Angel Paintings

I decided I wanted to do an angel for my friend whose husband was diagnosed with lymphoma. I wanted to make sure I used colors that represented power, strength, and health. I chose purple because it means spirituality, blue means peace, tranquility, harmony, unity, and stability, green means health, gray means security,

Next I tried to figure out how I wanted the painting be done and what I would include. The obvious is an angel. I loved the idea, but I wanted colors to represent all good things and most importantly good health. I figured the best way to do that would be through using the colors in the wings and in the dress.

First I used gesso on the canvas to provide a base. Then I did the landscape of clouds. I changed it to stripes, and then settled on the ones that I have. I wanted it to radiate power and strength. 

The third layer would be the angel. I would do the wings  first and then the face and hands.It took me two hours to just do the wings. But when I finally finished, oh my, I loved them! The colors were perfect, the blending, the feathers, all of it I was totally in love with.

Next the hands, face, and globe of power. I might even add a person praying at the bottom... not sure yet.  Not quite sure how to do any of those. I am thinking I need to use a fine tip paint marker so that I can make the tiny details of the hands and face and to look up some tutorials. It will be more like drawing I think than painting, but I don't know of any other way.

This is my painting so far.


















Then my husband crushed my world. I was so excited to show him the painting and when I did, he said, "The wings are more like a butterfly than an angel." Oh man! Back to the drawing board, so to speak. I had to find some images so I could figure out how to do the wings right. Google time! After all, I wanted it to look realistic but yet have my own colorful flair to it. This was for my friend, it had to be just right!!

I did the clouds, practiced drawing an angel and then lightly penciled in the outline of the wings and dress of my angel. From there, I decided the colors and which order they were going to go in, and voila, this is what I have so far! Much, much better!! Still need to do the eyes on both of the paintings. On this one, I think I will also add some stars, despite the fact that it is daylight. My stars I am thinking if using the bright colors of the angel--green, blue, and purple with a main focus on the green since that means good health. The color choices would make them easier to be seen in the clouds.