Online School Icon Workshop

I was approached by St. Benedict School in Edmonton to do an “Artist in Residence” program, on the theme of Icons.  Due to covid we had to tweak the program a bunch and now I call it the “Iconographer in Virtual Residence” program.  Below are the videos I am using with the school to teach the students from Grades K-3 & 4-6, as well as their teachers.

I am planning to use a similar icon and instructions for our Camp Oselia program this summer.  I also suppose this now can be easily reproduced for other schools, camps or parishes if they would want it.  If they do, they should contact me with plenty of warning, as it takes time to cut the boards and assemble the materials.

Also, I provided each student with a small paint brush, because the typical brushes that elementary schools have are… big, hard and not very good for detailed painting.  And 7 colours of acrylic paint.

I would very much like to thank Benjamin Moore Paint store in Sherwood Park for generously donating the paint.  This was an unexpected blessing.  Thanks.

The videos, which can be found below, were used to teach the lessons:

Program for K-3 (can be adjusted as teacher sees fit)

Video		What is needed.
0	Teacher Setup	–
1	What is an Icon	pencil
2	Background, the Kingdom	yellow
3	God becomes Flesh	dark flesh
4	Clothes, both God and Man	red & blue
5A	Hair Power!	Dark Brown
6	Jesus the Priest	Yellow
7A	He is looking at you	Dark Brown
8	Holy Spirit – Our Light	Gold
13	Blessing the Icon	–

Program for 4-6 (can be adjusted as teacher sees fit)

Video		What is needed.
0	Teacher Setup	–
1	What is an Icon	pencil
2	Background, the Kingdom	yellow
3	God becomes Flesh	dark flesh
4	Clothes, both God and Man	red & blue
5B	Hair Power!	dark brown
6	Jesus the Priest	yellow
7B	He is looking at you	dark brown, light flesh & blue
8	Holy Spirit – Our Light	gold
9	Jesus Christ – I AM	red
10	The Face of God	light flesh
11	Lips & Hair Highlights	dark flesh, red, light flesh,
12	Kings have bling	yellow
13	Blessing the Icon	–