The Icon Painting Studio of St.Elisabeth Convent

[@albertadriftwood3612]

I can't imagine a more gratifying profession.

[@LapisOnPawz]

This is all so beautiful, i love icons. Im making a Divine Child for my mom and the Mother of Christ for me 😊❤

[@emiliahbam]

I'm also writing icons, its something incomprehensible in it. I think it is spiritual development. I would say that process of making icons, teaches me humility and mercy from God.

[@TeachKathy]

I also have written an icon, great effort, boundless spiritual rewards in doing so. It surprises me though to hear them discuss “ painting” an icon, you are the first person to express it as “writing” an icon, exactly as I was taught. We don’t paint, we write, when creating the icon.

[@anitkithra]

When I was Chrismated last month, my godmother ordered me an icon of my Saint from this studio. It is very special to me. Thank you for your wonderful work.

[@kathydowner7298]

Thank you for your prayers and dedication to the church, as you prepared the icon for my beloved goddaughter, Jessica.

[@tatiananaugolnykh]

Do you have their contact information, please?

[@CatalogofStElisabethConvent]

​@@tatiananaugolnykh Greetings! You can order custom icon at your icon painting studio here catalog.obitel-minsk.com/custom-order-hand-painted-icons You will also find a wide variety of icons painted by us at our Catalogue.

[@severianmonk7394]

These nuns and lay sisters are absolutely oozing with God-blessed talents and charisms. I love how serious they are about preparing the wood in the traditional way. These images are meant to last.

[@Abraham-r9b]

Thank you I love icons it is so beautiful.

[@Orthodoge]

I used to love drawing and painting up until high school, it’s been about 8 years since I’ve done any sketches or art but seeing this(after coming to orthodoxy) really gives me the desire to learn to write icons

[@fl7210]

This is so beautiful. Truly this place and these works are blessed with holiness

[@CatalogofStElisabethConvent]

Thank you so much!

[@painiteeclipse5647]

I love icons so much. I have a lot of icons in my room, and my mother said this about them: "You have so many icons here, that you can turn your room into a church."

[@albertafarmer8638]

It's idolatry, please repent and turn to the living JESUS CHRIST!!!

[@housemouse4209]

@@albertafarmer8638Now don’t be silly. Having an icon is like having a photograph of someone dear to you. It is a way to connect with God and His mother and His angels and His saints, and a visual reminder of them all. So long as you are not worshipping the icon itself, but rather, what the icon represents, there is no problem. Have a blessed day.

[@albertafarmer8638]

@@housemouse4209 Hi, GOD doesn't have a mother, Mary was allowed to carry the Messiah and raise HIM! We are not supposed to connect with dead people, that's a terrible sin! Mary is not a deity! JESUS CHRIST is GOD, see John 1! PS: and also not t make images - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

[@housemouse4209]

@@albertafarmer8638 Well, it would seem that our beliefs differ *greatly*, and neither of us is going to change the other’s mind. God bless you, and have a good day.

[@albertafarmer8638]

@@housemouse4209 Hi, you just have to take GOD'S word, the Holy Bible, seriously. Blessings from Canada.

[@isidoreaerys8745]

I’m an atheist but these works are nonetheless breathtakingly beautiful and I’m greatful to those who have preserved this cultural tradition.

[@JeimsCoffen]

this is a very worthy opinion!!

[@pchykins6680]

Oh I'd love to dedicate my whole life doing this art! I wish I could be in that studio!

[@severianmonk7394]

Me too. Alas, I can't draw a stick figure that looks like a stick figure. But we all can become ikons.

[@JeimsCoffen]

I strongly advise you! I was there, I talked with icon painters, the atmosphere there is very kind, very good!!! It helped me in my creative way!😊

[@SageethChathumadhu]

May lord bless you all talented artists for preserving this tradition 🙏🙌❤

[@звукография-р4ф]

Богодухновенно и впечатляюще игра красок и фактуры-потрясающе....

