The Patron Saint
of the Disease of Hoof and Mouth
(beginning photoshop image)

San Rafael Street Painting Festival, CA
9 x 9 feet June 9 -10, 2001

Sponsored by: Youth in Arts

Feeling compelled to do something about the recent holocaustic death of perhaps millions of domestic animals inEurope from Hoof and Mouth Disease, I thought it would be a good and timely idea to create a Patron Saint for their Souls. In the spirit of the Modonnari (Italian Street Painting), I humbly altered an old master works using a computer and Photoshop to; rearrange the composition and to create more solid shapes (filter - cutouts). This process helps make the drawing easier to understand - it's more like painting by numbers, and when a hand is 16in. long, the grid is very handy.

I pray that what we do on this Earth, as humans, is in balance with the rest of nature.
Please forgive us of any harm we create out of our arragance and ignorance.

" The Tears of Saint Peter "
Guercino - 1683

Original Inspiration