Description
This is a step-by-step Icon Painting workshop.
Suitable for beginners or for those who would like to be guided step by step to make sure that they know the process of creating an icon. Or refresh their experience.
You will be working on the image of Mother of God. You can see it in the cover photo for the event.
Author
Basia Mindewicz
Basia will guide you in the way that you will be able to introduce your ideas into the image.
The course will include demonstrations of every stage of creating an icon.
Students will be guided to complete their icons in a traditional Russian method but also encouraged to look for their own voice.
In the demonstrations, Basia will try to include her own personal style.
Stages of work include:
- Transfering the image onto tracing paper. We will use tracing paper not only to transfer the design but also to learn and explore the shape and the line.
- Transferring finished drawings onto a panel covered with layers of gesso.
- Redrawing with paint. At this stage, students will start learning how to make paints using egg yolk and dry pigments.
- Once all surfaces are covered with enough layers of ground we can start building shapes using lights. In icon painting, we don’t build shapes with shadows.
- Gilding – we will be working for real gold leaf. You will be guided step by step in this process to learn the traditional method of gilding. We will be working with oil gilding.
- Applying final lights and highlights. Finishing.
- It is recommended to wait at least a few weeks before varnishing the finished icon painted in egg tempera. Guidance and demonstration will be provided.
Materials needed for the Course:
You don’t need all materials for your first session. It will be an introduction. Please contact us if you want to sign up but not sure if you manage to get all materials before the start of the course.
- https://www.stonehouses.co.uk/gilding-restoration/gold-size/japan-gold-size/60ml-japan-oil-based-gold-size.html gesso panel – 15/20 cm – Your options – order from us – £25 – MDF gesso panel – https://edinburghiconpainting.org/product/traditional-gesso-mdf-panel/ or 8/10 inch from https://www.jacksonsart.com/ampersand-gessobord-panels
- A4 tracing paper
- Brushes – squirrel – sizes 2,3,5 and kolinsky size 1 (recommended kolinsky brush https://www.jacksonsart.com/jackson-s-kolinsky-sable-brush-round-size-1
- Pigments – basic set – Titanium white, Cadmium Red Light, Ultramarine Blue (Red Shade), Chromium Green Oxide, Yellow Ochre, Red Ochre, Cyprus Burnt Umber, Raw Umber Greenish, Mars Black or Black Iron Oxide. You can buy it here. You need only the smallest containers. https://www.jacksonsart.com/jackson-s-artist-pigment
- For gold gilding – transfer gold leaf here https://www.stonehouses.co.uk/gold-imitation-leaf/gold-leaf/gold-leaf-transfer/23-75ct-transfer/23-75ct-extra-thick-transfer-5-leaves.html, – gold oil size – https://www.stonehouses.co.uk/gilding-restoration/gold-size/japan-gold-size/60ml-japan-oil-based-gold-size.html , – hard brush – bristle brush size 3 or size 4 here BRUSH , – shellac – https://www.stonehouses.co.uk/gilding-restoration/shellac-varnish/60ml-shellac-varnish.html, – surgical spirit for cleaning brushes.
- Ceramic palette.
You can also now order our Starter Set. It will cover the most important materials. Have a look here
We now post these world wide.
Gilding Materials are not included in the Set.
Some materials are very specific so we found where you can buy those in the USA for those who are based there and want to join one of our classes or workshops.
You can buy this set
https://www.naturalpigments.com/koo-schadler-workshop-sets.html
Gold leaf here
http://www.sinopia.com/Best-Quality-Gold-23-Karat-Transfer-Patent-Leaf
Shellac. The smallest container here.
https://easyleafproducts.nnigroup.com/product/shellac-amber-liquid/
Oli Gold Size here. The smallest container. If you find even smaller get this. We only use very small amounts of the size.
About your teacher
Basia Mindewicz
born in 1978 in Warsaw, is an icon painter and contemporary artist. She was trained in Poland in the College dedicated to iconography. Studying ancient techniques of egg tempera and gold gilding. For many years she has been mainly working in a very traditional style learning the language of the icon. When she came to Edinburgh she started exploring other ‘’languages’’ searching for more personal and contemporary ways of depicting similar reality. Her development as an artist is a process of uncovering a truth about who we are as human beings and what we need to become whole. Icon painting as a spiritual practice grows in silence and stillness.
Graduated from The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education, MA and College of Iconography (Policealne Studium Ikonograficzne) in Bielsk Podlaski in 2008.
She has been working for major icon-painting workshops in Poland. Organized many private workshops and residential courses.
Workshops in Poland:
Droga Ikony (The way of Icon) http://www.drogaikony.org.pl/
Studium Chrzescijanskiego Wschodu (School of Eastern Christianity)
Founder of Edinburgh School of Icon Painting.
Watch Live Videos with a demonstration of the process here.
https://www.facebook.com/EdinburghSchoolOfIconPainting/live_videos/?ref=page_internal
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