St. Kateri Tekakwitha Icon--Fine Art Prints Available

Art prints and cards of my latest icon, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, are now available for sale at http://www.redbubble.com/people/draber/works/9701364-st-kateri-tekakwitha-icon  OR at  http://fineartamerica.com/featured/st-kateri-tekakwitha-icon-david-raber.html.  The works are offered with a wide variety of matting and farming options, or unframed up to poster size.

St. Kateri was recently welcomed into the family of recognized Catholic saints when she was canonized at the Vatican in October.


Please contact me directly for multiple prints at reduced cost, or to arrange a fundraising program for your parish or other group--offering this and/or other icons for sale.

I am currently working on a Vatican II icon, the first in a series celebrating the Year of Faith declared by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.

A happy and blessed New Year to all!

Vatican II Icon--Preliminary Sketch

This is a preliminary sketch of the basic layout for the Vatican II icon I'm working on now (first in a series of pictures celebrating the Year of Faith proclaimed at the Vatican by Pope Benedict XIV).  This just shows the central part of the picture, and not the floral border I plan to put around it.

From top to bottom: alpha and omega at each corner, monogram of Christ at center; the oval-like shape being a map of the earth; St. Peter's Basilica, with the cross at its peak centered on the world map; figures involved in the council in two rows, encircled by the arcades that reach out in front of St. Peter's, with Pope John XXIII front and center; and at bottom two banners inscribed "Second Vatican Council" and "50 Years--1962-2012."  The Holy Spirit symbolized by a white dove will be in there somewhere too.

As always, I welcome all comments and ideas about this picture as it develops.