Avalokiteshvara - The one with the unwavering eye

[Fred vanderZee]

The iridescent shading of the blossom that's your Facebook profile picture is very impressive too.

I'd always had an intuition that this type of rendering was the classical art style for which Xara was best suited.
(Compared to, say, the technique of Vladimir Konstantinovic, which, while amazing in its own right, seems to be executed despite, rather than because of, the vector nature of the program.)

That's part of a White Tara image done in gold on red - Chinese style. I used lighter shades of simulated gold in the image to emphasize certain parts of the face and to bring more depth into the entire image.