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SIX DAYS OF CREATION courses are a unique opportunity to work closely with Ksenia Pokrovsky who attracts students from around the world. Widely known as a teacher of teachers, by the time she left Russia in 1991 Pokrovsky had trained hundreds of students, many of whom are now master iconographers in her homeland. Both novice and those who have acquired reputations as professional iconographers and teachers will welcome the depth of instruction Pokrovsky offers from her four decades of experience as restorer of 15th and 16th century icons and author of new icons.
Our courses provide training that is immediate, practicable and of the highest quality available on the American continents in terms of comprehensiveness, authenticity and faithfulness to the craft. Students receive intensive instruction in the art and language of the icon from the perspective of Orthodox Church iconography, using the ancient technique of egg-tempera and palette of gold, semi-precious stones and refined clays.
Instruction includes:
Wood panel preparation
Adhearing linen to board with animal-hide glue
Making marble & chalk base artistís gesso
Selecting a prototype and making a drawing
Transferring drawing to the board
Egg-tempera medium preparation
Grinding natural pigments to make paint
Applying basecoat color (roskrish)
Lighting the figure
Applying highlight finishes
Calligraphic inscriptions
Applying assiste and gold leaf
Varnishing of the icon
