Don Jusko Painting Angels

I started a 44x32 painting of an angel flying school, well I'm still on the charcoal drawing. I've never had the freedom to just "make up" a painting from scratch but I feel I can paint anything in front of me and I'm ready. I thought I'd do an oil small angel one first and thought I was ready enough when I got to this stage of the painting and started drawing the big one with a new layout and more angels.

9-24-11, 43x32, Oil. This is what the sketch looked like in the beginning.

9-26-11, Four of the six angels are locked in with gum turpentine, the big angel and the one she is looking at are not.
It's easy to change the charcoal before you change the charcoal into a pigment with turpentine.

10-3-11, I changed her again, Here's the plan. I turned her a little more sideways and put her wings in a stopping pattern. She's stopping and at the same time showing the babies what the wings are doing with her matching arms and finger feathers, showing them that her feather "thumbs" are used to test the wind outside her wingspan.

I can't wait to get back to this painting but so much has been happening politically it's been taking my days. I did work on the red winged angel a little. That white area above his shoulders dried so I could add the colors I want. Red doesn't lighten to pink in the sun, it lightens by adding yellow. First to orange, then yellow, than to a reflected white.