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title: "Drawing Closer to Christ: A Self-Guided Icon Retreat"
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# Drawing Closer to Christ: A Self-Guided Icon Retreat

**Brand:** joseph malhambishop robert barron
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- **What is this?** Drawing Closer to Christ: A Self-Guided Icon Retreat by joseph malhambishop robert barron
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Drawing Closer to Christ: A Self-Guided Icon Retreat

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent first course in iconography
*by C***E on July 16, 2019*

Refreshing book. Worth the forward alone. There is a brief history to answer the idolatry questions of mostly Protestant sources. He says a lot about prayer. His theological explanations are brief and in depth enough to be spot on, for both Catholics and Orthodox. The writer teaches the basics: the steps--and directs the painter in exactly which pigment colours, and equipment to use. The advantage of this is that a beginner will not face the tangles that can occurr if he doesn't know how hard/soft the pigments are...how they grind. His pigment choices are right, as concerns tradition. I dislike acrylics, but they can work. If you want to supplement, I suggest you google something like Prosopan steps to painting icons, which will involve you deeply in the egg tempera process, gold leaf, and then some unnecessary nonsense. I have had 2 teachers, read quite a bit, etc. painted. If I could take this writers class, I would. A valuable book which puts a lot of information in a thin volume; and the print is very readible. Illustrations w/ each step.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Informative/Good Spiritual Retreat. Not for someone who has never written an icon before.
*by M***. on July 10, 2021*

Drawing Closer to Christ is a self-guided icon retreat that likens the steps of writing the icon with the days of the Creation narrative. I enjoyed the explanations about icons in general and the daily theological reflections. I do not come from a religious tradition that uses icons and have been interested in learning more about them. I took two classes prior to buying this book so had written two icons previously. I would not recommend it to someone who had never written an icon. It wasn’t always easy to understand the steps. It would have helped to have more pictures of the icon at each stage rather than refer to the finished picture as a reference. That said, I learned a lot and also enjoyed it from a spiritual and theological standpoint.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Good Spiritual Guide
*by D***S on October 31, 2019*

The author does an inspired fob in taking the student of iconography into the deeper levels of the reality of the icon. This is a good introduction into a second sight into layers of reality that exist beneath the visual. I appreciated the seven day guide paralleling the creation story. My only comment is that this should be for a more advanced student. It seems that the tasks assigned for each day (maybe we are talking biblical days) are too complex for the time period allotted. When I work on an icon, I am give myself a month in order to be focused yet not frustrated.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Drawing Closer to Christ: A Self-Guided Icon Retreat
- A Brush with God: An Icon Workbook
- Orthodox Icon Patterns: Patterns & Sketches for Iconographers

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