tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54459796963456896202024-03-13T14:49:59.189-07:00Catholic Sacred Art by Joan GraysonI would like to share the wonderful gift of art that was given to me by the Lord Jesus.
"Artists, the more conscious they are of their “gift”, are led all the more to see themselves and the whole of creation with eyes able to contemplate and give thanks, and to raise to God a hymn of praise." Pope Benedict XVIJoan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-83934660889594201672021-10-21T06:32:00.009-07:002021-10-21T06:38:57.725-07:00Saint Jude the apostle. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote><span><a name='more'></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmUh5-YkcqMSaW5tBt3TIw3quJePvuSvZCA74uVx0pb6xtZwMQIQYy0V7z2MMhvBIXzvFZBGBnfgLBj_b6dLMI4MH3uVol2Z2fjU-hopqzG1bpDEgam64zk8UqIM0Zj8tpZdLSjBSAcus/s1049/92F8C15A-105F-4F6D-B060-C1B45F5447CB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="749" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmUh5-YkcqMSaW5tBt3TIw3quJePvuSvZCA74uVx0pb6xtZwMQIQYy0V7z2MMhvBIXzvFZBGBnfgLBj_b6dLMI4MH3uVol2Z2fjU-hopqzG1bpDEgam64zk8UqIM0Zj8tpZdLSjBSAcus/w285-h400/92F8C15A-105F-4F6D-B060-C1B45F5447CB.jpeg" width="285" /></span></a></blockquote></div><br /> <p></p>Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-58360285179031530412019-06-17T17:18:00.001-07:002019-06-17T17:21:58.727-07:00Our Lady of Medjugorje<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-13553127343276381082018-06-10T16:31:00.004-07:002018-06-23T15:21:59.043-07:00Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">When Our Lady appeared to Sister Catherine Labour, in 1830 in Paris,, rays were coming out of some of the rings on her fingers, but not all of them. When asked about this, she said that the rays represented graces and the rings without rays were graces that people did not ask for.</span>Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-15061374285749276812018-04-01T08:24:00.002-07:002021-02-23T17:22:51.610-08:00Jesus, Our Lord, thank you.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2wTEObuElQlYZOQpcBAH0OkovJrbx7E3IkZs_bAqHMGYOXUR_BjRYYiIu3poRSTu2nX9gHDJf7oADKH09gZh3SCyl18x_oYDT5sHv3PZVyJbGJ05poJ2I3m6lLKSqa4KeXKKwKDdKE50/s1084/900FF781-E2FD-495B-A270-E2CE98EDB510.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="725" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2wTEObuElQlYZOQpcBAH0OkovJrbx7E3IkZs_bAqHMGYOXUR_BjRYYiIu3poRSTu2nX9gHDJf7oADKH09gZh3SCyl18x_oYDT5sHv3PZVyJbGJ05poJ2I3m6lLKSqa4KeXKKwKDdKE50/w268-h400/900FF781-E2FD-495B-A270-E2CE98EDB510.png" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<br />Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-35158416578932445302017-12-12T16:24:00.003-08:002017-12-24T04:24:07.425-08:00This is the Madonna and Child I painted for Noel, 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">I like to paint Jesus as a happy baby and here he is smiling and playing with his toe, something babies love to do. He is such a joy to all of us. Merry Christmas everyone. </span>Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-37337014972655521612017-12-12T16:20:00.000-08:002017-12-12T16:25:37.805-08:00Our Lady of Sorrows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-38908793975297797942017-10-12T10:44:00.003-07:002018-06-23T15:30:31.855-07:00Our Lady of Fatima<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstyletallbody"; font-size: 23px;">As inspiration for this painting, I used a photo of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima and a picture of Our Lady of Medjugorje, who said that her messages were a continuation of those from Fatima. I wanted to paint her as described in Revelations “clothed with the sun” and that is why I used so much yellow. My goal was to finish the painting by the Anniversary, which is tomorrow, and I finished it just in time. How lucky we are to have had the beautiful messages from Fatima. Thank you God for sending us your mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">As many of you know, Saint Anthony of Padua is the saint we pray to when we have lost something and I was going to mention the hundreds of times he has helped me to fine keys, rings, money, etc., over the years, but the times are serious now and I think we have lost our sanity in our world. We need miraculous help and he is known as the miracle worker. St. Anthony, please help us to find our sanity. Please.</span>Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-24244244659508443272015-12-23T18:34:00.000-08:002015-12-23T18:44:42.414-08:00This is the Madonna & Child I painted for 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I painted this in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, one of my favorite artists.Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-46294198429144883122015-04-11T15:14:00.002-07:002015-04-11T15:14:31.644-07:00The Divine Mercy Image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-48240404886542399782015-04-02T05:00:00.000-07:002015-04-03T05:03:54.563-07:00Our suffering Savior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During Holy Week of every year, I do a painting of the Crucifixion, or the face of Jesus, and this year I did an abstract (my first attempt in sacred art) of him inspired by the Shroud of Turin. This helps me to focus on Our Lord and his suffering during this holy time of the year.</span>Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-14935390333228992532014-07-11T15:53:00.001-07:002014-08-14T07:33:27.731-07:00The Sacred Heart of Jesus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I feel very honored to tell you that this painting of the Sacred Heart is now on the cover of a book by Carol Eubank entitled <u>A glimpse into my Heart, Letters to My Daughter. </u> It is a beautiful, deeply spiritual book of letters written about the faith and the love of The Lord. We didn't know each other prior to this project, but we both had devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and I know that He brought us together. Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-50962500139850966202014-04-17T09:15:00.002-07:002014-04-18T14:14:47.989-07:00This is the Crucifixion I painted for Holy Week, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I painted this Crucifixion during Holy Week, 2014, but was concerned that it might be too modern for my sacred art blog and was unsure about posting it. I emailed a copy out to family and friends, some of whom are artists, to get their opinion and the response was overwhelmingly positive. My friend and fellow artist, Awilda Harrington, who just this past week had one of her paintings accepted by the Museum of Find Arts in Saint Petersburg, FL, had this to say. "Wow . . . the reason I like it is because it is disturbing to me. His face demonstrates sadness as well as a pensive thoughtfulness as if in a prayerful mode. This painting has affected me more than any of your others." After reading this and other comments, I decided to post because I wanted to share it with you, my internet friends.</div>
<br />Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-10075358996283986792013-12-08T16:44:00.000-08:002013-12-08T17:49:58.649-08:00This is the Madonna and child I painted for 2013 .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Wishing you the joy, peace and love</span><br />
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Joan Graysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08226527544441243309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445979696345689620.post-50624838014569550332013-04-05T20:15:00.000-07:002013-12-08T16:58:23.555-08:00The Divine Mercy Image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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