A New Old Fish From the Realms of Glory

A books of Angels, which I'd purchased as gifts for my daughter and a friend, included several versions of the Angel of the Apocalypse, one in particular in a tetraptych, that is, composed of 4 panels or wings.  I did a my version beginning as a painting, planning to turn it into a stained glass window.  The window was not created but the work grew from the initial 2 foot square watercolor into a  3' x 3' 4-Panel Paper Cutting in 2013 (see link below to view full work).  The upper left quadrant of the original mock up is the angel in the red circle below. 

The Angel of the Apocalypse, version 1

(Detail) Gouache mock up for Stained Glass Window  (8" x 8")

[See link below]

September 2009

Sketch  3" x 3"

made during a faculty meeting 2010 or 11

 Angel/Man on Flying Fish (in Vermont, of course) 

Watercolor 16 x 12

2012

The Angel Gabriel Announces the Apocalypse 

(Panel 1 of 4) 2013

To see complete work of all four panels, please check out my webpage, go to the page titled  A Gallery of Paperworks  then view the slide show:  The Apoclypse Myth

www.frasewhitepaperglass.com

Gabriel Calls the End of the Beginning 

 begun 2012, completed August 12, 2016

This recently completed Watercolor was found, half done, in a pile of old works.

I started playing with this overgrown cherub until satisfied, sharing a certain boisterous innocence to replace a told-you-so type of somewhat sinister rejoicing that some seem to feel (or so it appears to me) about this rumor of this peculiar religious destruction and end of the world by its reported creator.  16 x 12