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Daily Sketch: “Peace” on “Earth”, Dona Nobis Pacem

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“Peace” on “Earth”

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 in my Etsy shop 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.

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Feline Style Sampler

Daily sketches, illustrations, commissioned portraits all in a small coil-bound gift book.

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or find this book in my Etsy shop and on Amazon.com.


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