Monthly Archives: May 2016

Getting Icons Ready for Showing

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Olga Dytyniak

Sigh….One might think that after putting in hundreds of hours on a 16 by 24 icon board that, at last! one were finished, but alas, one would be wrong.  I learned this the hard way this past week when I … Continue reading →

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An Iconographer’s Studio

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Olga Dytyniak

All my life I have waited to be an artist.  That is, a practicing artist. Quietly, while I was busy with the stuff of life I studied, went to museums, read books.  Ripened…so to speak. Fortunately for me I did … Continue reading →

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Drawing (and painting!) on the Right Side of the Brain

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Olga Dytyniak

Years ago there was a book published called “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”.  It posited, no–reported that persons with no artistic bent could replicate an image were they to copy it while viewing it upside down. This … Continue reading →

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Artists and Craftspeople and Iconography

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Olga Dytyniak

When I attended a beginner’s workshop in iconography I was taught that it was imperative to follow the old icons.  We used tracings of icons that have been “copied” hundreds of times across the centuries.  The teacher was an elderly … Continue reading →

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