I've been continuing to work on art journal pages about religion and spirituality. Seemed appropriate for a Sunday post. I really liked this one about angels and saints. The background on the tags is made with Tim Holtz' technique for ink drops with distress reinkers. I actually drew the cross with pastels. This is the first page in my new brand/style of art journal, and I really like it. I made one other art journal page which I liked but is too personal to share. The third page started out really well and then I messed it all up, so I covered half of it with gesso and will return to it later.
This page is called "Saints and Angels." My favorite Saint is St. Anthony (patron Saint of lost things). I pray to him like crazy when I lose anything important, and he always seems to come through. I have a gold cross that I bought in Dublin a dozen years ago and wear everyday. I lost it when I was sick (on the day I went in for a chest x-ray). I looked in my purse, my pockets, my bed, everywhere, but couldn't find it. Then last week, it showed up in the bottom of my purse. I was thrilled! So, I decided to sketch my cross on this page as a tribute to St. Anthony. I also really like The Virgin of Guadalupe (that's the stamped image), so included her, too. Do you have any favorite or patron saints?
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