part 4 | Painting The Light

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How to paint a Byzantine Icon

Intro and Thank You

Intro and Thank You note (5:17)

Getting Started

Learning basic facial characteristics (8:04)
Pigments to use (3:14)
Brushes to use (3:53)
Boards (0:43)
Make egg tempera solution (4:38)
Practice excercise (24:50)

Drawing the Subject

Make a grid on the reference print (7:01)
Draw figure from grid (29:47)
Make transferring paper and trace (6:31)
My drawing
The Icon of Theophanes
Detail of icon
The face of Christ Upclose
Drawing expressions (13:17)

Halo and gilding

One way to make Halos (12:16)
Apply gold (29:39)

Start painting!

Begin with the gilding on color part (40:28)
Don't forget the border (5:09)
Make sure gold is not an issue (3:42)

Lets go deeper!

Paint clothes - The Chiton of Christ (27:36)
Paint clothes - The Imation of Christ (59:29)

Finally the face!

Proplasmos and grapsimata (41:57)
First light of face (48:07)
Second light and psimithies (55:11)
Hair (20:16)
Hands (26:44)
Writte letters (10:29)
Painting a more complicated face (64:18)

The end...

The varnish (1:49)
Thank you...! (1:12)
The finished Icon
The finished Icon - Face

A Little Extra...

Enjoy amazing iconography part 1
part 2
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part 4
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