I have always been interested in religious art, especially images of saints. I have often thought about making my own saint images, but never really got around to it. Recently, I had the perfect opportunity. My daughter’s baptism was approaching and I wanted to make an image for her godmother. What better image than a saint with the same name as my baby?! The story behind St. Lucy is really cool too. She was tortured and even had her eyes taken out while she was alive. She was eventually killed, but before that her eyes and sight were restored through her faith. In the image, she is holding her eyes on a little plate, but she has new ones in her head. You can see the final image and also a couple sketches I did before the finished work. The final was completed with acrylic paint on paper, cut and collaged together.
St. Lucy is the patron saint of the blind.
initial sketches for St. lucy portrait
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