Our Lady of Life-Giving Spring

Down with the paperwork To the application Your post can get more reachBuy impressions Anna yesterday BUY ICON In the workshop of church icons Svetlana Fatyanova.ru icons are painted in the ancient Russian technique and academic style with egg tempera. Paints are prepared directly during writing from ground stones, which give a color stroke. Most often these are precious or ornamental stones ground into pigment: spinel, malachite, celadonite, hematite, lapis lazuli, azurite, dioptase, various clays and earths. Gold leaf and burnt ivory are used in the work. The wood used for icons is not simple, but 10 years dried, made in the form of an ark or a flat board, or a folding tree. The icons are placed in wooden icon cases with a door with a floating internal frame. So that the icon can breathe and be well preserved in a vacuum. Sometimes Svetlana gives modern icons an antique effect. Svetlana writes out each craquelure by hand.