Underpainting
Walls painting and icon painting start with elaborate underpainting. It is aimed at arranging the elements of composition, in other words finding the right place for the image of a saint or several saints on a wood panel or a wall. When it comes to evangelic or biblical scenes, then it’s necessary to situate the landscape scene and architecture. The image of the Saint is sufficiently detailed during the process. The details are especially important if we have to do with the newly canonized saints, whose photos and picturesque portraits have survived to this day. When underpainting is finished, the technique of gilding is used (if applicable). After that we begin painting the image.
Walls painting and icon painting start with elaborate underpainting. It is aimed at arranging the elements of composition, in other words finding the right place for the image of a saint or several saints on a wood panel or a wall. When it comes to evangelic or biblical scenes, then it’s necessary to situate the landscape scene and architecture. The image of the Saint is sufficiently detailed during the process. The details are especially important if we have to do with the newly canonized saints, whose photos and picturesque portraits have survived to this day. When underpainting is finished, the technique of gilding is used (if applicable). After that we begin painting the image.
The "Divine Liturgy" composition and its parts
Svyatogor elderly monks underpainting
Reverend Ilya Makeyevsky
Martyr Alexandra the Empress
Parts of The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary composition
The Entrance of St. Mary into the Temple composition
Parts of Holy Transfiguration composition
St. Andrew Stratilat
The Patriarch Jacob's dream composition
The burning bush composition
The underpainting of compositions in the porch of the Church of St. John the Baptist by the pine wood on Chernigovsky Lane, Moscow
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The icon painting workshop
by Sergey and Olga Cherniy
The icon painting workshop
by Sergey and Olga Cherniy