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Iconofile News
Tour of Egypt and Christian Art
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Saint Catherine Monastery at Sinai |
This 14-day tour planned for the fall of 2010 will visit the most important centers of Christian art (both Coptic and early Christian) in Egypt. The tour includes a tour of Old Cairo, the pharonic tour of Giza and monasteries, such as Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai and Christian churches of Cairo, Luxor and other parts of Egypt. The small group size allows us to spend time in each of the sites to discuss the history, architecture of Christianity's earliest monasteries, and the symbolism and techniques of ancient frescoes and icons.
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Fresco Painting Workshops
Buon Fresco Workshops
Willits, California: July 17-19
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Fall, To be Announced
This three-day workshop is an introduction to true fresco painting, presenting both the historical and modern concepts of the painting technique. The workshop will give you the skills needed to complete a fresco painting.
The course begins with hands-on instruction on preparing and applying the plaster. The instructor will help you to prepare the fresco cartoon from a drawing, transfer it to the plaster and begin painting the image on paper. The cartoon is a color preparatory painting of the final fresco. Once finished and the plaster applied, the actual painting begins and is completed in one day. At the end of this workshop you complete a portable fresco to take home with you. The techniques learned in this workshop can be applied to wall paintings.
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Icon Painting Workshops
Icon Painting Workshop
by Elena Voznesenskaya
Oklahoma City: July 6-11
In this six-day workshop, you use a prototype of an icon to develop skills in painting and gilding. The workshop is open to adults and teenagers. The students will learn to transfer drawings to the gesso panel, apply gold leaf, and paint in the Byzantine style. This workshop will teach the traditional Byzantine style egg tempera technique. Students will gain basic knowledge and will have the opportunity to complete an icon and take it home. All steps will be demonstrated and explained.
Elena Voznesenskaya writes icons in the Orthodox tradition under spiritual guidance and direction of the Russian Orthodox Church. She has exhibited her work in the United States and internationally in Germany, Italy, France and England. She studied at the University Icon School of Tver, Russia and furthered her experience in iconography with other iconographers in Russia. She studied icon restoration at the University of Restorative Art in Moscow, Russia. Her work resides in many churches, museums and private collections in Russia and internationally.
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Latest Issue of Journal: Icon Styles and
Icon Theology
 Now Available. This special issue of Iconofile focuses on a concern important to all iconodules: the evolution of style of the Byzantine and Orthodox icon. Among the many styles of icons, the naturalistic icons of the Synodal period in Russia posed certain problems to a small lay group whose ideas later spawned “icon theology." From the viewpoint of icon theology, ecclesiastical art of this period is condemned as "non-canonical." This issue is 32 pages and contains full-color images of icons. Order your subscription now so that you will not miss
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Icon painting supplies now available from Natural Pigments
Iconofile formed an agreement to offer its art supplies through NaturalPigments.com. All painting supplies in the Iconofile store are now available from Natural Pigments. Iconofile will continue offering books related to iconography and many new items, such as hand-painted icons.
Iconofile Annual Members will continue to receive a ten percent discount on all orders over $50. Simply use the membership discount code that you received with your membership when you check out your shopping bag at the NaturalPigments.com web site. Proceeds from sales directly benefit Iconofile's non-profit mission.
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