Recently completed works:
Christmas cards:
The largest drawing I finished this month is this butterfly. It measures 8.5"x11", including the white border around the edges. I am not planning to sell it immediately, as I hope to build up a larger portfolio of biological artwork to present to secular art galleries. I am considering a limited-edition art print of this drawing; please e-mail me if you are interested in purchasing one.
This bookplate was commissioned as a wedding present. One of the couple to be wed is a Thomist scholar; the man who commissioned the work asked me to give a suitable pictorial expression to St. Thomas's words: quilibet amor sit quaedam similitudo participata divini amoris (every love is a participated likeness of the divine love).
His Excellency Joseph Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, commissioned this black-and-white rendition of his episcopal coat of arms.
Bishop Perry also commissioned this drawing of the Prophet Isaiah:I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple. Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they hew. And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord God of Hosts, all the earth is full of His glory. And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of Hhosts.
And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar. And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed. And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.
This wedding invitation was commissioned by a couple in Australia.
This bookplate of St. Joan of Arc was commissioned by a man in Canada. It is based on an existing woodcut bookplate.
Prints available for sale:
I will soon have my new Christmas card for 2009 printed. This year's design depicts the Annunciation to the Shepherds, with an angel singing the Gloria among the stars (and winter constellations) accompanied by other angels playing late mediaeval instruments. Miniatures depict the Nativity and three scenes prefiguring the Virgin Birth (according the the Speculum Humanae Salvationis): the dream of Pharaoh's cupbearer, the flowering of Aaron's rod, and the Triburtine Sibyl showing the Ara Coeli to the Emperor Augustus. The inside of the card will be blank.
These cards will be sold in packs of 20, with envelopes, for $20, plus packing and postage ($4 within the USA). Please e-mail me if you would like to pre-order. The original drawing is also for sale.
Museum-quality giclee prints of this Crucifixion drawing, which I consider my finest work to date, are still available. A detailed explanation of its symbolism can be read here. The prints are on heavy rag paper cut to fit a 9" x 12" frame, signed and numbered (1-100). The cost per print is $120, plus packing, insurance and postage ($15 within the USA).
Giclee prints of this drawing of the Tree of Life and Death, based on an illumination in a 15th century Missal owned by Archbishop Bernhard von Rohr of Salzburg, are also available. The text in the drawing is from a Marian sequence by Adam of St. Victor. The prints are on heavy rag paper cut to fit an 8" x 10" frame, signed and numbered (1-50). The cost per print is $96, plus packing, insurance and postage ($12 within the USA).
Three designs for universal bookplates (i.e. bookplates with a blank space in which anyone's name can be written): the first has a picture of olives; the second teems with biological and microbiological shapes; the third is a maze (with one and only one correct path from start to finish). These are exceptional quality digital prints on white acid-free paper, 3" x 4". A package of 60 bookplates (all of one design, or any combination of the three) costs $30, plus packing and postage ($2 within the USA).
Visit my main web site to see more of my artwork and e-mail me if you are interested in buying or commissioning anything. I have made some improvements to it, adding web pages on heraldic artwork, wedding invitations and Christmas cards.
Also, I am interested in selling my art prints through religious goods shops and Catholic bookstores. If you are the proprietor of one of these, or if you know the proprietor of one of these who may be interested, please contact me. My e-mail, again, is danmitsui [at] hotmail [dot] com.