angel in clouds

angel in clouds
Media: acrylic paint
Date: June, 2002

For my AP Studio Art class, I had to write a short report on a famous artist and then create my own piece of art in the same style as my chosen artist. I chose to write Abbott Handerson Thayer, and since I really liked his paintings of angels, I painted an angel. However, since I swore off of oil paints when I was in eleventh grade, I had to use acrylic paint.

I really like the dress, wings, and most of the background (the sky scanned in funky, it's really not grey on the top left (your right) edge), but I can't stand either the hair or the face. The hair looks like it's all one solid mass, and the face is all skooshy pink. Blah.

I didn't even get this painting back until fall 2002 when I was visiting my old teacher – everyone else got theirs the last day of class, but since I had a doctor appointment that day...


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