Icons

[Orthodoxjay1]

Hey everyone I got a question, where do you all think is the best place to find canonical Orthodox Icons? I plan on looking into getting afordable Icons after I save up money during the holiday season.

 

[Dewi Sant]

Does your church sell icons?

 

[Orthodoxjay1]

No we don't infact many Icons we have has been donated to the church.

 

[truefiction1]

I think we have gotten many of ours from St. Tikhon's Seminary bookstore. I'd ask ArmyMatt.

 

[Orthodoxjay1]

I think we have gotten many of ours from St. Tikhon's Seminary bookstore. I'd ask ArmyMatt.

Thanks so much I will check out ST. Tikhon's, I heard great things about them. I will also ask ArmyMatt as soon as I am settled at home for evening

 

[ArmyMatt]

ArmyMatt here, yes, order from St Tikhon's Monastery bookstore. they have a ton. there are also good iconographers who post on here from time to time (like ikonographics).

 

[~Anastasia~]

I love the one I have from St. Tikhon's.

I recently ordered from Uncut Mountain Supply to take advantage of a sale. The icons are lovely, but they have a flat finish. I would have chosen a different one if I had realized that (Pantokrator mosaic from Hagia Sophia - it needs a little shine IMO).

I also have quite a few images I ordered of Iconographics; they are very nice!

 

[E.C.]

St. Tikhon's, St. Vlad's, Holy Cross, and I think even Conciliar Press.

I thought we had a sticky on this?

 

[Orthodoxjay1]

Thanks everyone and thanks ArmyMatt sorry it took forever to get back to you all yesterday was another busy day with Church and work.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Buy hand-painted, or go home, yo! LOL

 

[Tallguy88]

I think mine came from eastern Christian supply, or something like that. Got a matching Pantocrator and Theotokos from Bulgaria several years ago from there.

 

[ZaidaBoBaida]

This might be ignorant but aren't the images in public domain? Why not just get them printed out some place nice like Staples?

 

[~Anastasia~]

Buy hand-painted, or go home, yo! LOL

I still wouldn't have a single icon if that were the case.

I still have only one I've bought in my icon corner - got it for something like 85% off. The rest are small ones given to me, and some paper icons I framed.

(The two I bought recently are still in the altar at Church and will be for a while yet.)


I've seen photos of the cells of Saints that had paper icons pasted to the wall ...

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Funny thing is that all of our icons, and we have many, are 100% hand-painted! Something about the laminated drives me nuts!

I still wouldn't have a single icon if that were the case.

I still have only one I've bought in my icon corner - got it for something like 85% off. The rest are small ones given to me, and some paper icons I framed.

(The two I bought recently are still in the altar at Church and will be for a while yet.)


I've seen photos of the cells of Saints that had paper icons pasted to the wall ...

 

[~Anastasia~]

Funny thing is that all of our icons, and we have many, are 100% hand-painted! Something about the laminated drives me nuts!

You are very blessed.

Maybe someday. Right now I do what I do so that I can attend Liturgy often. But if I arranged things a bit differently, purchasing icons and visiting monasteries would be up there.

I certainly don't disagree with your priorities.

 

[Anhelyna]

My first Icon was given to me - and no not hand painted . The curious thing is that others seemed to follow it - I think at the beginning I only bought two - the rest came as gifts . I've heard other folk finding this too - one icon just 'attracts' others to it.

My Guardian Angel Icon is from the hand of a very skilled member of TAW

 

[ArmyMatt]

Funny thing is that all of our icons, and we have many, are 100% hand-painted! Something about the laminated drives me nuts!

just remember that the myrrh gushing Hawaiian Iveron Icon is a print

 

[truefiction1]

just remember that the myrrh gushing Hawaiian Iveron Icon is a print

I have a copy of that one over my fireplace -- so it be a print of a print.

 

[E.C.]

just remember that the myrrh gushing Hawaiian Iveron Icon is a print

Funny thing. I'm supposed to transfer to Hawaii next year, but before I left for boot camp back in 2012, that icon was making the rounds through Seattle and I have a small print with a cotton swab of the myrrh

 

[All4Christ]

If you ever do want to get a hand painted icon, I recommend using the services of someone who is at the start of their vocation as an iconographer.


I love the style of Fr Andrew Tregubov (sp?), but his icons are way out of our price range. His daughter on the other hand is extremely talented as well, and learned from her father. She was the iconographer for my avatar. She painted it when she was at the beginning of her vocation as an iconographer, and did a beautiful job with it. In fact, it is one of the only icons of St Laura of Córdoba. It is completely original as no one had created a icon of St Laura, with the exception of one triptych with two other saints.

This is a her portfolio: http://brighticons.com/BrightIcons/Portfolio.html

This is a link to my icon:
http://brighticons.com/BrightIcons/Portfolio.html#16

For non-hand painted icons - I agree about St Tikhon's. Also, our deacon has an Orthodox bookstore with icons: www.orthodoxincense.com

If you ever want incense for home...he had a great selection!