Four icons have been hung in the church of St. John the Evangelist in Elora since Thursday, November 1st. I spent that morning hanging the works and I was very happy that my planned installation went off without a hitch and, while all the icons are of a different size, I was also pleased that [...]
The aim of these last weeks of painting has been to create something presentable for the evening song happening at St. John’s Elora. With that in mind, I have painted all the unfinished bits and hope that what is completed thus far will show well during the service. Ultimately, there is a lot more to [...]
In my experience, icons never seems to have any “life” until their subject’s faces begin to take form. Even with all the work already done in preparing this icon, it has changed everything to have the first layer of flesh-tones worked out.
