Angel de Amor circa 2024 Painting

Angel de Amor circa 2024 is my most immediate follow up to my previous listing and upload here at Saatchi Art, Danseur en Bleu circa 2023 (which had previously sold at the nonprofit, Bee Cave Art Foundation just west of Austin). In both I was determined to build a painting of colors and textures, evoking both strength and tenderness. One carries the exuberance of movement, and the other the exquisiteness of stillness. But I only consciously began with wanting a dynamic of color and texture anchored with a female form. The rest, how they diverge, and how they merge, was just how it worked out. Maybe there was a plan, but I sure wasn't consciously privy to it beforehand, lol! Rather it all just emerged and visibly worked out that way; and believe me, I nearly wrecked each piece several times as I struggled to make these feelings in paint work. Though one of the extra descriptive pictures for Angel de Amor shows it with frame, it is just an inexpensive yet nice standard size that, as an example, suggests how this painting might benefit from the right frame more so than a lot of my work. Because of the many light glazes and tints, on a light color wall the image's edges melt away. Not a bad thing if preferred, but generally, I think Angel de Amor benefits from natural light, and possibly a border. The glazing is numerous and varied enough, the colors will shift, recede and appear depending on the light and one's angle of view. Though I have lots of figure work available and in-progress ( and in mind ), Angel de Amor is of a style and expression that takes me some time to "work out" what it is I'm feeling and trying to emotionally express in this style; but in time, little by little, glaze by glaze, I want to have more 🙏 😊 note added 01.26.24 - next i think i'll post 2 watercolors from about 2021 that've lingered in my mind as something i couldn't do with acrylic or oil, but, with Danseur en Bleu and Angel de Amor, i may be beginning to get there....