FeastDay!

FeastDay!, a board game about the liturgical year for which I did the design and illustration, is coming out this Advent. It's available for pre-order.

It reminds me of a combination of Chutes and Ladders and a Catholic Trivial Pursuit, and there are options for treats!

Catholicmom.com has an article about it and Steve Botsford, its creator:

I met the creator of FeastDay! The Liturgical Year Board Game! at a Charleston, South Carolina Diocesan Conference. Steve Botsford, a convert to the Catholic faith, holds a Master of Religious Education degree from Loyola University and is a master catechist in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. He and his wife are marriage preparation sponsors. He has also served ten years as parish youth minister and remains an active catechist. Added to these game-creator credentials, Steve is a father of three who knows the value of a good family game firsthand.

Read the rest here.

A Family of Faith

Sophia Institute Press has a new family catechesis program coming out in August, A Family of Faith.

Image from Sophia Institute

It features lots of coloring and circle-the-right-thing activities, with illustrations by me. It has chapters for each month of the school year. You can check out a sample here--just click on Read More and there's a pdf link.

It's all available for pre-order now.

The Pope's Chair

An updated cover for a book in the works. I'm still searching for a publisher or backer, so if you have any leads, let me know. This story is very current and a necessary balm for our world!

http://www.stefansalinas.com

This is my body...

Hello fellow illustrators! I used to post on here a bit years ago, but sadly haven't been doing much drawing lately. I've decided it was time to try and change that, so getting back into sketching some rough pieces, and working out a style for some upcoming projects I hope to start. Thanks for all of your inspiration, there are so many great pieces of work published here to this blog, and I'm motivated by your faith! Cheers for now!

Hand-painted stole

Here's a stole I hand-painted for a friend.  "Mary and Joseph". Notice the pistil parts are three nails in the center of the lily.  His church is very contemporary, and the rose window is one big rose! This could be for any Marian day or Feast of St. Joseph, weddings, Easter, Christmas...  It was a true joy creating it - -  a new artistic avenue?  

The stole was sewn by Junice at www.junice.com 

Mary did you know,

Beautiful song, some of the lyrics are a bit problematic, but it inspired this piece nevertheless.
"Mary did you know that your baby boy would calm the storm with his hand?"

Book in the works

Here are two samples for a book I'm working on about Catholic-Muslim relations.  The text has been completed and now is being reviewed by an imam and a priest.  Then it's on to months of illustrating!

Catholic Icons

Hi, everyone! I am new at the Catholic Illustrators Guild and happy to be here. I am an iconography apprentice learning to write Catholic icons in the Russian-Byzantine tradition. The recessed and panel icons I have completed so far can be seen at my site Created Beauty. Here are two of the icons I recently finished:

 

The icons are all written using natural pigments with water-based egg tempera on wood covered with linen and traditional gesso, together with 23.5 kt gold leaf and/or silver leaf burnished by hand. Check out my site and please do not hesitate to get in touch at createdbeautyicons@gmail.com should you have any questions.

Thanks, enjoy!

Marcelle

The Road to Walsingham

I recently did a banner, above, and a cover image, below, for the Road to Walsingham podcasts of the various interesting lectures given at Our Lady of Walsingham Church, my old parish and the seat of the US Anglican Ordinariate.

New member. Pope's Angelus

Hello,

This is my first post here. My name is Tomas and I'm from Spain, but now I'm living in Slovenia. I'm married and have a daughter.

I draw cartoons now and then for catholic media. Each week, I also draw about the Pope's Angelus. Here is one example.

In the past, I've neved paid any attention to the Pope's Angelus. However, I realize now to what extent is important for the world and for us, christians: once a week, the pope puts the thermometer to the world and proposes remedies for the evils in the world and the weakness in each of us. I wish his words would reach more people. In that sense, I think the strip is in the good track and it helps to create interest in the Pope's words.

Saint Joseph

Sacred Heart Institute logo

Logo I made for the Sacred Heart Institute, a clergy formation institute in New York.

Elevation

This is my Christmas card picture for this year, and I also tried to enter it in that Catholic Digest contest back at the time, but the email address didn't seem to be working.

Merry Christmas!

Immaculate Conception coloring page

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception! This is the page for today from the Entire Liturgical Calendar Coloring Book I'm working on.

Christ in Majesty

Completed for the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Ruler of the Universe. More about this image on my blog.

St. Francis Xavier coloring page

I'm starting a new project: a coloring book of the entire Liturgical year. Beginning with December because the First Sunday of Advent is around then and it's simpler to go month by month, the first page I did is St. Francis Xavier, whose feast is December 3rd.

RELIC

This is a little something me and my brother are working on, let me know what you think?

The last stand

Just finished this cover for a new graphic novel

St. Ann commission

Some great work posted here lately. Welcome Leo and Gina.

 My latest, a commission for St. Ann Roman Catholic Church in Morganfield KY.

Queen of Heaven - sketch page

Update (3/22/11):  Here is a small painted head study done from the sketch.  To speed up the process, I painted my first layers in acrylic and then came back over it in oils for the final coat.  I've heard this is not wise since over time (hundreds of years) the oil may flake off, being too thin.


I pulled out the ole 9B pencil for this sketch.  Kinda scary at first when you see those dark pencil marks being put on the page, but I needed the contrast for the skin tones.