 The latest tutorial in the series on "Garment Basics" is now live on Patreon! If you're not familiar with my Iconography Tutorial Project here is some background: I started this project a year ago in September 2017. A couple of years previously I had made a few "work in progress" videos on YouTube and realised that there is a need for iconography tutorials that will start from the foundations that can be accessible to anyone, and so this project was born. It is not a standard weekend iconography workshop where you simply learn to trace an icon and "paint-by-numbers". It was never the tradition of the Church to make "photocopies" of old icons, but sadly this modern "tradition" is destroying the creative tradition of the Church. Every period of iconography from the Comnene to the Paleologian periods to the Cretan School has it's own style within the Byzantine system of painting and the iconographic tradition of the Church. In these tutorials you will be introduced to the Byzantine system of painting and given tools that will allow you create within the tradition of the Church. My aim is to make a series of tutorials starting with the basics of drawing icons (without which the creative process of making icons is impossible) and progressing to painting in traditional tetrachrome (using only four colours) and underpainting. Once we've learned the basic "tools of the trade" we will progress to painting a variety of icons from simple to more advanced. These videos require a great deal of time, effort and expense and like all artists I still need to pay my rent and bills. That is where Patreon comes in. If you enjoy and benefit from these video tutorials you now have the opportunity to support this work and keep it going by coming a Patron. This will help cover the costs of materials and equipment and will allow me to make more videos. Your support will also allow me to do more creative work besides commissions. You can see more preview videos of all the previous tutorials here. And click on the "Become a Patron" button to support this project and learn iconography. 
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The first series of iconography tutorials "Drawing the Face" is now available on Udemy. Get lifetime access to this course with this special offer of €29.99.  Painting Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace in tetrachrome (using only four colours) with the underpainting technique. The colours used are Yellow Oche, Ercolano Red (and Mars Red), Iron Oxide Black and Titanium white.  Underpainting: Yellow Ochre, Black and White   Red Garment Proplasmos: Ercolano Red, Mars Red and a touch of white. Blue Garment Proplasmos: Black and white Halo: Proplasmos: Yellow ochre + white Lights: white  1st Light: Proplasmos + white =a touch of black  2nd Light: 1st + white  3rd Light: 2nd + white  Blue Garment: 1st Light: Proplasmos + white 2nd Light: 1st+ white  3rd light: 2nd + white  Graspimata: Blue Garment: Black + white + mars red Red Garment: Yellow ochre + black + a touch of ercolano red  Clavis: Proplasmos: Yellow Ochre + Ercolano Red+ black Grapsimata: Proplasmos+ red ercolano + black Assist: Yellow ochre + white Gospel book: Pages proplasmos: white+yellow ochre + red ercolano 1st Light: white (diluted) 2nd light: white Grapsimata: Yellow Ochre + red ercolano + white Edge of the book: Red ercolano+ a little mars red Grapsimata: red ercolano + black Face and hands: Proplasmos: Yellow ochre + red ercolano + black  Hair: Face prolasmos + red ercolano + black Grapsimata : Proplasmos + red ercolano + black  1st Light: proplasmos + yellow ochre + a touch of white  2nd Light: 1st + yellow ochre + white  3rd: 2nd + yellow ochre+ white  I used a glaze of red ercolano+ yellow ochre + black over the hair to bring the tone down. Grapsimata (Face/beard/ hair): Red ercolano + black  Build up the grapsimata with the addition of black.  1st Flesh: Yellow ochre + white  Cool glaze (glykasmos): Yellow ochre + white+ black  2nd Flesh: 1st + white  Warm glaze (pyrodismos): ercolano red+ a touch of yellow ochre  3rd Flesh: 2nd + white  Psimithia: 1st: 3rd flesh = white Final: white  1st Flesh: Yellow ochre + white  2nd Flesh: 1st + white  Warm glaze (pyrodismos): ercolano red+ a touch of yellow ochre  3rd Flesh: 2nd + white  Psimithia: 1st: 3rd flesh = white Final: white    Jesus Christ Prince of Peace. Egg tempera. 30x40cm. 2018 Prints of the icon can be ordered here.  The first of my "Drawing the Face" Byzantine Iconography tutorials is now available on Skillshare. The rest of the series will be added shortly. The tutorials now have subtitles so they are accessible to the deaf. They will also be available on Udemy in the near future.  Get two free months of Premium Membership when you sign up with this link!
Now that we've completed the series of tutorials on drawing the face we're going to kick of the next series where we will be studying the half figure with first tutorial on drawing hands. The full tutorial will be released on 2 April. Sign up at the link below to learn Byzantine iconography or to support this project!  Painting Sts Cosmas and Damian. From the preliminary sketches to the completed icon.                  Sts Cosmas and Damian. Egg tempera and gold leaf. 23x30cm. 2018 Prints of this icon are available here.  This is a preview of the upcoming tutorial on drawing the face of the Infant Christ. The full tutorial will be available on Patreon on 2 March 2018. Sign up as a Patron to support this project!  Painting St Basil the Fool For Christ of Moscow step-by-step.                     St Basil the Blessed. Egg tempera and gold leaf. 16x24cm. 2018 Prints of this icon available here.  This is a preview of the upcoming tutorial on drawing the face in the upward facing 3/4 pose. The full 30 minute tutorial will be available on Patreon. Sign up as a Patron to support this project!  Interested in learning Byzantine Iconography? This is a rough overview of the curriculum for the iconography video tutorials I am producing on Patreon with the aim of making a series of video tutorial courses on various aspects of Byzantine iconography, starting from freehand drawing and progressing to painting with the proplasmos and underpainting techniques. I'm currently working on the fifth drawing tutorial. The exact order of the videos may change and I may add additional videos depending on what students’ need are. Without your support this can't happen! Please click the button below to become a Patron and pass this on to anyone interested in learning Byzantine Iconography or who might be interested in supporting this project.     A PDF of the curriculum can be downloaded here: 
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