The hand
Most of my students, find drawind the hands more challenging than drawing the face! Here are some of the basic lines and mesurements to help you study the hand, as we see them in our iconography courses. I hope you will find it usefull. Any questions, opinions and suggestions are welcome as they help me improve, so I am leaving the comments open for you! … Continue reading The hand
Step by step: The white horse – Το λευκό άλογο
Here is a simple way to paint the white horse, as we saw it in one of our workshops. We only used two pigments! Remember the color mixing exercise from previus post? We will work with the Raw umber + Titanium white hue we created there. Ένας απλός τρόπος να ζωγραφίσουμε το λευκό άλογο, από τα μαθήματα του εργαστηρίου μας. Για αυτό το θέμα χρησιμοποιήσαμε … Continue reading Step by step: The white horse – Το λευκό άλογο
ΑΝΘΊΒΟΛΟΝ (ANTHIVOLON) – Preliminary drawing
Ανθίβολο: ένα πολύτιμο εργαλείο! Anthivolo: a precius tool! I don’t think there is an exact translation for the word “ανθίβολον”. The term is used to determine every drawing the painter creates in order to transfer and reproduce an icon. Anthivola (plural of anthivolo) were vastly used in post-Byzantine times, initially in Crete and the Venetian-occupied areas as the demand of icons through the christian territories … Continue reading ΑΝΘΊΒΟΛΟΝ (ANTHIVOLON) – Preliminary drawing
Arhontia Karakosta Iconography 