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Drawing Tutorials

Series 1: Drawing the Face

Course includes:​

  1. Introduction to Line, Rhythm and Drawing the Face

  2. Drawing the Face in Dynamic Frontal Pose with Curved Axes 

  3. Drawing Ascetic Faces and Beards 

  4. Drawing the Face in ¾ Pose Part 1 (Reverential Pose) 

  5. Drawing the Face in ¾ Pose Part 2 (Upward Facing 
    Pose) 

  6. Drawing the Face of the Infant Christ

Series 2: Drawing the Half-Figure

Course includes:

  1.  Drawing hands (Part 1)

  2.  Drawing hands (Part 2)

  3. Drawing the Half-figure in Frontal Pose 

  4. Drawing the half figure in ¾ pose 

Series 3: Garment Basics

Course includes:

  1. Basic Folds

  2. Hanging Folds

  3. Creating Volume with Line

Series 4: Drawing the Full-Figure (Part 1)

Course includes:

  1. Basic Structure of the Full-Figure

  2. Drawing Feet

  3. Drawing a full-figure Christ (Apostles & Prophets) 

  4. Drawing Women Saints

  5. Drawing Monastic Saints 

Series 4: Drawing the Full-Figure (Part 2)

Course includes:

  1. Drawing Hierarchs

  2. Drawing Priests 

  3. Drawing Deacons

Series 4: Drawing the Full-Figure (Part 3)

Course includes:

  1. Drawing Imperial and Noble Saints

  2. Drawing Martyrs

  3. Drawing Holy Unmercenaries (Basic Composition)

Series 4: Drawing the Full-Figure (Part 4)

Course includes:

  1. Drawing St John the Forerunner

  2. Drawing Angels

  3. Drawing Soldier Saints

Series 5: Drawing the 3/4 Figure

Course includes:

  1. Drawing the Basic 3/4 Figure

  2. Drawing the Bowing 3/4 Figure

  3. Drawing a Dynamic 3/4 Figure

Series 6: Drawing Seated, Reclining and Kneeling Figures

Course Includes:

  1. Drawing the Frontal (Enthroned) Seated Figure

  2. Drawing a 3/4 Seated Figure (Introduction to Vertical or Relative Perspective)

  3. Drawing a Reclining Figure

  4. Drawing the Burial of Christ 

  5. Drawing a Kneeling Figure

Series 7: More Figures

Course includes: 

  1. Drawing Christ Crucified

  2. Drawing a Flying Angel

Series 8: Drawing Landscapes and Buildings

Course Includes:
1. Composing an icon of the Theotokos and Christ

Series 9.1 Theotokos and Christ (Composition)

Course Includes:
1. Composing an icon of the Theotokos and Christ

Series 9.2: Prophet Elijah (Composition)

Course includes:
Creatively composing an icon with a figure and landscape elements (Prophet Elijah)

Series 9.3 The Annunciation (Composition)

Course includes:
Composing an icon including figures and building elements (The Annunciation)

Painting Tutorials

Painting Series 1 : Introduction to Painting (Part 1)

Course includes: 
​In Section 1 you will learn about the workspace and materials needed to paint with egg tempera. Then you will learn how to prepare the egg emulsion and the painting surface and how to mix the colours. This is followed by several exercises for learning brush techniques needed to paint icons. 
In Section 2 we will go into the theory of Byzantine iconography and how colour and light function in the icon as well as the question of colour symbolism in icons. 
In Section 3 we will start with a basic garment exercise to understand how the photismata are build up rhythmically by first building up the forms from light to dark. 
In Section 4 will start discovering the magic of painting with a limited tetrachrome palette, by painting a mauve sleeve, this time working from dark to light.
In Section 5 and 6 you will  discover one of the trickiest colours to paint in  tetrachrome: Green. You will learn to paint it using two different techniques.

Painting Series 1: Introduction to Painting (Part 2)

Course includes:
In these tutorials we will continue our discovery of the magic of the tetrachrome limited palette...
In Section 1 you will discover that Black+White=Blue as we paint contrasting warm and cool garments with hanging folds.
In Section 2 we will paint a white garment that allows us to practice painting a variety of folds.
In Section three we will paint  the head covering worn by women and some monastic saints and get to grips with painting curved lines. 

Painting Series 1: Introduction to Painting (Part 3)

Course includes:
In these tutorials we will continue our discovery of the magic of the tetrachrome limited palette...
Yellow garments can be difficult to paint as it's easy for them to look lifeless and flat. In Lesson 10 you will learn the secret for painting vibrant yellow garments while we learn to paint some typical lower garments that are found in full-figure icons of Christ, the Apostles as well as women saints.

While strictly speaking there are no "black" garments in Byzantine iconography, there is now an expectation that contemporary monastic saints will be depicted wearing black. These black garments often end up looking lifeless, but in Lesson 11 I will be teaching you how to paint black garments that actually look radiant.

Finally in the lesson 12, the last lesson in this series, we will be painting gold garments and objects.