Another Brush with God: Further Conversations about Icons - Softcover

Pearson, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819222984 ISBN 13: 9780819222985

Publisher: Morehouse Publishing, 2009

• Introduces readers to a more advanced level in icon development, exploring more complex imagery and skills
• Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product
• Includes eight full-color plates of the author's original icons

This is the sequel to the authors previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of the new book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy and use as the basis of their own icons, providing a unique and much-requested resource.

Chapters and topics include:

1. Introduction and contemporary reflections on iconography, spirituality, and technique.
2. Highlighting folds on full-length figures, including black and white renderings of draped legs, arms, and torsos.
3. Architectural and landscape renderings in Byzantine iconography, including background shadow and highlighting techniques, plus inverse perspective.
4. Festal icons, involving multiple figures, landscapes, architecture, furniture, vegetation, and animals.
5. Construction of heads, figures, and analysis of whole compositions, sacred geometry and proportion.

Review:

"Another Brush with God provides a unique and much-requested resource. Pearson provides tips that enable readers to tackle any icon with confidence. Above and beyond all the technical details, using this book inspires readers to fall in love with iconography, engaging with this ancient discipline that will enrich them for many years. Readers, whether advanced beginners, intermediate, or advanced iconographers, may also discover how painting icons helps them to pray more deeply and that by painting the saints, they become more saintly." --SirReadaLot

"Peter is a gifted teacher who has democratized contemporary iconography. You're turning the pages of beautifully clear evidence in your hands right now. His teaching methods and style make iconography simple, albeit not easy. Here, in his second book, Another Brush with God, you'll find detailed instructions for painting icons with traditional images as well as guidance for creating an icon image of your own favorite saint." --From the foreword by Meredith Gould, author of The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions, Come to the Table: A Catholic Passover Seder, and Why Is There a Menorah on the Altar?: Jewish Roots of Christian Worship

• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0819222984
• ISBN 13: 9780819222985
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152