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Painting St Milos (Miles) of Susa

29/3/2019

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.

St Milos of Susa. Egg tempera and gold leaf. 15x20cm. 2019

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Painting St Stephen

14/3/2019

St Stephen the Protomartyr. Egg tempera. 15x20cm. 2019

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Painting St John the Forerunner

9/3/2019

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.

St John the Forerunner. Egg tempera and gold leaf on linden wood panel. 16x28cm. 2019

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Painting St Kyriaki

18/2/2019

St Kyriaki. Egg tempera and gold leaf. 18x24cm. 2019

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Painting St Anthimos of Chios

15/2/2019

Egg tempera and gold leaf. 15x20cm. 2019

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Painting St Xenia of St Petersburg Step-by-Step

29/1/2019

Egg tempera and gold leaf on linden wood panel.
16x28cm
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Painting St Efraim the Syrian

26/1/2019

St Efraim the Syrian. Egg tempera and gold leaf. 15x20cm. 2019

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Painting Christ the Prince of Peace (No. 3)

26/1/2019

Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace. Egg tempera. 20x25cm. 2019

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Painting Sts Dionysios the Areopagite and Philothei of Athens

25/1/2019

Painting two Athenian Saints, Dionysios the Areopagite and St Philothei, step-by-step.

St Dionysios the Areopagite. Egg tempera and gold leaf. 15x20cm. 2018

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St Philothei of Athens. Egg tempera and gold leaf. 15x20cm. 2018

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S3 Tutorial 3 "Creating Volume with line" now available on Patreon!

2/10/2018

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.
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