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Saint Creo

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A character from my LARP land who was executed (unfairly) in May 2013 and in the aftermath made a Biserica (our IT church) martyr and saint.
Painting an icon (commissioned by our "bishop") was great fun, I haven't worked with acrylics in years. I researched several icon styles (also, I'd seen some in a lecture before) and then used what I found to make this.
Creo was an archer, hence the arrows in her nimbus, the gestus might resemble the blessing gestures of real world icons but is meant to be the protection gesture of the Biserica.
The biggest compliment I got for this was by a friend who works as a professional illustrator that I captured the style perfectly and still made Creo look like her player. Awesome.

- cardboard with wall colour coat for texture (worked great, a friend mistook it for wood), IKEA behandla, cheap acrylics, Nerchau acrylic matte (the gold colour, my favourite so far. It's a horrible task to find gold acrylic that doesn't look incerdibly cheap), pastel chalks, Faber Castell and Lyra brush markers, water colour.

Scanning sadly was not really an option, it screwed up the whole texture and the colour of her piercings and the nimbus.
Image size
1918x2877px 4.53 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 1000D
Shutter Speed
1/64 second
Aperture
F/5.0
Focal Length
21 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Jun 1, 2013, 8:00:30 AM
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