Morning Has Broken

Some viewers and followers may know or may have surmised that, before getting married, I spent a few years in a monastery, completed monastic and seminary formation, and became a solemnly professed  – no, not Solemn Vowels, ordained monk.

A funny thing happened on the way to mass one day. About 30 or 40 of us concelebrants were processing in and singing the opening hymn. Everyone properly intoned the first phrase of the hymn, Morning has broken, but someone behind me changed the next few words, as shown in the drawing, and sang it loudly enough for those of us in his sound shed to hear easily that he had referenced Fr. Frank, who at the time was the Director of Physical Plant, the only person on Earth capable of fixing a broken morning… for Christ’s Sake.

Morning has broken

For fun, have a listen to a traditional version of this hymn or better yet, check out this rendition by Cat Stevens a.k.a. Yusuf Islam.

Did you catch the spelling error on the first rendition of this drawing?

Occidental Bohemian Farmers Market

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Granted! it was Halloween, but still, it’s not your typical Farmers Market!

Technical: Starts with my own photo. Ends with that and Procreate drawing.

Strategic In Vitro Entrepreneurial Leadership Development Program

Unhatched Job Creators
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Van

 

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Technical: A Bradley Quinn photo on Facebook of Van Morrison and colleagues caught my eye. Try here just in case. I saved and cropped the image to my iPad and imported it into Procreate, where I used it as a side-by-side, free-hand reference.
Here’s a progress video of most of the drawing.

Spatial Edition

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Technical: Started this one in Paper 53, primarily because of the fountain pen inking and the color brush, saved it in iPhoto camera roll, imported it into Procreate, tried some things, but focused on color and texture adaptation. I like it dark. Here’s a very short progress video.

Chucho

Over 30 years ago I studied with this Colombian dude named Chucho. He kinda’ looked like this. That’s all I can remember. Chucho