Icon Painting Workshop 2005

The Icon Painting Workshop from 3 to 13 of October 2005 was organized by Sacred Murals Studio for friends of Saint-Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy (SRPh) (St. Petersburg, Russia)*.

The Workshop was dedicated to practical and theoretical studies of medieval iconography and Christian sacred images in general. The lectures were dedicated to the history, technology and essential principles of icon painting.

The Theory was realized as everyday lectures, accompained by slide projection. Practical studies were calculated in a special way, to give every student possibility to follow Philip Davydov's icon-creation process. Writing his icon in front of the students Philip Davydov regularly explained every step of his work and helped individually to every student.

The 11 days of the Workshop were all scheduled in such a manner, that every student was learning the icon painting in live working process, projecting, drawing and painting own icon from the very beginning till the very end of the work.

For this Icon Painting Workshop was chosen the same model for every participant (see the top left of this text), - sacred icon of Jesus Christ, (central part of XIII c. Deisis icon, Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai).

The Workshop started with a short excursion to Russian Museum, Early Russian Art Department with the intruduction lecture by Philip Davydov. The practical studies and all the other lectures took place directly in Sacred Murals Studio (Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ Church, Ul. Babushkina 57, 193170, St. Petersburg, Russia), except for the Sunday afternoon (the 9-th of October), after the Holy Liturgy, which was dedicated to excursion in the State Hermitage Museum, Byzantine Art Department.

For better working results for every our student we provided an individual kit of all the necessary professional tools and materials. The kit included 12 Kolinsky brushes, 3 drawing brushes, all necessary natural pigments, 23 3/4 carat transfer gold leaf, mortars, pestels, and all the other necessary instruments.

During all the 11 working days the students icons were regularly checked by Philip Davydov, who was giving personal advices and indications for better ralization of the icon.

By the end of the last Workshop day Philip Davydov and all the students have completed their icons, and three days later all the icons were covered with a special copal varnish.

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The Workshop daytime schedule was following:

10.00 A.M. Beginning of the working day with the Iconographer's Prayer.

1.30 - 3.00 P.M. Lunch break**.

5.30 - 6.20 P.M. Tea Break, combined with one of many special lectures, accompained by Slideshow.

8.00 P.M. The end of the working day.

*The meeting at the Pulkovo Airport, housing and after-Workshop cultural program for the students was realized this time by the Saint-Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy (SRPh) (St. Petersburg, Russia).

**Lunch meals for all the Workshop time were provided by Caritas organization.

Next Icon Painting Workshops 2006: USA - September , Russia - July.

Please, visit our special page about these next workshops.

Registration and detailed information about the Icon Painting Workshops in the USA please see on the web-site of Iconofile company.

Registration and detailed information about the Icon Painting Workshop in Russia (Saint Petersburg), please see on the web-site of Saint-Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy (SRPh).

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