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Happy Mother's Day from Down Under

13/5/2023

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Artwork created 13 May 2023.
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"Koala Hug ~ Mother's Day (2023)"

​Vincent Cavanagh
~13 May 2023
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What every Pilgrim Artist needs

12/5/2023

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Sound advice, in any galaxy 😜
​#HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy
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And here is the process shot of me adding those wise words to the front of this new sketchbook.

​Vincent Cavanagh
~12 May 2023
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And this is the original from the 1981 BBC adaptation.
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First Holy Martyrs of Rome

27/4/2023

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Artwork created 19–27 April 2023.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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
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Image Process 2023-04-26

26/4/2023

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Oh, what a grisly pair these are.
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Thankfully the "art style" used in Roman mosaics allows some leeway when it comes to depictions of various beasts and predators.
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Image Process 2023-04-19

19/4/2023

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Trying to do a Roman Mosaic pattern without going cross-eyed only increases my appreciation for those artists who do this on a “regular” basis. Compared to the vast intricacies of Celtic knots by the likes of @creativeartlette, my lowly attempt at an entwined border pales in significance.

My hats off to all of you, my fellow artists.
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A Forgotten Giant of NSW

29/3/2023

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Artwork created 29 Mar 2023.
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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
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Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

1/3/2023

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Artwork created 17–19 Feb 2023.
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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:

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Vocations Director — DIVE! DIVE!

1/3/2023

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Artwork created 15 Feb 2023.
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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.
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2023 Calendars! Now Available

9/11/2022

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Yippee! It's done.
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That's right folks! After a month's worth of inking and going cross-eyed at various reference photographs, my 2023 Calendar: WYD Lisbon Fundraising edition is now available to buy. Contact can be made via Email or Facebook Messenger.

​Pricings for the calendar are as follows:

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October 2022 Update

18/10/2022

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WYD Lisbon 2023 and a Calendar.
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So, I'm hoping to go to World Youth Day in Lisbon next year (2023) and at the present moment it is almost assuredly going to be a miracle of the Holy Spirit that my local diocese makes it happen/gets us there (long story not worth boring others about).

The pilgrimage route being taken by said diocese is effectively (for this artist at least) a "Grand Tour" through Italy, starting in Venice, then visiting places such as Bologna, Florence and Assisi to name a few, and staying in Rome for 3 nights, before flying to Portugal for the actual beginning of WYD week in Lisbon, at the start of August, 2023.

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