Angel III in Brick

Completed for ReVision 2012 in Vancouver, Angel III scales Leonardo’s Angel from “Virgin on the Rocks” up to a larger size. It was on public display at Granville Island in summer 2012. The adjacent stairs provided the best view of the final installment as seen in the photo below.

Created using reclaimed brick I collected for a couple of years, Angel III was brought to life by chipping off the mortar of someone’s old chimney. For the variety of tones I needed to bring out the image, I had to paint some bricks darker and lighter, and some with hand prints.  I ended up cutting the 4″x8″ bricks in half for the completed portrait.