Painted Angels: Gabriel (complete)

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Painted Angels: Gabriel (in progress)

My first really neat angel! This is Gabe, he's gonna have mirror. Pictured are the original drawing and an in-progress paint job.
Body: Some guy I found on google images. I want to be really up front here that I have no drawing skills beyond 'fairly skinny person at a three-quarter angle.' Most of this non-abstract work is resized, manipulated, traced, carbon-transferred to canvas, and then painted. Which still means it doesn't look all that much like the original, but yeah.
Wings: Pigeon.
Dec '19 - Feb '20.

Painted Angels: Eagle wing

So strictly speaking this isn't an angel, it's an eagle, fresco. But I was doing the study of the eagle wing in order to figure out how to really do fresco for the angels, so...
All this shadow? Actual shadow because 3-D. No shadow-painting skill necessary. Nov-Dec. '19.

Painted Angels: Blue angel (in progress)

Jumping off schedule to show you the blue angel, because I don't love it. But it is very much glass on canvas--my first attempt at doing precisely that.
Nov-Dec. '19.

Planning

Painting the wing and gluing the glass

Painted Angels: Intro/Cassiel

I'm two for two on fanfic-inspired October art. I explained already how my glass/wood hobby was inspired by a Harry Potter fanfic in October of '18. In October of '19, I read a Supernatural fanfic (sorry, you will need an AO3 account to read this) where Dean is a painter:

When I met him, he was in the middle of four pieces, each ten feet tall by five feet wide. Each one depicted an archangel; Michael, Gabriel, Lucifer, and Raphael. He mixed paint with unusual found objects such as car parts, nails, glass, broken pieces of tile and wood. I remember he'd made Michael's halo out of a hubcap.

 And later:

He was painstakingly affixing shards of glass to the area above Lucifer's head. The glass arched over the angel, forming something like a halo.

To which I commented: "Glass on canvas? Dear lord, I have to try that."
...The rest is history.

But no, actually, I'll explain myself. My brain started running wild on the possibilities of mixed-media angels. Next thing I knew I had planned a series of various angels with different effects. There are lots of things you can do with glass, after all. I broke out all my old painting/drawing training and started buying canvases from Michael's, which sells them for truly ridiculous details on a semi-regular basis.

I started slow with Cassiel, a nod to Supernatural's Castiel. This is just a painting with minor fresco on the wings. I discovered soon after that that fresco doesn't work very well on watercolor paper (or, indeed, on stretched canvas) and tends to break off. Maybe at some point I'll redo him. The project has semi-exploded since then, but I suppose you'll have to wait and see. They'll be tagged "painted angels."

Mountain range--complete

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Nov 2019