Monday, September 26, 2011

Two Icons

My iconography instructor has chided me for not showing my icons to more people. So here are two recently completed ones. When you show someone the icon you have painted and tell that person about it, you are not simply showing; you are evangelizing, in whatever "small" way - make no mistake. And who am I to block that from happening due to a false modesty?

They are rather shoddy photos of the Archangel Michael the Great Taxiarch, and Christ the Pantocrator. Click to enlarge.






7 comments:

christopher said...

I quit.

Bryan said...

Thank you

Paul Stilwell said...

It take it, Christopher, that that's a purely rhetorical way of making a compliment, and not literal. :)

I would not have been able to have done these without the presence - and in the case of St. Michael, continual intervention - of my instructor.

Terry Nelson said...

Thank you very much for sharing these. Amazing and beautifully done. God bless you and give success to the work of your hands.

Paul Stilwell said...

Terry, thank you. And thank you for your prayer.

Itinérante said...

They are truly beautiful! I like the Jesus one A LOT!!
Do you know Ancient Greek?

Paul Stilwell said...

Thank you, kindly!

No, I don't know ancient Greek. But I know someone who does!