Byzantine Iconography Tutorial. How to Paint the Icon of Saint Anthony
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In this video I paint in detail the Holy Icon of Saint Antonios The Great. I follow of the post byzantine painting tradition of the Cretan School and I try to explain the process as detailed as I can. I do hope you will find this helpful. If so please subscribe as more videos are about to come.
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"I did something pretty unorthodox." That was quite funny. Great video.
I'm not a Christian but my heart is still drawn to icons. I love that they are still made. Your work is inspirational.
Thank you so much.... That's very nice of you....
Not yet😊
you must be orthodox christian! thats the Lord who is calling you! LIFE IS PURPOSELESS WITHOUT BEING CHRISTIAN !
Strangely me too ❤ I'm Buddhist but I have always found the iconography of orthodox church soooo beautiful 😍😍😍
God bless you, for your work and your generosity in teaching!
Thank you for you kind comment!!! God Bless you!
This is astonishingly beautiful! I used to paint 'icons' when I was still at school. They are of course not real icons, but my parents still have them. This is the first time I see how it's really done.
Παρακαλώ κ στα ελληνικά, θα βοηθούσε πολύ! Εκπληκτικά βίντεο ! Εκπληκτικές δουλειές! Συγχαρητήρια!
Άξιος και κάλλιστος! Με την μαστοριά σας τα κάνετε όλα να φαίνονται πανεύκολα! Εύγε!!!
Thank you Anthony for your work and teaching
I have always wanted to learn how to write icons with egg tempura. I have mostly done mosaics and poetry. Painting is new to me but you are a very good and clear teacher. You give just the right amount of information and instruction and great clarity of demonstrating. I could never afford in my life at this moment to study but you are making my study a reality. I find your videos so helpful. God bless you!
If the saliva works, then it works! I will try that soon! I’ll be honest saying that fighting with the egg tempera on the gold leaf has kept me from using it more often. These videos are really great!
Thank you so much!!! I'm glad you find it helpful!!!
My iconography instructor found that mixing a drop of dish soap in the egg tempera also allows the paint to sit on top of the gold foil very easily. I’ve had success with that.
In the library I go to, there is exactly this icon of Saint Anthony the Great, and it is so beautiful I longed to learn how to paint one like it. Thanks be to God, you have this published this video oh how to paint him! I'm so grateful for your work, I learn a lot from this tutorial, and will be learning from your other videos too. Thank you so much and keep up the good work!
Thank you truly for sharing this with me...
This is truly beautiful! How the Saint’s face emerges with the photismata and how you have captured his ascetic expression. I’m so glad I found your channel! I’m writing my second icon after 20+ years. You make it look easy and I know it is not. Blessed be your artist’s hands.
Very fascinated by the technique and the underlying meaning of all the aspects of this icon
Beautiful work. Thank you.!❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful work Antonio
amazing video. very clear and inspirational. subscribed.
I'm trying to learn iconography, and your videos are so helpful. I just finished my third icon, and while it nowhere near something even decent, your tutorials are incredible helpful. Viewing your work and recognize what I'm lacking and what I should practice. Thank you!
God bless you Antonis, amazing work 🇧🇷
Very nice !
Beautiful job antonis thanks for teaching.❤️🙏🏼
Thank you for commenting Philippe! I am so glad you find this helpful!
Thank you very much for showing us how you do your work and explaining what you are doing. I LOVE iconography, What you do is very beautiful. Thank you.
This is a great video. Many thanks. I liked you talking about beginner's mistakes... this is very helpful. I look forward to your next video.
Thank you so much!!
merci, j'aime beaucoup ce Saint Antoine le grand.
Very beautiful work! I recently subscribed to your channel, and am very happy to have found it. I'm trying to learn to paint icons by myself, so i appreciate your tutorials. I prefer this style of painting more than the smooth style. I liked your comment about it being more painterly- i completely agree! There's no texture/visual interest in the smooth style to me. Very enjoyable to watch!
Thank you so much for subscribing and commenting! Feel free to share your progress!
Thank you for this video I’m going to start doing iconography, Glory to our Lord
Thank you!
Thank you so much! I find how you paint icons the most powerful! I would be very interested in seeing how you would paint Panteleimon in this style. We all need healing and I think it would give many of us so much to witness you painting this saint.
