Water for wine!

girls carrying water

I needed an image of girls or women carrying water, to illustrate  the scene in the Gospel of John where water is turned into wine at the wedding at Cana in Galilee. I've enver heard anyone make  much reference to the sheer hard work of fetching water from the well and filling six containers each holding thirty gallons. That's a lot of water and a lot of wine! I once met a young woman from Zaire who described what it was like being the water carrier for the family, and the diseases you can get from it! So I found an image on the Internet and turned the African girls into more Middle Easten ones: the expressions on their faces just emerged as I drew it!
sepia ink, nib pen on mountboard 6.5 x 6.5 ins