Day 29, 6 x 6 acrylic on gessoed 140 lb. Arches cold pressed paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado
Today I challenged myself to paint without expectation. I grabbed a recycled sheet of paper, paint and a palette knife. At first I was placing tiny patches of color, calculating even spacing and distribution of each color. Blue, Shiraz, kiwi, natural buff and sun-kissed peach.
I caught myself, and started again. Smearing paint and then scratching into it. Smear, scratch, repeat. I used texture sheets, and scribbled with pastels once the paint was dry. Pink, bright blue, dark blue, orange, white. Still going for loose and “thoughtless”. But hoping to somehow bring it together. So, not carefree and abandoned at that point.
I held up the finished piece for inspection. My first thought was, “Looks like the Easter bunny barfed up his jelly beans.” Best to call it a work in progress.
Day 28. 8 x 8 mixed media on paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado
Then I remembered Dotty’s thoughts on Day 28.
“It feels like an optical illusion that lets me see the same scene from multiple perspectives. The one that keeps catching me even though I can’t hold the perspective long enough to explore it is of my looking into the endlessness of the universe to discover that what I thought were planets and stars all these years are in fact flowers.
If Day 28 is the universe, Day 29 is the Big Bang.
Sheila, what a fun surprise to find Dotty Seiter’s being quoted in your post today! Thank you!
This piece is such rich fertile ground. You have done a terrific job of tilling, fertilizing, planting seeds, sprinkling some gentle rain. Can’t wait to see what grows!
Oops – I meant to let you know Dotty. Aww, you know you are an inspiration to us all 😉 Yes, I think this is the beginning of something. I am going to live with it on display for a bit and let it speak to me. Have fun my friend 🙂
I had to laugh at your comment about the Easter Bunny. It is so hard to be totally free and mindless with our art when we are used to patterns and reality – abstract is a whole other ball game! It is always good to try and they do say we learn from every experience. Nice try Sheila!
Thank you Val. Part way through I was thinking that it is very disappointing for an artist to learn they can not even make a mess. For me to learn. It was looking ugly. But I kept going. Still think it needs a finishing something, but it is in a much better state now. I will think on it. Happy weekend to you Val. Hope you have been able to get your garden in order, and find time to relax with all of your creative endeavors 🙂
I love your Universe and its Big Bang… great expectations 😉
LOL, thank you Louise 🙂 Have a superb weekend 🙂
So glad that to see that you are letting yourself go. Lots of interesting things going on here! Great colors, pinks and greens!
I found it very relaxing actually 🙂 Inspired in part by your wonderful mark making 😉
Of course I would say it needs a bit of sparkle 🙂
LOL! Absolutely right Sea! 🙂 Good idea 😉
“The Big Bang” – I love it. And I love the colors, how there seems to be ground and sky, in a whirlwind.
Whirlwind, I like that Rebecca 🙂 Sort of like in the Wizard of Oz, when everything went to color 😉 Happy last day creating to you 🙂