Friday, January 7, 2011

Snow Angel . . . New Abstract

"Snow Angel"
acrylic glazes on 5x5 inch birch wood
prints available on etsy

This was hubby's idea. The other night he told me I should paint a snow angel for one of my glazed abstracts. Those are his favorite paintings of mine. Typically I have been going to the canvas and just letting images appear. But for this one I did a light sketch on the gessoed wood and used a glaze of payne's gray around the outside of the angel. I used paper towel to wipe away any gray that got on the angel image which ended up being the scratch marks you see on the wings and above the head. I added some charcoal pencil at the end to shade and outline the angel details.

Although I sketched the image on this one I do see two other images in the top left and top right which for me looks like more angels! Do you see them?

9 comments:

  1. Hello Cathy! I am so glad we found each other! Thank you for your words, I loved your winter photography, you got a special eye for capturing beauty!
    Happy new year!
    Moni.

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  2. oh wow Cathy!!!! this is beautiful and reminds me of the times we made snow angels in our yard....wonderful work as always....love the abstracts!!!!

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  3. Gorgeous Cathy...I love this..very symbolic and lovely to gaze at and reflect on...beautiful!! Shine on!!

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  4. I love it Cathy. I'm also looking at your beautiful paintings on the sidebar and you have really blossomed since your started painting. Way to go!!

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  5. Hubby has a good vision. Your snow angel is beautiful. I do see the left and right flying angels. Happy painting...

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  6. I do see the other angels. Amazing - like guardians.

    Loving this angel painting! Thank you so much for all of your supportive comments, Cathy! I am so lucky to have you supporting me. :) ♥

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  7. Yes, I do see them--beautiful painting!

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  8. I love your snow angels! What a hauntingly beautiful painting!

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  9. Very pretty Cathy! You've been busy. :)
    Congrats on Bosco's etsy popularity, he is
    so cute!
    ♥jenny

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