You can order a personalized icon, family icon, or the icon with Your Holy order.
If You do not find on our website the icon with the desired image, we will find You image from our collection, which contains more than 1 000 000 different icons with any of the saints or stories on Your order.
To calculate the production of the icon, please provide the following information:
18x24 30x40 24х30 18х36 25х50 other
Especially important is the size of the icons, as its height corresponds to the height of the child at birth, and width equal to the size of the child at the shoulders at birth.
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We provide You the opportunity to order a cheap the icon in our icon painting workshop on canvas is covered with textured gel. That allows you to make it indistinguishable from the real picturesque of the original.
The process of making icons is full of subtleties. For shield icon usually use a fake Board, a certain humidity of not less than 8% and not more than 12%. With reverse side of Board is reinforced with dowels — this time from softwood. These dowels do not allow the Board to bend when it is dry.
After that, the Board needs to apply the adhesive and let it dry, and then glue the so-called canvas is a special fabric. Traditionally, the fabric is a cotton fabric, but today it is permissible to combine cotton with synthetic fibers. Properly glued canvas is the most important key to creating beautiful and high quality icons. She doesn't have anywhere to bubble and stretch in the"ark" (the so - called hole in the Board). Experienced masters know many secrets of naughty canvas, making the icons they are doing, can be called flawless because a well seasoned technology and the skillful application of years of experience.
Canvas dries the next day, and then the master applies a so-called primer, that is special cleaopatra mass.
Gesso is applied in several layers: the first two or three more concentrated, which in the gesso add the glue. The first layer is rubbed into the fabric by hand, paying particular attention to the recesses of the ark. The rest of the iron with a spatula. The process of applying gesso takes a very long time, because it is applied in 5-10 layers, and in the day, apply a maximum of two, so the glue had time to dry. On the average, to efficiently and effortlessly to put the gesso, the wizard requires a week.
When the gesso is applied, the surface is treated with sandpaper. Then on the Board to apply the gilding, and then image, which uses natural tempera paints. When the icon is finished, it is covered with varnish, also in several layers. The lacquer must dry naturally because drying in the sun or in a kiln, the wood can crack.
It should be noted that an icon is not just a painting, and there is a special technology of making icons. Icon — is a special thing, and it should be exactly "living", created in an appropriate atmosphere and transmitting a special tone to the person who will pray in front of it or just to admire the image.
Since ancient times, the icon was accompanied by the Russian people in all its endeavours. He kneeled down in front of the pensive image of the Mother of God or of Christ the Savior, we reflect on the eternal, analyze your life, repent of the errors and find a way out of difficult situations or even just peace. Maybe it's just a feature of human psychology, and, perhaps, help from above — everyone interprets this differently. But it would not have applied individual the people to religion and its attributes, the icon is in almost every home.
The icon has always been for the Slavic peoples a kind of shield, designed to enclose man against adversity. No wonder because the newlyweds were given an icon, which was to keep evil from their home and their family. The icon hung in the honourable corner of the home. And even today the icon given is not so large place in the life of each of us, but its significance is not lost.
