Here is a new commission I just finished for a friend:

Little Christ in a Garden

Acrylic painting.

Femininity (new member's work!)

I am a young woman desiring to restore an appreciation of real femininity and sacredness to our culture in whatever way I can! I am new to painting and I am new to this blog. All constructive criticism (and any prayers) are welcome.

(detail of a larger painting)

Shrine at Morning

Plein air oil painting of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston.

The Annunciation

I'm working on a series of paintings of the Holy Rosary. The Annunciation is the first Joyful Mystery. Thank you for allowing me to participate in your Catholic Illustrators Guild. Many of the drawings and illustrations here are beautiful.

CD cover design

This is an CD case cover I designed. The original sketch on the cover is one of Michaelangelo's studies of Mary at the foot of the cross. The back incorporates da Vinci's sketch of lilies.

New Drawings

I have finished another Station of the Cross, fifth in the series of 14. Like the others, this was drawn with colored inks and gold leaf on goatskin.

The drawing of the Ecstasy of St. Philip Neri is based on a work by Pietro Antonio Novelli.

The bookplate design depicts St. Barbara with the tower of her imprisonment. The six caricatures were commissioned for use as avatars by the writers of Korrektiv Press. 

More recent work can be seen on my website and in my latest newsletter.

Sacred Heart of Jesus

Happy Divine Mercy Sunday everyone.  I recently found a good book called Consoling the Heart of Jesus, inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.  It brought together the Little Way of Saint Therese, the Divine Mercy, and the Consecration to Mary, three things that seem to be coming to the forefront with many Catholics today.

These two pieces are studies for a painting in the works, the color study below is to work out any changes before going to the final.

Resurrexit sicut dixit! Alleluia!

What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn. —G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

St. Longinus

Christ Entombed

This week I’ve been helping my friend, sculptor Reed Armstrong, make a mold for a just-under-life-sized statue of the Good Shepherd. If all goes according to plan, the final statue will end up placed atop a church in a little town in Germany.

Mold making is messy and labor-intensive and actually destroys the original statue. While we were covering the statue with coats of rubber, burlap, and later plaster, I had a sudden realization of just how seasonally appropriate the work was.

In our house we do try to cover many of our images for the Lenten Season, but here I was taking this practice a step further and actually “entombing” an image of Christ, covering the figure in a “shroud” of burlap strips and then encasing it in the plaster, which is not unlike stone. (I can’t think of a corollary for the rubber).

To spin the metaphor out just a little further, after Easter we will break open the tomb and, after further laborious steps, the earthy clay statue will be replaced by a beautiful bronze version that will last forever.

Seal of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter

Official seal for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.

Father Z, Card. Dolan & Time

Please take a minute and help Fr. Z take over a poll at Time.

Baldo De' Serofini - Madonna del Soccorso secolo XVI
tempera su tela cm 160x150

My Life in Records Book Cover Designs

I've been playing with some designs for the next issue of my comic book, My Life in Records. Please tell me which one you like the best!

New Drawing: Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary

This is a black ink drawing with red ink lettering on a 9" x 12" piece of calfskin vellum. It depicts the five Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary, after 15th century artistic models, contained within Gothic quatrefoils and surrounded by floral ornament.



Companion drawings of the Joyful and Sorrowful Mysteries are now in progress.

See my website and most recent newsletter for more of my work.

I've been a bit too happy this Lent...

One glance at Pietà took care of that.

I love Bouguereau's paintings. They remind me of ones by that other fellow, Anthony VanArsdale. ;)