Pope Benedict XVI's Audience, Saint Peter's Square, Rome

2013, color pencil, 16.00 x 20.00 inches,

$300

This is a color pencil drawing I drew of Pope Benedict XVI based on a photograph I took of him when attending a papal mass he said for an audience of people  at St. Peter's Square outside the front of the Vatican in Rome, Italy in April, 2012. To photograph him close up I had to zoom in on him from my camera's zoom lens. This is the only photograph I've ever taken in person of a living Pope of the Catholic Church. One further note: my photograph also includes probably another American tourist(with baseball cap) there also photographing His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.