Baby Jesus Icon

I made this one to be a Christmas card.  This is a snapshot of the completed picture.  I'm having it scanned right now, and it should be available at the redbubble and FineArtAmerica sites in a few days, and also directly from me.

I started out with the idea of making a nativity scene but then gravitated back to my practice of focusing on a single figure, in this case the infant Jesus himself.  The Latin motto is the traditional announcement: Christ is born.

The Incarnation will always be the central belief of the Christian faith--the idea that God became man in the form of this Jesus of Nazareth who walked the earth and gave us, by his teaching and by his example,  the definitive revelation of God.  And this man started out like all the rest of us, as a small helpless baby born of a woman.  I hope this picture does something to communicate this Christian belief and this faith in a man who was also God, though we will never fully understand this mystery in this life.

A merry and blessed Christmas season to all, and a happy new year!