Fr. Christian Mathis | September 19, 2011
This past summer my friend Irene recommended a book to me entitled, The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios by Dionysios Farasiotis. It is the story of a young man on a spiritual journey who made the mistake that so many make of assuming that all spiritual traditions are equal. He wanted to experience [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 28, 2011
Each time I attend a workshop with my teacher Irene, I am struck by the number ways she can relate the writing of icons to the spiritual life. Today I decided to dub her wise iconographic sayings as Irene-isms. One of this day’s many Irene-isms was her explanation on how to correct something that goes [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 25, 2011
It’s the end of July and that means it is time to visit Texas for 100 degree days and to write an icon. This summer we are working on an image of St. George. Each time I attend a workshop I am amazed to be able to see new dimensions to the process of creating [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | May 6, 2011
Often when I have spent a week writing an icon I have written posts about the process in order to share the spiritual dimension of iconography. This week I chose to allow my keyboard to be silent so as to enter more fully into the process. There is still one day remaining in the writing [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 23, 2010
My fellow iconographer friend, Bill Quick, reminded me today that the process of floating colors is always a friend, as it covers a multitude of sins—meaning in this instance, painting errors. But all joking aside, there is a spiritual truth to be gained in this process. Our teacher, Irene, likes to say that if you [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 19, 2010
There’s nothing like a week of iconography to get this blog moving. I suppose one could say that I have been plagued with an enormous case of writer’s block. A combination of having a week to work on an icon of John the Baptist and beginning a book called The War of Art has gotten [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | May 12, 2010
Iconography: Beginning the Journey from Christian Mathis on Vimeo. This is for those of you wonder what these iconography workshops are like and who don’t mind long videos. The red line around the halo represents the beginning of the journey of writing an icon. Yesterday we put the first layer of paint called Roskrish that [...]
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