Icon Painting Materials & Resources

Pigments: Natural Dry Pigments In Earth Colors Are Suggested:

Grinding Pigments

If you are just beginning, I suggest keeping your pigments simple. The most important ones are: white, black, yellow ochre, and red ochre. A dark blue like Milori, or thalo and an orange red like cadmium red light, and a dark red like alizarin crimson would be next on your list. After that, choose colors that you like or request a suggested additional pigments list.

·       Earth Pigments

·       Icon Sets

·       Dick Blick for tracing paper, brushes, compass, aqua boards

·       Natural Pigments.com

·       Kremer Pigments

·       Sinopia Pigment Sets

·       compass with ruling pen

Naturalpigments.com , Earth Pigments- Dry, powdered Pigments: Basic colors: Black,White, Red Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Prussian Blue, Bristol Yellow. If you have a favorite color, feel free to add that to your pigments.

ICON BOARDS

·      ICON BOARDS

Hand Carved Boards by Miroslav ubmiroslav.iconboards@gmail.com

·       Etsy

·       Dick Blick Aqua Board

·       Bob Higgins rahiggins55@gmail. HE SHIPS ONCE A MONTH, ORDER EARLY.

·       Dal Molin, Italy

OTHER MATERIALS

GOLD LEAF: · Gold Leaf can be purchased at  LA Gold Leaf  The Gold leaf water-based size can be purchased at naturalpigments.com (Dux water based size) . That is the form of gilding we will do for this class. You won’t need any special tools- just the gold leaf- MAKE SURE YOU ORDER PATENT GOLD LEAF and Aqua Size . In subsequent classes we can look at different gilding methods.

EASY GESSO: use to coat aqua board or water color paper before using egg tempera. Follow Directions on Package. Natural Pigments.com

You May Wish To Bring Some Of These To Class:

·       plastic round palettes (Dick Blick), at least 3 round watercolor brushes (000, 1, 3), small water containers,   paper towels, q tips, pencil, erasers, sharpie, sketch book, tracing paper, ruler, notebook to keep notes and drawings.

HERE IS A LINK TO MY PRE-RECORDED ICON WRITING CLASSES AS WELL AS TO THE CURRENT AVAILABLE CLASS ON ZOOM

Suggested Books For Iconographers

·       Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting, by Aidan Hart

·       The Icon, Image of the Invisible, Egon Sendler

·       Icon as Communion, George Kordis

·       A History of Icon Painting, Moscow

·       The Techniques of Icon Painting, by Guillem Ramos-Poqui

·       Techniques of Traditional Icon Painting, Gilles Weissmann

·       Egg Tempera Painting by Koo Schadler

·       Eyes of Fire by Christine Hales

·       Living Craft, A Painter’s Progress, by Tad Spurgeon

·       Orthodox Iconography, by Constantine Cavarnos

·       The Meaning of Icons, by Leonid Ouspensky

·       Masterpieces of Early Christian Art and Icons, The Temple Gallery

I recently gave a talk on the Early Origins of Christian Art that you may find helpful. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/i_kKo9-Zbn0