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Dear Friend,
Thank you very much for being our subscriber! We have got 3 news for you in this Newsletter:
FIRST: MODELS
We think that choosing proper models for the workshops is a very important part of teaching process. For a long time we have been discussing with Olga an idea of working with images, belonging to the Western Christian church tradition. Finally we decided to find one but it took almost 3 months to choose it.
Now we are happy to present you the 2 new types of workshops, planned for Melbourne (Australia) for January 2016:
1. Two Traditions of Painting The Faces
(East and West):
18th - 22nd of January 2016
Location: Australian Catholic University (ACU) ART SPACE (26 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy)
2. Icon of Christ Pantocrator:
25th, 27th - 30th of January 2016
Location: Australian Catholic University (ACU) ART SPACE (26 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy)
As last year we had both groups full, it may be seen as a good reason to register early, - welcome. The groups are now limited to 10 students with one instructor and 15 (Here is the list of 2 workshops: http://www.sacredmurals.com/iconography_courses_workshops.html#tabs-3 ).
We look forward to hear your questions and comments.
SECOND: 3 ICONS
Many days in February and March were dedicated to sketches and researches for some future projects. Nevertheless we share these 3 new images, - 2 in egg tempera and one in relief gesso with egg tempera on top. All of them are "clickable":
Relief icon nativity of Christ
by Olga Shalamova
(Buy a postcard(s)>> )
Icon Mother of God in a Burning Bush and Moses the Prophet
by Philip Davydov
(Buy postcard(s)>>)
Icon of Saint Nicholas
by Philip Davydov
(Buy postcard(s)>>)
THREE: VIDEO
Finally!!!This was also a project I have been wishing to start for years - to film the technical parts of the work and not to spend the precious time of the workshops for the basics...
Well, here is our first experiment, but - really the first one with no voice or music, without any explanations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V6IDbTl4gE&feature=youtu.be
This is just the "first stone" to see, how is it going to work... Hope to re-shoot it soon and make a better version with more explanations :)
Let me know, what else, apart from varnishing and gessoing might be interesting to see on video?
More news in the future!
With warmest regards,
Philip Davydov and OLga Shalamova
