In all classes:

• The primary requirements are prayer and humility

• The traditional mediums are taught:  egg tempera, gold leaf, and gesso (the animal skin and chalk used to prepare the boards in a very specific process)

• Students are equipped, over time, to understand for themselves the spiritual and aesthetic properties of iconography, enabling them to participate in the living tradition.  In other words, this is not a color-by-number iconography class.