Today’s crummy saint picture

Continuing my saint a day project, since both St Bede the Venerable parishes in the archdiocese were a bit far to go with my kids, I opted to do another crummy drawing. This one is a colored pencil impressionist rendering of the James Doyle Penrose painting, “The Venerable Bede Translates John” which depicts Bede on his deathbed continuing to dictate his translation of the Gospel of John to his amuensis. A Colored pencil rendering of the James Doyle Penrose painting, “The Venerable Bede translates John” I opted to avoid trying to do too much detail and instead largely rendered shapes, somewhat abstractly so that you can make out Bede and his amanuensis,m but not really the shadowy figures in the background and nobody’s faces which have been looking cartoonish in my efforts thusfar, but given I’m doing these pictures taking about ten minutes on each one, I guess that’s to be expected.


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