Thank you Wanda so much! That is a great idea...
Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing your knowledge on your great skill. God bless
Even though the video is speed up you can still see how smoothly the paint flows. I appreciated your explanations. I also agree the beard should be stylised and not overdone.
Thank you!!!
Για στα χέρια σας! Καταφέρνετε και μεταδίδετε το πάθος της ζωγραφικής. Η έκφραση των εικόνων σας είναι πολύ ήρεμη, οικεία. Η τεχνικές σας είναι "wow"! Ο Θεός να σας έχει καλά!
Καταπληκτικός ο Άγιος Αντώνιος !!!!!!.....Η Χάρη Του να μας προστατεύει !!!!!!ΣΥΓΧΑΡΗΤΗΡΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ Αντώνη για την τόσο όμορφη εικονογραφία σου !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ειρήνη χίλια ευχαριστώ!!!! Να εισαι και εσύ πάντα υγιης και χαρούμενη και να αγιογραφεις τόσο ομορφα.
This icouna of St.Anthony your patron master antonis is extremely beautiful and full of love divine and strength from him and of our religion godbless you my friend this icon you painted is my favorite!!☦️❤️💗💗🙏🏼🙏🏼
Philippe thank you soo much for your beautiful comments always!
I also felt the same the very first time I tried egg tempera! It was magical and was surprised and saddened that it had taken me so long to try this!! It will be impossible for me to go back to acrylic and oil.
დიდი მადლობა, ბევრი რამ ვისწავლე თქვენი გაკვეთილებიდან.
When I have problems painting on the border of the gilded area I use soap. Just apply it with semi wet brush and wait for it to dry.
Please I want to learn how to mix the colors because now I start to learn Iconography .Thank you very much.
I love this one maybe the most. Love the texture of proplasmos shining through the grapsimata .... it’s „perfect“ if it’s not perfect
That's a great comment!!! Thank you so much! If you liked Saint Antonio's, stay tuned. Saint Nikolas comes tomorrow in my channel! :) paint well!
@@PaintingtheLight Great! I am about to paint St. Nikolas just now! Made the drawing already ... so looking forward to see some inspiration :)
What a beautiful piece of art, thank you for sharing. As a non artist I had next to no comprehension of your art/iconography language, however I do understand putting St. Anthony's struggle in his expression (a picture speaks a thousand words). I'm a black sheep Protestant trying to find his roots in church history, understanding that we are God's icons is imperative to understanding that icons are not idol worship, as many of us Protestants presume, they are a 'thanksgiving (so to speak, and probably so much more)' back to God for 'all (creation)' He has given us using 'what (redeemed matter)' He has given us. Speaking the truth not only in word but in deed, painting an icon is worship, the art being worship from the heart, the heart Christ redeemed. Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Thank you so much Mathew!! You seem an amazing guy!!
@@PaintingtheLight just a guy with an amazing Lord.
Dear Anthony, thank you for all your videos. They are very inspiring and explain the technique of writing, and better help to understand the shape of the body in the icon. I am a monk of the monastery of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Russia and now I am learning to paint icons, I am studying at an Icon Painting school. Your videos have helped me a lot, thank you. I wish you strength, health, patience, inspiration, God's mercy and help. Your icons are really beautiful, they are very attuned to prayer and help you feel the closeness of God and His saints better. thank you.
Thank you lev! I have heard of your Monastery! My greetings and pray for me.
I'm glad to meet you! We will pray for you at the Liturgy and at St. Sergius'.
Best wishes and prayer from my bottom of heart for ur monastic life i am jibin from kerala india and iam a seminarian now i am doing theology i am also very intrested in the iconography but there is only less facilities for learn it as student of iconography can please suggest the name of the painting that are using for writing 🙏🏻
Very beautiful
Thank you very much for these tutorial, God bless you
A tutorial from a fellow leftie no less. God bless. Thank you.
Thank you so much! We lefties should unite!!!! 😁😁
This is beautiful. What a gift.
Thank you so much ❤️❤️
Keep the good work God bless you
Amazing, thank you for sharing your work ☦️☦️☦️🙏
Thankyou for this wonderful video! I've been watching it slowly all week and just finished an Icon of St Anthony tonight. I love the explanations you give along the way.
