What size do these print at?

Each icon is drawn at panel proportions with a generous gold border, so it prints clean at A4 or scales down for a bookmark.

Can I get a specific saint instead?

Yes — the direction field takes a saint or figure by name, such as a family portrait or a name-day saint, and the same three surfaces render it.

Is there any text or lettering on the icon?

No — these are flat panel, mosaic and fresco artwork with no inscription, frame or mockup added.

Can I print these on canvas or wood panel?

Yes — the flat, high-contrast composition transfers well to canvas print or a wood panel mount.

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Byzantine icon design: mother and child, archangel, dragon slayer

Byzantine icons — a mother holding a child on her arm, both frontal with large still eyes, her dark blue mantle worked in gold folds, the child in ochre raising a hand, an icon painted on a wood panel in egg tempera, burnished gold-leaf ground, folds drawn as flat gold lines, crackled gesso and a plain red border

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Reading 1Mother and child

Reading 2Archangel

Reading 3Dragon slayer

Byzantine icon painting reads instantly: gold ground, frontal gaze, reverse perspective. These nine paint a mother and child, an archangel and a dragon-slaying rider, each as an egg tempera panel, a gold mosaic and a church fresco. Ask for a different saint and the same three surfaces carry it.

a home icon corner or prayer wall
a godparent or baptism gift
a church bulletin or bookmark
a family portrait done as an icon set
a coloring page for a saint's name day

Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?: Each icon is drawn at panel proportions with a generous gold border, so it prints clean at A4 or scales down for a bookmark.
Can I get a specific saint instead?: Yes — the direction field takes a saint or figure by name, such as a family portrait or a name-day saint, and the same three surfaces render it.
Is there any text or lettering on the icon?: No — these are flat panel, mosaic and fresco artwork with no inscription, frame or mockup added.
Can I print these on canvas or wood panel?: Yes — the flat, high-contrast composition transfers well to canvas print or a wood panel mount.

About toile

This page is a showcase: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each one shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Toile has no generation wired to this page yet — nothing here is made to order, and there is no account, no upload, nothing to buy. What you see is what exists. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.