Category: Ink & Copic Markers

2025 Calendar: Now Available!

28/11/2024

Orders are now Closed

After having received them from the printers this morning, I can announce that my 2025 Calendar is now available for the coming year. The 2025 Calendar is a return both to sharing my artwork as well as the saints (and not yet declared saints) of the Catholic Church.

— Cost for the 2025 Calendars is $30 AUD each, plus postage (within Australia), with a deal for three (3) calendars at $80 AUD.

— Postage is as follows:
+$3 AUD for 1 calendar
+$4 AUD for 2*
+$6 AUD for 3*
* delivered in the same envelope.

— For International postal orders we will arrange Air Mail costs appropriately, on an order-by-order basis.

You can place your order through the form found under the Contact page or by messaging me via Facebook, or talk to me in person.

Vincent Cavanagh
28 Nov 2024

* 2025 Calendar Flip-Through GIF added — 6 December 2024.

WYD Lisbon One-Year Later

16/8/2024

I will endeavour in this personal, reflective piece not to repeat things that I have already written much about before.

LISBON World Youth Day Week started on a Tuesday, 1 August 2023, which makes keeping track of events personally in one’s mind rather difficult. Later on, at times one could be forgiven for the honest mistake of losing, or even gaining, a day on your internal calendar.

Peace, an illustration (2024)

27/7/2024

Illustrated 26 July 2024

It has been a long while since I lasted did a picture for myself or “published” one on this website.
Hopefully this may be the end of the illustrative drought, pax.

PEACE:
Summer daisies,
Bubbles,
Snow-capped mountains,
Gliding swans,
and Bountiful clouds.

Vincent Cavanagh
27 July 2024

Happy Mother's Day from Down Under

13/5/2023

Artwork created 13 May 2023.

"Koala Hug ~ Mother's Day (2023)"

Vincent Cavanagh
~13 May 2023

First Holy Martyrs of Rome

27/4/2023

Artwork created 19–27 April 2023.

A divinely-inspired, Roman mosaic–styled depiction of a few of the many different ways in which the early Christians were martyred in Rome, under the persecution of emperor Nero in AD 64.

"Nero's Torches", Henry Siemiradzki, 1876

The top panel has much inspiration from the painting Nero’s Torches, by Henry Siemiradzki in 1876, showing both men and women being burnt alive after the Great Fire of Rome before the gaze of gathered the Roman elite.

Illumination of St Andrew, East Anglian missal, c. 1320

Panel two is informed by an image of St Andrew’s crucifixion found within an East Anglian missal, circa 1320.

And the final panel illustrates the Roman capital punishment of damnatio ad bestias (condemnation to beast), or what is more commonly referred to as “being thrown to the lions.”

I freely admit that the Christians before said lions are heavily referenced from Jean-Léon Gérôme’s The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer (1883).

The slowly circling beasts themselves are a synthesis of various depictions of lions found in extant Roman mosaic art.

"The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer", Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1883

The memorial of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome is held on June 30th, the day after the celebration of the Feast of St Peter and St Paul.

Vincent Cavanagh
~ 27 Apr 2023

St Peregrine Laziosi, O.S.M. (2023)

5/4/2023

Sketched 30 Mar 2023.
Coloured and completed 5 Apr 2023.

[UPDATED — 9 APRIL 2023]
The following text was written after the original post because I was too tired that night to write anything, and then I was caught up in the Paschal Triduum which further drained me of any capacity to string words together. Happy Easter.

I think that I can safely pin-point the inspiration for this image of St Peregrine to mention of the Latin word “peregrinus” by our bishop in his homily during the mass after the first WYD formation day/session back in March. Peregrinus, meaning “foreigner” or “one from abroad”, is the route word for Pilgrim.

A Forgotten Giant of NSW

29/3/2023

Artwork created 29 Mar 2023.

Rather a heavily stylised drawing of a NSWGR D58 class, heavy goods steam locomotive.
None survived the cutter's blow-torch.

Vincent Cavanagh
~ 29 March 2023

Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

1/3/2023

Artwork created 17–19 Feb 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:

Vocations Director — DIVE! DIVE!

1/3/2023

Artwork created 15 Feb 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.

And With Your Spirit

18/5/2022

So last fortnight I did something for the first time that I thought I would never do: I made a #MayThe4th cartoon, featuring Bishop Stumbers.

Yeah, I don’t think there are that many Vulcans in Star Wars somehow. (Wry smile.)

It’s been a long time since I’d last put a physical pen to paper. It was also nice that it was a fairly simply concept to draw.
For the red accent I used a Copic marker, and I think it helped to tie the whole picture together. I also adjusted the contrast of the image on my computer before it was read to share.

Yesterday (17 May 2022) I finally got around to editing and uploading to my YouTube Channel the videos I took of the ride on the Puffing Billy Railway that my father and I took on our family holiday back in March 2019. It’s of the return journey from Gembrook to Belgrave in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne. Enjoy.

So, until next time, stay safe and God Bless.

~ Vincent Cavanagh, 18 May 2022.

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Peace, an illustration (2024)

Happy Mother's Day from Down Under

First Holy Martyrs of Rome

St Peregrine Laziosi, O.S.M. (2023)

A Forgotten Giant of NSW

Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

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