[@JapYoga]

OMG I LOVE the fact that you used a song from the band Múm on the video! This is a sign from God that I will get one icon from your workshop one day! This band impacted my early adolescence with many good moments. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your work. 🙏

[@sergiolobato1798]

How fascinating that a painting can transcend a object of art and become a spiritual icon.

[@JapYoga]

oh my God! This is just beautifull! You guys are amazing! Keep up the GREAT work! 🙏🕊️

[@marcelloruiz9032]

Amazing video ! I love icons and wish to learn how to make them myself, nothing but love and blessings from a fellow Christian from Miami ☦️🙏🏼❤️

[@royvanzadel2987]

it is really creating a miracle of life,do you also use birch or cedar wood for painting the Icon,here in Holland I always check out the large containers for waste,few weeks I discover a wooden oak tree plank of 3 meters long and 5 cm thick and I mold them wich comes in practical and spirituall and use it for decorating the home I rent, wood is like gold but most people here in the west do not always realize it's importance,burned two candles for you all so you will enjoy a blessed Icon spiritual painting day and as I was singing the jesus prayer on the way home,the birds were happy singing along,I love the early mornings now and when I was a child but we all are children of God,only now in one mature body universal

[@awetodaydomdom7075]

Wonderful & amazing work. Really talented people it’s God’s gift. Stay Blessed

[@toyotahonda8921]

Now i understand why the icon is almost priceless art

[@alsaulso1332]

I also paint icons!! love your work

[@robertafierro5592]

How I DREAM of being GREAT ENOUGH to even TRY to do this would be my meaning of NIRVANA!

[@karasu1982]

Pray to the good Lord and dedicate yourself to it and you will.

[@cledwynstafford4819]

...how wonderful.

[@clementbretanno1116]

Very nice... Keep up the good work... God bless you all... Jesus is now in sorrow because His sacrament of Eucharist is not given to the people He really loves (almost every where in the world) . The Church authorities make so many rules that His people cannot freely go to Church. A large number of His people, young and old, in the covid era leave Him behind and engage in worldy things, even on Sunday, a day that should be devoted for our Lord. We need to pray everyday and dedicate our time for Him, because He really loves us.

[@daverios44]

I'm have started to paint icons

[@CatalogofStElisabethConvent]

God bless you on your icon-painting way!

[@creativespark7371]

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image..." Definition of "graven image" : sculpture or image of an idol or god that is venerated/worshipped/used as an object of worship

[@jackelp]

A graven image is only something which is worshipped. In the Old Testament, we find God's command to Moses in the construction of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant, additionally, there were also paintings of angels inside Solomon's temple, neither of these can be considered idols or graven images as they were constructed directly at God's command, or by one close to God such as Solomon, despite the fact that in the commandments, God states: "Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:" read in context, this passage conveys that God only passes ill judgment on those who "adore"- which is taken to mean worship: Greek: λατρεύσῃς - Worship, and also those who "hate" him Neither of these can those who venerate icons be accused of. In the same way, Icons and statues are not created for the purpose of worship, and so they are not graven images. Veneration of icons, statues, relics and other sacred objects is a permissible act and is encouraged for one's spiritual life in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

[@Boshtel987]

Perfect

[@deep.misery]

My dream

[@Janestuart_oftheengland]

I want to have that talent

[@kylejosephmaciaspt]

anyone know the music name at 4:14 ? beautiful

[@mariastingaciu9154]

Wonderful! I also paint orthodox icons

[@CatalogofStElisabethConvent]

God bless you and your work 🙏🏻

[@mariastingaciu9154]

@@CatalogofStElisabethConvent Thank you!

[@deer563]

I maybe an atheist but i have an icon in my house you"re guys work is amazing.

[@rosieclarkson4064]

I pray you don't stay an atheist for long! I think you are searching. Ask God to guide you.

[@kenzystarr3115]

1 Maccabees 3:48 [48]And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.

[@lurji]

cope

[@CzarLazar1389]

Are you Catholic or Orthodox by any chance? Both accept 1 Maccabees as a canonical book of the Old Testament, and both make icons and images.

