2024 Fall Beginning Iconography Level III

Description

BEGINNING ICONOGRAPHY LEVEL III students will prayerfully transform a blank gessoed icon board to an icon of Christ Pantocrator (Ruler of All).  This class is open to students who have completed Beginning Iconography Levels I and II. Beginning Iconography Level III is the next step in acquiring skills required to create the second element of a three-piece Deisis for your personal home altar.  (Theotokos, Pantocrator & St. John the Baptist)

This class instructs on the bust figure icon of Christ typically found in the apse of a Byzantine or Orthodox Church and focuses on the acquisition of following skills:  how to execute garments specific to Christ, the blessing hand gesture, the Gospel book with inverse perspective and the highlighting technique of gold assist. As with our other Beginning level classes, students will prepare the icon board, transfer the image, draw in the Byzantine style, gild, and paint in egg tempera, while learning the theology of the icon, offered in a quiet, contemplative environment conducive to meditative prayer.

This class meets on Wednesday evenings from 6-8:30pm.

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