St. Joseph - hair highlights

St. Joseph - flesh highlights

St. Joseph - robe highlights

St. Joseph with prototype

This image show the icon of St. Joseph with one of the prototypes Katie Russell is using.

St. Joseph - base coat of flesh and doves

St. Elias - hair - first and second highlights

St. Elias - flesh - first and second highlights

St. Elias with prototypes

This photo shows the icon of St. Elias with some of the prototypes I am working from.

St. Elias - kovchek

Wanting to follow the prototypes of this icon, I used an ochre for the kovchek. However, since the halo comes onto the kovchek in this icon, I needed to use a darker ochre than is common to provide some contrast with the gold. This is straight Brown Ochre, applied in many layers in every direction, as with the background.