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ELIOSA STUDIO Create. Collect. Connect.

At Eliosa Studio, we believe sacred art should be accessible to everyone. Whether you are searching for a meaningful gift, a custom-painted commission, or the tools to write your very first icon, you have found your home. We bridge ancient sacred tradition and modern creativity.

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Seven Swords Softener of Hearts Icon
Seven Swords
Egg Tempera & Gold Leaf on Wood • 2025
Our Calling

Bringing Sacred Art Into Every Home

“Iconography shouldn’t be out of reach. Our mission is to transform a costly, intimidating tradition into an approachable spiritual practice for kids and beginners.”

We provide the tools to awaken your inner creativity, offering everything from authentic hand-painted originals and fine prints to DIY kits that make sacred art a living part of everyday faith and meaningful gifting.

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Ancient Sacred Tradition

Preserving time-honored levkas grounds, natural marble dust, rabbit skin glue, and genuine egg tempera pigments.

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Approachable Practice

Designed for children, beginner painters, and spiritual seekers looking to learn and experience the peace of sacred art.

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Community & Events

Fostering fellowship through church workshops, travel activity packs, school retreats, and bespoke commissions.

Create Art

Shop Kits & Supplies — Start Painting

Awaken your inner artist with approachable, thoughtfully crafted tools. Ready for watercolors, acrylics, gouache, oils, or markers.

Watercolor icon of the face of Christ, ready to paint
Workshops & Travel

Watercolor Icons Ready to Paint

Specially prepared watercolor paper icons ready to paint immediately. Perfect for travel activities, Sunday schools, and group retreats.

Pre Printed Icons on Canvas
All Mediums

Pre-Printed Canvas Icons

High-quality canvas icon outlines ready to paint in Watercolors, Acrylic, Oil, Gouache, or Markers. Suitable for all skill levels.

Biblical Art Coloring Book cover featuring Christ the Good Shepherd
Kids & Beginners

Sacred Art Coloring Book

An inspiring, reverent collection of sacred icon line art for contemplation, coloring, and discovering the stories behind each holy figure.

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Group Activities & Workshops

Host an Icon Painting Event

Bring the meditative beauty of sacred art to your parish, youth group, retreat, or classroom. We supply complete kits and hands-on guidance so every participant writes a cherished icon to take home.

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Behind the Easel

Sketches & Works in Progress

An intimate window into the sacred, prayerful journey of writing an icon—from initial graphite cartoons and theological geometry, to layered egg tempera flesh modeling (sankir) and traditional gilding.

Preparatory graphite cartoon for the Resurrection Anastasis icon
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Preparatory Cartoon

The Resurrection — Preliminary Cartoon

Graphite on Arched Paper • 12″ × 16″ Compositional Study
California, 2025

Full-scale hand-drawn cartoon mapping out the theological geometry: Christ’s victorious descent into Hades, the shattered cross-gates trampling the serpent, and the liberation of Adam and Eve.

Composition • Underdrawing
The Resurrection icon in progress on studio easel with artist paintbrush
Inspect Study
Work in Progress

Resurrection on Studio Easel

Egg Tempera on Hand-Gessoed Arched Board • Active Studio Session
California, 2026

The living rhythm of egg tempera writing: deep lapis lazuli mandorla washes laid in, garments modeled through luminous translucent glazes, and the iconographer’s red sable brush resting beside the angel.

Egg Tempera • Active Easel
Theotokos Mother of God facial study showing 4th flesh layer on gessoed board
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Color & Layer Study

Theotokos — 4th Flesh Illumination

Traditional Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel • Facial Study
California, 2025

Demonstrating the ancient Byzantine canon of building light out of darkness: applying the fourth successive flesh illumination over the olive-green sankir undertone to manifest divine inner radiance.

Sankir • Flesh Modeling
Traditional levkas icon boards prepared with rabbit-skin glue and Carrara marble dust
Inspect Study
Board Craft & Levkas

Hand-Gessoed Arched Boards

Baltic Birch, Rabbit-Skin Glue & Carrara Marble Dust • 15 Multi-Layers
California

The authentic physical foundation: solid arched birch boards and hand-carved Russian crosses prepared with organic rabbit-skin glue and chalk levkas, sanded to porcelain smoothness for egg tempera and water gilding.

Traditional Ground • Supplies
Master Craftsmanship

Materials & Techniques: The Traditional Standard

Every sacred icon is written according to ancient canons and physical standards developed over millennia.

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Hand-Prepared Supports

Every wooden icon begins with a custom-made board crafted from high-grade Baltic Birch plywood, selected specifically for its exceptional dimensional stability, strength, and resilience against warping over centuries.

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The Authentic Levkas Ground

Unlike mass-produced boards that use synthetic acrylics, we prepare a traditional levkas ground using Professional Grade Rabbit Skin Glue (providing an organic bond that breathes with wood) and Natural Chalk & Marble Dust applied in 12 to 15 thin layers, then hand-sanded to a glass-like finish.

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Time-Honored Durability

This labor-intensive, ancient process ensures the painted surface will not crack, flake, or peel over generations, preserving the "written" sacred image and its golden luminosity for centuries to come.

Hand-gessoed Baltic Birch icon boards with traditional marble dust levkas
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Experience the Peace of Iconography

Whether you are searching for the perfect hand-painted gift, a high-quality print on wood, supplies for your church group, or a custom commission written specifically for your family, Eliosa Studio makes sacred art approachable and affordable.

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Custom Commissions
Traditional Egg Tempera, Gold Leaf & Wood
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Workshops & Parish Events
DIY Watercolor & Canvas Painting Kits Available
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