Bd. Peter Geremia part 1

 Working from home today, waiting for various tradespeople to arrive.  They are not here yet, so coloring and blogging has gone on.

For Bd. Peter Geremia I had no print to copy.  This is one of my Carbondale prints, all of which are likely in storage.  Why the block ended up in my Studio I don't know, but there it was, and I may have a sale because of it.  I pulled a proof last week, taped it down earlier this week, and today I colored it.  In this case I was working purely from memory, a print I made over 30 years ago.  I can't say for sure if these colors match the original print from the edition I showed in Carbondale, so I am going to have to create a new edition for this one, and I'm calling this proof #1/5.  I wasn't even sure what kind of fish these are.  Back when I took Vertebrate Biology (a 300 level course) in college, we had to identify a few dozen dead fish laying in lab pans by genus and species, and I might have been able to do it then.  However, that was back in the 80's, a very long time ago.  My best guess was that these are supposed to be trout, and that was mostly decided because I like to eat trout, so maybe that is what I drew and cut back then.  Trout are more typically caught on a line, but many are grown on fish farms for stocking fishing grounds, so it's possible they saw a net at some point.  The fish were colored accordingly.

The Butler's book doesn't claim that Peter Geremia didn't exist, though you can decide whether or not you believe the story.  His bio says that Peter heard that a large fishing boat had a particularly good catch, so he took his little boat out to the fishing boat to beg for some fish for the poor.  The fishing captain said no.  So Peter left, said a prayer, and the nets started opening up, and the captured fish escaping.  The captain quickly sought Peter's help and promised him some fish.  Peter said another prayer, the nets closed up, and the remaining fish stayed caught.  Again my image is fairly literal- a broken net and some fish shown getting away.  I remembered the color of the surrounding water being more green than blue, and fairly dark, so most of my sea water is that way.  Results can be seen below:

So now I have both prints colored.  I'll bring them with me on Sunday in case the potential buyers show up.  Even if they don't want to take delivery that day, they can at least see what they ordered.  By the way, the Bd designation stands for beatified or blessed, which means the individual is considered holy, but is still one attributed miracle away from full canonization as a saint.  The Butler's books include both Bd's and full saints, so I included them in my print series.