Sacred activity with icon paintings

We all have to establish in our minds that iconography is much more than a particular technique or even style of rendering form in the paint. It is not immense to call icon painting a sacred activity. The artist feels what he draws. The aim behind all kinds of incarnation is to express a saint or teaching mystically. No one can reproduce a saint or any incident from the Old Testament. The people have forgotten the importance of divine power and these lovely artists are putting a sincere effort to remind all the real purpose of coming on this earth.

An iconographer begins his/her work by searching deeply via books or samples in the library or other venues. The research carries on comparison among different icons. No iconographer finishes any icon paints within one effort. He/she prepares a preliminary sketch called a skeleton and then transfers this drawing into a gessoed board. The traditional medium for iconography is egg temper that becomes inflexible. Monastery Icons uses acrylic paints that give a genuine impression of originality. Icon painting originated in the very early centuries of Christianity, hundreds of years before the great schism that separated the Eastern Church from the Western Church. The modern attempt is just an extension of initiates taken in the past.