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I was originally going to call this "Concrete Angel in the Arms of the Angel", as a reference to the Martina McBride and Sarah McLachlan songs. I've been feeling a little conflicted over how I feel about this picture. Part of it is because the pose doesn't look that great to me. I don't think I used a reference. I also feel conflicted about what tone I was going for. At first, it started out really sad, using the Concrete Angel lyrics "she flies to a place where she's loved" to mean that now that Charles is dead, he can finally be loved. I then had the idea of giving Edwin wings as well so that Charles is "in the arms of the angel" and that he would find comfort here, like in the McLachlan song. Once I took the sad lyrics off the page and I painted them, I felt like I wanted to make this feel a little more uplifting. I made their wings pretty with blues and pinks, and then I felt inclined to make the background gold, to indicate heaven and to give it an uplifting feel. Even though those songs are very negative, I wanted to give this a little bit of a positive twist. Because we only know these boys when they're dead. Dying wasn't the end for them. It was the beginning. I don't know if this is a what-if-they-instantly-went-to-heaven-when-they died scenario, but that could be the case. Charles still has bruises from abuse and blue lips and fingers from hypothermia, but that will go away very shortly, now that he just stepped up to Heaven. The final illustration ended up with a bittersweet feel.
Tools: Pentel Click 0.7 mechanical pencil, Pentel hi-polymer eraser, Canson cold pressed watercolor paper, Mei Liang watercolors, Sakura Koi watercolors, Pentel Aquash brush, Sakura Pigma Micron pen, Epson Perfection 4490 scanner.
This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks. Each art print is listed by sheet size. Our 4 inch prints feature a minimum half-inch margin while larger sizes feature a minimum one-inch margin.
