Byzantine Madonna

A work inspired by several beautiful Byzantine icons as well as the Palladium of Bohemia and lovely art of .
Maybe you notice the resemblance with some recent pictures in my gallery, depicting the kings of Gondor – that is of course no coincidence; I first took Byzantine inspiration for those illustrations, but when many people liked the style, I decided to do something more closely to the medieval culture.

watercolours & watercolour pencils

I drew this picture originally for a 2011 calendar that I made together with my sister as a Christmas present for our granparents. This was the picture for December.