Description
Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product. This is the sequel to the authors previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of this book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy and use as the basis of their own icons, providing a unique and much-requested resource. Includes eight full-color plates of the author's original icons.
Chapters and topics include:- Introduction and contemporary reflections on iconography, spirituality, and technique.
- Highlighting folds on full-length figures, including black and white renderings of draped legs, arms, and torsos.
- Architectural and landscape renderings in Byzantine iconography, including background shadow and highlighting techniques, plus inverse perspective.
- Festal icons, involving multiple figures, landscapes, architecture, furniture, vegetation, and animals.
- Construction of heads, figures, and analysis of whole compositions, sacred geometry and proportion.
Author: Peter Pearson
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.43h x 8.35w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780819222985
ISBN10: 0819222984
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Subjects & Themes | Religious
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Art | Techniques | Oil Painting