busy busy...

... well this is quite a pleasant surprise. It looks like over the course of the next few months I will be designing some Christmas and Easter cards to be sold locally through various Catholic distributors.

I am still going to be doing doodles for my own pleasure and I plan on expanding that into hard-made holy cards. We'll see. Anyway, just thought I would pass on some good news.

Catholic Magpies...

... I recently referred to myself as a Catholic Magpie, in that I am attracted to shiny things in the liturgy. This has sparked my imagination and I am working on a illustration to represent this theme.

In Christian symbolism the magpie had gotten a bad rap. It can represent a misfortune or a thieving person, for the birds penchant to covet shiny things. Sometimes a magpie is used as an allegory for the deadly sin of greed.

I think they are lovely birds whose plumage reminds me of a Dominican habit.

In my mind I picture a tiding of magpies gathered on branches of a tree clutching in their beaks various bits of shiny ecclesiastical baubles. Each bird would be a particular saint that was devoted to liturgy, an artist, or some other thing in relation. Their names would be written on the leaves of the branches each bird is perched on. Since they remind me of Dominicans, the saints would be Dominican. Perhaps. I have to stretch my imagination and knowledge of saints.

Something like this...



What saints can you think of that fit this description?