Rýñmárâ

Our Lady with Christ Child

The first sacred portrait I'd ever drawn took form at St. Gabriel's parish center, alongside Marc Adrian while he sketched. The aðitríçâ style is resurrected after many years (at least since 1999). I'd guessed at the palette and laid out the Saint as I saw her in the St. Joseph Metanoia of 9a53. The Madonna is seen as young and demure, with infant Jesus swaddled in her arms. The task Marc had laid out was to draw saints, to do them in a particular style. He'd mentioned a quatrefoil, which surrounds the picture of the Queen of the Universe, a mere teenager. I gave Our Lady a mane of wavy flaxon hair. This renders the Holy Mother of God similar to my own daughter. I never know exactly how the imagery turns out till it is done; the Sharpie and Prismacolor markers are unforgiving and must be put down fast. Joseph Leisure was leading a retreat on whose team Marc and I were serving; he'd come in amidst the construction of the light graphite drawing, and watched as I took markers to the page. The sketch was complete in about an hour and a half, between conversation. This image is the first sketch I had done since 2010; till the completion of this portrait, I had considered myself the world's first ex-artist. Wednesday, 20 February 2019 = Tayya a346, ten dozen third phase (Xrga Rýñmáral).

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