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An inspiring, detailed and fully practical guide to traditional icon painting: learn step by step how to paint your own stunning icons that glow with rich colour and pictorial symbolism.
'This book demonstrates that icon painting remains a vibrant, living artistic style, offering techniques which modern artists can usefully utilize.' Monstersandcritics.com
With superb new photographs and 16 additional pages, this revised edition of Gilles Weissmann’s best-selling title celebrates icon painting and its rich history. Focusing on the traditional methods of sacred art, this detailed and practical guide covers every relevant element.
Take inspiration from a gallery of stunning finished icon paintings by modern artists.
Revised, updated and expanded edition of Techniques of Traditional Icon Painting (9781844487943), 2012.
Introduction 5
Origins and principles 7 The incarnation 7 The tradition of the holy image 9 The icon’s pictorial language 12
Tools and materials 17 The panel 17 Drawing materials 18 Gilding materials 18 Painting materials 18 Pigments 19 Varnishes 19
Choosing a subject 21
Preparing the panel 25 Choosing the wood 25 Preparing the support 25 Preparing the glue 28 The gluing process 28 Attaching the fabric 29 Adding the gesso 30 Sanding 33
Byzantine drawing 35 The Byzantine style 35 Drawing on paper 40 Drawing with a paintbrush 44
Gold 49 Applying gold with oilbased size 49 Applying gold leaf using water gilding 51
Colour and light 53 A radiance of colour 53 Traditional use of colour 54 The iconographer’s palette 54 Opening the icon 57 The shadows 58 Facial highlights on paper 62 Adding the highlights to your icon 64 Adding the final touches to the figures 78 Using the drybrush technique 81 Other icons, stage by stage 86
Inscriptions 109 Adding the name 109 Examples of inscriptions 109
Olifa and varnish 115 Pre-varnishing 115 Olifa 115 Varnishes 116
Gallery 118 Author's icons 118
Bibliography 139
Acknowledgements 141
An iconographer's prayer 143
Gilles Weissmann studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, exploring Egyptian painting, sculpture, Chinese Buddhist, Mesopotamian and Roman art. He then studied icon painting and became the assistant of Professor Geneviève Gouverneur. He now has his own studio and school of iconography in Paris: l'Atelier Iconês Anastasis where he teaches and paints.
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