Professional Seminar - Creative Practice - Week 1

The Angel of Serenity Ceramic Tile Art Installation. For my creative practice blogs I plan to sculpt the healing angels I was inspired to draw, during my practicum. Reflecting on two scriptures that say: The Son of righteous will rise with healing in his wings and the leaves are for the healing of the nations, I am reminded of the idea that healing angels may have leaves instead of feathers on their wings. Also how feathers and leaves are very similar to each other and are both coverings. I want to make clay relief tile art installations. The first relief I will make is The Angel of Serenity, which was inspired from the peace released from the ocean. I desire for that same measure of peace to be released to a person when they view the ceramic angel relief. Often I meditate on the ocean and how the waves cap into glistening angels. I decided to draw the angel with oil pastels to get an idea of the colors, textures and how to break up the angel into six tiles. I chose to use calming peaceful colors; blues and greens. The 2-dimentional pastel drawing was not able to capture the actual 3-dimension relief that the clay tiles will have but has helped me to work out some of the details needed to begin sculpting the angel.