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Cosme Tura - Announcing Angel. 1475

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ANNUNCIATION

by kimartist

11"x14" mixed media (colored pencils, white China marker, black Sharpie) on peach watercolor paper

Finally finished! 4 years in the making, because I quite frankly lacked the skill 4 years ago to pull off my vision. I had laid down all the black shapes with Sharpie fine point marker, & lightly sketched the general outlines & faces with colored pencils. And then I stopped, because I was so afraid of messing my grand vision up. I am the model for both figures, believe it or not. I had been scouring the photographic universe for models in these exact poses & couldn't find anything, so I ended up using my crappy cell phone (at the time) to get the needed pics. The *angel* photo looked surprisingly masculine at that extreme angle, so all I had to do was exaggerate the features a little (you can see my odd-shaped nostril openings, lol). Re: My concept: I had been studying *annunciation* paintings down through art history & they were oddly similar - not much creativity going on here (unlike Jesus' crucifixion & burial, which has some really wild renditions). "Hey lady, you're going to be magically pregnant & have your whole world knocked upside down," seemed to me to require something a little more momentous than a cliched/towering angel over a blase/indifferent Mary. If you're going to rock someone's world, it should LOOK rocked, amen?