2024 Spring Beginning Iconography – Level II

Description

Join us for our Iconography Level II class in which you 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 Level III.  Students acquire the following skills by writing the bust figure icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary:  how to paint a unique 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.

Just as in Level I, you receive 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.

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

Classes fill quickly. Please ask to be added to the waiting list if classes are filled.