Starting this year off right with various courses to choose from!
This list of courses will all be at the Many Years Farm. Sign up below!
This list of courses will all be at the Many Years Farm. Sign up below!
Gesso making for icon boards with Colette Kalvesmaki
This will be part demonstration and part hands on. Each student will take home a flat wood board 9 x 12″ and gesso to finish gessoing at home (You can bring your own board instead, just let me know). We will all make the rabbit skin glue and soak our linen and apply that linen to the board during the class. After this step it is demonstration.
Board, linen, putty knife and other materials included.
Feb 1st, 2025, Saturday. 10-3
Cost $150
Gilding Course by Colette Kalvesmaki
This class will show how to oil gild an icon. We will start the process Friday night, continue Saturday morning and finish the following Saturday. These will be shorter classes. The student can bring any icon they want to gild (and for those wanting to take the upcoming icon class during Lent–Extreme Humility. I will have the cartoon ready at the gesso class for students to take home or I can mail it to those who can’t make it . The cartoon needs to be transferred on the board before the the class).
Friday, Feb 28, 2025, 5-7pm
Saturday, March 1, 2025, 11am-12pm
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 10-1
Cost: $145 for gilding course.
Students will bring to class a gessoed board with a drawing completed on board.
Each student will receive 4 sheets of gold for their icon for the class, any extra gold sheets the student will need to buy–$4 a sheet (This is for people bringing their own drawings and larger boards).
If you have any questions please contact Colette at paraskeve@gmail.com. You can call, but texting is advised- 240 6761350.
Stone Carving with Bethany Lee
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 9:30 AM-1PM. Lunch included!
Cost, $225. Includes the stone. More information to come!
Cost, $225. Includes the stone. More information to come!