Peter Pearson 
Another Brush with God [EPUB ebook] 
Further Conversations about Icons

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Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product. This is the sequel to the authors previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of this 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. Includes eight full-color plates of the author’s original icons.
Chapters and topics include:


  • Introduction and contemporary reflections on iconography, spirituality, and technique.

  • Highlighting folds on full-length figures, including black and white renderings of draped legs, arms, and torsos.

  • Architectural and landscape renderings in Byzantine iconography, including background shadow and highlighting techniques, plus inverse perspective.

  • Festal icons, involving multiple figures, landscapes, architecture, furniture, vegetation, and animals.

  • Construction of heads, figures, and analysis of whole compositions, sacred geometry and proportion.

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    About the author

    Peter Pearson is a well-known American iconographer. Through monthly icon-painting workshops around the country, plus frequent speaking engagements at diocesan conferences and other events, he has worked with thousands of students. A former Benedictine monk, he now serves as a priest in the Diocese of Bethlehem.

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    Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 152 ● ISBN 9780819226853 ● File size 3.1 MB ● Publisher Church Publishing Inc. ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2771295 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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