Last night while I was doing some play with my daughter I started to straighten up her bag of colored pencils and my daughter thought I wanted to color with her. She handed me a blank sheet of paper and so I sketched out this furrying of Caravaggio's masterpiece "The Call of St. Matthew" which you can see at the link.

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I managed this in about thirty minutes without references. Depicting Jesus as a Ram is something I like to do because I find more meaningful is His suffering and presence in our suffering. I depicted St. Matthew as a Rat so that I could place myself in some way in the picture. I have no idea why St. Peter ended up a raccoon. I made the other tax collectors a wolf and a bear just because I thought I could draw them without much trouble. I know that if I really sat down and worked on this I could do this masterpiece more justice, but at least my daughter kept telling me the whole time I could draw animals really good!

I hope you enjoy it too. If at the very least this gets you to spend a little time studying Caravaggio then it will have been worth it!

Dominus vobiscum