Drawing Heavenly Bodies: Virgin and Child Enthroned with attendant Archangels Raphael and Michael
Cartoon of the Virgin and Child Enthroned
Hello icon friends,
The summer before I embarked on the icon diploma course, I asked Aidan if there were any practical steps I could take to help my ability as a student icon painter. His answer was immediate: ‘Learn to draw!’ So I signed up to a really good local drawing class with David Brammeld and a year later Drawing the Street was born, not long before I was accepted on the Diploma course.
Drawing is becoming a way of life for me and I am always exploring ways to develop. There are many online classes and one which I have found refreshing and energetic is Sketchbook Skook
In the meantime, there is so much to learn with icon painting that I thought that I could share my cartoons of the figures for the triptych I’m working on, which might help you get started with your own icon studies.
You should be able to save these drawn images to your computers and print them off on A4.
The four images of the Angels of Chora are all borrowed from Aidan’s library. I hope to be able to credit the photographer in an update to this post.
Meanwhile, happy drawing!
Ronnie
Archangel Michael after one of the Angels of Chora
Archangel Raphael line drawing after one of the angels of Chora
Now for the full size images:
Full length drawing of Archangel Michael taken from an angel of Chora
Archangel raphael full length line drawing
Angel of Chora image courtesy of Aidan Hart’s image library
Angel of Chora images all courtesy of Aidan Hart’s image library.
Angel of Chora images all courtesy of Aidan Hart’s image library.
Angel of Chora – images all courtesy of Aidan Hart’s image library.
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One Response to “Drawing Heavenly Bodies: Virgin and Child Enthroned with attendant Archangels Raphael and Michael”
Thank you, Ronnie. I love how serious the young Jesus looks. These are all very helpful. Okay, I got it. No more tracing, except onto the board.