CRUSHED STONE ICONS WORKSHOP
This workshop is
one of the oldest in St. Elisabeth Convent founded in 1999. Since then, the
workshop masterpieces created by such an unusual method have become popular
throughout the world. 
Works from the
stone workshop are long lasting and durable because the materials used do not
fade or tarnish. The first step is creating an outline of the image (usually on
a marble base). At this point, the base can undergo gold plating if that is the
intention of the artist. Afterwards, the most interesting part begins – the
time for multicolored stones to be applied/scattered unto the base.
This process is
quite unusual because the artist is not using paint as one would in
conventional paintings but instead minerals and semi-precious stones ground by
hand are used. These minerals and stones come from different parts of the
world. Bright red cinnabar with metallic chatoyment (shine) comes from China,
rich green copper emerald (Dioptase) - from Kazakhstan and orange crocoite from
Ural. As you can see, the creation of this layer requires a wide color range...
CONVERSATION