This grid helped the artists properly proportion the figures and lay out the scenes. Scene elements were drafted out using red paint, corrections noted in black paint, and then the painting was executed one color at a time. Even on carved relief, many elements in a scene would be executed only in paint and not cut into the surface. The drawing surface would be delineated using gridded guidelines, snapped onto the wall using string coated in red pigment dust (very much like chalk lines used by modern carpenters). This grid helped the artists properly proportion the figures and lay out the scenes. Scene elements were drafted out using red paint, corrections noted in black paint, and then the painting was executed one color at a time. Even on carved relief, many elements in a scene would be executed only in paint and not cut into the surface.
Michelangelo works were hampered by the Pope"s urgency to show it to the public. According to Ascanio Condivi, lacking on the painting was the retouching of the work a secco with ultramarine; and other parts of the painting which should be in gold, so as to give it a richer color. After his enthusiasm to hurry up the painting, Pope <span>Julius realized that some changes have to be made, but Michelangelo thought about the trouble it would give him to reassemble the scaffolding, which he have already took down, thus, he answered that what was lacking was not important.</span>
<span>karl lagerfeld i believe </span>
