Catherine Hayes – Icons and Aberrations
Icon painting is a wondrously meaningful process that has many rules
and reasons for the way the painting is produced. The reason why and the way to do each component of the icon are in there to avoid
producing a graven image to worship but instead to worship the spirit behind
the image depicted.
Simply put to allow
a devout Christian to focus their prayer time on God almighty and Jesus his
son.
I choose Gabriel because he was the bringer of good news to Mary. I used
some silver leaf that was left to me by my grandfather, (a sign writer).
It was quite a week full of peace and quiet, and alot of work. I learnt a lot not having used
gouache before.
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