This site requires JavaScript and cookies to be turned on in your web browser

Welcome to Icon Arts Supplies.  We are artist owned and operated. All our products are tested and carefully selected by our resident iconographer, Irene Perez-Omer, and our many students.  We only sell the products that we use ourselves in practicing the art of icon writing.  When you buy from Icon Arts you get the benefit of years of experience.  You get the supplies that really work and that you will truly use every time you write icons.  All these supplies have been used to write hundreds of icons.  We have reworked bole formulas, we have tested different brands of gold leaf, brushes, palettes, burnishers and etching tools.  You get everything you need in one place. As our committment to you, we also offer technical advice and helpful tips with the purchase of any of our products.


Secure shopping at Icon Arts is easy with Paypal.
  1. Select the Quantity of each product you are interested in.
  2. Click Add to cart.
  3. Ready to check out? Scroll down and click Proceed to Checkout.
  4. Review your Shopping Cart
  5. Securely pay with your Paypal account or any major credit card.
  6. You're done!
Icon Arts Supplies
Pigment Kit*

This kit is specially designed for iconographers working with the egg-tempera technique taught by the Prosopon School. The kit includes the following 30 dry pigments in 1-oz. jars with screw caps, and easy to read, color-coded labels.

Improvements and additions to the pigment kit: Green Chromium Oxide, Olive Green, Sky Blue, Oxide Blue, and 40 gr. of powdered bole, all in a clear plastic box that you can use to store your pigments permanently.

*These pigments are not recommended for home use or use by children. Keep out of the reach of children.
Read the health warning included with your kit. Any liability whatsoever of Icon Arts to the buyer or user of this kit is limited to the purchaser's cost of the product itself.

10 grams each of: 10 grams each of: 20 grams each of:
  • Alizarin Crimson
  • Sky Blue
  • Black
  • Bohemian Green
  • Brown Ochre
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Burnt Umber
  • Dark Hematite
  • Olive Green
  • Earth Orange
  • French Vermillion
  • Genuine Indigo
  • Green Ochre
  • Limonite
  • Orange Ochre
  • Pale Ochre
  • Red(light) Hematite
  • Red Ochre
  • Green Chromium Oxide
  • Terra Verte
  • Translucent Orange
  • Translucent Red
  • Translucent Yellow
  • Venetian Red
  • Oxide Blue
  • Ochre Gold
  • Titanium White
6 grams each of:
  • Bright Yellow
  • Indian Yellow

40 grams each of:

  • Powder bole
Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
Pigment Kit $135.00
Kolinsky Sable

Set of 3 or individual round Kolinsky Sable brushes #2, #1, #2/0.  Finest quality brushes. Triple crimpled ferrule and genuine sable hair. If treated well they will last many years.

Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
Kolinsky Sable Brushes 3 $28.00
#2 Kolinsky Sable Brush $11.00
#1 Kolinsky Sable Brush $10.00
#2/0 Kolinsky Sable Brush $8.00
Icon Arts 23.5kt. loose gold leaf
Deep double sheets of gold, ideal for students .

25 sheet book

Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
23.5kt.
gold leaf
$60.00
Giusto Manetti 24kt. loose gold leaf
Deep double sheets of gold, ideal for professionals. No alloys.

25 sheet book

Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
24kt.
gold leaf
$69.00
Fine and broad tip burnishers

Agate burnishers with comfortable wood handles. These have the perfect shape for achieving great shine on gold with or without desings.  Look in the icon gallery for examples of the designs Irene executes on the halos of  icons with these same burnishers.

Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
Fine-tip burnisher $30.00
Broad-Tip burnisher $30.00

Fine Needle Etching Tool

This etching tool is perfect for etching images on the gessoed surface without excessive gouging caused by larger metal-tip etching tools. 
Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
Etching Tool $5.00
Fine Point Brush
Fine-point brush for thin lines and small details with a short, comfortable handle.
Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
Fine-Point Brush $8.15
No. 6 and 4 Squirrel Brush

Escoda #6 and #4 Perfect brush for floats or washes.

Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
Squirrel Brush #6 $13.00
Squirrel Brush #4 $11.00
Ceramic Palette
Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
Ceramic Palette $8.50
28-Well Porcelain Pallette
Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
28 Well Palette $10.00
Red Clay Powder (Bole)

Only available at present: Powder bole (20 grams.)


The Pre-mixed ready to use bole is no longer available as the old brand of wet clay has been discontinued.  The new wet clay is more sensitive to temperature changes and it doesn't ship well when mixed with glue.

Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
Red Clay Powder (bole) 20gr. $7.00
Clayboard, 9" x 12"
Clayboard, 9" x 12"
Smooth gesso-like surface, clayboard is perfect for
testing colors, practicing faces or garments, or creating
color charts for each icon. 
Product Cost Quantity Total Cost
9x12" Clayboard $8.00

Solid Wood Icon Boards

not available at the moment.

  

Prices for poplar icon boards
Full size (inside frame)/ Ungessoed/ Gessoed/ +Braces Shipping


7 X 9 in. ( 5 X 6 in.)/ $20/ $50/ +$10 $7
9 1/2 X 12 1/2 in. ( 7 X 9 1/2 in.)/ $25/ $60/ +$15 $8.50
11 X 14 in. ( 8 X 10 1/2 in. )/ $30/ $70/ +$15 $9
13 X 17 in. ( 11 X 14 in. )/ $40/ $90/ +$20 $12
15 X 20 in. ( 12 1/2 X 17 in.)/ $50/ $100/ +$20 $15
18 X 24 in. ( 15 X 20 in. )/ $55/ $120/ +25 $15

24 X 36 in. ( 21 X 32 in. )/ $75/ $160/ +$25 $20

**Custom sizes are available please e-mail to: irene@iconsupplies.com for a quote.

Photos © David Omer Photography

www.davidomer.com

Added Total
HOME | ICON GALLERY | ABOUT THE ARTIST | COMMISSIONS | SUPPLIES | CLASSES | ORIGINS & TECHNIQUES | BOOKS