i haven't been keeping up with sketchbook month.

but...

friday night was the opening for my (our) senior show at the white canvas gallery on 14th and cary st..

photo by teddy taylor.


i photographed cliff and krissy's wedding on saturday.
(it was my second wedding job. easier than the first. i'd love to do a third, fourth and fifth. )

[an unedited picture from the wedding.]

i want to start experimenting with different settings and lighting in the future.

scanner is still broken.

this is for national sketchbook month. i started a brand new sketchbook. i'm used to the landscape moleskine.

The Book of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church" - Tertullian c. AD 150-229 (Christian father and apologist, alive during the 4th and 5th Roman persecutions, wrote "Apologeticus", 197 AD )

Despite efforts by the Roman Empire to snuff out the early Church & the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Christians martyred in the Roman colosseums for the peoples entertainment, the number of followers continued to multiply. If a sect could have been snuffed out within 200 years of it's conception it would have during the Roman persecutions. However the Gospel of Jesus Christ was, and is, unstoppable. The persecutions in Rome only served a fuel and fan to spread the Gospel like wildfire throughout the world.

This illustration was an effort to depict the ages of the Church that grew out of the deaths of the early Christians.

lithograph, 16x20 inches, edition of 5

broken scanner.

naturally, i don't really care about the subject of the piece, i just love the brushstroke, the pencil mark, the pen hatches, the watermarks.

(i'm still trying to figure out how to be an artist.)