researching into religious iconography

     i feel this halo is to bold and obvious, makeing the image look a bit tacky.
  this one is too bright, and detracts attention away from the figure, something i really want to avoid.

 this image of the halo is my favourite as it is subtle and blends in well with the background scenery. 

from researching into religious iconography i have noticed each have the denotation of a halo. 

as  a halo connotes a sacred person this could be something i could subtly incude when drawing the empowering woman to connote there significance and angle like qualities. 

when conducting my semiotic analysis, one image i analysed (1950'housewife) included a halo around the woman's head to give the impression that the woman was a 'saint' 

by including subtle elements like this in my images, is backing up the theory of how signs in images can be read in a certain way in our culture due to our shared knowledge and understanding of there meanings and will also create a strong link with my essay.

i think this is a interesting effect to create a halo and does blend in with the rest of the image due to the style is is created in- but this technique i feel will be too graphical, especially if i was to combine it with a pencil drawing, it would look to mis matched.






this style however, i feel could easily be aplied to a pencil drawing as it is very subtle and delicate, much like the drawings i want to create.