The 20 Saints for the city of Palermo.

The post is dedicated to tools for making icons, especially a mahlstick and how to make one. A handmade maulstick is an essential tool for painting icons. It…

How to create a Silk effect by adding color layers in egg tempera. Its about using “opposite” color  values in painting the sucessive layers on an icon

Wax on, Wax off . Almost like in the movie when Varnishing an icon with bee’s wax. The a mixture of white beeswax with pure turpentine one of the most tradit…

Whats the relation of St Mary Magdalene and Red Color? Why red and what type of red when it comes to the garments of the Saint, Equal to the Apostles?

 The Theory behind Sinaxis of the nine orders icon. The byzantine icon depicts the moment where Satan, Lucifer, fell away from God (and drew a part of the an…