These two icons were done for private commissions. Saint Margaret of Scotland was an unusual Saint for me to paint mostly because she is not the traditional Orthodox Saint Margaret who is also combined with Saint Marina, who is a strong, awesome, devil-whipping saint. Saint Margaret Queen of Scotland was born in the year Hungary […]
Recently I read an article about the way professors are teaching art at universities, and how they have adopted the critical thinking method used in other disciplines and applied it to teaching art. (you may read the article here: http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2016/03/laurie-fendrich-how-critical-thinking.html ) I wrote a comment about the article on my personal Facebook page, which follows: I agree […]
I happened to be in D.C. over Christmas break and stumbled upon a new Byzantine Art exhibit at the National Gallery of Art! It was a small exhibit but with very fine examples of Byzantine Art from different periods of the Byzantine Empire. They had marbles, illuminated manuscripts, icons, mosaics, frescoes, jewelry and more. It […]
This past weekend, Oct. 1-3, 2015, the students in Houston finished their Archangel Michael icons. Beginners wrote the half-figure as shown below and the advanced students did a full-figure icon. We had a large first weekend in September and a few students were not able to make the second weekend but we still had about […]