Dark Angels

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Over the years I have created new fantastic sculpture by cutting up existing figurines, models and toys and compositing parts into completely new arrangements. I have made a number of winged kitties and bunnies by sawing the wings off of Christmas angels. After some time I found that I had accumulated an entire shelf full of wingless angels. One day I acted upon a notion that I had been contemplating for a while. I had reached a critical mass of body parts in which I had oodles of Halloween decorations. I had a go at combining these two holidays in the manner of Tim Burton.

Here you see the result. I cut up strings of Halloween skeletons and worked them into the instruments being played by the heavenly choir. The guitar consists of a scale model human pelvis, vertebrae and foot. The harp is made from a skull and ribcage. The harpist wears a gown adorned with nine human skulls. The angel's eyes are inset red glass beads.

I started this project in September 2014. I finished the first two six months later. Each part was hand cut and set. The paint job was immensely time consuming. I masked the original paint with spray flat gray primer. The basic color scheme of red white and black was brush painted in gloss enamels. This was then muted with textured gray and black spray paint. Over these regions I hand painted matte and gloss acrylics. Final detailing was accomplished by rubbing color pencils and applying gold enamel with paint pens.

The Guitarist is made of 13 different components pinned and cemented together. The harpist is composed of 22 separate parts. I will never make back the scores of hours that I put into these two pieces.

I have three more "Dark Angel" musicians close to completion.

Each statue stands 18 cm tall.

art & photo (c) John P. Alexander

Sculpture composited in resin & PVC plastic, steel pins and glass beads.