The most important tools in an iconographer’s supply box are our brushes.  Many of us have spent years on a quest for “the magic brush,” hoping that once it was […]

St. John the Baptist — also known as St. John the Forerunner — is one of my favorite saints to paint!  I love his wild hair, his long straggly beard, […]

How do you teach someone with little or no painting experience how to paint an icon in an online class?  That was a question I faced almost three years ago […]

Not long before we closed our local icon studio in Lafayette because of the start of the covidpandemic, one of our students requested that we paint an icon of St. […]