Day 1

The first day went well. There is quite a difference between the nearly 11 year old and the 15 year olds in their motor control, but their concentration, intensity and passion are the same. The class was focused, polite, excited and at times, overwhelmed with the large task at hand. Many of the students got most of the base colors put in. Today we are choosing background colors and border colors. I was not surprised that these kids want to go slightly more bold with those colors (one of the few things that the iconographers can choose) than the adult classes I have helped teach. I do have some nice pictures from yesterday, and I will post them this afternoon. All in all, a good beginning, but as always when an icon is begun, it is daunting how long we have to go.