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July 2015

July 27, 2015

Expose your kids to art! (Or vice versa)

The other week, we visited the Worcester Art Museum in MA. I heartily recommend it...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

The Year of Mercy logo stinks. Here’s why it’s okay to say so.

The Year of Mercy has a logo, and it stinks! I have a few more...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

Artist of the Month: Matt Clark’s Amphibians, Minotaurs, and other Christian Art

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Religion and Visual Art. Read other...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

Mother and Child: A Christmas Gallery of Original Art

Merry Christmas, everybody! I offered up Midnight Mass for all of you, especially for anyone...

December 19, 2014

Calling all artists! I’m looking for Christmas artwork.

I'd love to put together a gallery of Christmas art for the Register on Christmas...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

What’s wrong with message art?

PIC 3d crucifixion tattoo If you're a Christian artist, and you want to use...

October 2014

October 03, 2014

Catholic Artist of the Month: Neilson Carlin

Here is the third installment in a series: Catholic Artist of the Month. Rather than constantly kvetching about mediocre,...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Catholic Artist of the Month: Matthew S. Good

Here is the second installment in a series: Catholic Artist of the Month. Rather than constantly kvetching about...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Right Brain Drawing Club, Picture Share #2

Yay, drawing share #2! I'm going to leave the link-up, below, open as long as...

June 27, 2014

Right Brain Summer Drawing Club – don’t forget!

This week, we're reading through chapter three and doing the exercise in chapter four of...

June 24, 2014

Right Brain Summer Drawing Club, Picture Share #1

Look, I made a logo for the Right Brain Summer Drawing Club! And yes, I...

June 17, 2014

Summer Drawing Club starts now!

Sorry for the slow start, everyone! We are still in school, because we had so...

June 06, 2014

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: Wanna?

I am thinking of going through (and dragging my older kids through) the home drawing...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Catholic Artist of the Month: Timothy Jones and the Art of Gratitude

Today begins a new series: Catholic Artist of the Month. Rather than constantly kvetching about...

May 21, 2014

Happy birthday, Albrecht Dürer!

German painter, woodcarver, engraver, mathematician, born May 21, 1471, spent much of his life in...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Mary said “Fanks”

PIC annunciation From John Herreid, here's a painting I've never seen before: The Annunciation...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Terrible craft my little kids absolutely love

A nice way to add some color to a house full of people who are...

January 15, 2014

Daniel Mitsui is a treasure of the Church

. . . and he and his family have had a really terrible year. If...

December 2013

December 24, 2013

At the Register: The Light of the Child

A poem, a tune, a painting for Christmas. May the baby who brings us warmth...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

I KNEW I should have gone with The Sinner’s Guide to Amish Vampires in Space.

I was having lots of fun scrolling through this list of Worst Christian Book Covers...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

About the cover art for SGNFP

My beloved cover was done by the immensely talented John Herreid, who is a graphic...

September 2013

September 17, 2013

Creepy and gorgeous city ghosts

A photographer and historian superimposes crime and accident photos from New York's past onto the...

September 12, 2013

At the Register: Bigger on the Inside

Doctor Who is actually a fairly culturally subversive show, so I'm not convinced that the...

September 05, 2013

Ooh, fun! Pictures of Francis

Here's a little contest for pictures of Pope Francis, with entries from around the world....

August 2013

August 20, 2013

At the Register: The Unlabeled Life

Woman with Double Stroller, American, 2013. That says it all, right?

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Gaudi and the Highlander Principle

Happy birthday to Atoni Gaudi, the mad builder of Barcelona. When I was visiting my sister...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

Happy birthday, Ezra Jack Keats!

If you can believe it, his very first book was the exquisite The Snowy Day I...

March 05, 2013

You belong in a museum!

We went! The worst thing that happened was that one kid got a bloody nose...

December 2010

December 21, 2010

More hope for religious art

Elizabeth Scalia posted a link (on Facebook, not on her blog -- but she always...

October 2010

October 04, 2010

The Last Angel

I deliberately made this image too small so you'd have to click on this link...