Immaculate Heart Drawing.

This is an original drawing I've made of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her Immaculate Heart. It is in black and white charcoal on tinted paper. It is matted to 9.5" x 7.5" and rests in a 15" x 12" frame. 

From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

"Just as devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is only a form of devotion to the adorable Person of Jesus, so also is devotion to the Holy Heart of Mary but a special form of devotion to Mary. In order that, properly speaking, there may be devotion to the Heart of Mary, the attention and the homage of the faithful must be directed to the physical heart itself. However, this in itself is not sufficient; the faithful must read therein all that the human heart of Mary suggests, all of which it is the expressive symbol and the living reminder: Mary's interior life, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for her God, her maternal love for her Divine Son, and her motherly and compassionate love for her sinful and miserable children here below. The consideration of Mary's interior life and the beauties of her soul, without any thought of her physical heart, does not constitute our devotion; still less does it consist in the consideration of the Heart of Mary merely as a part of her virginal body. The two elements are essential to the devotion, just as soul and body are necessary to the constitution of man."

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Christ Crowned with Thorns Casting.

Here are pictures of the first casting of my Christ Crowned with thorns sculpture.

Available here.

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Saint Rita.

Here is an oil painting I am working on of Saint Rita, it is 30"x24".

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Head of Christ, and Virgin Mary.

Here are some pictures of my Christ Crowned with thorns sculpture in clay, and a white plaster casting of my Virgin Mary sculpture.  I am cleaning up a casting of the Christ sculpture and will have pictures of it soon.

Available here.

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The Virgin Mary.

I've had this one around for a while,  still working on it.

Also, here is a few shots of my Blessed Virgin Mary sculpture while it was still clay.

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A few sketches of Christ.

I visited the NC Museum of Art the other day, everytime I look at this sculpture I see a crucifixion.  Honestly, the sculpture I based it on kind of rubs me the wrong way, but the body is well done.  I drew this from it while I was there, I will add the head and hands of Christ later.

This is a sketch I made of Christ embracing his cross, I may add soldiers taking his clothes.

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St. Ignatius of Antioch - sculpture in progress.

"I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ. Rather entice the wild beasts, that they may become my tomb, and may leave nothing of my body; so that when I have fallen asleep, I may be no trouble to any one. Then shall I truly be a disciple of Christ,..." - Saint Ignatius of Antioch (Epistle to the Romans)

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