When you started painting saints, did temptations arise? Or did it all go smoothly and blessedly?
The first icon I painted was the ´Flogging of St. George´. The work group was then painting two iconostases for a Belo-Russian church, and one altar was dedicated to St. George... Then, I painted the Trinity for the iconostasis in Diveyevo...
In general, there were mostly temptations connected with icon painting. I don’t recall any miracles, but temptations... over the top! Especially when you paint an image to go behind the holy table, a cross, or an iconostasis.
I painted my first icon for the altar in the early 2000s for the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Sertolov, Vsevolozhskovo region of Leningrad province. I had just barely started my work, when I managed to crack my rib. I didn’t think to take painkillers, and the doctors didn’t mention it.
The icon board was huge and heavy, and I had to lift it, turn it, take it from the easel, carry it to the table, and then return it again to the easel. Batiushka wanted this icon painted as soon as possible, and didn’t consider that I needed sick leave at least for a time after the fracture.
Due to constant physical pain, I was constantly in a deadened state, and maybe that is why the icon turned out good and prayerful. Everyone said that...
The first two icons for my first iconostasis were very hard to do.
Something was always happening, and then it got a little easier, although it never went smoothly.
One of these icons later streamed myrrh...
An icon depicts the higher world. We sometimes forget that Christ’s love is behind this phrase. We depict a world of complete, harmonious Love, which cannot be sad, sorrowful, or gloomy - all of that is human.
Orthodoxy is the joy of communion with God.
That is why we glorify God...
for He brought us the good tidings of Love.
This is reflected in icons.
~bron~
In general, there were mostly temptations connected with icon painting. I don’t recall any miracles, but temptations... over the top! Especially when you paint an image to go behind the holy table, a cross, or an iconostasis.
I painted my first icon for the altar in the early 2000s for the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Sertolov, Vsevolozhskovo region of Leningrad province. I had just barely started my work, when I managed to crack my rib. I didn’t think to take painkillers, and the doctors didn’t mention it.
The icon board was huge and heavy, and I had to lift it, turn it, take it from the easel, carry it to the table, and then return it again to the easel. Batiushka wanted this icon painted as soon as possible, and didn’t consider that I needed sick leave at least for a time after the fracture.
Due to constant physical pain, I was constantly in a deadened state, and maybe that is why the icon turned out good and prayerful. Everyone said that...
Something was always happening, and then it got a little easier, although it never went smoothly.
One of these icons later streamed myrrh...
An icon depicts the higher world. We sometimes forget that Christ’s love is behind this phrase. We depict a world of complete, harmonious Love, which cannot be sad, sorrowful, or gloomy - all of that is human.
Orthodoxy is the joy of communion with God.
That is why we glorify God...
for He brought us the good tidings of Love.
This is reflected in icons.
~bron~
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