Welcome Painting Series 2 Part 2 in which we will continue our journey into Byzantine Iconography by learning to paint hair and beards. If you are a beginner, I recommend that before starting this series you complete at least Series 1 on Drawing Faces and Painting Series Part 1: Painting Basics so that you have the right foundation to start this series. It will be divided into 3 parts to make is more accessible. In the first part we will be painted simple short hair , like that of St Dimitrios and a short beard, like that of Christ. Now in Part 2 we will be doing long hair and long beards, and in Part 3 curly hair and grey hair and beards. I hope you enjoy the tutorials.
The basic material you will need for these tutorials are:
- Pigments
- Yellow Ochre (or Iron Oxide Yellow)
- Iron Oxide Black
- Light Mars Red (or Red Ochre)
- Medium Mars Red
- Titanium White
- Egg Emulsion
- Egg
- White wine
- Lavender or Basil essential oil
- 2 Plastic dropper bottles for egg emulsion and water
- Paint brushes (rounds with a good tip, flats and riggers)
- Palette for mixing paint (a sheet of glass or plexiglass is optional)
- Container of water for cleaning brushes.
- Paper towel
- Hot press watercolour paper for painting exercises.
Resource PDFs with photographs of each stage of the painting process as well as related icons are included for each lesson.
