Learn how to paint Byzantine Icons (Part 4)

This is a intermediate course (PART 4).

Please go through PART 1, PART 2 and PART 3 before taking this course.

If you are interested in painting, if you want to learn how to paint in an historic spiritual style, this is the perfect course. You will have a step by step guidance from a pro and you will learn how to paint an icon from scratch (Saint Nicholas*). This course has video lessons and a pdf file with useful infos.

In this part, you will learn how to paint in acrylics.

Let's start our spiritual-artistic journey!

* Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, prostitutes, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. He was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor during the time of the Roman Empire.Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Saint Nicholas is a popular subject portrayed on countless Eastern Orthodox icons, particularly Russian and Serbian ones. He is depicted as an Orthodox bishop, wearing the omophorion and holding a Gospel Book. Sometimes he is depicted wearing the Eastern Orthodox mitre, sometimes he is bareheaded. Iconographically, Nicholas is depicted as an elderly man with a short, full, white, fluffy beard and balding head.