Another Brush with God by Peter Pearson

Another Brush with God by Peter Pearson

Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product. This is the sequel to the authors previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of this book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy and use as the basis of their own icons, providing a unique and much-requested resource. Includes eight full-color plates of the author's original icons.

Chapters and topics include:

• Introduction and contemporary reflections on iconography, spirituality, and technique.
• Highlighting folds on full-length figures, including black and white renderings of draped legs, arms, and torsos.
• Architectural and landscape renderings in Byzantine iconography, including background shadow and highlighting techniques, plus inverse perspective.
• Festal icons, involving multiple figures, landscapes, architecture, furniture, vegetation, and animals.
• Construction of heads, figures, and analysis of whole compositions, sacred geometry and proportion.

Peter Pearson is a historian, conservationist, and well-known artist who has dedicated his life to preserving and enhancing Ireland's architectural legacy. He's been to many great home demolitions, salvaging its ornamental period features and gathering a tremendous amount of knowledge on the crafts, social, and economic histories of places all over Ireland in the process. He has contributed to a number of books and periodicals. Peter was born in 1955 and attended Kingstown School and Trinity College Dublin. He has worked with An Taisce and the Irish Georgian Society and is a founding member of the Dublin Civic Trust, a member of the Heritage Council, and an honorary life member of the Dun Laoghaire Historical Society. Peter now resides in County Wexford with his wife and two sons.

Between the Mountains and the Sea, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County, which covers the county's architectural heritage, and The Heart of Dublin, released in 2000, which charts the origins and planning of Dublin's streetscapes from early times to the current day, are two of his best-selling books. Decorative Dublin is his most recent book, and it's a beautifully illustrated description of the many ornamental motifs seen on Dublin's streets and in its buildings.