Autumn - "Autumn Angel"

🍁 In honor of Fall, my favorite season, I’m sharing autumn artworks from my 40-year career.

“Autumn Angel”.... the angel that spreads autumn color across the landscape. This was created in the late 1990s when I did a whole series of angels. 

I love the way the red and orange pencils look on this dark green paper. Pencil strokes are great for doing ripples on water. And I love the pale colors of the little angel’s skin on that dark green. Skin colors are more challenging to do on dark green than on a warmer paper color - difficult to completely cover the tooth of the dark green paper and blend them smoothly - but really beautiful the way they look against that color. 

“Autumn Angel”

🎨  Prismacolor pencil on “Ivy” Canson Mi-Teintes paper, 13 x 13 inches.

Collection of Laurel Kempe, mother of the little girl who modeled for this artwork.