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."
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