[@user-vv1do1wg1j]

why a protestant quoting maccabees? go somewhere else to manifest

[@therobloxdominicanbois1039]

I love icon orthodox because i paint

[@fabioparra2711]

I want to learn this

[@rogerfield2766]

our 50 wedding anniversary is in December. I would like to order and icon of Mary. How do I go about doing this. I live in Alberta, Canada.

[@irenedavo3768]

Roger Field there is link above! Please watch 8 videos of Jim Nduruchi

[@reneefernandez7787]

Se puede trsducir sl español?

[@PronounsAreHerMajesty]

I would travel there and spend however long it takes to learn the whole process. Are there those who teach in English?

[@tonendeno8850]

How can I order an icon? I'm from Philippines. Thanks!

[@flearhcp]

head to their store on the website :)

[@PrincipeMNE]

Go to the first ortodox monastery. They will give you icon.

[@nidaljabarin4743]

Thank you, but I have such a question, can I cover it on a tree and paint it with an egg tempera directly on the tree? Or should I put a blank (canvas) and glue it on the tree? Then paint on a blank (canvas) which is stuck to a tree? I am waiting for an answer, thanks

[@AramsYoutube]

you should (and traditionally it is) paint it directly on the prepared wood surface, at most maybe some kind of a gesso might help.

[@sufferingorthodoxy352]

I how do I become an icon painter for my career

[@rr7firefly]

Pronunciation of Gesso: "Jesso." Because it is an Italian word, the g before an e or an i is pronounced like a j.

[@marcusaurelius1477]

How do those in America learn this ?

[@deer563]

You can enroll yourself on online class about how to make an icon

[@nidaljabarin4743]

Спасибо вам но У меня такой вопрос можно покрывать на дерево и написать с яйцом темпера сразу на дерево или на надо поставят холост и подклеивать ег на дерева? потом нарисовать или написать на холостой которы подклеин на дерева? Я жду ответа, спасибо

[@johnleontakianakos4362]

It would be greatly appreciated if this could be retitled "The Icon Writing Studio..." as icon are "written" they are NOT paintings.

[@TeachKathy]

Amen!!

[@user-vv1do1wg1j]

if i take a paint brush and write letters am i writing or painting, if i use ink pens to paint am i writing or painting? painting = writing youre being a pedant

[@flipbethe7213]

Ameen

[@katarzynajaninakozowska1893]

☆♡

[@johnfox781]

Paint the truth

[@jwhippet8313]

Does anyone know what the cap-like hat women icons wear under their veil is called?

[@deer563]

hijab

[@olgavodolazovaz5081]

Чепец на голове, прикрывает волосы, мафор это сверху чепца, одежда Богородицы.Одежда Богородицы на иконе не хиджаб а мофор. Это название в православной религии .

[@user-vv1do1wg1j]

​@@deer563no

[@josearias2678]

An Icon is not painted, it’s written!

[@CHRISTO_0101]

😃👨🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓🇮🇳🥇🤑🤑🧑‍🔧🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

[@johnfox781]

These people was black why y'all painting White

[@deer563]

Historically they would have been brown white kinda

[@maxl5423]

Stop stealing a culture that’s not yours you culture vulture

[@mariorizkallah5383]

@@deer563 yes indeed, an olive skin, not dark dark black, but a light light brown

[@deer563]

@@mariorizkallah5383 you took the words right out of my mouth

[@Sunshine-lo6vd]

No actually they were not black. If that were true, one would see more icons in Africa. The people are of middle eastern origin. Olive skin and sun kissed copper brown. NOT black 🤦🏽‍♀️. Have a nice day.

[@Zx3l1jahXz]

Whitewashed

[@BigCityCountryBoi]

Where are the Melinated icons like the "Black Madonna" and 👶🏿 the pope's pray to ? 🤔

[@mariorizkallah5383]

Probably in the popes bedroom

[@user-vv1do1wg1j]

those statues and paintings are ancient and blackened

[@dominicanvic9]

Glorified gaslighting.

[@deer563]

Hm