“Untitled” © Susan Sorrell Hill
The Illustration Friday word of the week is icon.
The New Oxford American Dictionary defines icon (noun) as:
1. a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.
2. a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something: this iron-jawed icon of American manhood.
I think a humorous depiction of a modern Buddha sort of squeaks by in this category, don’t you…?
“Untitled” (watercolor, pencil)
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