Dear Readers, I am sharing a very meaningful and important article with students in icon class this year. The article may even lessen uncertainties about taking icon class for the reason being many fear their artistic incapabilities. Please let me expand slightly here: Anyone who wants to become closer to God through Jesus Christ with […]
Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! ” PASCHA- Elder Father Vasily Ermakov and Elder Father Nikolai Gurianov” By Vasily Bratanyuk (friend and colleague in Russia) from the book, Miracles of the Orthodox Church by Mary Efrosini Gregory, ” It is of great comfort to consider Christ’s faithfulness towards us, which He displays by giving […]
Iconography Demo And Talk With Renowned Iconographer & Instructor, Debra Korluka December 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | FREE http://info.wetpaintart.com/index.php/event/iconography-demo-and-talk-with-renowned-iconographer-instructor-debra-korluka/ FREE, but please register using the online form or call the store 651-698-6431 Meet internationally recognized iconographer, teacher and author, Debra Korluka. Debra will discuss the history of iconography and her own spiritual […]
Session 1 Icon Class has just recently ended. We currently are engaged in Session 2 Icon Class with Session 3 beginning at The Basilica of Saint Mary this coming Saturday February 20th. It is a joy to work with all icon class participants. Our dialogue is always very enriching. In closure to session 1, I […]
Dear Icon Writers, Glory be to Jesus Christ! 2015 icon class sessions at St. Mary’s GOC and Basilica of Saint Mary have come to an end. May God bless your future studies. Congratulations on the creation of your icon, for each and every icon was truly beautiful! May the journey in writing/painting your icon continually invite you to enter […]
From “A Discourse in Iconography,” by Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco Christianity is the inspiration of the world. Christ founded His Church in order to inspire, to transfigure the world, to cleanse it from sin and bring it to that state in which it will exist in the age to come. Christianity was […]
Transcendence Revealed by Jane Merriam de Vyver How dare we Break into Divine Silence With our arrogant noise When the beauty Of a song, a dance, A flower, an icon- Like the glee Of a child at play- Says more than All the world’s wise words So solemnly pronounced
I recently completed the Interior Iconography Project at St. Stefan’s Romanian Orthodox Church, in South St. Paul, Minnesota. The interior project taking place during Great Lent was to adorn the arched wall above the iconostasis with an Icon of The Holy Face (The Holy Icon Not Made with Human Hands) along with angels flanking the […]
“The mysticism of icon painting is primarily solar, of such that word’s highest spiritual sense. However beautiful the sky’s other colors, may it be the gold of the midday sun remaining the color of colors and the miracle of miracles.” – Prince Eugene Trubetskoi
From “A Discourse in Iconography,” by Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco Iconography began on the day our Lord Jesus Christ pressed a cloth to His face and imprinted His divine-human image thereon. According to tradition, Luke the Evangelist painted the image of the Mother of God; and, also according to tradition, there still […]