Nearly finished St. Nicholas Icon

Treated the surface with glair.
The eyes may need some correction.

Saint Nicholas Icon - Nikolay Ugodnik

Lettering done, with minor corrections

Lettering on a transparent sheet

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XAHC u святой Николай

(Hans and Saint Nicholas)

4 November 2012 Sketches
I managed to make a panel from the wolmanized wood, and this is to become the icon board.
The icon on the postcard is called Saint Nicolas of the Door
He is supposed to be the patron of domestic bliss

XAHC would be the cyrillic transcription of my given name, matching the average Russian pronunciation of it.

Raw material

Very ugly wolmanized wood

Not easy to work with, but not without potential

Wolmanized wood. 
Poisonous green with deathly black and yet - 
there is that fleshy pink vein of Life shining through.