I've just been painting in some skin tones on a new angel painting and I have got to the stage, for now, where I thought I'd best stand back for a moment and leave it or I might overdo and spoil some of the work I have done today.....I have gone through a whole pot of strong black coffee by myself in the last couple of hours too, so I'm not sure I trust myself with the fine brushes for the minute. So - it seemed a good time to give a glimpse of what I'm up to with the painting, without giving too much away, and maybe you could tell me what you think?
If I include the Christmas card image from 18 months ago, this is the fourth Angel painting in what is becoming a series. I'm not sure I can say what they are all about, as I don't really know myself, but I am enjoying creating them and each one has moved my technique or style along a bit, which seems important to me at this stage in my career, so perhaps that in itself is partly what they are all about.
Actually there is a dilemma with Angel number 3 who has remained 3/4 finished for several months now while I concentrated on commercial work, and I wonder how easy it is going to be to get back into it and finish since I do seem to have moved on from what I am trying to do with them now. But, well, we'll see, and hopefully I'll get back to it and show you what I'm on about with that one sometime soon.
Meanwhile here is the first sketch I did of the new angel. As you might be able to see, I have been very influenced by the research I had to do on Tudor dress a while ago when painting Twm Sion Cati.....here is that illustration, from the book 'A Treasury of Welsh Heroes'/'Trysorfa Arwyr Cymru', which was good fun to do, but the big elegant dresses, which I began to appreciate the complexity and pomp of, were quite marginalised, and it was a small painting anyway, so I promised myself to re-visit the theme for myself, with more space....
