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

Russian orthodox art. Sergey and Olga Cherniy workshop icons. Church painting. The burning bush
Russian orthodox art. Sergey and Olga Cherniy workshop icons. Church painting. The burning bush
Russian orthodox art. Sergey and Olga Cherniy workshop icons. Church painting. The burning bush

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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