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This is a piece I did this winter and I was pretty pleased with the results.  I've been thinking about the natural reaction some must have had to the savior's miracles.  I think we forget that miracles were as rare then as they are today and especially in the case of the healing of a leper, a man you might have passed many times on the street must have been a disconcerting thing.  Let alone what it must have been for the leper, to be redeemed from a literal death sentence physically and socially.

     As always, I probably bit off more than I can chew and there are a bunch of different reactions and stories in here if you look for them.

I started off with this very simple color sketch I did in the computer, working out the perspective, relationship of the main figure and the savior and other figures in the design, a basic color pallet.  yeah, those are photos of me on the left and my friend Dean Kleven on the right.  I don't develop things very far before I've made up my mind and just get started.

Then I photograph each of my models individually and place them in the composition.  If you look around I use the same people several times.  I figure that while I have them in the studio it's a good time to exploit them.  Anyway, this is where I work out a lot of the details and why I love photoshop so much- it probably saves me days of work.  

I then drew the piece on canvas from this finished composition and started painting.  In all I probably have a couple of months in this piece.