Description
Also available Monday afternoons. Click HERE.
PREREQUISITE: None, only an open heart. No art experience required.
INSTRUCTOR: Meet Laurie Muench.
BEGINNING ICONOGRAPHY LEVEL I students will prayerfully transform a blank gessoed icon board to the Holy Face of Christ on the Cloth. This class is open to anyone with no art training required. Learn to write an icon in the ancient technique of egg tempera, the icon’s history, how to make egg emulsion, mix your own pigments, various methods of painting in the egg tempera medium, brush and line techniques, and gilding with 23.75 kt gold leaf – all offered in a contemplative environment conducive to prayer.
You will receive 35 hours of professional instruction in one of the world’s most ancient techniques of painting 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.
This class meets Monday evenings from 6:00pm – 8:30 pm for a total of 35 hours of professional instruction.
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Email support@classicaliconography.org to reserve your set of Professional Iconography Brushes from Russia.
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To learn more about the traditional method of egg tempera, click here to take a look at this brief summary.
WHY PAINT THE HOLY FACE? Click here to read more.
Below are icons painted by our beginning students. Many had never attempted to draw or paint before. This is not an art program. This is painting a prayer. Leave the instruction to us, just bring an open heart.
YOU CAN DO IT!
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