Opening up the Holy Family

Today was a big day. I spent the day redrawing the lines in the icon and then we opened the icon. That means that we put the first colors down. It's a prayerful phase. Especially, since C was mixing and choosing the colors. I just had to paint. I am getting comfortable in a good way with the Holy Family image. I have more to work out, but I am present to the love and peace here.
Here I am opening the icon. C had me face the camera in the second picture to model that in the icon tradition people generally are not in profile, but acknowledging or including the viewer. But, they are not supposed to have toothy grins either- oh well.

C with his wife Paula and dog Beans. Their high school son Miguel is in Anchorage at the model UN representing the People's Republic of China and trying to avoid a nuclear catastrophe. The next picture is C in the studio, reading while I catch up. On the table is an icon of the Korsun Mother of God that C is just beginning for himself (or so he thinks). It's the same as the one I painted in the class I took from C at Seattle U.

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