Egg Tempera painting demonstration by Mary Jane Miller in San Miguel de Allende.
No artistic experience is necessary for the iconography classes in egg tempera. The iconography classes are taught inclusive of time for meditation, watching the mind and seeing your hand move as an extension of God creating. The process of icon painting moves us beyond the act of painting, helping us to redefine our limits of self and, our ideas about God.
After two decades, I am increasingly curious to hear more female mystics share their insights. In light of women, catholic women, religious women, and all women in every religion, pray for us. Through iconography, a new voice is emerging. Women are coming to a clearer, stronger and more focused understanding of liturgical art, the preservation of tradition and more spirituality in the world.

Mary Defined through history.
The Magdalene still framed in mystery,
Mary Magdalene has the potential to lead us, expose gender bias and ideology as we re-evaluate the evidence without discarding what reliable texts offer for the reconstruction of women's 'real life' experience. Her very presence as a a biblical women we can contemplate, raises the levels of self-direction, involvement, and influence enjoyed by women in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and today.

Dialogue for Peace.
The concept is simple, we can live with the diversity of faith all the while knowing one day we will come to realize we are of the same mind, one of love, Make this year inclusive with less criticism and more understanding . We are 8 billion people trying to get along, the room for error is enormous and the room for love is divine. peacebestill.net

this is a really intresting video and shows how humanity is changing and woman are powerful.
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Holy Ground, mary jane miller.
In my studio I got wondering how many of these icons would it take to cover the floor? Holy Ground was inspired, placing them just so, in rows they went out the door in both directions, towards the bathroom and the outside garden. More on this project Later, For now, know i have realized i do have enough to cover my house. This satisfies me greatly.
The goal now is to paint till I can say. "25,000 unseen icons in San Miguel Allende, Mexico" sacrediconretreat.com
new minds Silliness, Peace be still

Egg Tempera Mixing Cheat Sheet.
sacrediconretreat.com When you use egg tempera in your icon painting techniques, you want to mix recipes. But this requires using the appropriate egg tempera dish, one that makes it easy to clean egg tempera paints.

egg tempera, mary jane miller.
sacrediconretreat.com Mary Jane Miller is an iconographer quietly living in San Miguel Allende, Classic painting with egg tempera, byzantine style icons, Mary Jane Miller shows a brief demoof icon painting

Icons revealed.
Egg tempera reflects spirituality and religion for modern catholics. Mary Jane Miller in San Miguel Allende is a modern catholic iconographer. Mary Jane Miller paints egg tempera in the artists colony of San Miguel Allende. Her work is available on sacrediconretreat.com Mary Jane Miller is an iconographer byzantine style icons, Her spiritual icons reflect religion and catholic spirituality.