Have you seen an angel? Have you experienced one or felt the presence and protection of an angel? Honoring that experience by creating an image or coloring in an image you find is one way to anchor the memory and solidify your experience. That would be the purpose – to remind yourself of the blessing or to help you focus on the blessing that you want.
Part of the purpose in drawing angels is an attempt to acknowledge and connect with an energy of hope, encouragement and support that is invisible and yet we somehow sense within and around us.
The first time I drew an angel was in 1994. The original drawing is about 12” x 15” and done mostly in pencil with some added color pencil. It is dated 1994. 
The drawing came with a “story poem” and a “blessing”:
The Angel’s Story
My angel came to me one dark night
as I lay alone, filled with fright.
She told a story, a song of love
in whispered tones like a dove.
Then sounds of music filled the air.
Feathers gently brushed my hair.
I share this story of hope with you.
Perhaps my angel is your angel too.
My angel came to me one dark night
and filled my heart and Soul with Light.
The Angel’s Blessing
May you look with the eyes of a child.
May you see the wonders of your Heart.
May you be comforted by your angel’s Love.
The second drawing that I did of angels is an illustration of my childhood bedtime prayer that I drew in 2000.
“Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my Soul to keep.
If I should die, before I wake
I pray the Lord my Soul to take.”
I prayed this prayer without much thought as I grew up. As an adult I went through a period when people around me thought it was wrong to mention death and gave me all kinds of novel ways to change the wording for my daughter to make it “happier”.
I finally decided to draw and illustrate the prayer, as I remembered and envisioned it. I completed it on my birthday in the year 2000. For me, it represents the protective nature of angels during the night and the travels of the soul into dream realms.
The fun part for me while I was drawing the bedtime prayer, was how the shapes in the background sky emerged on their own. As I lightly colored the sky, the shapes would emerge from the paper texture…faces, angels and different shapes and more…and I just cooperated with what the paper was revealing and allowed them to remain.
Recently I was moved to honor and play with the guardian angel image and turn the original drawing into a coloring page. So perhaps others might enjoy coloring with the purpose of honoring their own guardian angels.
The coloring page haiku reads:
when you least expect
guardian angel of peace
will come to your heart
Here is a link for the Angel coloring page to download and print:
The Angel’s Blessing
May you look with the eyes of a child.
May you see the wonders of your Heart.
May you be comforted by your angel’s Love.