The third panel of The Communion of the Saints will focus on Asia. This one will be more complicated, so I'm starting some studies early while I'm still working on the Africa panel. I'll be painting Our Lady of Vailankanni and St. Alphonsa Muttathupadathu. I think I'll likely go through a whole tube of cadmium red on the Sari. 

My assistant and I were able to get the initial drawing onto the panel and I've started laying in the figures. The oil dries slowly on the steel, extending the open time in which I can work by more than a day.

Color studies and sketches for the Africa panel of my Communion of the Saints commission. The painting will depict the Venerable Zeinab Alif and St. Benedict the Moor