My favorite icon is Mary tenderly hugging Jesus on the cheek. Maybe because I am a mother and I always carried my little children in my arms, hugging them to me and my cheek, so that they felt that I was close.
So the Lord leads me that every time I finish writing this icon, someone appears and asks for another one.
Every time I write it, I feel like I’m doing it for the first time, I discover the beauty of Mary and the tenderness in her closeness to her Son and the tenderness of the Son wrapping his arms around Mom’s neck.
First, I cover the background and nimbus with gold, I like to do it at night when it’s quiet in the house and no one is blowing on the gold :)) you know what a gust of air means
We like to write icons for a specific person, because an icon is a prayer enclosed in an image,
written by a human hand 🙂 See for yourself, isn’t it touching?