Adding static images to theme
You can to use hook_prorocess_page for this.

In the theme's template.php file, add the following function (make sure it doesn't exist. if so, append the function content to the existing file)

function THEMENAME_preprocess_page(&amp;$vars) {
  $image = ... // Generate your image's img tag here, optionally wrap with some DIVs.
  $vars['my_image'] = $image;
}


Now, you can access this variable as $my_image.