"Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." My Christmas card for this year.
This comes out of a number of places. Nolde for one. His "Heilige Nacht" from his "Leben Christi" altatpiece is probably where it begins, The stable, the newborn Christ. In Nolde's painting the donkey drinks from a bucket. This set me thinking about the animals in the stable. So sheep. There were shepherds, so sheep. Which then took me bback to nights in the lambing shed, and the practice of ewes to clean their offspring. And Blake's "The Lamb". Because I used to tell it to the sheep in the wee small hours.
I like the different textures. Especially the fleece.
