![]() I put two thick layers of bole down on the halo, and then a rough, thin layer on the edge of the board. Since I live in military housing, paying for others to do this for me is a great convenience. I’ve made it before, but I also like buying it ready made from Pandora because it make my house not smell gross and my stove and floors not get stained. I’ve mentioned this before in my previous icon posts, but bole is a mixture of red clay and hide glue. Gold will stick to all the things, so it’s important that you get it to stick to the only thing you want for the time being, and that’s a substance called bole. I did the same.Īfter you have your line art, it’s time to prep for gilding.Īlways get your gold down before painting. Notice how the original icon has the horse tail coming out of the border. Finished cartoon.Īfter you get a successful trace, go back in with a graphite pencil and fix some details and missed lines. That’s all work you do on top of the base layers. No need to get too detailed, because I learned early on you do too much work on the pattern, and paint over and lose all those detail lines. After that, using a dull pencil or a ballpoint pen, I go ahead and trace over the lines I need to create the line art. Then I play the corner matching game and tape the image with the carbon paper down to the panel with painters tape. I’m using an 11×14 panel for an 8×10 printout, so I need to measure that out to create my border. So, the way to do this is fairly straight forward. (I do believe carbon paper, or a form of it, is period, but let’s not grasp at straws for stunt documentation.) I’m too poor to afford skins I can dedicate to patterns, but I can use the modern method of carbon paper, which is how most schools today teach it. Note the position of the halo on each with the border and kovcheg. The same pattern, but with different colors and embellishments. How else do you think so many icons look identical, save details and color? Two icons of “Sign, Mother of God” at the Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA. I was unable to take a picture, but it was made of animal skin, and had the image punched into it so the iconographer could transfer it over onto their panel with a stylus. In fact, I was able to see an actual medieval icon pattern in person, once. You can go on Amazon right now and find dozens of books of icon patterns and line art for this purpose. While many iconographers draw their own images, the vast majority of them are made from patterns that have existed since the Middle Ages or Early-Modern period. This is tongue in cheek for obvious reasons. This post shows you the deepest darkest secret of iconography: the patterning process. ![]()
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