 Vincent Cavanagh © 2024 Merry Christmas and a Happy Jubilee of Hope to you all for 2025!
Vincent Cavanagh 25 Dec 2024 Surrealism incoming! Illustrated 30 March 2024  Vincent Cavanagh, 2024 A spotlight on Bishop Stumbers’ short-lived career in stand-up comedy. Congratulations to anyone who “gets” the cameo appearances on the far side table ;) With apologies to Messrs Astley and Baker. Vincent Cavanagh 30 Mar 2024 / Holy Saturday Illustrated 1 January 2023
Artwork created 13 May 2023.  Vincent Cavanagh © 2023 "Koala Hug ~ Mother's Day (2023)"
Vincent Cavanagh ~13 May 2023 Artwork created 17–19 Feb 2023.  Vincent Cavanagh © 2023 The Servite Founders were seven rich men (possibly cloth merchants) of Florence, Italy, who all experienced the same vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the feast of the Assumption in 1233 and gave them this message:
Artwork created 15 Feb 2023.  Vincent Cavanagh © 2023 What I dearly hope not to be doing for the duration of my World Youth Day pilgrimage.
And, sadly, I don't think that I'll be alone in those sentiments.  ©VincentCavanagh 2022 Yes, I’m finally back on the blog again. For however long that may be.
And the subject that brought not just me but also Bishop Stumbers and the Dean back? Vocations.  Year of St Joseph: Birth of Jesus. Looking back on this picture as I'm trying to write a blog post for it, I'm stuck by how (without any forethought or planning) Joseph and Mary look very, very alike to a recently married couple I know. Funny how the subconscious works, eh?
Anyhow, the 1st of May is dedicated to St Joseph the Worker, so how do I commemorate this fact? I paint the Birth of Jesus in the cave/stable. Specifically I had in my mind how Joseph must have been after the birth: dazed and confused, in a sea of emotions. "Alright God, now what am I supposed to do?" And there before him is Mary, totally ensconced in the new life sitting in her arms. She is a total rock of calm amongst the swimming tide of emotions overtaking Joseph as he tries unconsciously to sit down somewhere amongst the animals, inside that cave, on that awesome, and holy, night. A happy month and feast of St Joseph to you all. Even if it's via Nazareth. — — — — — Digital painting, based on a rough pen sketch. Lately I've been participating in an online tuition course for Blender 3D, which has been a good if somewhat challenging experience. The challenging part being trying to work in a group with many other students in multiple different time zones (and the associated late nights that come with it), but I'll talk about that more in a later post. Sometime in May. Hopefully. Below is the sketch that I made last night to release some of my creative frustrations:  Christ Pantocrator (2021). I just needed to do something religious to make up for my recent lack of any such artworks. The original Christ Pantocrator (roughly translated as "All-Mighty" in Greek), that is the inspiration of this image, is one of the first icons depicting Jesus in early history of the Church, and remains to this day a very important image in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It depicts the two natures of Christ, being both fully God and fully human, through the different sides of His face. Below are the mirrored composites of the left and right sides of my rough sketch:  Pantocrator Blessing, Mirrored.  Pantocrator Gospels, Mirrored. Honestly, I had no real plan about how to mirror this image, I just had the vaguest of recollections of what a Pantocrator Icon should look like and I went from there. So I sketched in out with blue ballpoint pen and went over it with a water-based black marker, and added colour with text highlighters. In hindsight I really should've either scanned or at least taken a photo of the under drawing, but I decide to let it go and just keep on drawing with the black marker.
The one real difference between this sketch and the Icon it's based on, is that the real Pantocrator doesn't have the wounds of Christ in it, as far as I know. So, until the muse next takes me or I need another outlet to create, God bless and stay safe. At last the comic strip is finished, and I can share it with you. But there is some other news I can share with you as well. The first part you may have already noticed: this website has had a bit of an overdue face-lift. I hope you like the changes. The second part is that I have begun a 3 month mentorship with Giuseppe Castellano from the Illustration Department. My first session was this week, and I have begun my homework in preparation for the next session. For the comic strip, I will give you each of the four parts separately, and then how it looks as a whole.     Each of the parts took many days to complete.  But I am very happy with the completed outcome.
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