Category Archives: smallest things make the biggest differences

The Face of an Icon Looks Back at Me

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Olga Dytyniak

Perhaps it is only another example of how we create our own reality that every icon we paint somehow ends up mirroring our own face.  Our hand is and is not our own in the painting, but has its own … 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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The Smallest Things Make the Biggest Differences; Quantum Physics and Iconography

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Olga Dytyniak

there are many commonalities between quantum physics and the tiny amounts of pigment and brush strokes that can ruin an icon Continue reading →

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