Daily Sketch: “Peace” on “Earth”

December 23, 2015December 23, 2022 Bernadette 1 Comment cat, dog, dona nobis pacem, holiday card, illustration

Look a little closer at those markings…what do you see? A spotted dog, a spotted cat…It’s actually one of my holiday card designs, and an older one too–one I had to print myself on an early deskjet printer. We’re talking peace on earth, so I thought I might as well feature the design today, the day we celebrate peace on earth all over the blogosphere.

A Cat Named Peace, A Dog Named Earth
Pen and Ink Illustration • 1997

For my holiday card in 1997, I was puzzling out yet another way to say “Peace on Earth”. I saw an illustration that had each hemisphere of a globe on either side of a Christmas tree ornament, and thought the idea of using the globe was clever. Creating portraits of spotted dogs and spotted cats at the time, something in my brain put it all together for me. While I regularly create linoleum block prints, I decided to draw this one out instead of cutting it! Don’t know why…

I totally made up the dog and cat, no photo references at all.

About the card

I decided to bring this design back out a few years ago and offer it on Portraits of Animals as a holiday card. This 5″ x 7″ card is printed on 12 pt. gloss card stock and include a matching envelope, packed in a clear-top white cardboard greeting card box. And you can choose white, red or brown kraft envelopes; if you don’t choose one I’ll ship them with white envelopes.

Click here to see other daily sketches.

For a gallery of the ones available for sale, visit my Etsy shop in the “Cat Art and Prints” section.

Read about the reason for the daily sketches in Two Years of Daily Sketches.

And download your free desktop wallpaper calendar for computer or mobile, usually based on a daily sketch.

"Star of Wonder" desktop calendar, 1280 x 1024 for square and laptop monitors. — “Star of Wonder” desktop calendar, 1280 x 1024 for square and laptop monitors.

Copyright

All images and text used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission, although links to your site are more than welcome and are shared. Please ask if you are interested in using and image or story in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of an image or a product including it, check my animal and nature website Portraits of Animals to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit Ordering Custom Artwork for more information on a custom greeting card, print or other item.