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Symeon van Donkelaar

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Local Colors of Conestoga: Woad Blue

By Symeon van Donkelaar on November 28, 2017
Local Colors of Conestoga: Woad Blue

This is post 1 of 1 in the series “Local Colors of Conestoga” I’ve wanted to write for a while about what I’ve learned about making local colors—especially from an iconographic perspective. With this year’s harvest of indigo blue from the studio’s woad plants, I’ve taken that opportunity to do so. My hope is to […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Icon, iconography, pigment, Symeon van Donkelaar, techniques November 28, 2017

Symeon van Donkelaar: Local Color in Icons

By Symeon van Donkelaar on June 14, 2017
Symeon van Donkelaar: Local Color in Icons

(Editor’s comment:  Symeon van Donkelaar is a Canadian iconographer.  I find his work fascinating as it is an exploration of the flatter and more stylized threads of iconography, Coptic art, early Medieval Spanish art as well as what was developed in Central and Northern Europe before the Gothic period. Lines are bold and highly calligraphic. Color […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged canada, color, Icons, pigment, romanesque, Symeon van Donkelaar November 29, 2017
 

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