Overview
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 color and 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.
- Uncover the pictorial language and symbolism used throughout history, and look in detail at proportion, composition and geometry when creating your own designs.
- Discover the traditional materials needed for gilding, painting, using egg tempera, and varnishing.
- Learn how to prepare a traditional wooden support with gesso and fabric, clearly photographed step by step.
- Follow the extensive step-by-step guides, filled with practical insights, to create colours and highlights that really glow.
- Add inscriptions: examples are provided in several languages including Greek and Slavonic.
- Learn how to pre-varnish and varnish your icons to protect them.
- Take inspiration from a gallery of stunning finished icon paintings by modern artists.
The book, Traditional Icon Painting [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781800923942 in Hardcover by Gilles Weissmann may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
12/15/2026
ISBN-10:
1800923945
ISBN-13:
9781800923942
Pages:
144
Publisher:
Search Press
