Category: art
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, first four drawings
So I’ve started reading Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and I’ve reached the point where I have my first drawing exercise: four drawings, one of a person (drawn live—so you get my daughter on her iPad), one of a generic person drawn from imagination, one of my hand and one of…
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Eternity
A week ago I saw a screening of the new movie, Eternity, which was a decent enough romantic comedy set in the afterlife.¹ I’m not going to write a review of the film itself, but instead there were two aspects of the afterlife as presented in the film that really captured my attention: First, the idea…
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Today’s saint picture: Saint Diomedes of Tarsus
Diomedes was one of the Holy Unmercenaries, an epithet¹ applied to a number of early Christians who did things like care for the sick without charging for their services. He was ordered arrested by the Eastern Roman Emperor Diocletian and along the way, Diomedes stopped to pray and fell dead. The soldiers, being mindful of…
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Today’s saint picture: Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception
Today’s saint is Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, an Indian (Indian as in Gandhi, not Geronimo) nun who was the first Indian woman to be canonized by the Catholic church. Having taken a break of nearly a week since my last picture, I can see my skills weakening with this image.
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Today’s Saint Picture: Saint Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene is one of those figures in the Bible who tradition has ended up confusing a bit, thanks to the fact that there are so many Marys in the New Testament. For a while, she was associated with both Mary the sister of Martha and with the woman caught in adultery, but has since…
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Today’s saint picture: Saint Bonaventure
St Bonaventure Oratory was one of those shadow parishes in the archdiocese which was still in the list of churches that I got from the directory, but had been relegated at some point in the past (trying to determine whether a church has been relegated is its own little challenge, I’ve found with some parish…
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Today’s saint picture: Saint Procopius
Family duties meant that I wouldn’t be able to visit Saint Procopius church today so I decided to draw Saint Procopius instead. He was an 11th century Czech Benedictine monk who was the namesake, not only of the parish on the west side of Chicago but also of the abbey attached to Benedictine University in…
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Today’s Saint Picture: Seven Holy Brothers
I ended up choosing today’s saint, I went with the Seven Holy Brothers, the children of Saint Felicitas, not because of anything about the brothers themselves, of which little is known and much that is said is likely to be false, but because the picture that I worked from today, taken from an illustration in…
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Today’s saint picture: Saint Mary Zhu Wu
Today’s saint is Saint Mary Zhu Wu, a Chinese lay Christian who was martyred during the Boxer rebellion in China. I continue my experiments with Procreate, although I had a bit of a mishap today. I had created my preliminary sketch in blue but I forgot to start a new layer when I did the…