The
life-sized wood carvings reminded me for some reason of
the bleeding statues that are sometimes reported and venerated
by the faithful, so I took advantage of the discoloration
in the carving's hand as an instance of stigmata and added
the drops of blood using a custom shape with an emboss
layer style. The arch in the background was duplicated
and flipped horizontally to fill in the background. The
fence was created in Elements. The statue was colored
using a combination of solid color and hue/saturation
adjustment layers. The font is Letraset La Bamba. 'Sangre
de Cristo' means 'Blood of Christ'.