Another Brush with God: Further Conversations about Icons

Another Brush with God: Further Conversations about Icons

<ul> <li>Introduces readers to a more advanced level in icon development, exploring more complex imagery and skills</li> <li>Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product</li> <li>Includes eight full-color plates of the author's original icons</li> </ul> <span class="text">This is the sequel to the authors previous work, <em>A Brush with God</em>, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of the new book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy and use as the basis of their own icons, providing a unique and much-requested resource.<br /> </span><br /> <strong>Chapters and topics include:<br /> </strong> <ol> <li>Introduction and contemporary reflections on iconography, spirituality, and technique.</li> <li>Highlighting folds on full-length figures, including black and white renderings of draped legs, arms, and torsos.</li> <li>Architectural and landscape renderings in Byzantine iconography, including background shadow and highlighting techniques, plus inverse perspective.</li> <li>Festal icons, involving multiple figures, landscapes, architecture, furniture, vegetation, and animals.</li> <li>Construction of heads, figures, and analysis of whole compositions, sacred geometry and proportion.</li> </ol>