Deep Looking, drawing and the road to true prayer

How learning to draw what I saw taught me to pay more attention to God

Here’s a little re-edit and expansion on a couple of posts I wrote on the studio blog some time ago about how I’ve found doing art, drawing iconographically, painting icons and thinking a lot about Christian sacred art, has helped my spiritual life. I wrote these while I was living alone after losing my home to the 2016 Norcia earthquakes and suffering …