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THE HIGHLAND ICON SUMMER SCHOOL 2009
Week One: Tuesday July 28th - Saturday August 2nd
Week Two: Monday August 3rd - Friday August 7th
SISTER PETRA CLARE AT SANCTI ANGELI STUDIO
e-mail sanctiangeli@btinternet.com for booking and materials information
Two weeks of private tuition. Numbers are limited to eight students, and priority is given to students coming for both weeks . This School is designed for students & professionals who are keen to learn/improve their skills in the icon but are not in a position to take up full time studies. After completing their initial two weeks students can return for extra guidance from year to year, to improve their technique and work on icons of their choice. This course is recommended for participants in the Online Icon studies course.
WEEK 1: Designing the icon, & making gessoed boards. |
This week covers the design of the icon. We study how the design of icons conveys‘ theology in line and colour’ and learning to draw the ‘podlinnik” - the basic drawing for the icon. Practical sessions are complemented by slide lectures studying the ‘spiritual flow’ in icon design, especially in relation to scriptural texts - a method vital to the understanding and practise of iconography. The drawing schola includes the brush drawing which is vital to the final ‘written’ lines of your icon. the final vital brush strokes. At least one day is spent practising the final lines of the icon with a brush on toned paper. The gessoed boards for the course are also made at this session. The gessoed board is an essential part of the both the practical and spiritual process of making the icon. At the end of the week you transfer a completed drawing to the gessoed board, ready to start your icon. CONTINUING STUDY This course gives you a basic set of ‘tools’ to continue studying the icon and practising design and brush skills on your own, or in conjunction with the Online Course/ other further studies. RETURNING STUDENTS Bring your own gessoed board/s to improve your skills/ complete an icon of your choice or complement your Online studies. |
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WEEK 2: Writing the icon.
During this week you will study writing the icon, |
During this week we get to know the traditional iconography palette, based on natural clays. At the heart of colour in iconography is the search to find ‘spiritual light’ through colour. Many of the techniques (e.g. the graded build up of the ‘lightning flashes’ and the dark/light paradox of the hair brushstrokes) are unique to the icon and evolve specifically from the paradox of ‘the Word made flesh’ and ‘sown a physical body, raised a spiritual body’ - the interface between matter and divinity. First time students work on the face of Christ. learning to develop the layered tones which produces the sense of emerging light in the face and flesh tones (Greek technique). Returning students go on to other aspects of painting technique (such as studies in the cut abstract forms of garments/landscape and architecture/melted colour (Russian technique). CONTINUING STUDY This week helps you develop your ‘toolkit’ of brush skills so that you can continue to practise on your own, or in conjunction with the Online Course/ other further studies. RETURNING STUDENTS Come prepared to work on an icon of your choice with a few spare boards. We will include colour exercises to improve painting skills for this particular icon. Participants in the Online studies are recommended to bring an icon related to their coursework. |
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Click below for pdf of Stephen Wright’s experience of writing the icon
at the Highland Summer School.
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These are infrequent - at the most one or two a year, as they can be fitted in at Sancti Angeli
skete, around commission work. Priority is given to enclosed monks and nuns following the
Online course and others who may find it impossible to be available at the usual course times.
You need to enquire at least six months ahead! e-mail for accomodation and tuition costs
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