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A Virtual Icon Exhibit
I’ve spent the last several days preparing for, and installing, a small local exhibit of icons in a Catholic gift store. Four iconographers shared their work. The display will run for a month. The...
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And God Weeps
Reblogged from A p r o n h e a d -- Lilly: And God weeps. It is brother disowning brother. It is another Inquisition and another stone to throw-- another believer staked to the plumb-line of your...
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Developing a New Icon: St. Anthony
Dozens of drawings later, I am closing in on a final design for an icon of St. Anthony of Padua. There have been lots of challenges, and although last night I thought maybe I had a final drawing, a...
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2 Surprises (at least) in Every Icon
Reblogged from reinkat: Every icon provides me with 2 moments of surprised delight, on top of the steady sense of peace and comfort that comes through the combination of work and prayer. The initial...
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St. Anthony Icon in progress
I reblogged an earlier post, about the surprises in painting an icon. I find myself ready for these as I work on the image of St. Anthony and the Child Jesus, expectant and searching as I work step...
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Carousels
I’ve heard it said that to plant a tree is a sign of faith and hope for the future, an act of love for generations yet to come. The person who puts the seed in the ground is not the one who will rest...
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Building a Carousel Animal
I was fascinated with the actual process of creating the Albany Carousel Project. Each animal hand carved from wood, painted with great care and detail–and largely by volunteers with little or no art...
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Wouldn’t it be great . . .
As I am all wound up about the carousel project that I visited and posted recently about, and the beautiful work I saw, and how all of those volunteers creating that carousel didn’t even know about...
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Why Icons?
So why do you like them, people ask? Arty types say they are just craft at best, and mere uncreative copying at worst. Others say they are stiff, archaic, and not so pretty. So why am I, and many...
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Icon of the Nativity of the Lord
Nativity Icon, St. Kirill Monastery, Cathedral of the Assumption 1497 The Orthodox Christmas icon is a bit different from any depiction of the Nativity of Christ in Western art. It is a bit strange...
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If Christmas
Reblogged from A p r o n h e a d -- Lilly: If Christmas were all about glitter and lights and gifts under a Charlie Brown pine, perched awkwardly, displacing a more permanent resident chair; if it...
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Praise God!
I have been gone from home and routine for several weeks, sitting at the hospital bedside of my critically ill mother. She was on life support, unaware of my presence and that of my siblings. We...
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Some Thoughts on Religious Freedom
Years ago, when I was an illustrator collaborating with an author in another city, we travelled to a central meeting place to work. My route passed through beautiful rural areas, going by a small...
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Icons for Lent
Lent is almost here. I have set up my “beautiful corner” for the prayers and images for the season. I find myself drawn to certain of my icons during Lent, and create a home altar to contemplate and...
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Lenten reminders
I was on a short vacation last week, and tried to continue my Lenten practices faithfully every day. It was not difficult to do that at all–every step I took, every minute that went by, seemed to be a...
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The Penitent Magdalene and True Conversion of Heart
Originally posted on Biltrix: By Fr Jason Smith I have found no better representation of conversion and penance in art than The Penitent Magdalene, by George de la Tour. Though simple, it expresses...
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What Did Jesus Look Like?
What did Jesus look like? You know, nobody knows for sure, and it really doesn’t matter. Christ lives in each of His followers, in everyone who believes in and follows Him, reflected through them....
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Our Lady of Korsun Icon
reinkat:Our Lady of Korsun is a beautiful image, simple and tender. It became popular as a private devotional image in the 1500s, painted by the iconographers of the Isle of Crete. I have written this...
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Hey Buddy, You Shouldn’t Be Carrying That Cross!
reinkat:I loved this. Our parish, a Newman Center, also does a “Cross Walk”, saying the Stations of the Cross every Good Friday at noon, carrying a large cross through university neighborhoods, a park,...
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The Black Mass at Harvard – Is It A Hate Crime?
reinkat:This must not be swept under the rug and allowed to pass unnprotested. Originally posted on Fra Angelico Institute for the Sacred Arts: News reports have been circulating the story that Harvard...
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