The girls worked on coloring this page while dad and I reflected on our family’s patron saint for 2010, St. John Chrysostom. 

Rose stepped it up a notch and created an icon.  I got the inspiration from iconography found here and an icon project found here via Shower of Roses. 

We took the printed coloring sheet and transferred it using a pencil-rub technique to the wood plaque (that was pre-painted with gold tempera paint).  Rose then used paint pens and markers to color the image.  She preferred the markers.  They created a subtle aged look.  

She had her first go at iconography in March of 2009 from a “real” art teacher.  I posted a few photos here.

I plan to have her try other iconography techniques this year.

St. John Chrysostom exclaimed: "Nothing is equal to prayer; for what is impossible it makes possible, what is difficult, easy" (Catechism, 2744).