Catholic Icons

Hi, everyone! I am new at the Catholic Illustrators Guild and happy to be here. I am an iconography apprentice learning to write Catholic icons in the Russian-Byzantine tradition. The recessed and panel icons I have completed so far can be seen at my site Created Beauty. Here are two of the icons I recently finished:

 

The icons are all written using natural pigments with water-based egg tempera on wood covered with linen and traditional gesso, together with 23.5 kt gold leaf and/or silver leaf burnished by hand. Check out my site and please do not hesitate to get in touch at createdbeautyicons@gmail.com should you have any questions.

Thanks, enjoy!

Marcelle

Happy Mother's Day!

                                                                          "Madonna & Child"  © Leo Winstead

Epiphany coloring page, colored

Merry Christmas as we come to the end of this year! This year, for me, has been dominated by the project of the Liturgical Calendar Coloring Book, drawing pages for every single saint's day. Now it's complete I've started coloring some of the pages. I colored this one with acrylic wash, ink, and the classic coloring book medium, Crayola crayons; and used the picture for my Christmas cards this year.

May you all have a blessed New Year!

Glorious Mysteries coloring pages

As part of my ongoing project of a coloring book of the entire Liturgical Calendar, I've drawn coloring pages of the five Glorious Mysteries. So I decided to make them available as a set, along with a set of the Luminous Mysteries that I did earlier. Check out this page on my blog if you're interested.

Elevation

This is my Christmas card picture for this year, and I also tried to enter it in that Catholic Digest contest back at the time, but the email address didn't seem to be working.

Merry Christmas!

Immaculate Conception

Coloured pencils
Dec 2012

Immaculate Conception coloring page

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception! This is the page for today from the Entire Liturgical Calendar Coloring Book I'm working on.

Our Lady of America

Dear my American friends,

When you vote on the 6th of November, keep in mind your identities as children of Light and your duties to bear His Truth and Love. Our Lady of America, pray for us!


"Our Lady of America"
Coloured pencils and gouache
2012

Holy Face of Mary

A commissioned small oil painting, based on an image "drawn by an Italian mystic" in the Pieta Prayer Book.

It frustrated me that the book does not name this mystic, or give any other information, and I couldn't find the image anywhere else! It is lovely, though, and was a challenge to interpret. 

The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord

 

Based on Orthodox imagery, read more about the meaning here.

Queen of Heaven - sketch page

Update (3/22/11):  Here is a small painted head study done from the sketch.  To speed up the process, I painted my first layers in acrylic and then came back over it in oils for the final coat.  I've heard this is not wise since over time (hundreds of years) the oil may flake off, being too thin.


I pulled out the ole 9B pencil for this sketch.  Kinda scary at first when you see those dark pencil marks being put on the page, but I needed the contrast for the skin tones.

Go to Mary

This isn't really art, but simply a cartoon that qualifies as a bit of a self portrait from my youth.

Hello

I'm Mary, a university student who wants to be a professional illustrator someday. I've watched Smallpax for years, but never got up the nerve to ask to join. I submitted some art for the Gilbert magazine Call for Artists below, and at that Ted was kind enough to issue me an invitation. This picture is one of the ones I submitted.

It's very exciting to be here. I hope I will do myself credit. ^_^

The Blessed Mother - comfort

I posted this on my cartoon blog, but thought it might be suited for here also.

As I stated in the cartoon blog, I've wanted to do something involving Mary, but am not comfortable drawing her face - mainly because throughout the ages others have done such beautiful work, I could never hope to do something acceptable.

So I settled on this. A loving mother's comforting touch.