Among today’s saints are two venerable Dominican tertiaries, and I decided to go with Catherine Jarrige because she showed a bit of a sense of humor and mischeif in her life. In the years after the French revolution, she worked to protect clergy who were unwilling to swear an oath of allegiance to the new regime. She apparently on one occasion disguised a priest as a peasant to smuggle him out of a dangerous region, dousing him with alcohol to make it seem as if he were drunk. While walking with him, she began loudly berating him as if he were her husband. A soldier approached the faux couple and said, “Citizen, if I had a wife like that I’d dump her in the nearest river,” to which the priest responded, “Citizen, so would I.”
I continue to develop my faux-woodcut technique. I used some narrow lines as guides, but largely I tried to do my best to create the dark lines through whitening around them. Also, my first attempt at using hatching to create a medium darkness area.
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