Icon Painting Workshop: a way of creating icons Bashny.Net

The process of creating icons rather long and laborious, requiring a high concentration of the icon painter, and takes about three months. He asks his primitive, unlike many other forms of art, which will eventually change their technique. For many centuries, the technique of iconography is unchanged and on has its own special flavor. Here are a few steps of creating icons that photographer Igor Alekseev was able to see in the icon workshop of Catherine Elias.

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2. Establishment and patterning with tracing paper on the future icon by priporoha through a stencil with pierced contours.



3. The next step - the preparation of paint and gilding, consisting only of natural ingredients in the composition of which is sometimes included and toxic substances such as mercury and arsenic.



4. To obtain the desired consistency of paints, their chimes triturated special glass, adding water to the powder state.



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10. Then, the emulsion is created, which is a binder for paint. Get it from the yolk, previously separated from the shell, and protein.



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13. The yolk is mixed with water, beer or wine, in this case, beer is used.



14. Before writing the icons, the paint is diluted to form an emulsion.



15. The final stage of writing icons - prescription face.



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17. And here is the finished icon, lacquered and left to dry.



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