Painting on Canvas by Mark Westervelt: I Saw Them As Angels, Framed

Spindly pencil figures and a word that reads angels float on a creamy ground.

This painting on canvas is by Mark Westervelt. It is oil & paint on canvas. Mark Westervelt is an American painter trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Chicago, whose work has come to include a variety of mediums over his career. Fine pencil lines draw small figures with hollow faces, a ringed halo and a long orange line down from the top. Scrawled lettering at the lower right reads angels. The surface is a pale white. The frame is gold and ridged. It is 36 inches wide, 2 deep and 36 high.

Light-fingered drawing, with a heavy gold frame for balance.