It's hard to believe that 1 September 2019 marks the 2nd Anniversary of the Byzantine Iconography Video Tutorial on Patreon. A huge thanks to all my Patrons, because your support is what makes this project possible. It allows me to get better equipment for video, audio and editing for improving the quality of the videos, not to mention, pay my bills.
The aim of the project is to produce video tutorials on Byzantine Iconography starting from the foundation of drawing and progressing to painting with both the proplasmos and underpainting techniques. So far 5 series of drawing tutorials, (23 tutorials in total)  have been completed and are available on UDEMY. 

To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the project on Patreon there will be  a special benefit for all new and current Patrons who sign up be 31 August. The Benefit will be announced on 16 August so watch this space!

Depending on your needs the benefits include: 

• Early Access to all the tutorials before each Series is available on Udemy
• Resource PDF with tutorial sketches and icons
• Digital Timelapse sketches showing the drawing process
• Limited Student places with a monthly assignment for correction and advice.
• Hand-Painted icons
• Free coupons for the Udemy Courses

Sign up on Patreon to learn Byzantine Iconography or simply to support the Byzantine Iconography Video Tutorial Project. Your support makes it possible!

The latest tutorial in Series 4 on drawing the full figure will be released for early access on Patreon on 4 May! In this tutorial we will be studying the vestments of priest saints and drawing the newly-glorifies St Amphilochios of Patmos!

Without the support of my Patrons this Iconography Tutorial project would be impossible so please consider signing up as either a Student or a Supporter to keep this project going. 

This icon of St Mary Magdalene is a Patreon Reward for one of my $50 Supporters. Without the support of Patrons my project to make iconography tutorials available would be impossible so please consider signing up here.

I always enjoy the opportunity to paint fairly unknown saints so I was glad to be blessed with the opportunity to paint St Miles of Susa, a 4th century Persian saint who is probably most famous in the Greek city of Patra where a miracle occurred in 1939 and is probably the only city with a church built in his honour. You can read about the miracle here.

If you are interested in learning Byzantine Iconography or want to support my project to produce video tutorials sign up on Patreon.

Having realized that it's been about 10 years since I last painted St John the Forerunner (other than in a deisis), I got the sudden urge to paint him. So here he is, step-by step.