Yea, Maybe you can paint over it so that its a better portrait of you, or maybe just take the idea and start from scratch.

I'm not using it for anything.

It looked like you were into the whole russian orthodoxy thing, so this was mostly meant to be like an example of a method of stealing art styles, and applying it to portraits.

I thought your portrait was funny in the context of a russian saint.

The american southwest also uses those disc halos - pictures of st. francis and such.

.:.

Here's a cool heretical concept that is unique to russian orthodoxy compared to a lot of other christian ideas -- though not so unique in other areas.

This is the specific word as applied to art:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis

Here is the general concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theurgy