Thank you Elizabeth!!!! I appreciate your comment!!!
I love to pain religions con, i am very graetfull for your generosity .
Beautiful! And fun to watch as you work.
Like always, amazing work! Keep the videos coming ! 👍🏻
Thank you soo much for the support Leonida!!!
God bless you
Very Beautiful! I wish I could blend and shade like you.
Thank you Maryanne... Stay tuned though, a blending tutorial comes in the next videos and might help you a lot
Thank you for the knowledge!!
Hi! Nice! I'm also an iconographer (and game developer). I like to burnish my gold leaf so it looks almost like a mirror and thus the paint won't stick. When this happens I usually clean the gold leaf with a cotton swab and a bit of alcohol. It removes the oils on the surface and then the paint sticks really nice. Lovely videos, keep doing it!
Alcohol should work great! Thanks for taking time to comment and subscribe!
It’s interesting, the process seems to follow a saints path. The outline of a man appears, his face becomes covered, then through slow creation, he becomes sanctified and sainted. But his inheritance is present from the beginning in the gilding work.
Thank you for sharing your work, I’m writing Saint Anthony ’s icône it helped me a lot
Thank you for telling me this!! Please send me photo of your progress!
Very very classy, well done!
Thank you so much!!❤️❤️❤️
Beautifull!! Love your work. Keep on doing this videos! God bless you
Thank you soo much!!! I'm glad if the videos are useful to you..!
Again, a fantastic tutorial Antonis, thank you. I think I'm hooked, W
Thank you Will!!
That's a really cool style, thanks for making and sharing the video!
Thank you Thomas! I'm glad if this was of some help to you.
Thank you very inspirational 🙏
Tania Tha k you for sharing this! 😊😊😊
Dear Antonios please can you give the video about varnishing icon after painting?
Antonina.
Thank you for this
Absolutely beautiful thankyou.
Thank YOU!
Beautiful!
Very nice thank you.
amazing
Wonderful work what you are doing Antoni. After following a course on the Prosopon russian technique, where the "movement" is created through rough pigment and multiple layers, I find it very inspiring to see also how the Cretan way of icon painting creates movement: through many many small lines :). Beautiful. I also like your background voice and hints and stories. Keep doing the wonderful work...
Thank you so much Ruxandra for sharing this.... It really makes me happy you find my videos useful... And thank you for saying you like the voice.... Hehe
Garlic works with egg tempera on gildings.
Beautiful
Τhank yoy
Love your videos! Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!! I'm glad!
Im from philippines😊
Beautiful work. Could you increase the volume a bit on future tutorials? Very hard to hear you -and I want to hear what you are saying!
It’s beautiful 😊 is there any place to download stencils? I suck at drawing but i want to paint 😅
Hi there,really great work! Can i ask where do you buy egg Paint and how do you mix colours? Ehat If May hands Hurt and i cant keep that Stick...?! I know It s not Easy answer but maybe once i would try..how else can i do not to dirti the icon without the Stick? And least,how and when You put Gold colour of aura? Thank you in Advance for Ur time
I’m interested to know how much different is the egg tempera to gouache which uses gum Arabic
Fantastic,......are you painting flat on the surface or the board is standing?
Υπέροχος!
Hello I love this painting! What paints do you use for this amazing piece?
preubavo,HRISTOSpomegju nas
Thank you!! I cannot understand but I read the word Christ and that is enough! :)
Beautiful work! How much time do you need to wait between the layers of color on the robe and face?
I don't know but by accent I think you are romanian so am I and am happy that we have that nici iconographers here
Sper că mi-ai înțeles mesajul și sunt foarte fericit că îți împărtășești cu mine aceste minunății deoarece eu sunt deasemenea pasionat de iconografie și sper ca mesajul meu va ajunge unde trebuie!
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Very nice. What do you use as surface for the painting? Thanks so much
May I ask how you made the background? What material or paint is it?
Antony how did you felt that you draw your saint of your name i like the fact that you try to speak in English and also your great job
Thank you so much for the nice questions!! I love and admire Saint Anthony... Always feel good to paint him.... Wish I was a bit like him though....What is your favorite Saint?
