2025 Spring Beginning Iconography Level II

Description

BEGINNING ICONOGRAPHY LEVEL II students will prayerfully transform a blank gessoed icon board to an icon of Theotokos in Supplication (Hagiosoritissa).  This class is open to students who have completed Beginning Iconography Level I.  Beginning Iconography Level II is the next step in acquiring skills required for progression to Intermediate instruction.  Students acquire the following skills by writing the bust figure icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary:  how to gild the background, how to execute a dynamic, ¾ turned figure and face, how to address a smaller turned face, and hands. As with Beginning Level I, students will prepare the icon board, transfer the image, draw in the Byzantine style, gild, paint in egg tempera, while learning the theology of the icon, offered in a quiet, contemplative environment conducive to meditative prayer.

This class offers student the opportunity to write the first of three Deesis icons (Hagiosoritissa, Christ Pantocrator, St. John the Baptist) as the first step in creating a home altar.

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

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