New Work: The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist

 

 

New work :  The Preaching of St.John the Baptist 

The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist
2023
Graphite and watercolor on illustration board
15 by 20 inches

 

The detail shot captures what I love best in other works , especially Northern works , complicated narrative landscapes, in this case the decay of the Empire and its ultimate collapse once Christendom is established.

 

 

Inspired in part by a recent editorial piece by the NYT’s Ross Douthat, who in defending Traditionalist Catholicsm he cited our present cultural situation this way: “our decadent culture, our depressing post-Dionysian world”. I confess I frequently agree with him. To read the article in full:

I am thinking of this drawing translated into a panel painting, in oil, but I want to refine the Baptist, I like him in the drawing but less so in oil.

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