Saint Janice

I have used this image of Fra Angelico (Saint Angelico) in my composition so that when I paint this picture I have a Saint inside the image already.

Angelico was not necessarily a saint but he was a painter who was known in his time as "the blessed painter."

Breaking the entire composition up doesn't work as well as taking a portrait of Hitler and breaking that up and then putting things like the star in.

I was watching 'Downfall' the other night and watching Hitler got me really pissed off.

I can't leave him so unscathed in a painting. It feels like if I paint him, by doing so I have to 'destroy' him to an extent.

Which is partly what the star stands for in this. But also why this idea of tiles is so good.

I can shift his face. Deconstruct him.

Good. Now to start painting.