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creations by a melancholic-sanguine trying to try her best

Rach Paints Art

Rach Paints
Art

And sometimes I draw.

Integritas. Consonantia. Claritas...

Aquinas says that about beauty, right? I think?

Someone please check New Advent.

Artwork by Rachel Moore

Artist.
Student. Daughter.
Lover of crayons and literature.

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St. Joseph Doing the Dad Thing Pencil Drawing Print

Party like a Pope Kiss-cut Sticker

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Pieta Linocut Print Hand-pressed on Newsprint

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Gallery

"Woman at the Well"

"Woman at the Well"

2020 Acrylic Painting based on fountain outside of Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans.

"Good Morning, Jesus!"

"Good Morning, Jesus!"

2021 Watercolor pencil portrait of Fr. Edmund Akordor; winning piece for the Archdiocese of New Orleans Year of the Eucharist Art Contest.

"Pieta"

2021 Linocut block print based on the Krakow Pieta. She makes ugly-girl-crying beautiful-girl-crying.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

2021 Watercolor pencil illustration of The Misfit from Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." There never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.

"Cosmic Jimmy Akin"

"Cosmic Jimmy Akin"

2020 acrylic portrait of Catholic apologist, speaker, and expert of all things mysterious Jimmy Akin.

"Christ the Cuddler" with 12 Stars in Gold Confetti

"Christ the Cuddler" with 12 Stars in Gold Confetti

2021 commissioned piece of Madonna & Child, adapted from a vintage Christmas card I wish I could find. Acrylic paint on watercolor paper with 12 gold confetti stars.

"Memento Mori"

2021 Linocut block print of a friar from the Capuchin Crypt a the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome. "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be." It's like the memento mori version of "All Are Welcome."

"Party like a Pope"

"Party like a Pope"

Cheers to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI! 2021 watercolor pencil drawing of His Holiness enjoying a beer on his 94th birthday. It takes everything in me not to call this one "Pope Beernedict XVI."

"St. Joseph Doing the Dad Thing"

"St. Joseph Doing the Dad Thing"

2021 pencil sketch of a statue of St. Joseph I found on Google a long time ago. I wish I knew what that statue is called or where it is. Done for his feast day in the Year of St. Joseph. Someone tell Fr. Calloway.

"Our Lady of Uncommon Grace"

"Our Lady of Uncommon Grace"

2019 acrylic painting of Madonna and Child adapted from that vintage Christmas card I was talking about earlier. Color palette supposed to channel Flannery O'Connor aesthetic.

"St. Michael the Archangel"

"St. Michael the Archangel"

2021 Linocut block print of St. Michael having a great hair day while casually kicking Satan's you-know-what.

"Mary Protecter of Faith"

"Mary Protecter of Faith"

Close-up of 2021 watercolor painting of the statue of Madonna and Child in Mary's Garden outside of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. Those cheeks...

"St. Mary's Assumption Church"

"St. Mary's Assumption Church"

2021 watercolor & acrylic painting of St. Mary's Assumption Church in New Orleans, LA. Commissioned piece for a family who is very devoted to Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos.

"Restless Heart"

"Restless Heart"

2021 linocut block print of St. Augustine's heart from the painting by Philippe de Champaigne. Carved while procrastinating on my paper on the Confessions for my Church History class.

"Little Flower and Jack White"

"Little Flower and Jack White"

2019 acrylic painting on paper bag, adapted image of Jack White and the Little Flower of Jesus from the album artwork of The White Stripes' Get Behind Me, Satan.

"Sacred Heart of Jesus"

"Sacred Heart of Jesus"

2019 acrylic abstract of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, painting in a Flannery O'Connor palette on paper bag.

"Caffeine, Nicotine, Jesus, & Me"

"Caffeine, Nicotine, Jesus, & Me"

2019 pencil portrait of Fr. Jude DeAngelo, OFM Conv. Chaplain of The Catholic University of America, and one of the best dads I ever had. Loves Diet Coke.

"Masculine Genius"

"Masculine Genius"

2021 Sharpie pen portrait of Fr. Christian Raab, OSB. Brilliant theologian and expert on the "masculine genius," and known to have alluded to Simon & Garfunkel in a Good Friday homily. Commissioned work from a canonist.

"Good Things Out of Nazareth"

"Good Things Out of Nazareth"

2021 acrylic painting of Madonna and Child done for the Annunciation, once again in a Flannery O'Connor palette (she was born March 25)! Another adaptation of that vintage Christmas card I can't find...

"Immaculate Heart of Mary"

"Immaculate Heart of Mary"

2020 Sharpie pen and acrylic of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Commissioned work for my spiritual director.

"Our Lady of Hope"

"Our Lady of Hope"

2018 Sharpie pen drawing of the Blessed Mother from the Our Lady of Hope chapel right outside where you go to confession at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. Drawn with a sick stomach right after the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report.

"Child Jesus"

Close-up of 2021 acrylic painting of my classmate's favorite statue of the Child Jesus. I made Him blonde so He could look like her.

"Sushi!"

2021 linocut block print of my little sister's cat, Sushi :)

"Remain Little"

"Remain Little"

2021 watercolor painting of the Little Flower of Jesus commissioned by a woman in formation to become a consecrated virgin. She had given the original painting I had done for her to her Church lady pen pal, which is a very nuanced predicament that happens to you only if you're in formation to become a consecrated virgin.

"Somebody has to save our skins!"

"Somebody has to save our skins!"

2021 linocut block print of Princess Leia carved a few days after Hurricane Ida. Storm aftermath gave me some space to reread Wishful Drinking, and love how Carrie Fisher puts it: "if my life wasn't funny if would just be true, and that is unacceptable."

Shattered Stained Glass Sacred Heart

Shattered Faceted Glass Sacred Heart

Acrylic painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, adorned with pieces of my home parish's faceted glass windows destroyed by Hurricane Ida in August 2021.

Musings from my Art Lair...I mean, uh, Art Studio

Nov 3
4 min

Was your nickname in college Rachel Moore-bid, or were you normal?

Inaugural November reflections on All Souls, the dark sense of humor in God's Divine Comedy, and Lucille Bluth in the bulletin All Souls...

Oct 15
2 min

Faceted Glass, Battered Heart, Sacred Art

You may have noticed the new skylight at Sacred Heart Church, courtesy of Hurricane Ida. Gazing up at this notorious window during our...

Aug 28
2 min

That time Jimmy Akin put my artwork in his office (!!!)

I started listening to Catholic Answers (like intentionally--not just overhearing my dad play it) around 2018 when I was a high school...

I'm an introvert, but that doesn't mean you can't contact me!

Questions about a piece? Want a commissioned work? Do you want to discuss Thomistic metaphysics? Send me an email!

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