Listen i also have a channel that i create things that you would like to check tell me your opinion you will be surprised
Antony check my work please you will be surprised i swear
Thank you for sharing. Can you create a full course on how to paint this icon from beginning to end. I would purchase my own materials and board - now we can’t travel to courses it would be good to have an online course - you can just make videos to share with students or do it on Zoom and then upload the videos later to Dropbox. I would be very interested. This what you are doing is okay but it does not give all the details that are required for a student to follow along. I would only be interested in egg tempera - it is so lovely - I have a little experience with it . God bless.
Thank you so much. As you understand these videos require a lot of time to record, edit and upload. They are painted specifically for TH-cam so there is no profit there. When there is time I will make a tutorial on how I paint an icon from scratch. Have a blessed weekend.
Painting the Light . Yes, I meant that you make a course that people will pay for. Only people who pay will have access to the course. I would like it very much. Kind regards. God bless.
@@sukumac9013 I do individual online courses by the hour. I review the icon and give you my opinion on technical and artistic issues the icon might have. Let me know if you are interested.
Painting the Light . Thank you for getting back to me. I need more than technical feedback on something I am working on. I am looking for a course where I watch the Iconographer make a icon from the beginning to the end, and I follow along. The teacher explains each step he/she is doing and gives the names of materials used and techniques etc. And to have videos that i can go back to if i can not keep up with the teacher while he/she is working. God bless , and again, thank you for your response . :)
@@sukumac9013 stay tuned and you will get answers from videos. Next will be on gilding decorations on paint. again chexk my video where i paint Angel Gabriel for 25 minutes. You might get some help. sorry I cant do more for you....ask me specific questions and I'll see if I can adress them in the videos that will follow!
Ευχαριστώ πολύ για την προσφορά σας,στην αγιογραφία..Μόνο ήθελα να πω εάν γινόταν,να μιλούσατε Ελληνικά με Αγγλικούς υπότιτλους... ευχαριστώ.
You mix your egg tempra with oil paint?
Can u please tell me that which are the colors that u are using for an icon painting
Hello, I very like your videos, do you think birch plywood and MDF (HDF) are the best for egg tempera? 2- For large pictures (in. 50 x 30 in.) Do I need a thickness of 18 millimeters? I am waiting for answering, thank you.
Hi Nidal. Mdf is not a great board as it deteriorates with humidity. I don't know what birch is, but a non warping plywood is the best. Thickness is up to you
@@PaintingtheLight Thank you very much, but before I paint much better to stick very fine linen on plywood, and make gesso on the canvas when stuck on the plywood?
Please kan i have the name of material. Because I like to learn thank you .
Tempera whit egg is mach better. the technic give butiful transparansy
Garlic Juice is also very good
Nice!! Thank you so much!!
Doxa to Theo!
Hi Antonis - Could you post your reference images - or links to them? I appreciate your videos but it would help me work with you if I had the reference image too. Thanks.
Thank you... As soon as I figure out how to share files on TH-cam I will share the reference
@@PaintingtheLight If you found your image online, I think you could put a link to it in your description section. If not, you might simply focus your camera on the reference image at the beginning of the recording for a couple of seconds. That way, we could do a screen shot and get a decent replica. Thanks.
Hello, I’m from the Netherlands and a painter in the Cretan School as well. I’m a student of Jan Verdonk who was a student of Neoklis Kolliopoulos.
In your video’s you use the Greek names for the different layers of paint, like ‘proplasmos’ and ‘photisma’. You use also ‘psimachies’ if I’m writing it correctly. Can you tell me what the correct Greek spelling is? And what the proper English translation is regarding to icon painting. Thank you in advance.
Thank you so much for commenting and subscribing. They are called psimithies and they would be called highlights... Feel free to ask anytime...
Painting the Light Thank you very much.
Is it ok for a non iconographer to draw icons for there own home?
What kind of brushes are you using ?
Can I paint using this kind of material on a cement wall?
Dear Antonis, I love your work and would like to commission an icon from you. How is the best way to contact you?
Hi Michael. Thank you for your interest. You can find me at antoniscosm@yahoo.gr
Thank you.