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Send Out the L-Team – Making a Sacrifice of Praise for American Veterans

by David Clayton December 4, 2012

Recently when I went home to England we had a reunion of old college friends of mine. Most were not believers of any sort – I had known them since I was eighteen and so the friendships pre-date, by a…

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The Treasury of Ornament – Pattern in the Decorative Arts, by Heinrich Dometsch.

by David Clayton October 29, 2012

Here is a book worth considering for students of traditional patterned art. The series is the Library of Design and the title is Treasury of Ornament – Pattern in the Decorative Arts by Heinrich Dolmetsch. This and a number of…

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Floor Tiles from Cleve Abbey in Somerset, England

by David Clayton October 22, 2012

Here are some pictures of 13th century tiles from Cleeve Abbey in England. They are a combination of geometric and pictorial designs. The latter employing heraldic and literary themes rather than scriptural. The form will be familiar to some through…

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The Fra Angelico Institute for Sacred Arts – based in the diocese of Providence, Rhode Island

by David Clayton October 2, 2012

Going local is the way to change society The culture is a an expression of the core priorities, beliefs and values of a society. This expression is not so much articulated by a governing body that dictates it (the European…

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The Music of Roman Hurko and the Principle of Noble Accessibility

by David Clayton September 11, 2012

Below is some new music written by Roman Hurko, a Byzantine Catholic. It is the Our Father from his Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, which has recently come to my attention.I have written a couple of times on the importance…

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How You Can Add Proportion to a Building Through Decoration

by David Clayton August 31, 2012

Take a look at these photographs of a farmhouse in Groton, Massachusetts. This is a 19th century house on the site that eventually will become the new campus for Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. Look first at the gable…

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Some Recently Completed Sacred Art

by David Clayton June 25, 2012

Here are two recently completed works of my own. The first is my own version of a Western iconography. It is Christ in Majesty and will go into the chapel at Thomas More College in Merrimack. I have created the…

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Academic Art – cast drawings by students from Thomas More College of Liberal Arts

by David Clayton June 19, 2012

Here are examples of cast drawings by freshman students at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts They study the academic method of drawing. This is a systematic drawing method that developed in the High Renaissance and can be traced back…

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Do You Need to Study Anotomy in Order to Draw the Human Figure?

by David Clayton June 8, 2012

Or…do you need to see people in the nude in order to paint them with their clothes on?
In commenting on recent article someone based what they were saying on an assumption that in order to paint the human figure…

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