This long-term program is designed to consolidate your knowledge and skills by guiding you through the process of painting an icon of Christ (Head and Shoulders). You will have the option to choose between two slightly different iconographic types. The course is open to all students who have completed “ Drawing Frontal Faces“ and “ Egg Tempera. Faces“.
Bringing together everything learned in previous courses, this program also introduces several essential new skills. You will learn, in detail, how to paint hair and beards, and how to harmonize all the individual elements of the icon. Each student receives personalized mentoring and comprehensive feedback on every exercise submitted.
We will guide you step-by-step—from initial planning and sketching to completing a finished icon of Christ. By the end of the program, you will have a deep understanding of the full process and methodology of professional icon painting.
For everyone who took “Frontal Face“ and “Egg Tempera. Faces“ courses. This program will connect your knowledge of drawing to the process of painting with egg tempera and to show you how to work professionally on an icon.
The program consists of 5 blocks of assignments. Most blocks contain 4 assignments and cost $100 USD (or €87 Euros) each, except for the last one (6 assignments) which costs $150 or €131. Payments are accepted separately for each block.
The registration payment covers the first five assignments scheduled for November 6, 13, 20, 27 December 4, 2025.
7 months / 4 assignments per month except for December and April], when we have only 2 assignments. Assignments are published weekly. Two extra weeks at the end are allowed to finish the icon. Images are accepted for corrections until June 10, 2026.
Explanations of each topic either in a 20 - 60 min Full HD video tutorial or text (PDF document), reference images. In total there are 9.5 hours of video tutorials.
All materials are shared with students in Google Classroom. All videos remain available after the end of the Course.
Learners are expected to share photographs of their drawings in Google Classroom Stream. Personal feedback from the instructors with their corrections / comments / recommendations is given within 48 hours (weekends excluded). Feedback is guaranteed for the whole period of the course either written in words or/and drawn directly on the uploaded image.
You will only need materials you used on courses “Drawing a Frontal Face” and “Egg Tempera. Faces”. Although I advise you to paint the final image on paper, you can use a gessoed board. I’ll give you all the details about the board size at the end of November.
You will need at least an hour per week for drawing (in September and October) and two-three hours per week for painting (November-February). We are not sure how much time you will spend working on the final project in February-March, because it also depends on you.
This Program starts on November 6, 2025 and will end on June 10, 2026. You will have approximately 4 assignments per each topic. Assignments are published on Thursdays. Some assignments will help to repeat what you already know, other ones will contain new information.
After the last assignment is published on May 23, you will have two extra weeks to finish the icon. Images are accepted no later than June 10, 2026.
Access to the Google Classroom and the videos is for the online course participants only and must not be shared with anyone else in any form.
November 6, 13, 20, 27 December 4, 2025
December 11, January 1, 8, 15
January 22, February 5, 12, 19
February 26, March 5, 12, 19
April 16, 23, May 7, 14, 21, 28
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