Please join with me in laughing at the stages of my attempt to depict Jesus backlit after rising from the dead. Painting without a solid reference is not easy haha… but I learned so much through this study! I hope to use it to help with the larger painting, “Rabboni”, which I began over 3 years ago. (I’ve repainted over it like a million times already. You might be familiar with the first edition, printed in my 2025 Calendar.) My goal since the beginning was to recreate the scene from John...