Description
Beginning Level II
Students will prayerfully transform a blank gessoed icon board to an icon of Theotokos (Mary) in Supplication (Hagiosoritissa). This class is open to students who have completed the Holy Face on the Cloth in Beginning Iconography Level I. Beginning Iconography Level II is the next step in acquiring skills required for progression to Intermediate instruction.
Skills You Will Learn
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.
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,
- how to address a smaller turned female face,
- how to paint 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.
Fine Art-Museum Quality Supplies
Just as in the Level I course, you will be supplied with historic pigments made from natural earth and ground minerals sourced from Zecchi’s Colori Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, the location of a pigment purveyor since the 1300s. Zecchi’s supplies the Uffizi with the very same pigments we provide you, to conserve the world’s masterpieces.
To learn more about the traditional method of egg tempera, click here to take a look at this brief summary.
The Week’s Schedule
Dates: August 17-21, 2026
M-TH: this special one week intensive course meets Monday through Thursday beginning with the 8:15am Mass until 5:00pm;
F: Friday’s class begins with the Mass at 8:15am and typically ends around noon with the blessing of the icons and farewell celebration.
Register by August 3, 2026
This residential iconography intensive does not include meals, lodging and transportation.
Class is limited to 10 students.
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