Question about my new Icon

[Photini]

I have a new Icon. It's of Christ with the Samaritan woman by the well (she's my patron St....Photini). My son asked me why she doesn't have a halo in the Icon. Anybody know?

I know this attached image is a little small, but it's the exact Icon that I have.

[katherine2001]

I have a close-up icon of St. Photini (a close-up of her) and she does have a halo. For some reason, the iconographer who did this icon chose not to put a halo on her.

[Photini]

Here's another one kind of like the above one, but with a halo.

[Michael the Iconographer]

The Samaritan Woman at the well is St. Photini. In icons of St. Photini alone, she always has a halo. Many times when an iconographer does a "festal icon", an icon of a scene, he often only puts a halo on the most important person or persons in the icon. I personally would give St. Photini a halo in this icon because she is central to the story, but that is a personal choice of the Iconographer. However, to give Christ his halo is not a choice, but a must. I hope I have helped a little.
Michael