Coming December 15, 2026
Traditional Icon Painting

An inspiring, detailed and fully practical guide to traditional icon painting: learn step by step how to paint your own stunning icons that glow with rich color and symbolism.

'This book demonstrates that icon painting remains a vibrant, living artistic style, offering techniques which modern artists can usefully utilize.' - Monstersandcritics.com

With superb new photographs and 16 additional pages, this revised edition of Gilles Weissmann's best-selling title celebrates icon painting and its rich history. Focusing on the traditional methods of sacred art, this detailed and practical guide covers every relevant element.

• Uncover the pictorial language and symbolism used throughout history, and look in detail at proportion, composition and geometry when creating your own designs.
• Discover the traditional materials needed for gilding, painting, using egg tempera, and varnishing.
• Learn how to prepare a traditional wooden support with gesso and fabric, clearly photographed step by step.
• Follow the extensive step-by-step guides, filled with practical insights, to create colours and highlights that really glow.
• Add inscriptions examples are provided in several languages including Greek and Slavonic.
• Learn how to pre-varnish and varnish your icons to protect them.
• Take inspiration from a gallery of stunning finished icon paintings by modern artists.

Revised, updated and expanded edition of Techniques of Traditional Icon Painting (9781844487943), 2012.